Some city leaders in Oliver Springs want to remove fluoride from the town’s water supply, but several area dentists and doctors are trying to keep it in, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The Oliver Springs Water Board, which met Thursday to discuss the issue, voted earlier this year to remove fluoride from the water supply but later learned they had violated state law by not providing customers with 30 days notice or holding a public meeting, WYSH said.
The mayor and some other city officials said they have concerns that fluoride can be hazardous, the radio station said. Several dentists and doctors attended the meeting and asked the Water Board to keep fluoride in the water because it has been shown that fluoride in the public water supply can prevent tooth decay and other oral health problems.
Some officials have questioned the safety and benefits of putting fluoride in the water, but the Centers for Disease Control has stated that scientists “have found a lack of evidence to show the association between water fluoridation and a negative impact on people, plants or animals,” WYSH said.
The radio station said the Oliver Springs Water Board ultimately voted unanimously voted to allow voters to decide during the next municipal election set for August of 2014. The board also voted 3-2 to keep the fluoride in the water supply until the results of that election are known.
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Nys Cof says
Fluoridation Opposition is Scientific,
Respectable & Growing
More than 4,176 professionals
(including 341 dentists and 531 MD’s) urge that fluoridation be stopped citing
scientific evidence that ingesting fluoride is ineffective at reducing tooth
decay and has serious health risks. See statement: http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/text/
jwillie6 says
50% of all fluoride you consume builds up in the body, in the bones, brains and other organs, so exactly why would adults want to take this poisonous drug in every glass of water every day for the rest of their lives?
Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. No adult has ever walked out of their doctor’s office with a prescription for the fluoride drug because it is deadly poison and the body has no known use for it. It is never included in any multi-vitamin formulation. Drinking it to prevent tooth decay is as foolish as drinking sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Every fluoride toothpaste tube carries the warning “if swallowed, call a poison control center immediately.”
CK says
That’s well put Jwillie. Good info thanks !
switchback says
Fluoride is a neurotoxin! The reason local doctors are opposing
is the money, (Fluoride Treatments for example) Why would doctors care anything
about one being healthy; if you were healthy you would not need a doctor. Doctor’s
are in it for the money. Most Dr’s do nothing during an office visit other then
listen, then charge $132.00. Following the money leads to the truth.
Take the Fluoride out of the water!
Tj says
Read “The Fluoride Deception” by Bryson. General Leslie Groves was the main force behind water fluoridation.
Mary Sparrowdancer says
Ask any of those “doctors” who are pushing water fluoridation when the last time was that they checked one single patient’s fluoride level. The answer will be “never,” because there is no easy way to test for F- without hiring a forensic lab that uses Ion Chromatography equipment. So, fluoride is the only toxic chemical that is being deliberately administered to over 70% of the US population as a mass medication, for life, without regard to the fact that no one knows what anyone’s fluoride level is. Symptoms of fluoride poisoning include everything that people are now suffering through in the US – premature aging, death, cardiac disease, thyroid malfunction, weight problems, kidney failure, aches and pains, outright crippling fluorosis misdiagnosed as “arthritis,” dental problems, depression, cancers, GERD, insomnia, breathing difficulties, visual problems, and last but certainly not least: an entire nation of men now suffering from erectile dysfunction.
Sam says
Fluoridation causes erectile dysfunction? Good grief Mary Sparrowdancer, why have you waited until now to tell us this?