Happy Tooth?s smiley face turns into a frown when his favorite decay buster is busted as a killer. Anything in large doses kills, bristles Drill & Fill, DDS, even Dihydrogen Monoxide, they often tease. Ha, ha, get it ? water ? H2O. Stop picking on fluoride, they say, you make us look bad.
Few people know that fluoride maims and kills. Dentists wouldn?t want you worrying your little head off, and possibly scaring you away from twice-yearly insurance-paid-whether-you-need-it-or-not treatments. Fluoride?s toxicity is downplayed-?or worse, never mentioned. That way everyone stays happy including organized dentistry?s biggest benefactors–toothpaste makers, and the media paid to showcase the fluoride-good-news, only.
Four stories, organized dentistry and fluoride profiters would rather you didn?t see occurred this year:
1) A 51-year-old committed suicide by fluoridated toothpaste, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (1).
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