Daily Echo - Fluoride: truth hasn't altered since 1943

In my view by Joy Warren
BSc Environmental Science co-ordinator, West Midlands Against Fluoridation
Fluoride: truth hasn't altered since 1943
I AM replying to 'Fluoridation: best for kids' (In my View, May 11) by John F Beal, vice chairman of the British Fluoridation Society.
References accompanying my letter were removed by editorial staff due to lack of column space.
All my claims were well researched and not exaggerated. For example, the level of dental fluorosis in Birmingham was measured in 1995 by Professor Peter Rock and AM Sabieha of I Birmingham University Dental School and published in a British Dent Journal article in 1997.
They concluded that 112 children (34 per cent) in a group of 325 children aged eight to nine in five Birmingham Primary Schools in 1995 had dental fluorosis which they considered was caused by the children swallowing fluoridated toothpaste.
But the children also drank fluoridated water, ate fluoridated food, and absorbed fluoride when visiting the swimming pool and bathing in hot fluoridated water.
Therefore, the prevalence and degree of dental fluorosis in their permanent teeth would not have been so great had they not been fluoridated. Furthermore, the Government's York Review (2000) concluded that 12 per cent of fluoridated children had dental j fluorosis of aesthetic concern. This equates to one in eight children in the West Midlands with disfiguring dental fluorosis.
No research on the prevalence of dental fluorosis in British children has taken place since 1995.
The Rock and Sabieha report is not in the public domain so it's not surprising that John Beal feels confident enough to deny existence of proof.
I could continue in this vein but would strain the patience of both the Daily Echo's editor and readers. I will conclude with a quote from the Journal of the American Medical Association, September 18,1943.: "Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, with the capacity to modify cell metabolism, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. Sources of fluoride intoxication include drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine."
The fluoride ion (anion) is an element which has not changed its chemical composition since 1943. The human body has not changed its composition since 1943. The truth recognised in 1943 still holds true today.
But is this continuing a dialogue with the deaf? Is John Beal likely, anytime soon, to change his mind about the injurious nature of fluoride?
Well, if the second Icelandic volcano blows a fuse and spews greater volumes of toxic, fluoride-laden ash over the UK, he may have a Damascus-road conversion.