Tooth decay: a sad national epidemic caused by lack of dentists who care and not a fluoride need. Extensive lobbying, political maneuvering and expensive public relations campaigns by organized dentistry sway legislators to add fluoride chemicals into public water supplies, 2/3 of which already are, to benefit those whom dentists neglect. Protecting their high-salaried monopoly, dentists lobby against dental groups offering quality, cheaper fixes. Fluoride product makers benefit most.
In Illinois, where fluoridation is state-mandated and 98% of Illinois residents are served fluoridated water, Head Start children's (ages 3-5-years-old) decay rates went up for 3 years in a row. Untreated decay soared to 73%. https://dph.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idph/publications/idph/topics-and-services/prevention-wellness/oral-health/oral-health-data/oral-health-surveillance-brief-2018-2023.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 9:20 AM
Alabama is 78% fluoridated, according to the CDC:
Alabama Smiles 2020-2022 -
An Oral Health Survey of Alabama’s Kindergarten and Third Grade Children
Forty-one percent (41%) of Alabama’s kindergarten children have at least one tooth with decay experience
Fifty percent (50%) of Alabama’s third grade children have at least one tooth with decay experience,
Twenty-two percent (22%) of Alabama’s kindergarten children have untreated tooth decay
Twenty-three percent (23%) of Alabama’s third grade children have untreated tooth decay
In Alabama, there are significant oral health disparities. Compared to children attending higher income schools, children attending lower income schools have a significantly higher prevalence of both decay experience and untreated decay. Compared to non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black children, Hispanic/Latinx children have a significantly higher prevalence of decay experience .
https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/oralhealth/assets/oralhealth_survey_k-3_2022.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 9:21 AM
