What are the adverse effects of fluoride?
(Back to Top) Scientific literature does not support the claims that fluoride adversely affects the immune system, collagen, glucose metabolism, the integrity of genetic material, causes, attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, osteoporosis, cancer or AIDS, aggravates kidney disease or hypothyroidism. Anti-fluoridationists and anti-fluoride websites cite “scientific articles”, most of which have methodological problems: They are not from reputable peer-reviewed journals and are not obtainable through a medical or dental library They do not deal with the fluoride compounds that are actually used to fluoridate water They study exposure levels way above that possible at 1 ppm dilution of fluoridated water They inappropriately try to extrapolate data from poorly designed animal or bench-top research with no relationship to the levels of fluoride in drinking water Severe cosmetic or dentally injurious fluorosis of teeth or skeletal fluorosis is seen in some people growing up in are
