Fluoride and Skeletal Fluorosis

The debate over fluoridation has been largely over dental fluorosis and the industrial-grade hazardous waste sources of fluoride including hydrofluosilicic acid, (H₂SiF₆.) According to Tim Walsh (WSDA geologist) one of the overlooked effects is phosphorous ion loss in bones making them brittle. As H₂SiF₆ (called SiFs) dissociates in water and other body fluids, different associations occur including hydrogen fluoride and hydrofluoric acid (when HF occurs in water.) The HF delivers fluoride ions to the bones where the ion can replace existing phosphorous ions weakening them. This is called skeletal fluorosis. It is commonly confused with forms of arthritis including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. “Studies on human populations consuming fluoride in drinking water, have found an association between dental fluorosis and increased bone fracture in children; and between long-term consumption of fluoridated water and increased hip fracture in the elderly.” More @:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/bone/

Due to your recent lecture on infusions I thought you might be interested in a study relating tea drinking to fluorosis:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/news/20.html

Another Problem I have found in this research is the link between Sifs and lead absorption. In Massachusetts and New York 400,000 children from communities where fluoridation was in place and also from communities where there was no fluoridation were studied. When compared, “SiF treated municipal water is always significantly associated with increased blood lead levels in children.” Dr. Roger D. Masters - Research Professor of Government, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus, President, Foundation for Neuroscience & Society, Dartmouth Collage, Hanover NH conducted the research. More information about this study:

http://www.slweb.org/Masters.html.

In this link you’ll find more about Sifs -taken from text: a 1983 expert panel appointed by the Surgeon General to review “non-dental health effects” of ingested fluoride was instructed to limit its scope to “death (poisoning), gastrointestinal hemorrhage, gastrointestinal irritation, arthralgias, and crippling fluorosis” thus essentially ignoring many possible effects in children.

http://www.slweb.org/APHA-silicofluorides.html

Other useful websites dealing with fluoridation, Sif and HF:

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/hydrofluoricacid/basics/facts.asp

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/hydrofluoricacid/

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts11.html