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You really don't get the obvious MW!?

The environment is becoming contimanated with fluoride from numerous sources that people often cannnot detect for themselves causing increased fluorosis.

The research also says fluoridation is the easiest to eliminate. In any case the health authorities must allow for fluoride exposure from other sources in their fluoridation rate.

Toothpaste: How often and prominently do toothpaste makers warn that children swallowing toothpaste causes dental fluorosis? Almost never.

Naturally Occuring Fluoride: Well if it's truly naturally occuring in the water supply, air or food chain, again, the responsibility is on the fluoridating authority to decrease the rate or stop adding fluoride completely where people are being over exposed to fluoride.

More often it's not naturally ocurring, but artifical fluoride contaminating the natural environment. Take the 98 or 99% of fluoridated water that is not ingested, ie goes to bath, garden and wash the car etc? It gets back into underground water and irrigation supplies and has a cumulative effect of contaminating the natural environment and food chain.

The bottom line is fluoridation is ultimately responsible for the 7.2 million extra people with severe fluorosis in the US from 1986 to 2004 and 49 million extra with mild or very mild fluorosis.

Equated to Australias population, that's well over 500,000 people who can look forward to severe fluorosis in the same circumstances and 3.5 million to mild or very mild fluorosis.

Next, using the costs from http://www.privatehealth.gov.au/healthinsurance/whatiscovered/averagedental.htm

• consider how many extractions and fillings you have and add up the cost
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• Then assuming you were one of the unlucky ones who had fluorosis... tally the cost of annual or biannual whitening treatments for the same period as above.
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• Thirdly, tally the cost of dental veneers every 5 and 10 years for the same period as above.

To be continued...