Dentists dueling over therapist law | Albuquerque, N.M. | KRQE News 13

New Mexico is 77% fluoridated:"Differing ideas are taking center stage in an ongoing problem for New Mexico, too many poor and isolated communities and not enough dentists.

Some call it a crisis."

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Marshfield Clinic affiliate gets state funds for dental program - JSOnline

Dentists brag and pat themselves on the back saying that endorsing fluoridation will put them out of business, but after over 65 years of water fluoridation, new dental schools are opening up to fill the increasing need for dental care such as this one in 90% fluoridated Wisconsin.

Marshfield Clinic affiliate gets state funds for dental program - JSOnline

Medicaid Cuts Hurt At The State Level

"In California, dentists pull teeth that could be saved because Medicaid doesn't pay for root canals." Instead of providing dental care, California is spending 100s of millions of dollars adding fluoride chemicals into the drinking water because of a state-wide law that was sneaked in by organized dentistry in 1995 when the world was focused on the OJ trial and little else.

Medicaid Cuts Hurt At The State Level:

Lack of dental care a problem | bucyrustelegraphforum.com | Bucyrus Telegraph Forum

80% of Ohio is fluoridated: "Thousands of north central Ohio residents have little or no access to dental care, forcing many to live with toothaches."

"...there are enough dentists in Crawford County and the real issue -- as it is across the nation -- is that not enough facilities accept Medicaid or new Medicaid patients."

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BBC News - One in 10 adults in Wales has no natural teeth'

Wales is not fluoridated and only 10% have lost all their teeth. In the US, which is 70% fluoridation, 18% have lost all their teeth.

Folks in need make way to dental clinics | News-Gazette.com – Your Source for News and Advertising in East Central Illinois

Folks in need make way to dental clinics | News-Gazette.com – Your Source for News and Advertising in East Central Illinois: Illinois where fluoridation is state-mandated: "It was Douglas County's dire need for affordable dentistry that led the county health department to open its own dental clinic in early 2008.

Nearly three years later, needy patients from well beyond Douglas County are finding their way to this small clinic in Tuscola. And nobody is turning them away."

"What many of the dental clinic's patients have in common is they can't get their foot in the door at a private dentist's office, because they're either uninsured or covered under the state Medicaid program.

Some 550 of the clinic's approximately 6,000 patients come from Champaign County alone, and another 1,200 come from Coles County, said Lisa Biehl, the Douglas County Health Department's director of dental services."

CBC News - Ottawa - 600 kids on Ottawa dental surgery wait list

CBC News - Ottawa - 600 kids on Ottawa dental surgery wait list: "'We get more referrals than what we can handle … in large part because the remuneration the dentists get for poor children and children on social assistance is very low compared to what they get from private insurance or from parents who can afford to pay,' Bilodeau said."

Inner-city health care center in Utica fills a void - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York

Utica, New York, receives fluoridated water from the Mohawk Valley Water Authority

"people are coming with dental problems that rate 'crisis mode,'”

Inner-city health care center in Utica fills a void - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York