Public Health Issues

Woodstock Chiropractic Clinic is interested in the health of Oregonians and their living environment. We believe safe drinking water is a basic human right, essential to our patients’ vitality and well-being.

As primary-care physicians, we oppose fluoridation, which not only compromises the quality and safety of drinking water, but eliminates a patient’s right to free and informed choice.

Fluoride lacks FDA approval.
Perfect dental health can be achieved without fluoride, which is not an essential nutrient. Recent Congressional documentation confirmed that when ingested for cavity reduction, fluoride is classified by the Food and Drug Administration as an unapproved drug. Download the PDF to read more.

Fluoride is an accumulative toxin.
Healthy individuals will store 50% of the fluoride they consume in their bodies; those with poor nutrition or kidney function will accumulate even more. Like smoking, it is the long-term, day-to-day exposure which causes greatest concern. Even at low doses, fluoride is associated with increased blood lead levels in children, thyroid dysfunction, bone diseases, and other problems. Review peer-reviewed studies.

Fluoridation violates standard medical practice.
Fluoridating Beaverton’s water will introduce a medication to the general population without individual consent, and without a medical exam or review of existing conditions, history, and need. Daily doses cannot be monitored or controlled and will vary dramatically from patient to patient, i.e., two cups of “optimally” fluoridated water delivers 0.5 milligram while 12 cups delivers 3.0 milligrams. The goal dose of fluoridation has always been 1.0 milligram/day. Fluoride’s margin of safety is too narrow to safely deliver medicine this way.

Americans average 1.0 mg/day from other sources, says Government report
To expose citizens beyond the goal dose by adding more to City water is irresponsible. With fluoride, more is not better. Too much causes dental fluorosis, which now affects one or more teeth of 66.4 percent of children drinking “optimally” fluoridated water. For more information, download the PDF and see page five.