Utah became the first US state to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.
The law that was signed SPENCER COX Government 27 March And comes into force on May 7, comes in the middle of a renewed fluoride control, a mineral that has been widely added to us from 1945 to prevent cavities. Although discussions on water fluoridation first originated in the 40s of the 20th century, concerns have intensified in recent years, partially driven by new research of fluoridation and increasing resistance to public health intervention from Pandemia.
In November Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now Federal Secretary of Health, said Trump’s administration would “recommend all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water” due to potential health risks. Anti-fluoridation accounts were also introduced Northern dakota, Tennessee and Montana.
Most concerns focus on possible cognitive effects in children. In one recent Study reviewsScientists concluded that high levels of prenatal or child fluoride exposure were associated with lower IQs in childhood. However, fluoride levels associated with cognitive problems were more than twice as high as the levels that people are generally exposed to through fluoridation of water in the community, said Dr. Scott Tomar, public health dentist and oral epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Some Americans are exposed to high levels of fluoride in their water by natural contamination from rocks and soil, but not from manual fluoridation. The risks of manual fluoridation “was” dramatically overvalued “, said Dr. Tomar.
Cox government has not publicly spoiled health problems concerning fluoridation and the bill does not even mention. Instead he said earlier that oral health benefits of water fluoridation were irrelevant in Utah, where probably 44 percent a population who was provided with public drinking water consumed by fluoridal water in 2022.
Almost half of the state drinks fluoridated water, while the other half does not. Between these two groups the government coox said, “You think you would see drastically different results. No.”
However, this claim is contrary to published research, suggesting that fluoridation improves the health of the oral cavity. The mineral solidifies the outer surface of the teeth and can also reduce the amount of acid eroding that bacteria produce on the teeth. IN AND A systematic overview of 20 studies Posted in 2007, scientists reported that water fluoridation was associated with a 27 % decrease in cavities between adults and studies from 2018 found that this had led 30 % decrease between children.
“We have strong evidence that it works,” Dr. F. Perry Wilson, doctor and epidemiologist of chronic diseases at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Tomar said he was concerned that the Utah law and other potential prohibitions could lead to more health problems throughout the country, especially in poorer areas.
“The benefits of water fluoridation in the community are most significant in low -income communities – communities that often have the least access to teeth care AK other fluoride sources,” Tomar. The prohibitions of fluoride, added, are “misleading on a number of levels”.
