CDC Lies To You About Oral Health Improvements In U.S.

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CDC Lies To You About Oral Health Improvements In U.S.

By Sally Stride
Aug. 30, 2005

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a press release on 8/25/05, "New Report Finds Improvements in Oral Health of Americans," that obviously was not fact-checked by most reporters before being published in many media outlets across the U.S. (1), because U.S. oral health is decaying, according to CDC's own statistics. Tooth loss in those 65 or older actually increased from 17.6% in 2002 (2) to 21.2% in 2004 (3), according to the CDC.. And a 3/17/04 CDC power point presentation, "Oral Health Progress Review," reveals that cavity experience in two “four-year-olds is getting worse. (4). In fact, in the report the CDC press release is spinning, it actually shows in table 2 that preschoolers tooth decay rates increased.

What is exceedingly important is that the CDC admits 1/3 of schoolchildren are fluoride overdosed which shows up as dental fluorosis “ white spotted, yellow, brown or black and sometimes pitted teeth. And that dental fluorosis occurs more often in black children who also have higher rates of tooth decay. If the people ingesting the most fluoride have the most cavities, what is that telling you? This either means fluoride isn't reducing tooth decay or maybe that fluoride actually is causing tooth decay. In any event, it's clearly not working in the black population.

Tooth decay rates went down since its inception in 1945 because diets improved and foods were fortified. Now that diets are decaying; so are teeth.

Tooth decay crises are occurring in most, if not all, fluoridated U.S. Cities. (5) In fact, tooth decay is the new "racism," according to best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell (Blink, The Tipping Point) who writes in the New Yorker that rotted teeth are the single most common complaint of America's uninsured which keeps them in bad health, bad jobs, eating bad diets and generally keeps them down. (6) Meanwhile, dentists make much more money than physicians while working fewer days and, fewer hours (7) and refusing to treat low-income people whom they claim to care about when they endorse, instigate and promote water fluoridation.

I join the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Employees Unions asking for a moratorium on water fluoridation. If you agree, please sign the petition supporting 11 EPA Unions, representing 7,000 EPA employees including scientists, toxicologists and other health professionals, in asking Congress to stop fluoridation until further study shows fluoridation's benefits are worth the expense and risks. http://petition.powalliance.org/index.html

References:

1) U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office of Communication, "New Report Finds Improvements in Oral Health of Americans," 8/25/05

http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050825.htm

2) 2002 CDC tooth loss statistics

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/list.asp?cat=OH&yr=2002&qkey=6605&state=All

3) 2004 CDC tooth loss statistics

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/list.asp?cat=OH&yr=2004&qkey=6606&state=All

4) Oral Health Progress Review 3/17/04

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/hpdata2010/focusareas/fa21.ppt

(slide 5)

5) The New Yorker, "THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH

The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.".
by MALCOLM GLADWELL
Issue of 2005_08_29
Posted 2005-08-22
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050829fa_fact
6) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg6.php3
7) http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/archive/05apr/care_dentist.htm

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