The "40% of teenagers" is in reference to a 2010 study by Beltran-Aguilar in which 41% of adolescents they examined showed signs of dental fluorosis.  This was as follows:  37.1% mild to very mild dental fluoosis, 3.8% moderate.  Mild dental fluorosis is a barely detectable effect which causes no adverse effect on form, function, or health of teeth.  As peer-reviewed science has shown these teeth to be more decay resistant, many consider mild dental fluorosis to not even be undesirable, much less adverse.

The 3.7% moderate was attributable to improper ingestion of toothpaste, or exposure to abnormally high levels of environmental or well-water fluoride during the teeth developing years of 0-8.

In fear-mongering about faint white streaks on teeth, antifluoridationists hypocritically ignore the lifetimes of pain and devastation of untreated dental infection which can be, and is, prevented by water fluoridation.


Steven D. Slott, DDS