Should Fluoride be added to water?

Samuel

Walt: write a persuasive speech.

Doesn't everyone know that fluoride is salt and water mixed together so its a mineral for teeth.  Fluoride helps prevent tooth decay (Rotten Teeth).  Fluoride is very helpful to teeth because people don't want their teeth rotten.  Rotten teeth also make your teeth fall out and no one likes missing teeth.  Most people would agree that fluoride should be added to water but some people would agree that fluoride should not be added to water.  Here are the reasons why we should add fluoride to our drinking water.  

We all know that fluoride reduces tooth decay by 20 to 40%.  Fluoride strengthens and rebuilds the enamel so that your teeth don’t come out.  Tooth decay is the worst disease that can happen to your teeth.  

Fluoride reduces pain and loss of teeth.  Losing teeth is the worse that can happen to your mouth.  Pain caused in your mouth can be very sore.  

Everybody knows that fluoride does not change the quality of water.  Changing the flavour of water would be weird for the people and animals who drink weird flavoured water.  

Fluoride also can slow early signs of repairs of tooth decay.  If you have tooth decay, fluoride can slow early signs of repairs and that might be helpful.

Here are the reasons why fluoride should not be added to our drinking water.  

Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for medical treatment to teeth.  Adding fluoride to drinking water prevents tooth decay so that means that fluoride helps the tooth and is a medical treatment.  All the other water treatments make the water safer for people to drink while fluoride does not.    

Surely you would agree that once fluoride is put into water, it is impossible to control the dose each individual person receives because people drink different amounts of water.  If people were able to control the fluoride, a person that drinks water with fluoride in it will receive a critical.  If fluoride was added to water, people might have to drink the same amount as other people.

Tooth decay was already coming down before fluoride was put into different parts of areas.  Researches show that the decay of tooth was lowering before fluoridation was introduced to Australia and New Zealand.  Tooth decay also will not go up when fluoride is stopped.  

The fact is that fluoride may cause damage to the brain.  According to the NRC (National Research Council) it appears fluoride has the ability to interface with the functions of peoples brain.  Scientists have used fluoride on animals and the results show that the animals they tested were low as 5 ppm.  

Naturally I feel that people should add fluoride to water.  Even though the reasons why we shouldn't put fluoride into water, I still want fluoride to be added to water.  A sensible idea would be to add fluoride to certain areas that need fluoride and don’t add fluoride to other areas.