Summation - Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings: (Click for more detail)

Fluoride is a powerful poison - more acutely poisonous than lead. This explains why fluoride is the active ingredient in many pesticides and rodenticides. It also explains why accidental over-ingestion of fluoride can cause serious toxic symptoms.

As documented in the Journal of Dental Research (Whitford 1987, 1990), there is enough fluoride in a tube of children's fluoride toothpaste to kill an average-weighing child under the age of 9.

Each year there are thousands of reports to Poison Control centers in the United States related to excessive ingestion of fluoride products (toothpaste, mouthrinses, and supplements).

Malfunctioning water-fluoridation equipment, leading to excess levels of fluoride in water, has been another periodic source of acute fluoride poisoning.

News Articles - Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings:

Fluoride Dental Products -

Toothpaste label revs up some anxiety - Detroit Free Press January 13, 2005

Hazards lurk in toothpaste tube - The News Tribune, April 5, 1994

Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child - KAALtv.com May 18, 2004

Toothpaste: How Safe? - Washington Post June 16, 1997

Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma - Fluoride April 1979

$750,000 Given in Child's Death in Fluoride Case - New York Times January 20, 1979

Water Fluoridation -

Marlboro water flooded with fluoride - Worcester Telegram & Gazette; October 25, 2003

Fluoride suspected as 23 in Dublin grow ill - Contra Costa Times; June 5, 2002

Norfolk could teach Wakefield about posting water alert - Boston Herald; August 9, 2000

Middletown Maryland Latest City to Receive Toxic Spill of Fluoride in their Drinking Water - Townsend Letter for Doctors, October 1994

Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths - Chicago Sun-Times; July 31, 1993

Mass Fluoride Poisoning Blamed on Pump, Government - News Tribune; July 2, 1992

Massive Fluoride Poisoning at Jonesboro Maine School - The Maine Paper; October 19, 1981

Fluoride Linked to Death - Evening Capital (Annapolis, MD); November 29, 1979

10 Years of Fluoride "Leaks," "Spills" and Overfeeds in the U.S. - National Fluoridation News; November-December 1981

Available Full-Text Studies - Fluoride Poisonings:

Akiniwa, K. (1997). Re-examination of acute toxicity of fluoride. Fluoride 30: 89-104.

Vogt R, et al. (1982). Acute Fluoride Poisoning Associated with an On-Site Fluoridator in a Vermont Elementary School. American Journal of Public Health 72: 1168-1171.

Hoffman R, et al. (1980). Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school. Pediatrics 65:897-900.

Waldbott GW. (1979). Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma. Fluoride 12:55-57.