samurai_x44

I like the way you say another element in the periodic table. That is a common mistake. Fluoride is NOT an element in a periodic table but any compound that includes fluorine (which is the element people confuse it with). Teflon, the magic coating that makes non-stick surfaces is a floride just to show how diverse florides are.

The most common additives to drinking water are H2SiF6 and Na2SiF6. Those are what we refer to as fluorides. Originaly it was NaF (sodium floride) which means that older studies about floride in drinking water refers to NaF and not the currently used compounds.

As for toxicity NaF has a known case where 4g was enough to be deadly. Na2SiF6, however, is much more toxic and requires only 0.2g for the same effect.

I don't really care what the dentists say since they can't seem to make up their minds or provide experimental data showing the benefits of florides in drinking water. You cannot say that introducing floride into a population's drinking water provides experimental data since there are far too many uncontrollable variables for the data to be conclusive.

So without sound experiemental data showing the benefits of florides in drinking water who's great idea was it to introduce these counpounds which can be deadly into everyone's drinking water? What government would allow this to happen without studying the long term effects? What government would make it an obligation to add this to the drinking water?

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