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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">FAN-Australia drops a bombshell on Water
Fluoridation.</span></b></font><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times','serif';" lang="EN-US"><br></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif';" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b><font size="2"><b><span lang="EN-US">Brisbane, Australia
4<sup>th</sup> April 2011</span></b></font><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif';" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Merilyn Haines, the director of the newly
formed group FAN-Australia (Fluoride Action Network Australia), has found some
startling statistics buried deep in official research material by ARCPOH
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(The </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-AU">Australian Research Centre Population Oral Health at the
Adelaide Dental School)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> that
could scuttle the water fluoridation program once and for all.<br><br><span style="color: black;">Haines has found in the ARCPOH statistics that the
permanent teeth of children in largely unfluoridated (<5% before 2009)
Queensland were erupting on average<b> two years earlier</b> than the children
in the rest of Australia, which is largely fluoridated (see the figure below). A
two-year delay would negate all the small reductions in tooth decay claimed by
dental researchers since 1990. <b>In other words fluoridation doesn't work.
</b>Any difference in tooth decay claimed to be due to fluoride is simply an
artefact of the delayed eruption caused by
fluoride.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif';" lang="EN-US">Source –
Published and unpublished data from 2003- 2004 Australian Child Dental Health
Surveys</span></p>
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unpublished data obtained by Freedom of Information
application)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">According to Professor Paul Connett, director
of the Fluoride Action Network, who is currently on a fluoride-tour of New
Zealand, <i>“Critics of fluoridation, like Dr. Hardy Limeback in Toronto<b>,
have long pointed out that any reduced tooth decay touted by</b>
<b>promoters</b> <b>could easily be accounted for by the</b> <b>delayed eruption
of the teeth</b>. Even when this argument received strong experimental support
from Komarek et al. in 2005, this has still has been ignored by those promoting
fluoridation. But they cannot ignore it any longer: the figures of the dental
department research team most associated with the promotion of fluoridation in
Australia (and beyond) demonstrate that this delay is
real.”</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Less teeth erupted for any given age would
mean less surfaces available for tooth decay to have taken place. A delayed
eruption of one – two years would account for the small reductions claimed in
ALL the US and Australian studies published since 1990 (Brunelle and Carlos,
1990; Slade et al., 1996; Spencer et al., 1996; Armfield et al., 2009; Armfield,
2010). These studies have found reductions ranging from 0.12 of one permanent
tooth surfaces saved in Western Australia (Spencer et al., 1996) to 0.6
permanent tooth surface saved in the largest survey ever conducted in the US
(Brunelle and Carlos, 1990). This is not very much when you consider that there
are five surfaces to the chewing teeth and four to the cutting teeth, and by the
time all the child’s teeth have erupted there are a total of 128 tooth surfaces.
One tooth surface saved amounts to less than 1% of all the surfaces in a child’s
mouth. <b>Now even this small benefit has evaporated.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-AU">More on the
history. </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-AU">In 1999, the
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia’s peak Medical Research
body, stated that, “<i>evidence exists that tooth eruption is delayed in
fluoridated areas. It has been suggested that a proper comparison of caries
rates should involve children one year older in fluoridated areas than in non-
fluoridated areas.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><br>In 2000, the York Review pointed out that
none of the studies that they had reviewed had controlled for "the number of
erupted teeth per child” (McDonagh et al., 2000, p.24). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 2005, Komarek et al. did control for eruption
of teeth and reported no difference in decay between children living in Belgium
receiving fluoride supplements (and those who weren’t) that was relatable to
fluoride exposure (as measured by the severity of dental fluorosis).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">In 2009, Peiris et al. reported that children
in largely fluoridated Australia had a delay in "dental age" of 0.82 years
compared to children in largely unfluoridated UK. However, the authors did not
discuss the possible reasons for this delay and the number of children involved
in the study (about 80 in each country) was not very large. <br><br></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2011. Now the bombshell – the delay has been found and
it is in the official statistics. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span>ARCPOH has failed to respond to several
inquiries on this matter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> According to Haines, <i>“Surely, this
must end water fluoridation. If it doesn't work what's the point of putting this
toxic substance into the drinking water and what reason can they possibly have
for forcing it on people who don’t want it?”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><br>However, this isn't just about teeth. The
finding could be even more significant than that. If fluoride causes a delayed
eruption of the teeth then the most likely mechanism for doing so is fluoride's
ability to lower thyroid function (see chapter 8 in the 2006 National Research
Council review, “Fluoride in Drinking Water.” According to Connett,
<i>“Lowered thyroid function in infants would mean slower growth of their
tissues and could explain the 24 studies that have found an association between
lowered IQ in children and exposure to moderate levels of fluoride in China,
India, Iran and Mexico</i>.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">It also raises the possibility that millions
of people in fluoridated countries suffering from hypothyroidism have had this
condition caused, or exacerbated, by exposure to fluoridated water.
Haines’ asks <i>“If ingesting fluoride delays tooth eruption for 1 to 2 years
what other effects is it having on our bodies?”</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">Meanwhile, if swallowing fluoride does not
reduce tooth decay, why would any reasonable person, decision maker or
regulatory official continue to sanction adding fluoride to the public water
supply?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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