- NEW YORK (PRNewswire) --
White-spotted or yellow splotched teeth may reveal more than needed expensive
cosmetic dentistry.
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- Children with fluoride-discolored teeth (dental fluorosis)
are more likely to have bone damage, according to a study published in
the journal "Fluoride."
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- Despite living in a low-water-fluoride district, 132
Tibetan children, aged 8 to 13-years-old, developed dental fluorosis from
dietary fluoride sources such as brick tea, a popular Asian drink, fed
to children as young as two years old. (1)
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- Wrist x-rays reveal that 96% of those children with dental
fluorosis had "developmental skeletal abnormalities" including
carpal bone hardening or thickening.
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- "Therefore, dental fluorosis in children should
be viewed as more than a matter of cosmetic concern, since it can also
be a sign of early-stage skeletal fluorosis that might lead to full-scale
debilitating skeletal fluorosis in adulthood," write researchers Cao
and colleagues.
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- Skeletal fluorosis with pain, stiffness and/or deforming
bone defects, is common in Nalgonda, India (See: http://www.nalgonda.org/flourosis.php
)
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- To avoid skeletal fluorosis in the U.S., the maximum-contaminant-level
of fluoride allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency
is 4 parts per million (4 milligrams per liter).
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- But, some people exceed 4 milligrams daily from their
diet, alone (2). Up to 63% of children living in optimally fluoridated
areas (0.7 - 1.2 ppm) have dental fluorosis (3). More studies show a link
between dental fluorosis and bone damage.
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- A British Medical Journal study reports that older white
women from fluoridated communities have a 32% higher rate of wrist fracture.
(4)
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- A Mexican study links dental fluorosis to bone fractures.
(5)
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- Polish pediatricians found abnormal bone changes in 11
to 15 year-olds exhibiting dental fluorosis. (5a)
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- A Rheumatology International study links naturally fluoridated
water to knee osteoarthritis in amounts many Americans consume daily. (6)
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- Early fluorosis warning signs include joint pain, stomach
pain, excessive thirst and urination, muscle weakness, and/or anemia, especially
if accompanied by discoloration in the patient's front row of teeth, according
to Dr. A.K. Susheela, Director of India's Fluorosis Research and Rural
Development Foundation. (7)
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- A U.S. woman's spine pain alleviated when she avoided
fluoride.(8)
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- "Americans are unaware that their arthritis or irritable
bowel syndrome could be fluoride-related," says attorney Paul Beeber,
President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
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- Additional bone/fluoride research can be found here:
- http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/bone/index.html
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- References:
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- (1)
- http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Espittle/381%2044.pdf
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- (2)
- http://iadr.confex.com/iadr/2002SanDiego/techprogram/abstract_20316.htm
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- (3)
- http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkstatecoalitionopposedtofluoridation/_pgg6.php3
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- (4)
- http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=27493&rendertype=table&id=T4
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- 5)
- http://www.fluoride-journal.com/01-34-2/342-139.pdf
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- (5a) Chlebna-Sokól D(1), Czerwinski E(2), "Bone
structure assessment on radiographs of distal radial metaphysis in children
with dental fluorosis," Fluoride, 1993 26:l, 37-44.
- http://www.fluoridation.com/isfr.htm
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- (6)
- http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkstatecoalitionopposedtofluoridation/_pgg7.php3
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- (7)
- http://education.vsnl.com/fluorosis/information.html
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- (8)
- http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/4607.html
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- Contact:
- Paul S. Beeber, President nyscof@aol.com
- New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
- PO Box 263,
- Old Bethpage, NY 11804
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- http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof <http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof>
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