Dental decay rampant in Calgary

[Jacks]

Well that would be significant. Do you have an actual link to the study?

[Thor]

Originally Posted by AcGold

OK so if you believe so strongly that it's imperative for you and your kids to ingest fluoride that's great, feel absolutely 100% free to fluoridate your own water. It's your right, nobody is stopping you.

Don't ask me to pay for it, I've never had a cavity and take care of my teeth. Don't care if you don't. This isn't the vaxxer argument, you can't hate shame anyone here.

You've made your thoughts known in the vaccination thread, the GMO thread and now this one...

Is naturalnews.com and collective evoultion your daily source of news?

[Dentoman]

Here is the link. Too busy to look for it before. The numbers I used were from the Herald article but a quick look through the actual paper does not show those numbers. Guess you can't trust the Herald. It does show a statistically significant increase in decay in Calgary though.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...doe.12215/epdf

[polak]

I need to find a way to get more fluoride on my pearly whites. I never had a cavity until after they took out the fluoride and now I feel like I have a couple even though I brush and take care of them exactly the same.

[Dentoman]

The Herald's numbers come from this link

https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue...uoride-removal

The study only comes to conclusions relating to primary teeth. They did observe a trend of increasing decay in permanent teeth but it was not significant at this point.

[puffnstuff]

What exactly is the issue with having fluoride in the water that some people dont like (other than the choice issue) Are there any real health issues with it?
A quick google linked to some...uh...less than scientific literature.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

What exactly is the issue with having fluoride in the water that some people dont like (other than the choice issue) Are there any real health issues with it?
A quick google linked to some...uh...less than scientific literature.

No, it's all quackery. There's no real good way to self-administer fluoride in safe amounts, since the amount added to a municipal water supply is mandated by Health Canada at .7 PPM, or .0007ml per litre, an amount so minuscule (but effective at maintaining healthy teeth) that you would only retain 19mg total of it over a 75 year lifespan assuming you drank 2 liters a day (since half is lost in urine).

Yeah, if you ingested 30x that amount you might get skeletal fluorosis, but you would need to be one of those "My Strange Addiction" people who eat toothpaste on the regular to get to that point, or live in a ####hole country that doesn't administer fluoride correctly to it's potable water supply.

The anti-fluoridation rhetoric is fuelled by equal parts Dr. Oz-bingeing mommy bloggers, tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracy wingnuts, and libertarians, with a side of a "#### the poor" attitude. Essentially, it's all bull####.

[Knut]

According to my facebook discussions it is because Fertilizer companies can not get rid of their excess Flourine, so they dump in the water supply and sell it as safe.

[EVERLAST]

More fluoride.....????? In the water.....I have a solution

I want me some grape drink baby

Sugar water purple

Mmmmmm

[troutman]

Calgary councillors push to re-examine fluoride issue

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...fluoride-issue

[Fuzz]

Oh good. Here we go again. How much money are we going to waste on this round?

[IliketoPuck]

They could allocate a few dollars out of the civil art fund for it.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Oh good. Here we go again. How much money are we going to waste on this round?

Won't reducing cavities, reduce future health care and dental costs?

[Knut]

Originally Posted by troutman

Won't reducing cavities, reduce future health care and dental costs?

But does it not affect the Pineal Gland. You know the one that unlocks your 6th sense and could one day make you telepathic ?

[taco.vidal]

Originally Posted by troutman

Calgary councillors push to re-examine fluoride issue

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...fluoride-issue

#### these clowns. Fluoride and secondary suites. The majority of people dont ####ing want either of them yet these clowns keep rehasing this same ####.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Hes

But does it not affect the Pineal Gland. You know the one that unlocks your 6th sense and could one day make you telepathic ?

Spoiler!

Agrees.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by troutman

Won't reducing cavities, reduce future health care and dental costs?

I'm not arguing that, it's the whole debacle was a waste of time and money. Now we are going to do it all over again.

[icecube]

I don't know about the whole telepathy thing with the pineal gland but I can vouch for some very VERY strange trippy (spiritual?) experiences from meditation and stuff like that, and it has me a believer.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

#### these clowns. Fluoride and secondary suites. The majority of people dont ####ing want either of them yet these clowns keep rehasing this same ####.

I believe Fluoride was taken out because of a very loud minority, was it not?

I'd gladly have it.

[PsYcNeT]

Yeah.

Bad Science + Bad Public Pressure From Small Group = Poor Mouth Health