Too much fluoride in water endangers bones

It's nice to see some national exposure on this issue, but I'd like to
see an article that actually goes in to the differences between the
sodium fluoride added to water supplies and naturally occurring calcium
fluoride. The effects of the two on the body are completely different,
yet you'll see a lot of people claiming that "flouride is a naturally
occurring component of most water suplpies. Fluoridation only
supplements the fluoride that should be in the water anyway."

Max.

Just Cocky said:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/hl_nm/fluoride_dc

And too much selenium do the same, and damaged the nails and even more
even kills you.

But, too little selenium is even more lethal. The same applies to all
trace elements, fluorine included, and so with As (arsenite)

Too much and too little is just as dangerous when it comes to trace
elements.

In many countries, F is almost absent and teeth decays a lot. Mine was
gone long before it was shown that adding fluor to tooth paste was a
clever idea, so next generation had almost no caries. Today scare
mongers in US frightens parents from using such tooth pastes, and
again, teeth rottens like a hell.
Again children comes to dentists with more holes than enamel left.
Just because some scaremongers are talking about bad side effects when
adding fluorine to water basins where background levels of fluorine is
maybe a million times the backgrounds over here.

Why be so rigid. Add fluorine to tooth paste or perhaps drinking water
where fluorine is completely deficient and tell people to stay away in
areas where background level is almost toxic.

Selenium deaths in horses are common in the Mid-West (or at least, was
common), but no reason to tell people living in areas where daily
natural intake is less than 25 ug to stay away because background
levels at above 500 ug daily is chronically toxic.

If you're going to make such bold statements, you should really provide
some links to support your position.

You said "In many countries, F is almost absent and teeth decays a lot"

So fluoride is the ONLY contributing factor? Can you show that in
these countries that fluoride was added to the water supply and
cavities went away?

Max.