Tuesday, July 23, 2019

fluoridation fails western australia


In Western Australia, where the water is fluoridated, 1/3 of kids have cavities “WA continues to see children aged 0-4 years presenting to emergency departments for dental reasons and high numbers of dental hospitalisations,” https://bitemagazine.com.au/one-in-three-wa-kids-has-tooth-decay/

Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Fluoridation Fails the United States

After 7 decades of water fluoridation celebrated as benefiting poor people who can't afford dental care, CDC statistics shows that tooth loss among America's poorest is more than double that of the more affluent

21% of US adults, 65 and older, earning  $50,000 or more a year lost 6 or more teeth due to
 tooth decay or gum disease compared to 58% of the Nation's poorest
https://nccd.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DOH_DATA.ExploreByTopic&islYear=2016&islTopic=ADT&go=GO