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WATER FLUORIDATION “OBSOLETE” ACCORDING TO NOBEL PRIZE SCIENTIST
On October 4, 2005, two members of the Fluoride
Action Network — Michael Connett and Chris Neurath — traveled to Gothenburg,
Sweden, to interview Dr. Arvid Carlsson, a famed pharmacologist at Gothenburg
University and recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology.
In the 1970s, Dr. Carlsson was an outspoken opponent of two
failed attempts to fluoridate water supplies in Sweden. Thanks in large part to
his efforts, Sweden remains fluoridation free. As Carlsson notes, “nobody talks
about [fluoridation] anymore” in Sweden.
As with the vast majority of
western Europe, Sweden has rejected water
fluoridation, but has still experienced the same decline in tooth decay as
experienced in heavily fluoridated countries such as the United States.
EXCERPTS OF INTERVIEW WITH DR. ARVID CARLSSON,
OCTOBER 4, 2005
CONNETT: So, what happened in
Sweden. The fluoridation issue was proposed…
CARLSSON: Yes, I think it was
up twice… The second time, there was a proposal that the Swedish Parliament
should allow addition of fluorine to the water supplies in Sweden and I became
rather active as I had been the first time, and I think I was perhaps the one
who more than anyone else convinced the Swedish parliament that this was not a
good thing. So, it was voted out, this proposal. And that was around 1980. So
you can see it’s a long time ago. And after that addition of fluorine to water
supplies in Sweden has not been an issue anymore. These days nobody talks about
it anymore.
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CONNETT: Do you think that your
background in pharmacology sort of informed your view of fluoridation as a
medical practice?
CARLSSON: Of course. I mean, as
I said before, this is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It’s
really obsolete. No doubt about that. I mean, I think those nations that are
using it should feel ashamed of themselves. It’s against science.
###
CARLSSON: Fluorine has a
protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect… If you drink it,
you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions. And, of course, there
are such actions. We have the mottled teeth, which is not a small thing… There
is no need, really, to go any further into all these other toxicity problems
because I think the mottled teeth is enough. This is something you shouldn’t
expose citizens to.
CONNETT: In the United States,
the dental community says that dental fluorosis is just a cosmetic effect, it’s
just spots on the teeth. Do you see mottled teeth as a toxic effect of
fluoride, or as simply a cosmetic effect?
CALRSSON: Well, it is a toxic
effect and a cosmetic effect. These are not mutually exclusive. It’s toxic and
it’s cosmetic.
###
CONNETT: What about this notion
of using the water supply as a vehicle of delivering medication? Can you speak
to what you see as the problems with that?
CARLSSON: Yea, it’s absolutely
obsolete. In modern pharmacology it’s so clear that even if you have a fixed
dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same
dose. Now, in this case, you have it in the water and people are drinking
different amounts of water. So you have huge variations in the consumption of
this drug. So, it’s against all modern principles of pharmacology. It’s
obsolete, I don’t think anybody in Sweden, not a single dentist, would bring up
this question anymore.
###
CONNETT: You mentioned that
fluoride’s benefits come from the local, or topical, effect. Could you just
discuss a little more what you see as the significance of that fact? Why is it
important that fluoride’s benefit is topical, and not from ingestion?
CARLSSON: Well, in
pharmacology, if the effect is local, it’s of course absolutely awkward to use
it in any other way than as a local treatment. I mean this is obvious. You have
the teeth there, they’re available for you, why drink the stuff?… I see no
reason at all for giving it in any other way than locally — topically, if you wish.
###
CONNETT: In the US, the Centers
for Disease Control, which is a US government health body, has proclaimed water
fluoridation to be one of the top ten public health achievements of the
twentieth century.
CARLSSON: I disagree
profoundly.
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