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Bob Johnson DMD
Traditional dentistry touts the benefits of fluoride to prevent caries/ cavities in your teeth. 
This has been the conventional wisdom since the 1950’s. Continued research by the dental community and outside researchers has occurred since that time.
As a result dentists and the traditional dental community recommend giving fluoride treatments and to legislate fluoridation of public drinking water.
In recent studies, fluoride has increasingly been shown to be toxic and not as effective at reducing decay as once thought. There are alternatives to fluoride to improve the health of the mouth and to prevent decay. These include using xylitol rinses and gum, rinsing with chlorhexidine or rinsing with baking soda solution to neutralize the acids which cause decay.
Fluoride and the Thyroid
Fluoride has now been shown to bind with and pull toxic mercury and aluminum into the brain and thyroid. This may contribute to thyroid and brain dysfunction and degeneration. The mercury and aluminum which is pulled into the brain has been shown to damage individual nerve and thyroid cells resulting in decreasing function of these organs/ gland.
In the thyroid the most important nutrient is Iodine. Fluoride which has migrated into the thryoid from the mouth displaces the bound iodine resulting in an increasingly dysfunctional thyroid. Whether or not fluoride actively causes a dysfunctional thyroid and brain or is the vehicle to transport other toxic materials such as mercury or aluminum into the brain and thyroid the use of fluoride must be reassessed as a toxin and its utilization be re-analyzed. Given that there are much healthier and possibly equally effective alternatives our suggestion is to avoid the use of fluoride from all sources.
Make an Educated Health Decision on Fluoride
There is still a conflict between this ongoing research surrounding fluoride and the information put out by traditional dental groups. It is the assumption that the ongoing stance by traditional dental groups despite overwhelmingly negative research about fluoride is that some groups may have other agendas in promoting fluoride other than just of health of the consumer, or may not be familiar with the most current research on flouride. As with most health issues the consumer should do their own research and decide for themselves whether to use fluoride and continue to be exposed.
