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DENTISTS SLAM
HARNEY OVER FLUORIDE POISONING. PRESS CONFERENCE, BUSWELLS HOTEL, 12/04/2005 AT 11AM. Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation (IDOF), a group of over 100
dentists, has published an article in The Irish Dentist slamming Minister Harney and the Department of Health for doing nothing to
combat the near epidemic levels of dental fluorosis
in Irish children.[i]
Here, dental fluorosis, fluoride damage to teeth,
has sky-rocketed with a seven fold increase from 1984 to 2002 and the
Republic of Ireland (artificially fluoridated since 1960s) now has three
times more fluorosis than Northern Ireland which
still rejects water fluoridation on health and safety grounds.[ii] The
figures come from the North/South Oral Health study carried out by the
Department of Health in 2002 as part of the Forum on Fluoridation. But when
it came to the paper’s launch why did then Minister of Health Micheal Martin not mention such disturbing results in his
speech?[iii] Why
have the authors of the North/South study not reported these worrying fluorosis figures? And most importantly what is being
done to combat this dental epidemic? The answers to these questions are a
damning indictment of the government and a small number of academics and
their endeavours to protect public health policy rather than public health. Dental fluorosis, seen as
white lines and spots on teeth, is caused by swallowing too much fluoride and
is “the first readily detectable symptom of past chronic fluoride poisoning”.[iv]
Since 1960, we have been swallowing uncontrolled and unmonitored levels of
fluoride through our tap water.
Especially at risk are bottle-feeding infants who because of their
small size are consuming unsafe levels of fluoride in formula feed made up
with tap water. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) reviewed
this issue and their findings were startling. Their risk assessment concluded
that “the precautionary principle should apply and recommends that infant
formula should not be reconstituted with fluoridated tap water”.[v]
The scientific committee who carried out the research found that
bottle-feeding infants were being dosed with unsafe levels of fluoride thus
increasing their risk of moderate dental fluorosis. This was effectively
the end of water fluoridation in Dr. Don Mac Auley, Chairman of IDOF, commented, “The Forum was
supposed to turn down the fluoride taps but nothing has happened. Minister
Martin did nothing; Minister Harney has done
nothing meanwhile fluoride poisoning as seen in the damage to our children’s
teeth is at near epidemic levels. Why? The simple
answer is they are financially and ethically
responsible for damaging children’s health. With
new evidence questioning the effectiveness of swallowing fluoride,[ix]
and more and more children showing signs of fluoride poisoning there is a
compensation time-bomb ticking. We believe the government knows this but like the whole nursing home
payments debacle they are playing a delaying game. But when are they
going to smell the coffee and look at their own figures? How many more
children need to be damaged by chemical fluoride before they put an end to the unsafe, unethical and outdated practice of water fluoridation?” COPIES OF “THE IRISH DENTIST” ARTICLE WILL
BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE. Dr. Don Mac Auley Surgery 046 9021203 Home 046 9054340 I.D.O.F.
POLICY ON WATER FLUORIDATION Most dentists would refuse to prescribe for a patient s/he has never met, whose medical history s/he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change; with the advice, take as much as you like but you will take it for the rest of your life, because some children have tooth decay. This is the water fluoridation ethos. Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation is a support group for fellow dental professionals who wish to express their opposition to the practice of mass medicating our drinking water with fluoride. Our primary aim is to
highlight the undemocratic, unethical and unsafe nature of fluoridation in We are opposed to water fluoridation for the following reasons: 1. Infringement of our human rights. 2. Dental Fluorosis. 3. Health damage. We will be delivering a
letter to the Dail, signed by fifteen dentists,
demanding an immediate end to water fluoridation in For further information please contact Dr. Don Mac Auley 046 21203 or mail idof@eircom.net |
