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FLUORIDE ‘CAUSES CANCER’ 13/6/2005 Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation
(IDOF), a group of over 100 dentists, is demanding an immediate stop to the
dosing of all public water supplies with chemical fluoride after a study
conducted by the Harvard School of Dental Health found an increased cancer
risk in children.[1] The research has already led to the
Environmental Working Group, a The disturbing American research
shows that boys drinking fluoridated water from the age of five to ten will
experience a greater risk of osteosarcoma – bone cancer – when they are
older.[3] Another study comparing figures
between the Although osteosarcoma is considered a
rare childhood cancer it is one of the most prevalent in young males aged
9-20 and is described by the The fluoride cancer risk reported in
yesterday’s Observer confirms growing health concerns about the whole
fluoridation process. Last month, IDOF slammed Mary Harney for doing nothing to
combat the near epidemic levels of fluoride tooth damage – dental fluorosis –
which has seen a seven fold increase in the last twenty years. IDOF also
raised the issue of further health damage. Since half of all the fluoride
swallowed is stored in the body in hard tissues such as teeth and bones there
has always been the question; if fluoride is damaging teeth what is it doing
to our bones? Dr. Don Mac Auley, Chairman of IDOF,
commented, “Irish Dentists are seeing fluoride tooth damage every day in our
dental practices and as the teeth are the windows of the skeleton we question
what this chemical is doing to our patients’ bones. Now we read more evidence
that fluoride can cause bone cancer while our health minister plays a
delaying game of forums and expert groups. The Forum on Fluoridation
concluded three years ago that fluoride levels should be turned down but
nothing happened. IDOF no longer wants the fluoride taps turned down we want
them turned off. After all, how many cavities do you have to save to justify
the death of one young man from osteosarcoma? Dr. Don Mac Auley. Surgery 046 9021203. Home 046 9054340. 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.[5] 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.[6] 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?[7] 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”.[8] 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”.[9] 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,[13] 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 |
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