In your story "Parents must brush up on dental care"

(The Argus, April 27), the head of oral promotion in Brighton and Hove Sandy Stillman states "a proper fluoride toothpaste needs to be used" in the battle against dental decay.

Is Ms Stillman aware there is enough fluoride - more toxic than lead and only slightly less so than arsenic - in an average tube of toothpaste to kill a small child, and that toothpaste is regularly swallowed, or that fluoride toothpaste in the USA must carry poison warnings and emergency medical warnings in case of ingestion?

Flouride is registered as a poison under the 1972 Poisons Act in the same toxicity category as mercury.

Its use to forcibly medicate anyone, let alone entire populations, is a criminal offence under numerous domestic, EU and international laws and constitutes medical assault.

In Europe, only the Republic of Ireland and the Spanish Basque country still forcibly poison its citizens in this way. Water fluoridation has been banned in Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy and Norway.

Meanwhile, health authorities in the UK are hell-bent on using new powers to force us all to drink a bioaccumulative narcotic, immuno-suppressant, carcinogen, nerve toxin and hormone disruptor, like it or not.

We pay water companies. The water is ours. We pay for safe water, not for medication. The water does not belong to health officials to tamper with. If I want fluoride, the supermarket aisles are full of it.

Gary Kemp
Stanford Avenue,
Brighton

I think better personal oral hygiene is the answer to oral health improvement for children via "education, education, education", not fluoridation.

I will not have my drinking water poisoned. Water is water.

Hexafluorosilicic acid is poisonous toxic waste. It is illegal to dump it and expensive to dispose of it.

Mass fluoridation is wrong.

Fluoride can cause tooth mottling and fluoridation is an immoral, unethical and illegal violation of human rights and our drinking water.

Paul Triballi
Southern Water Customers
Against Fluoridation