New York - April 4, 2004 - Infant formulas prepared with
fluoridated water increase dental fluorosis risk, according
to the April 2004 Journal of the American College of
Nutrition(1) and other studies. To prevent this tooth
staining, researchers caution against mixing infant formulas
with fluoridated water.
Fluorosis, white-spotted, yellow or brown stained, sometimes
pitted or crumbly teeth, is the too-late warning sign that
babies overdosed on fluoride. Neither a nutrient nor
essential to health, fluoride, can also damage bones.(1a)
Up to 63 percent of children living in optimally
fluoridated areas (from .7-1.2 parts per million, ppm) show
fluoride overdose symptoms as dental fluorosis according to
Beltran-Aguilar and colleagues in "Prevalence and trends in
enamel fluorosis in the United States from the 1930s to the
1980s. reported in the Journal of the American Dental
Association (13)
Researchers Marshall and colleagues found more fluorosed
teeth in children who consumed the most fluoridated water
either alone or through infant formulas(1).
Researchers, Brothwell and Limeback, urge breastfeeding, or
mixing infant formula with non-fluoridated water, to avoid
dental fluorosis, in a November 2003 Journal of Human
Lactation study. They found three times more fluorosis in
children consuming 1 milligram per liter fluoridated water
compared to those who drank non-fluoridated water.(2)
Breastfeeding does not increase cavity risk, according to a
recent Journal of the American Dental Association study(3).
Researcher Mascarenhas also advised parents to avoid
fluoridated water for infant formula preparation to prevent
fluorosis, in a 2000 Pediatric Dentistry study(4)
At least eleven other studies link reconstituted formula
with fluorosis.(5a-k) giving dentistry a new income source -
concealing fluoride-induced discolored teeth(6).
"To our knowledge, no U.S. dental or governmental agency
promoting fluoridation as a cavity preventive, such as the
American Dental Association or the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), warns parents to avoid fluoridated water for
infant feeding. Why not?" asks lawyer Paul Beeber,
President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
Formula prepared with optimally fluoridated water provides
100 times more fluoride than the amount in breast milk(7).
And newborns do not have "fully developed renal handling
capacity for fluoride at this early stage of life..."(8)
which can lead to dangerous bone-fluoride build up and more.
Not only is infant fluoride intake risky, it's unnecessary.
According to the CDC, "Fluoride works primarily after teeth
have erupted?"(9). Further, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration never safety-tested fluoride for
ingestion(10).
In 2000, after extensively reviewing fluoride and health
studies, a panel of British scientists report, "We were
unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the
fluoridation literature world-wide,"(11) despite incorrect
news reports disseminated by prominent fluoride proponents
about this review(12).
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