FAN Bulletin 844

July 22, 2007

Dear All,

No one argues that there is an epidemic of DENTAL fluorosis impacting American children. According to the CDC (2005) 32% of American kids are impacted, with closer to 40% impacted in fluoridated communities. The 60 year gamble of those who have promoted fluoridation is that this obvious damage to children’s teeth from over-exposure to fluoride is not accompanied with any damage to their bones (SKELETAL fluorosis), even though the systems are very similar in nature. In India and China the disease of fluorosis is seen as a continuum. In children they see dental fluorosis, in adults it is accompanied by skeletal fluorosis.

Such a cavalier attitude has never been justified by an independent review of the literature. In fact, the first study of children’s health in fluoridated community (Newburgh versus Kingston, 1945-55) showed a significant increase in cortical bone defects in the children in the fluoridated community (13.5% incidence versus 7.5%, Schlessinger et al., 1956). That finding was ignored.. So too, was the finding in 2001, by Alarcon-Herrera and co-workers, who showed a very strong linear correlation between the severity of dental fluorosis in children and the frequency of bone fractures reported by local clinics. (Alarcon-Herrera MT, et al. (2001). Well Water Fluoride, Dental fluorosis, Bone Fractures in the Guadiana Valley of Mexico. Fluoride. 34(2): 139-149. .http://www.fluoride-journal.com/01-34-2/342-139.pdf)

Whenever, the issue of skeletal fluorosis in adults is brought up, promoters always jump to the final crippling stages of this disease and declare that this is very, very rare in the US. The frequency of this disease in India and China is usually dismissed as being confounded by poor diet and hot climates, as if neither pertained to certain subsets of the population in the US! However, the key issue is that the first symptoms of skeletal fluorosis are identical to the first symptoms of arthritis and over 68 million American adults have arthritis. Incredibly, no US health agency (nor any other country promoting fluoridation) has ever formally investigated a connection between arthritis and fluoridation.

Today, these issues have been raised again as NYSCOF has re-circulated a press release it issued last October. In this they reported a case of skeletal fluorosis in the US caused by excess consumption of fluoridated toothpaste and another caused by excess consumption of instant tea.

No one denies that fluoride accumulates in the bone. Whether we are talking about children or adults, fluoride presents a problem for bones: a) impacting the growing bone abnormally in children, probably increasing the risk of fracture, and possibly increasing the risk of osteosarcoma, and b) accumulating in the adult bone leading to arthritic-like symptoms and over a lifetime increasing brittleness and the risk of hip fracture. For some, all of these risks are very well worth taking in order to protect the reputations of the bureaucrats in the US Public Health Service.

Paul Connett
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Fluoride: A Pain in the Neck - Case Report

New York - October 12, 2006 — A 52-year-old American man’s
arthritic-like joint pain and immobility went away after he stopped
brushing his teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, according to a new
study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research(1).

There’s no scientific dispute that large fluoride doses cause
crippling skeletal fluorosis over time. (See. http://www.nalgonda.org)
But, “less well-known causes of chronic fluoride toxicity include
fluoride supplements, certain teas and wine and some toothpastes,”
report researchers Kurland, et al.(1)

Skeletal fluorosis often results in abnormal bone hardening and
thickening (osteosclerosis) with painful and impaired neck and spine
mobility, spine curvature, and/or painful lower extremities ultimately
causing crippling and incapacitation, report the researchers.

“Fluoride at any level accumulates in the body,” says Paul Beeber,
President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “So even
water fluoridation will cause arthritic-like symptoms in susceptible
individuals which is compounded by U.S. physicians ‘and dentists’ lack
of training to diagnose fluoride toxicity.”

In this case, the only obvious fluoride exposure was toothpaste. The
patient drank no fluoridated water, tea or wine; had no occupational
fluoride exposure; did not chew tobacco, inhale snuff, cook with Teflon
pots, use fluoridated mouthwash or get fluoride treatments at
twice-yearly dentist visits. But he brushed before and after all meals
(minimum 6 times daily) with fluoridated toothpaste.

Fluoride was elevated in his serum, urine and iliac crest (bone), the
researchers report.

Within 8 months of eliminating all obvious fluoride sources, the
patient’s urinary and blood fluoride levels dropped and bone function
markers showed clear cut improvement, the researchers report.

“By approximately two years after diagnosis and apparent elimination
of excess fluoride exposure, the patient had complete resolution of his
neck immobility and no longer required analgesics,” the researchers
write.

Roos, et al. documents a woman whose painful swollen fingers healed
after she ceased eating fluoridated toothpaste.(2)

Whyte, et al. report a woman’s fluoride-caused debilitating joint
pains disappeared when her two-gallon-a-day iced tea habit stopped.(3)

Eichmiller, et al. report a patient’s leg and joint pains from a
dentist-prescribed high-concentration fluoride product.(4)

“We know US schoolchildren are fluoride-overdosed(5). What’s it
doing to their bones?” asks Beeber.

Arthritis is linked to water fluoride in a Turkish study.(6)

More about skeletal fluorosis:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/s-fluorosis.htm

and arthritis
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/bone/fluorosis/arthritis/

Contact: Lawyer Paul Beeber, President NYSCOF
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof nys…@aol.com

Paul Connett, PhD, Emeritus Chemistry Professor and Executive Director,
Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net
p…@fluoridealert.org

References:

1) Recovery From Skeletal Fluorosis (An Enigmatic, American Case).
Journal of Bone Mineral Research. October 2, 2006, by Kurland, et a.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17014382&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum

(2) Osteofluorosis caused by excess use of toothpaste, Presse Med,
34:1518-20, by Roos et al November 2005

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16301964&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum

(3) Environ Health Perspect. 2005 August; 113(8): “Food Safety: A
Tea-Time Mystery,” by Michael Szpir

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1280381

(4) Journal of the American Dental Association, “Controlling the
fluoride dosage in a patient with compromised salivary function,”
Frederick C. Eichmiller, D.D.S.; Naomi Eidelman, Ph.D.; Clifton M.
Carey, PhD., Vol. 136, page 67 -70, January 2005
http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/136/1/67

NYSCOF News Release: http://tinyurl.com/mbrmd

(5) NYSCOF News release http://tinyurl.com/mbrmd about

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office of
Communication, 8/25/05
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050825.htm

(6)http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkstatecoalitionopposedtofluoridation/_pgg7.php3