Fluoridation Fails North Carolina

Despite it's 89% fluoridation rate, in North Carolina 45% of adults over age 18 had permanent teeth extracted and 21% over 65 have lost all of their natural teeth

https://www.salisburypost.com/2024/07/25/task-force-more-than-medicaid-is-needed-to-fill-states-oral-health-care-gap/

Fluoridation Fails Tennessee

Tennessee's fluoridation rate is 89%.  Fluoridation is approximately 80 years old, fluoride toothpaste 70 years old, now there's a glut fluoridated dental products. Our food supply is fluoride-saturated from fluoridated water use and fluoride-containing pesticide residues.

Dentists often brag they are the only profession promoting a prevention that would put themselves out of business. Besides that they are insulting every other health professional, this is the reality:

 

• In 2022, Tennessee’s budget included $11.8 million to expand the class sizes at the state’s dental schools and to recruit and retain dentists through loan repayment programs.

 

 https://www.ncsl.org/health/workforce-strategies-to-improve-access-to-oral-health-care#:~:text=Nearly%2070%20million%20Americans%20live,high%20needs%20in%20the%20community.

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Fluoridation Fails Ohio

Ohio has a 93% fluoridation rate, yet "Previous analyses of 3- to 6-year-old Medicaid-insured children from the [Northeast Ohio] cohort analyzed in this current study have shown an even higher prevalence of 29% [untreated tooth decay]"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820900

Fluoridation Fails West Virginia

  Despite West Virginia's 91% #fluoridation rate, "48% of third grade children had experienced tooth decay sometime during their lifetime" according to a March 2022 WV Dep't of Health report

 

 https://dhhr.wv.gov/oralhealth/reports/Documents/Burden%20Document%2003-28-2022_Final.pdf

 

orts/Documents/Burden%20Document%2003-28-2022_Final.pdf