Fluoride - A fable for dentists

July 1, 2005

Mr. Fluoride and the Tooth Fairy:

A fable for dentists

George Glasser

Fluoride, what is it? Well, it is a basic building block, a molecule, and in nature, like most molecules, it is always found attached to another molecule. Even in water it is attached to hydrogen molecules, the fluoride ion is never found alone.

When someone says, they are putting fluoride in the water, that is a impossibility because one cannot buy a pound of pure fluoride ions at the local drug store. Drinking water is always fluoridated with a fluoride compound such as sodium fluoride or silico fluorides from phosphate fertilizer production. The silico fluorides are hazardous air pollutants that are captured in pollution scrubbers. As a matter of fact, the most used fluoridation agent is hydrofluosilicic acid that comes directly from the pollution scrubbers.

Making phosphate fertilizer is not an environmental friendly operation, that is why most governments make manufacturers wash the fumes and vapors from the air so they will not cause health and environmental damage.

To understand exactly what it is that is being used to fluoridate drink water, one must understand how phosphate fertilizer is made, what elements are in the raw phosphate rock and some of the chemicals used in the make the product.

First, all phosphate rock is called fluorapatite and is a combination of many elements that include those that are very harmful to humans and the environment. Aside from the two main elements, phosphorous and calcium, there are fluorine, silica, radioactive elements, arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury and aluminum among many others.

The raw phosphate rock is dug from the ground and dumped into an big pit where it is broken down to a slurry with high pressure water hoses. The slurry is then pumped to the plant where they add chemicals and fuel oil to cause the phosphate ore to float and the other heavy particles of sand to sink to the bottom. The soup is washed and sent into a big pot where they mix it with a sulfuric acid. A great deal of heat is created in this process. There is also a problem with foam (like when vinegar is added to baking soda). To stop the foaming, they add more antifoaming chemicals, some of which are known to cause cancers.

The 'soup' becomes very hot, creating toxic fumes and vapors which are vented into the pollution scrubber. There, water showers wash the fumes and vapors from the air before it is released into the cooling chimneys and then into the environment. Not all of the pollution can be dissolved in the water.

The way the water works on the pollution is like when you add sugar or salt to water. They dissolve, but if you add too much sugar or salt to the water, they will not dissolve any more and will sink to the bottom. So only so much of the pollution can be dissolved in the water before they have to take it out. This dirty water is then pumped into a big tanker truck or a railroad tank car and sent to the water plants where it is added to the drinking water to give us our fluoride. But it is not just 'fluoride' that is being added to the water, it is all the pollution that would have gone into the environment.

The problem is that when they put it in the water, they are also putting all the other nasty pollutants into the water with Mr. Fluoride, and we have to drink it.

Although many dentists believe that the Tooth Fairy appears and removes all the bad chemicals in the water once Mr. Fluoride is there, this is not true. It would take several million tooth fairies to take all the bad things out of just one glass of water. It is wonderful that dentists still believe in the Tooth Fairy. However, the Tooth Fairy only leaves money under pillows for baby teeth, she has no magical power to remove toxic chemicals from the drinking water..

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