New recommendations on fluoride put kids in jeopardy

Use fluoride toothpaste on babies!

I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Looks like the American Dental Association has guzzled down a big ole pitcher of (fluoridated) Kool-Aid.

In a new policy change the ADA now wants parents to brush kids’ teeth with a fluoride toothpaste as soon as they first start coming in!

But it gets even crazier.

USA Today reports that a “scientific review concluded” using small amounts of fluoride toothpaste will minimize “the risk of fluorosis.” It then goes onto explain that fluorosis occurs when “teeth are exposed to too much fluoride early in life.”

Could there be “something in the water” that these scientists’ are drinking?

Of course excessive fluoride causes dental fluorosis! So how does giving kids’ fluoride at an even younger age prevent that?

Dental fluorosis is definitely not something you want your kids or grandkids to have. It can go from a discoloration of the teeth to heavy staining and even crumbling as fluoride weakens tooth enamel.

And how does this new idea from the ADA explain away those warnings on fluoridated toothpaste packages (required by the FDA, no less)? The ones that say not to use fluoridated toothpaste for kids under two, and that if it is “accidentally swallowed” to call poison control “right away”?

Sources:
“New advice: use fluoride toothpaste on baby teeth” Kim Painter, USA Today, February 11, 2014, usatoday.com