New York dental scheme gets $5k
A New York State dental scheme has been awarded a $5000 grant to help children.
Healthy Smiles, Happy Friends, which incorporates a number of Bassett’s School-Based Health Centers in Cooperstown, received the funding from New York State Dental Foundation.
Bassett’s director Dr Chris Kjolhede said that the program was working to identify the risk of cavities in children from a younger age and to protect youngsters by applying a fluoride varnish to their teeth.
He added that these steps
were vital as oral health can effect a body’s overall wellbeing and development.
Healthy Smiles, Happy Friends, which was started in 2001 to improve the oral health of children from underserved communities, reaches around 2000 kids from across 15 school districts.
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The National Academy of Sciences did a thorough review on fluoride in 2006. They documented numerous deleterious effects of fluoride on many organ systems including increased potential risk for bone fractures (the well characterized disease of skeletal fluorosis) possibly increased risk of osteosarcoma, reduced IQ, thyroid dysfunction, endocrine dysfunction and others all 300 pages is online if anyone cares to confirm it. Of course don’t forget fluoride induced dental fluorsosis (i.e. teeth mottling and a sign of toxic exposure to fluoride) They ended with recommending that the EPA should more strictly regulate fluoride. Their findings mirror those in the peer-reviewed medical literature, while Harvard trained toxicologist Phyllis Mullenix also extensively documented behavioral changes in mice upon exposure to blood levels of fluoride not far greater than those experienced through water fluoridation and other sources of exposure. Former, well credentialed EPA scientists have been fired for bucking the political line on this issue. Meanwhile 90% of the fluoride placed into our water supply is not industrial grade sodium fluoride, it is silicofluorides, quite simply, scraped from the sides of Florida phosphate plant smokestacks. If it wern’t thrown into the water supply it would have to be disposed of as hazardous waste.