Is Fluoride Really As Safe As You Are Told Summary

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In the essays “Is Fluoride Really as Safe as You Are Told?” And “Fluoridation: Don’t let the poison mongers scare you", two different viewpoints are expressed about fluoride. In both of the essays, the authors show that fluoride have conditions. They don’t agree on the safety of fluoride.

The purpose of the essay “Is Fluoride really as safe as you are told,” is to show the importance of fluoride not being safe. The author warns people that fluoride was actually a carcinogenic industrial waste. Fluoride is added to the water supply for dental hygiene purpose. Here today people have be drinking for decades they hardly think about it anymore.

Bob Sprague, Mary Bernhardt, and Stephen Barrett, M.D. takes different side on the subject. The main argument in the essay, “Fluoridation: don’t let the poisonmongers scare you,” is that fluoridation is the adjustment of the natural in water. They convinced that fluoride is mineral that occurs naturally in most water supplies. Also they say it is safe and effective in preventing tooth decay.
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Both of the articles indicate statistical information. Bob Sprague, Mary Bernhardt, and Stephen Barrett, M.D states, “after ten years, the children of Newburgh had 58% fewer decayed teeth than those of nonfluoridated Kingston”. It is clear that both of the authors know that fluoride make tooth decay major problem that happens when it is in use of

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