Question:
Sugar Conquers Fluoridated Teeth ?
Answer:
Fluoride is hailed as THE cavity-fighting super-star. But rotting teeth were
rare before the 19th century prior to fluoride’s discovery and prior to
widespread sugar consumption, even when plaque remained unbrushed off. Fluoride
cannot fix the ravages of a bad diet.
“Sugar is the cause of dental caries (cavities),” writes A.J. Rugg-Gunn,
PhD, BDS , Professor of Preventive Dentistry and director of Human Nutrition
Research Centre, University of Newcastle, in “Preventing the preventable -
the enigma of dental caries,” British Dental Journal, November 10, 2001.
Rugg-Gunn reminds his audience that fluoride does not remove the cause of tooth
decay - sugar.
Organized dentistry promotes fluoride every which way they can, garnering
millions in federal research grants along the way and lucrative partnerships
with fluoride manufacturers. But tooth decay remains the number one disease of
Americans, an epidemic among the malnourished and undernourished. At the same
time American children display fluoride overdose symptoms - (dental fluorosis,
white spotted, yellow or brown permanently stained teeth.).
Dentistry looks at teeth like they weren’t attached to a body.
Nutrient-sufficient healthy mothers give birth to children whose newly emerged
teeth aren’t decayed. and well-nourished children repel tooth decay.
There’s no money in telling people to simply eat fruit, vegetables and whole
grains and eliminate junk from their diet - but there’s lot to be made
studying and promoting and dispensing fluoride.
There is a place for fluoride in dental health, used sparingly and seldom. But
it should neither play the prominent role dentistry has thrust it into, today,
nor should it be purposely added to anyone's drinnking water.
This confirms Dr. Rugg-Gunn's information that tooth decay was a disease of the
prosperous, at that time, who could afford soft white bread, cookies and cakes
while "peasants" made their own bread, dense and rich in fiber and nutrients
and Supermarket boxed cakes weren't on every peasants' counter with chips in
the draw and coke in the fridge.
I believe poverty, that usually results in poor nutrition, and not lack of
fluoride caused their poor teeth. The inner cities have been fluoridated for
decades and tooth decay is at epidemic proportions among the poor and minority
populations that live there. One hundred percent fluoridated Connecticut
declared a dental Health crisis and so on.
Organized dentistry has to get off the fluoride bandwagon and use fluoride as a
small tool to fight tooth decay. Even though the evidence shows fluoridated
water doesn't prevent early childhood cavities and evidence, such as I've
provided above, shows fluoridated water won't help a malnourished child, the
Surgeon General says all drinking water should be fluoridated to prevent tooth
decay in the poor. Unless you get his one inch thick report, you'd never know
which vitamin and minerals pregnant mothers and their offspring should consume
to really prevent tooth decay.
A columnist criticized the surgeon general's oral health report as just a way
to get more funding for dentists. I think he is right because all it did was
tell people to eat, drink and smear more fluoride.
