American Dental Association President Brett Kessler, DDS, and Scott Smith, DDS, past president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, published an editorial warning against efforts to eliminate community water fluoridation.
In the editorial, published Sept. 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum, the two leaders lauded fluoride as a cornerstone of preventive dental care, particularly for children under Medicaid.
The editorial was published as several states consider banning water fluoridation. Utah and Florida recently became the first two states to ban the practice.
Source: Dental leaders warn of public health risks from removing fluoride / Becker’s Dental
Fluoride is ubiquitous. Fluoridation is Unnecessary
Absent from labels, fluoride is in virtually all foods and beverages, including, soda, baby foods and all infant formulas, It’s high in tea (up to 6 mg/L, according to the US National Institutes of Health), ocean fish and soy products. And, because of fluoride-containing pesticide residues, all grapes and its products (raisins, juice, wine, jellies, jams) have a significant fluoride content.
EPA allows extremely high amounts of fluoride pesticide residues on foods See “Fluoride tolerances approved by US EPA as of July 15, 2005”
Fluoride is even in chocolate, french fries, sea salt, Himalayan salt, and ready-to-drink coffee (up to 1.5 mg/L)
Foods made with mechanically separated (de-boned) chicken, such as canned meats, hot dogs, and infant foods, also add fluoride to the diet (J Agric Food Chem Sept 2001) “A single serving of chicken sticks alone would provide about half of a child’s upper limit of safety for fluoride,” the researchers report.
Fluoride ingested daily from toothpaste ranges from 1/4 to 1/3 milligram (National Institutes of Health) “Gels used by dentists are typically applied one to four times a year and can lead to ingestions of 1.3 to 31.2 mg fluoride each time.”
“Following Silver Diamine Fluoride application, the serum fluoride concentrations ranged from 6 to 36ng/mL(0.006 to 0.036 ppm)”
Fluoride is in 20% of medicines, food packaging and inhaled from air pollution
Other sources come from feed regimens of animal products, animal products; food storage containers (Teflon-coated containers); and food packaging (migration of perfluorochemicals into food).
Paper cups lined with water-proofing chemicals give off fluoride ions, when exposed to hot liquids. And Paper straws contain fluorinated compounds.
Some calcium supplements contain fluoride
“eggshells also contain trace amounts of minerals that promote bone health, such as strontium, fluoride, magnesium, and selenium…their powdered form is used in dietary supplements”
Fluoride in other sources, according to “A Concise Overview Of Fluoride Contamination And Its Adverse Effects On Human Health And
Plant Biochemistry,” (European Chemical Bulletin 2020)