The references for the VA fluoride recommendations are the typical ones always cited to support the unsupportable. The real issue is the corruption and psychopathy of a veteran’s admin. that uses poisonous fluoride on soldiers to treat nutritional deficiency and stress-related tooth decay.

The references aren’t scientific, they just appear to be. Not one of them has any pharmacological evidence of therapeutic benefit of ingested fluoride at any dose, or toxicological evidence of safety at any rate of intake from any source. The droning propaganda that all adults need to be exposed to more fluoride from community water fluoridation, regardless of how much fluoride they have already had (i.e. dental fluorosis and bone accumulation) and are having (food, air, beverages, pharmaceutical drugs, beer, tobacco, toothpaste and dental rinse absorption through oral mucosa which is also known to raise serum fluoride levels) is simply illogical. None of the references can link dose from fluoridated water/intake/blood or saliva fluoride levels with benefit to teeth. However the references in the 2006 NRC report CAN link fluoride levels in serum and urine with adverse health effects, some of them irreversible such as IQ reduction in childhood and suppression of fetal thyroid gland development.

Why do young European NATO soldiers have better teeth than American soldiers yet they have little exposure to fluoridated water? 98% of European countries have rejected both water and salt fluoridation as unsafe, ineffective and unethical. Levels of dental fluorosis are lower there, reflecting lower fluoride intake in early childhood, yet their teeth are better than Americans.

Why do soldiers exposed to Depleted Uranium poison dust get cavities and gum disease no matter how much fluoride they use or swallow from any source? DU blocks calcium and increases fluoride toxicity to kidneys. Fluoride treatment is absolutely the worst thing to do to those men and women. Where is the reference the VA can cite that soldiers who have had multiple vaccines (with fluoride, aluminum and mercury in them) and prophylactic anti-malarials (fluoridated drugs with calcium antagonism) will be helped by yet another bolus dose of fluoride to their systems? It does not exist. None of those references support this awful policy of deliberate fluoride poisoning of another generation of soldiers.

When you ask for pharmacological references i.e. what is the therapeutic blood and saliva level that stops caries in adults, and what is the daily dose of fluoride from all sources that reliably achieves this therapeutic blood and saliva level? they can not supply any evidence from any reference. 70% of young American soldiers have dental fluorosis proving excessive intake in childhood from fluoridated water yet they have the same or greater cavity occurrence as their European counterparts who do not have to drink fluoridated water. There may be some benefit from high-concentration topicals but these benefits are short-lived as teeth become brittle and eroded the more often the dental gels and varnishes are applied. Phosphate-calcium pastes are far more effective for root lesions.

Fluoride is not necessary for decay prevention, but iodine, vitamin D, vitamin K and minerals are. This was known 70 years ago: Weston A. Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.

Xylitol Gum and Toothpaste is an excellent cavity prevention method that is benign and actually will regenerate enamel. Ideal for soldiers at work if you ask me. The references for these are on Fluoride Action Network too.
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