As a dentist whose main concern is public protection, I can assure you the majority of our honourable profession who recommend fluoridating water supplies (which in effect reduces our work that we get paid for!) is because when done carefully it is safe and effective to benefit the public. Indeed this discovery was made because Fluoride was present naturally in water supplies!
Of course too much Fluoride is Poisonous and can kill people as can too much Oxygen or salt etc.
Likewise if you eliminated Fluoride from the human diet you would become disabled and most likely die - not straight away, but you would lose Calcium from your bones and crumble and your enzymes wouldn't function properly with all kinds of complications and then death.
I felt compelled to add a balancing comment on here because Fluoride is a naturally occuring element, important to human life but like many things, moderation and sensibility is the key, not hysterical scarmongering calling Fluoride a 'dangerous Poison' when it is far more concentrated in Tea drinks and Seafood that in fluoridated water, for example.
I am all for the public being better informed of the facts and after due consideration and voting, I would respect a population's decision about Fluoride in their water - I'm not sure the Hysterical AntiFluoridationists would though!
Whatever the emotions about Fluoride, it is the thirteenth most common element on the Planet, but if we engage our Brains and temper our emotions, we can get the Optimum benefits for the population as a whole.
Until then we may have to deal with the Extreme 'element' of 'Hysterium' about Fluoride.
Fluoride is a naturally occuring element and in many diets naturally, just not enough to give 'Optimum' health benefits for the majority.
Yours proportionately,
Anthony Kilcoyne.
