My choices, my reasons... for my child

Date:   10/5/2005 2:17:33 PM ( 19 y ago)

I know the true purpose of a blog is to be a personal account and this blog has been an educational effort to impart some of the knowledge I have encountered since November 2004 when I started my research into this long debate.

I'm hoping, for those of you who have followed this blog with some interest, you would go back now to the first message and follow the link to the Petition and sign your name.

As for my conclusions: I have read very little to do with the benefits of fluoride and fluoridation, what I have read has been blanket statements, doubletalk, propaganda - most of it coming directly from the ADA, and none of it backed by scientific evidence.
When I searched the web for 'scientific evidence of the benefits of fluoride' I found nothing, the preponderance of information insists that fluoride is an extremely toxic substance and has no business in our bodies, our food, our water, or our health products.

I use Burt's Bees natural toothpaste and so does my 7 year old daughter. I work to control her cavities by controlling what she eats and drinks and try to instill good oral health care habits.

Our doctors and dentists seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to convince us that childhood is a medical condition that must be treated with poisons and vaccinations and antibiotics... that we as parents, as mothers, don't instinctively know what's good for our children anymore. My gut tells me NOT to put poison in my baby's mouth, whether some dentist or TV commercial tells me to or not, I like to think I can still make those basic decisions for myself. I know that nervous feeling I always had when the doctor suggested MORE antibiotics, and the dentist pushed for fluoride supplements, when I had to watch them stick a needle in my baby and pump her full of disease -- I remember scouring the vaccination information sheets watching for any sign of an adverse reaction. Granted, I was a first time mother and people told me it was normal to feel that way... but is it? Is it normal to be scared to death that you may be endangering your child by listening to the medical establishment? I don't think that's normal at all.

So, my decision... my choice, is to do this one very important thing for my little girl and insist on Non-fluoride products to the extent that i can control this.

 

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