Fluoride doesn’t work by swallowing

It is now known that fluoride does not work by swallowing so adding it to the water supply is like adding sunscreen to drinking water in an attempt to prevent sunburn.

Fluoridation was originally based on the theory that fluoride should be swallowed while children’s teeth were growing, so that it could be incorporated into the tooth enamel.  It was believed that would make the teeth more resistant to decay. However, fluoridation promoters now accept that this theory is not valid.

in 1999 the U.S. Government’s Center for Disease Control published research stating that “The prevalence of dental caries in a population is not inversely related to the concentration of fluoride in enamel (37), and a higher concentration of enamel fluoride is not necessarily more efficacious in preventing dental caries (38)” i.e. fluoride incorporated into the tooth enamel does not make teeth more resistant to decay. 

They then say that “Saliva is a major carrier of topical fluoride.” i.e. it is the effect of fluoride on the outside of the tooth that reduces dental decay, not from incorporation into the tooth.

In Hamilton in 2013, former Oral Health Advisor to the Ministry of Health, and now Chief Medical and Dental Officer at Health New Zealand, Dr Robin Whyman, explained a new theory to justify why he believed fluoridation should continue. He said that when fluoride is swallowed, it is stored in the bones and soft tissue and then released during the day into the blood stream and eventually secreted by the salivary glands, providing a topical benefit to the tooth surface.

Note: The fact that around half of all ingested fluoride is stored in our bones and soft tissue was completely ignored by this dentist.  

It was good to see he admitted that fluoride works on the outside of the tooth surface, but he ignored the fact that the CDC also stated “The concentration of fluoride in ductal saliva, as it is secreted from salivary glands, is low — approximately 0.016 parts per million (ppm) in areas where drinking water is fluoridated and 0.006 ppm in nonfluoridated areas (27). This concentration of fluoride is not likely to affect cariogenic activity.” i.e. fluoride concentration in saliva from water, even if the water is fluoridated, is too low to affect the development of dental decay.

Another way to look at this is that the Ministry of Health advises children should brush their teeth with adult strength toothpaste containing fluoride of 1,000 parts per million (ppm) rather than the child strength toothpaste, which only has 400ppm because, they say, 400ppm is not strong enough to provide a benefit. Yet fluoridated water only contains 0.85ppm and the amount secreted into the salivary glands is only 0.016ppm.

Obviously this doesn’t add up. If 400ppm child strength is not strong enough to provide a benefit, then how can 0.016ppm that is secreted from the salivary glands provide a benefit? 0.016ppm is approximately 62,500 times less fluoride than 1,000ppm in adult strength toothpaste. 

You don’t need to be a scientist to understand that this is complete nonsense.

“This is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It’s really obsolete. Those nations that are still using it should be ashamed of themselves. It’s against science actually.”  “In pharmacology, if the effect is local, it is of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment . This is so obvious; It so very, very far fetched. You have the teeth there, why drink the stuff?“- Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 2000.