![]() ![]() Put another way: Does a voter have the right to require that their neighbor ingest a certain medication (even if it is against that neighbor’s will)?ģ) The dose cannot be controlled. With water fluoridation we are allowing governments to do to whole communities (forcing people to take a medicine irrespective of their consent) what individual doctors cannot do to individual patients. Informed consent is standard practice for all medication, and one of the key reasons why most of Western Europe has ruled against fluoridation. All other water treatment chemicals are added to improve the water’s quality or safety, which fluoride does not do.Ģ) Fluoridation is unethical. As a matter of basic logic, adding fluoride to water for the sole purpose of preventing tooth decay (a non-water borne disease) is a form of medical treatment. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies fluoride as a drug when used to prevent or mitigate disease (FDA 2000). Fluoridation is a bad medical practiceġ) Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment. In these countries measures are being taken to remove the fluoride because of the health problems that fluoride can cause. These include India, China and parts of Africa. Some countries have areas with high natural fluoride levels in the water. This equates to approximately 185 million people, which is over half the number of people drinking artificially fluoridated water worldwide. In the U.S., about 70% of public water supplies are fluoridated. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water. ![]()
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