The IAOMT has a number of helpful resources about fluoride. These include the following:
- IAOMT POSITION PAPER AGAINST THE USE OF FLUORIDE
- Fluoride Facts: This connects to all of our webpages about fluoride
- Fact Sheet on Fluoride Exposure and Human Health Risks
- Fact Sheet on Fluoride and the Environment
- Think Twice about Fluoride: Recognizing the Lack of Safety for this Chemical
- IAOMT Comprehensive Review on Artificial Water Fluoridation
- IAOMT Comprehensive Review on Fluoride in Dental Products
- IAOMT Comprehensive Review on Fluoride in Drugs (including Supplements)
- Fluoride Toxicity: Overview and Examples
- Avoid Fluoride Now: Four Easy Steps to Become Fluoride-Free
- Summary of IAOMT Position Paper against the Use of Fluoride
- Online Learning Video: Fluoride
In addition to the materials above, which represent our most up-to-date and popular resources, we have also collected articles about fluoride, which you can access by clicking on the button below.
Fluoride: Neurotoxic at ANY Level According to National Toxicology Program Report; Fluoridation Policy Threatened
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) released a long overdue systematic review of fluoride's neurotoxicity with the conclusion that prenatal and early life fluoride exposures can reduce IQ.
January 2018 Ruling on Fluoride Petition to EPA
When the EPA tried to deny the Citizen’s Petition filed by the Fluoride Action Network, IAOMT and other groups, a complaint was filed, and a judge ruled in favor of FAN, the IAOMT, and others. Follow this link to read more: http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/tsca.1-5-18.opposition-brief-to-epa-motion-to-limit-record.pdf
Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Harms Brain Development
The results of the first ever US government funded study of fluoride and IQ have just been published. A team of researchers found a statistically significant association between fluoride exposure in women during pregnancy and a lowering of IQ in their children, reports the Fluoride Action Network. The study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives by scientists from the University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Harvard, McGill, and the national public health agency of Mexico. It was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, with over $3 million in grants. Click here to read more.
Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Water Fluoridation
There are many reasons to oppose water fluoridation, including safety concerns and health risks. Reason #1 to Oppose Water Fluoridation: Fluoridation is a violation of the individual’s right to informed consent to medication. Within a community water supply, fluoride is being added to the water of everyone, even if some people do not want it and still others do not even know about the fluoride being added to the water or about its health risks. Informed consumer consent is needed for water fluoridation, especially because of the alarming lack of safety for this chemical and its health risks. Reason #2 to Oppose Water Fluoridation: Fluoride is not an essential nutrient. Fluoride is not a required component for human growth and development. In fact, fluoride has been recognized as one of 12 industrial chemicals known to cause developmental neurotoxicity in human beings. Researchers have repeatedly challenged the alleged safety and effectiveness of fluoride. Reason #3 to Oppose Water Fluoridation: Hundreds of research articles published over the past several decades have demonstrated potential harm to humans from fluoride at various levels of exposure, including levels currently deemed as safe. Fluoride is known to impact the cardiovascular, central nervous, digestive, endocrine, immune, integumentary, renal, respiratory, and skeletal systems, and exposure to fluoride has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, infertility, and many other adverse health outcomes, including fluoride toxicity. Reason #4 to Oppose Water Fluoridation: People are now exposed to fluoride from an array of sources. Since water fluoridation began in 1940s, an array of products containing fluoride have been introduced to the average consumer including water, dental products, pesticides, fluoride supplements, other prescription drugs, and many other sources. There is no current accurate estimate of just how much fluoride people are taking in from [...]
Citizen’s Petition on Fluoride to the EPA
In November 2016, the IAOMT joined the Fluoride Action Network and other groups to petition the EPA regarding the neurotoxic risks posed by fluoride chemicals in drinking water under Section 21 of TSCA. Click here to read the detailed citizen’s petition.
2014 Review of Physiological Effects of Fluoride Ingestion
ScientificWorldJournal. 2014 Feb 26;2014:293019. doi: 10.1155/2014/293019. eCollection 2014. Water fluoridation: a critical review of the physiological effects of ingested fluoride as a public health intervention. Peckham S, Awofeso N. Abstract Fluorine is the world's 13th most abundant element and constitutes 0.08% of the Earth crust. It has the highest electronegativity of all elements. Fluoride is widely distributed in the environment, occurring in the air, soils, rocks, and water. Although fluoride is used industrially in a fluorine compound, the manufacture of ceramics, pesticides, aerosol propellants, refrigerants, glassware, and Teflon cookware, it is a generally unwanted byproduct of aluminium, fertilizer, and iron ore manufacture. The medicinal use of fluorides for the prevention of dental caries began in January 1945 when community water supplies in Grand Rapids, United States, were fluoridated to a level of 1 ppm as a dental caries prevention measure. However, water fluoridation remains a controversial public health measure. This paper reviews the human health effects of fluoride. The authors conclude that available evidence suggests that fluoride has a potential to cause major adverse human health problems, while having only a modest dental caries prevention effect. As part of efforts to reduce hazardous fluoride ingestion, the practice of artificial water fluoridation should be reconsidered globally, while industrial safety measures need to be tightened in order to reduce unethical discharge of fluoride compounds into the environment. Public health approaches for global dental caries reduction that do not involve systemic ingestion of fluoride are urgently needed. PMID: 24719570 Read the whole article here.
