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12 Mar, 20 tweets, 9 min read
Putting "ideology ahead of science", in its purest form.
dentistrytoday.com/news/todays-de…
In 2019, proponents of fluoride and fluoridation were broken hearted to see the National Toxicology Program (NTP) draft a monograph citing some of the same safety concerns they had been raising.
Citing NTP’s draft document, proponents of fluoridation declared that science was on their side.
"Science works by experiments that can be repeated” -|-
The "experiment" of #fluoridation to prevent #toothdecay has been repeated for 7 decades. If it worked, tooth decay would not be the number one problem encountered in childhood. #Dental schools would be closing. #NotScience
Talking about no science. -|- "Despite progress, we know that people of color and those at lower income levels remain at greater risk for decay."
How does the caries process know how much money a patient has, or what color their skin is? It doesn't. When all your thinking is centered around money, one says this sort of thing. #FilthyLucre ruins more #Science than stupidity does. #Twofer
Nobody has any current longitudinal studies on caries rates (that they will share). One cannot know any change w/o that data. -|- "Discouraging people from receiving the benefits of topical fluoride and fluoridated tap water could lead to a significant spike in dental disease."
All that study showed is #Dentists in Alaska worked a little harder. There was no spike in caries, only a spike in business. That was the only data they had. $ is really studied! -|- "A study conducted in Alaska’s capital city showed this happened after water fluoridation ended."
Since the author was negligent in providing a link to the NTP report, here is a link. Funny, this has a revision date of Sept. 2020. #StannousFoilHats are outdated, even in their blather. fluoridealert.org/wp-content/upl…
Just a #FluorideFriday fact.
Cherry picking quotes is fun. Excluding the full text, and using things out of context, is at best misleading.
They ended their apologetic w an admission. 😢
"The identified study should be viewed as part of the research effort to investigate possible associations between fluoride exposure & neurological development in children. Together with a larger body of evidence on this topic, ..."
" ... further well conducted research is needed to reduce
uncertainty."
-|-
The argument that the CADTH pooh pooh'd the Green paper is perfidious. They admitted they haven't a clue. #TheyDontKnowAndTheyDoItAnyway. #EndFluoridationNow. It may be too late for this generation.
Ignorance is what happens when one does "A limited literature search".
This is what they did.
A limited literature search.
Pay close attention to the actual search term used by CADTH. Tricky, that. Which would limit the scope, for sure.
Do any of the #StannousFoilHats read any of the papers they say support the practice of adding bioavailable #fluorine to our diet?
Appears not. Or, if they do, a valiant attempt at spinning the paper is made. Making discoveries is what Science is all about. Trying to disprove science done by others is criticism, nothing more. Like they said back in 1951, they have no data.
Imagine the mindset that thinks adding #fluorine to their diet, in such quantities that it damages the teeth of 1 of 5 kids, is a good idea for preventing decay in those same kids? Baffling in the light of current research.
#PreciousBodilyFluids, y'all. #EndFluoridationNow
Another thing that hasn't changed in the practice of #fluoridation. In 1966, toothpaste and #fluoridation.
In 2021, fluoridation and toothpaste.

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12 Mar
From the NTP monograph. #FluorideFriday facts. Judge Chen wouldn't let the folks who want to add bioavailable #fluorine to our diet talk about the "benefits" of #fluoridation. Because there are no facts to support such. The NTP knew that.
The biggest problem the #StannoudFoilHats have, is that since organized #Dentistry has been avoiding talking about the research of C. C. Bass, MD, the loud ones must not know that Dr Bass published his first paper on preventing the loss of teeth in 1943.
That paper traveled around the world many times and was adopted by the new field of #PreventiveDentistry everywhere it was read. The formal practice of personal oral hygiene started a couple of years before Grand Rapids decided to add #fluorine to the diet of their citizens.
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11 Mar
Big #Dentistry wants to know! Sounds topical. Survey from 1944. #ThrowbackThursday!
industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/#id=ktml0…
CORRECTION: 1945, the same year they added bioavailable #fluorine to the diet of people in Michigan, to prevent #toothdecay. Sample question: "What do you believe is the principal cause of #dental caries?"
And, "Can caries be prevented in a practical manner? If yes, how?"
Read 5 tweets
11 Mar
Let’s play “Who Said This?” for #ThrowbackThursday!
“Our job as the #Dental Profession, therefore, is, first, an educational one. Let us all become Teachers, #Teachers of #Health.”
“So it seems that the first need of the patient is to understand the facts which govern the spread of infection and the destruction of the tooth crown and the tissues around the teeth.”
Read 10 tweets
11 Mar
Headline vs text. Disingenuous at best. Manipulative at worst. 'We filled a bunch of teeth. YAY!'-|- "After six visits, there was a more than 50% decline in untreated cavities."
usnews.com/news/health-ne…
"The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions that 28 percent of children have at least one cavity by age 3 — and nearly half of all children have at least one cavity by age 5."
So we recommend that we do the same thing we have been doing for the last fifty years? Stop it.
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9 Mar
Serving up some hot cognitive dissonance here. -|- "Although dentistry has long been identified as being far more preventive-oriented than most other areas of medicine, the emphasis on disease treatment is still the predominant activity of most dentists."
The problem with #Dentistry and #Prevention in a nutshell. -|- "In contrast, if the dentist is accomplishing the preventive procedures, the overhead is enormous, and the practice may not have adequate revenue."
Ditto. Treatment ≠ Prevention, no matter how you phrase it. -|- "What preventive orientation can the dentist have? The following procedures can provide preventive characteristics to your restorative treatment."
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