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It’s thumbs down for fluoridation from Hampshire County Council

7:00am Tuesday 18th November 2008 in


HAMPSHIRE County council bosses are the latest to come out against plans to put fluoride into tap water.

They will this week oppose fluoridation for the city, hot on the heels of Test Valley councillors who have also rejected the proposal.

Southampton City Primary Care Trust wants to add more fluoride to water supplies in a bid to improve poor dental health among the city’s children. It will affect 160,000 homes in the city and 30,000 in Eastleigh, Netley and Totton.

The county council set up a panel to investigating fluoridation and on Thursday, the panel will urge the council to oppose fluoridation due to a lack of evidence on its safety and to ask for a debate on the issue to take place in a “more mature and participative way than has been the case”.

Panel chairman Anna McNair Scott said: “One question that the review panel felt had not been satisfactorily addressed is that of the optimal dose. There are indications that this is an important unknown – for example, there are now suggestions in the US that infant formula should not be made using fluoridated tap water. When this was raised with witnesses, answers were dismissive.”

Test Valley councillors voted against fluoridation by a 26 to 10 majority. Cllr Alan Dowden said: “More people now brush their teeth properly. Any beneficial effect of fluoride comes on the surface of the teeth, no benefit at all from drinking it.”

South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) is running a public consultation on the fluoridation plans, which ends on December 19. A final decision will be made in February.

n A SECOND fluoridation Question Time event will take place in Southampton tonight at St Mary’s Stadium from 7-9pm.

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Comments(12)

Ozmosis says...
8:02am Tue 18 Nov 08

We don't want it - why doesn't the SCPCT see that?

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wizzle says...
8:17am Tue 18 Nov 08

Educate the parents of the children, it is them to blame for poor teeth in children! We dont want floride, when will they understand this.

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fuzabuznuz says...
8:38am Tue 18 Nov 08

I'll say this for the last time. Most adults with teeth problems will probably get them taken out soon and have false ones instead. The problem is with the children, so make them brush their teeth after their lunch at school. Give them the flouride mouth wash or something. At least you'd know they we're brushing their teetch once a day. If they do brush their teeth in the mornings and evenings, bonus! Now stop this sillyness and put it in place!!!! Thank you!

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Shoong says...
9:16am Tue 18 Nov 08

Yeah, it would be a bit rich that the majority of us have to have our water fluorinated just because a bunch of scrubbers can't make sure their spawn brush their teeth. Let them suffer the consequences of their poor hygiene.

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Ric of totton says...
10:36am Tue 18 Nov 08

I don’t want to be having fluoride every time I use the water for tea, coffee, squash, making pot noodle’s or anything else for that, even showering or bathing we wont be able to get away from it. I do hope if southern water go-ahead with this that they will have something on the pipes leading to the house to get rid of fluoride before entering or even repining to fluoride free area’s? I think not, if it was gas or electricity supplies we would switch suppliers for the best deal, but what choice do we have other than going along with the minority!

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goard says...
10:39am Tue 18 Nov 08

In my yoof at school we had a nurse come in once a month to check for tooth decay, flees and malnutrition - we were a scruffy lot but healthy. I suppose it would be another expense for the authorities to afford a nurse - but it would be cheaper than paying out for fluoride, besides which it may save the Health Authorities a load of money when I have my thyroid 'done'

goard

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goard says...
10:39am Tue 18 Nov 08

In my yoof at school we had a nurse come in once a month to check for tooth decay, flees and malnutrition - we were a scruffy lot but healthy. I suppose it would be another expense for the authorities to afford a nurse - but it would be cheaper than paying out for fluoride, besides which it may save the Health Authorities a load of money when I have my thyroid 'done'

goard

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southy says...
10:46am Tue 18 Nov 08

quote"Southampton City Primary Care Trust wants to add more fluoride to water supplies in a bid to improve poor dental health among the city’s children. It will affect 160,000 homes in the city and 30,000 in Eastleigh, Netley and Totton" unquote.
note the word more, you all ready have fluoride in the water,they want to up the amount in the water.

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cindyannroy says...
11:40am Tue 18 Nov 08

We do not need fluoride in our water,in does not prevent dental problems,I have a relative with flourosis,look it up on the website,this is caused by too much floride in your body,firstly it makes your teeth look opaque,then eats away at your enamel causing the teeth to just wear away,in severe cases it eats at your bones,how did my relitive get it because his mum gave him to much floride in her drinking water when pregnant,and as a little in swallowing toothpaste with fluoide in whilst cleaning his teeth,the body can not break it down and get rid of as too much is going in for it to cope with already.we do not need to be force feed it.

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Adrian Smith says...
2:18pm Tue 18 Nov 08

southy wrote:
quote"Southampton City Primary Care Trust wants to add more fluoride to water supplies in a bid to improve poor dental health among the city’s children. It will affect 160,000 homes in the city and 30,000 in Eastleigh, Netley and Totton" unquote. note the word more, you all ready have fluoride in the water,they want to up the amount in the water.
Well yes.

There are traces of all sorts of good and bad in our tap water. But there is no need to add fluoride to the drinking supply when toothpaste has it added.

These idiots know who the bad teeth belong to - just send them some toothpaste and forget about poisoning my drinking water.

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Condor Man says...
6:55pm Tue 18 Nov 08

I took my son to the dentist for the first time yesterday and there was nothing wrong with his teeth. Sadly it's taken me 3 years to find an NHS dentist as more and more have opted out due to the funding changes brought in by that idiot Gordon Brown.

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Rob444 says...
9:48pm Tue 18 Nov 08

I know a person who lives up north, in an area where the tap water has extra fluoride added to it. All the shops in that town sells fluoride toothpaste, in fact I think that's the only sort available there.

One of the reported effect of drinking fluoridated water is that it has an adverse effect people's intelligence. Says it all, really.

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