Attempts to push fluoride down our throats go well beyond the water
It’s supposed to be the next big breakthrough in dental care — one that will make your dentist’s drill as obsolete as pet rocks and VHS cassettes.
And all you have to do is swallow a mouthful of poison, day after day.
I’ve been telling you for ages how the fluoride in our water and our dental products is damaging our brains and thyroids — and how it can even cause kidney disease, weak bones, and cancer.
But now dentists have found an even newer and more dangerous way to put fluoride to use.
It’s a fad that’s going to be hitting your dentist’s office soon (if it hasn’t already). And getting the facts could save you or someone you love from a health disaster.
“Drill, baby, drill,” may have been Sarah Palin’s motto, but you won’t find too many dental patients who feel that way.
Just the whirring sound of a dentist’s drill — or the sight of that big Novocaine needle coming at you — is enough to give people shivers.
And now the dental industry wants to use our fear of getting cavities filled to create its next billion-dollar treatment — using one of the most dangerous substances around.
For years dentists have been giving kids fluoride pills and treatments, even though studies have proven that early exposure to fluoride can actually lower IQs.
But this new treatment, called fluoride varnish, is actually targeting people of all ages.
Here’s how it works. They cover your teeth with a thick fluoride varnish (it reminds me of spackle), and give you a concentrated fluoride gel to apply at home.
And, believe it or not, they say that’ll reverse cavities in their tracks and keep you a country mile from a dentist’s drill.
What’s not to love? Well, plenty.
First off, I don’t understand for the life of me where they got the idea that fluoride is like some kind of armor for your teeth.
Despite everything you’ll hear from most mainstream dentists, fluoride has been proven to weaken tooth enamel and even damage your gums.
And if that’s all fluoride did, it would be bad enough. But make no mistake about it — you’ll end up swallowing plenty of this fluoride varnish, and over the years fluoride has been linked to:
- Erosion of the stomach lining
- Sluggish thyroid
- Kidney damage
- Thinning bones
- Memory loss, and
- Problems metabolizing glucose, which makes it especially risky for diabetics.
This stuff is poison, case closed. I mean, what are they going to be pushing next? Arsenic for gingivitis?
Of course, you won’t be hearing any of this from the mainstream media that’s helping to hype this new idea. In fact, an article from National Public Radio didn’t even bother to mention that there’s any kind of controversy going on with fluoride at all.
See no evil, hear no evil, I guess.
But the fact is, fluoride is so dangerous that if it were a drug, it would be covered in black-box warnings. It’s bad enough that they dump it in our water — but now they’re coming up with new ways for us to eat it, too.
Like I said, you can be sure these varnishes will be coming to your dentist’s office, and you may even get the hard sell.
But remember this — once you learn about all the damage fluoride can do in your body, suddenly that drill looks a lot less frightening by comparison.
Sources:
“No-drill dentistry: Fluoride treatments can prevent cavities in adults” Vannessa Rancano, March 14, 2016, NPR, npr.org
