How tooth decay due to vitamin D deficiency came to be treated with Fluoride - Dec 2021

How a Nutritional Deficiency Became Treated with Fluoride

Nutrients 2021, 13(12), 4361; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13124361
by Philippe P. Hujoel 1,2
1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
2 Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA

Ignoring evidence on causes of disease such as smoking can harm public health. This report explores how public health experts started to ignore evidence that pediatric vitamin D deficiencies are associated with dental caries. Historical analyses show that an organization of clinical specialists, the American Dental Association (ADA), initiated this view. The ADA was a world-leading organization and its governing bodies worked through political channels to make fluoride a global standard of care for a disease which at the time was viewed as an indicator of vitamin D deficiencies.

The ADA scientific council was enlisted in this endeavor and authorized the statement saying that “claims for vitamin D as a factor in tooth decay are not acceptable”.
This statement was ghost-written, the opposite of what the ADA scientific council had endorsed for 15 years, and the opposite of what the National Academy of Sciences concluded.
Internal ADA documents are informative on the origin of this scientific conundrum; the ADA scientific council had ignored their scientific rules and was assisting ADA governing bodies in conflicts with the medical profession on advertising policies.

The evidence presented here suggests that professional organizations of clinical specialists have the power to create standards of care which ignore key evidence and consequently can harm public health.
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Press release for the study

How Organized Dentistry Began Treating Vitamin D Deficiency with Fluoride, Researcher Reveals

• "After 77 years of water fluoridation, intending to dramatically reduce tooth decay, 70% of US children are fluoride-overdosed, afflicted with dental fluorosis (discolored teeth). Yet, tooth decay is epidemic. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects."
• ""It did not matter that the professional organization had a self-evident conflict of interest; topical fluoride applications in dental offices were revenue-generating procedures, vitamin D prescriptions were not," writes Hujoel."

VitaminDWiki - Dental category starts with

Some Dental studies

• Vitamin D cut dental caries in half 80 years ago – meta-analysis 2013 80 years ago
• Caries (tooth decay) and Vitamin D - 23+ studies
• Periodontitis reduced by Vitamin D - many studies
  • Periodontal Disease and Vitamin D - interview and transcript - GRH, Grant July 2023
  • Severe periodontitis is half as likely at 60 ng of vitamin D – Sept 2021
  • Vitamin D may provide the most peridontal benefits of all nutraceuticals – May 2018
• Risk of Oral Surgery reduced by Vitamin D – scoping review Nov 2021
• Some Dental Malocclusions 5X more likely if low vitamin D – June 2021
• Grinding teeth while sleeping (sleep bruxism) 6 X more likely if low vitamin D – Jan 2021
• Early tooth decay 1.9 X more likely if a poor Vitamin D receptor – July 2017
• 7 Intervention AND Dental studies
• 18 items listed in BOTH Dental and Infant or Child
• 7 listed in BOTH Dental and Vitamin D Receptor

COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos

As of March 31, 2024, the VitaminDWiki COVID page had:  trial results,   meta-analyses and reviews,   Mortality studies   see related:   Governments,   HealthProblems,   Hospitals,  Dark Skins,   All 26 COVID risk factors are associated with low Vit D,   Fight COVID-19 with 50K Vit D weekly   Vaccines   Take lots of Vitamin D at first signs of COVID   166 COVID Clinical Trials using Vitamin D (Aug 2023)   Prevent a COVID death: 9 dollars of Vitamin D or 900,000 dollars of vaccine - Aug 2023
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Summary of COVID studies of Vitamin D studies

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VitaminDWiki - 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D

• Mental disorders such as Schizophrenia was added by CDC Oct 2021

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It appears that use of vitamin D to fight COVID is being surpressed as well

>$20 billios in profit to use vaccines to fight COVID,
perhaps 0.1% as much profit to use vitamin D to fight COVID

Suspect that Topical Floiride was patented for teeth in the 1930s, when the ADA was encouraged to use it
Follow the money - more income to dentists, more profit for suppliers