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By nyscof (anonymous) | Posted December 03, 2008 at 07:23:28

Dr. Ted - You said " I absolutely support a change in studying fluoride that looks not only at source levels but body levels - but that's going to be expensive and difficult to test thousands of people."

That's actually being done with the Iowa Fluoride Study. Stephen Levy, the principal investigator, and his colleagues have been following a group of Iowa children for 16 years. He has published many research articles on this ongoing study. Many of them show that children are over-fluoridated with little, if any, benefit to teeth. But he's afraid to condemn fluoridation as it would certainly put him out of business.

He writes in his latest article in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry (online Nov 24, 2008)

"These findings suggest that achieving a caries-free status may have relatively little to do with fluoride intake, while fluorosis is clearly more dependent on fluoride intake."

He's an epidemiologist, a university professor, a dentist, and someone who has said in the past that fluoridation is a good thing. So I believe you can't get an any more objective statement than the above one by Levy .

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