If the mass of scientific evidence is correct and no human catastrophe ensues, will the anti-fluoridation lobbyists be apologising for the decades of unnecessary tooth decay suffered by Queensland residents?

Some of us would say you're right, and some of us will say you are wrong.
I think the more chemicals we feed our families, the more cases of what we are seeing, will just prove my point! Its simple! Just brush your teeth after every meal. Evolution just hasnt had time to deal with the sugar world that we most love to sink our teeth into, but you all know what the deal is! LESS CHEMICALS AND TO MORE OF THE WINED BACK OF OUR SHORT MINDEDNESS. I think you can all see it! OUR CHILDREN ARE GETTING SICKER! Work it out for yourselves.

How sad that due to ignorance we are going to pay for, and poison Queensland residents with fluoride. Children don't drink water they drink milk, juice and fizzy drinks. My two children in their late 20's ate junk food and were remiss at cleaning their teeth, yet do not have a filling in their mouth - this is not inherited as both parents have terrible teeth. The secret is these children were breast fed until 2 years old whereas neither parent was breast fed. Common sense - look at the beautiful pearly whites in breast fed indigious people around the world. Also bad baby teeth? Guess what they are meant to decay and fall out! Look to nature - applicable in many of our problems today.

Fester,

As someone who was bottle fed but had plenty of fluoride I am biased. Every time a dentist says "You had fluoride as a child didn't you" it reinforces my bias. Nevertheless I agree with your general sentiments.

Preventative medicine is actually highly political. Fluoridation and circumcision are hard to implement irrespective of irrefutable scientific merit. As you can see the first two replies disputed the merit of fluridation. Thus you can't expect vote seeking governments to rush in quickly and no action will be taken unless there has been a recent election.

Scientific merit is not the main determinant for acceptance. Indeed the only preventative medicine with scientific merit that is almost universally accepted and thus easy to implement without political concern is immunisation. You might be surprised to learn that even that has a large number of staunch opponents who claim it is dangerous, barbaric and unnecessary. They dispute its benefit tooth and nail. For examples of opponents:

http://chetday.com/novacarticles.html
http://perth.gumtree.com.au/perth/50/16326150.html
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/

There is even anti-vaccination organisations.

For the more grounded people out there such as yourself recourse can always be made to the World Health Organisation to guage current scientific knowledge in relation to health as they tend to position themselves in accordance with research rather than politics. Unlike so many organisations in so many fields they take their job seriously.

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/oralhealth/en/index2.html
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/pr10/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/immunization/en/

Fluoride for mind control and dumbing down. Every politician will want to give us some.

http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/F/Fluoride.htm

http://befreetech.com/fluoridation.htm

Both Germany and the USSR were using fluoride to control millions during the Great Brothers War.

Do we really want to subject our children to fluoride? It should be voluntary, not shoved down our throats by irresponsible (unless it's part of their agenda) government.

Three cheers for the flouride arriving .

As there are no dentists in the bush , flouride tablets, toothpaste and tooth brushes should cost next to nothing .

Major dental treatment should be free anywhere.

I am extremely pleased to see my children's teeth almost filling free .

This I put down to flouride treatment and cleaning reminders and actually brushing youngsters'teeth .

If I know people that are a bit reluctant to care for their teeth I on occasion open my mouth and show them a scary picture of shiny black and pink .Somewhere in there are the remnants of the original teeth the good Lord gave me to chew with !

Not a chemical person at all but I do like this one .