Fluoridation A Topic Of Debate
Prince George, B.C. – The question of whether the City of Prince George should be putting fluoride in our water supply will be dealt with in a referendum on election day, November 15th.
And, if you’ve been having problems trying to differentiate between the fact and fiction surrounding the issue, firstly welcome to the crowd and secondly, there is something you can do to perhaps obtain some clarification. There will be a debate on fluoridation at 2:30 this afternoon at the Coast Inn of the North. It will feature Dr. Todd Whitcombe from UNBC debating Dr. Paul Connett, touted by those opposed to fluoridation as “the most knowledgeable medical research doctor and toxicologist in the world on this topic.”
Prior to the debate Dr. Connett, co-founder of the Fluoride Action Network, will be conducting an information session on the issues related to the addition of fluoride to the public water supply. The session, also at the Inn of the North, begins at 1pm.
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Floridization in water is not required and consequently not done by the majority of municipalities in BC. Why are we spending money doing it, when we have so many other priorities.
It is a want by some being sold as a need.
If we are realy concered about oral health in this community, why doesn’t the municipality have an oral health program with the money saved?
The savings are greater that you think. There is the raw cost of the floride, ongoing equipment maintenance & repair, training for employees working with it(it is dangerous stuff in large quantities)and aditional employee health and saftey costs and risks.
Is it a required need/expense. The answer is clearly no.
Fluoridation is supported by many decades of scientific research and the majority of the world’s health and dental organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The American Medical Association, Health Canada, Northern Health and many others.
Voting it out would affect those mostly with low incomes and little or no access to top notch dental care.
Voting it out would be penny wise and pound foolish. For every $1 spent on fluoridation, $38 in dental cost savings is realized. (Source: CDC) You can pay a little now, or pay a lot more later.
There is no credible scientific evidence that fluoridation at approved levels causes any harm, while the benefits are well known and have been documented for decades.
The answer is clearly yes.
So the majority of BC are fools and Prince George is saving 3.8 million dollars on dental work.
Quote a peer reviewed study done on the Canadian population or simular first world population that shows 38 dollars saved on dental for every dollar spent on floride.
If you want real impact buy every student in Prince George a tube of tooth paste and giving an hour long session on dental care every year. The cost would be simular or less.
Monkeyboots, we can’t post links, but if you google “Centers for Disease Control Fluoridation Cost Savings” it will take you to the relevant CDC page.
Regarding BC, a good article can be found on the BC Medical Journal website entitled “Fear of Fluoride – More Bark Than Bite?”
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the scientific and medical community does not agree with the interpretation of the evidence and claims adopted by the anti-fluoride camp.
I just found out the other day that I have a small cavity in one of my teeth. How can that be – I drink PG water.
Look up Calgary dentists. No plebiscite, council took it on themselves, dental visits are up. You have a practice that needs a boost monkeyboots?
In PG it cost $70,000 to put the question on the ballot. That is according to our city manager, to add the PAC question to the ballot would have cost another $70,000 so they decided not to do it.
I am sure wages are factored in to the cost of fluoridation. That employee will still be there doing other duties even if fluoridation is stopped so the savings will more than likely not be as high as forecast. Calgary council said they would spend any money saved on individual care but that turned out to be a red herring, the money was just swallowed up the same as it will be here on a trip to Whistler or … what was that twin city again…?
You can tell me what to google to get to a peer review study on first world populations. The fact is you can’t because the studies 38 to 1 are not done on simular first world populations.
Fact is I don’t agree with either side. There is another view that is we can handle dental helth in better ways in a first world country.
It cost the city a total of close to $ 100,000 every year to dump the fluoride into our water. Fluoride is a waste product of manufacturing processes. It is difficult to get rid of and so corporations convinced the government and health authorities in the Sates years ago to dump it into the water supply, extremely diluted and “bingo”, problem solved. It should not be in our water supply without consent. That consent was never given by the electorate although it should have happened, by law.
Now is the opportunity to get it out. Just vote accordingly on November 15th.
monkey: “You can tell me what to google to get to a peer review study on first world populations. The fact is you can’t because the studies 38 to 1 are not done on simular first world populations.”
So I give you the exact information you’re looking for and you dismiss it. If you can’t or won’t comprehend what I tried to show you, I can’t help you any further.
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