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.
Detroit, Michigan, fluoridated for decades: "The caries prevalence for this school was 63.9%. About 77% of children had untreated caries"
https://actascientific.com/ASDS/pdf/ASDS-03-0639.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 10:18 AM
Despite Michigan's 89% fluoridation rate, "over half of all third grade children age 6-8 years had experienced dental caries in primary or permanent teeth. Twenty five percent have untreated dental decay and 28% of children bear 75% of teeth affected by dental caries"
From: Acta Scientific Dental Sciences, October 10, 2019, “Dental Caries Prevalence and Untreated Caries among Children in a School-Based Dental Health Program Using dft/DFT and Significant Caries Inde (SCI)”
https://actascientific.com/ASDS/pdf/ASDS-03-0639.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 3:54 AM
Using a fraudulent study fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2016/02/arkans newby Arkansas legislators were duped into mandating fluoridation in 2011. Now 65% of 3rd graders have cavities – 21% untreated (higher in low-incomed); 51% of adults lost 1 or more permanent teeth. https://twitter.com/nyscof/status/1689607923196973056/photo/1
Full Report:
ARKANSAS ORAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PLAN 2021-2026
https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/CDC_DP18-1810_AR_SurvPlan_FINAL.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 8:37 AM
Georgia is 95% fluoridated, yet "Pediatric Dentists See Uptick in Cavities...half of children ages six to 11 have cavities, and...there are large disparities and barriers to oral health care, in both rural and urban areas." https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2023-02-13/childrens/pediatric-dentists-see-uptick-in-cavities-in-ga-children/a82690-1 #fluoride #fluoridation
Labels: caries, cavities, fluoridation, fluoride, fluorosis, oral health, tooth decay
posted by FluorideNews at 3:39 AM
Fluoridation has been state mandated in California since 1995 and most of Los Angeles has fluoridated decades before that. Yet in Los Angeles County:
63% of Latinx students, 50% of Black students and 48% of Asian students in kindergarten and third grade experienced tooth decay compared to only 32% of White students in L.A. County. The same trend translates to the percentage of students who have untreated tooth decay. Twenty-three percent of Black students, 21% of Latinx students and 20% of Asian students had untreated tooth decay compared to 14% of White students.
“At least at the L.A. county level, what we saw from 2020 is that children of color are definitely still experiencing inequities when it comes to their oral health, specifically Latinx and Black children,”
https://lasentinel.net/black-children-have-high-rates-of-tooth-decay-but-experts-say-it-is-easily-preventable.html
posted by FluorideNews at 4:14 AM
78% of Florida has been served fluoridated tap water for decades. Yet, 42% of five & six- year-olds have cavities. The prevalence of untreated decay &
cavities increased by 15.4% and 6.9% respectively from 2014-2015 to 2017-2018
in three to six-year-olds This despite increased use of sealant & fluoride varnish programs. Those suffering the most with cavities have no insurance.
Just 8% of
Florida dentists accept Medicaid and that's the real problem. Children need dental care not fluoride - which isn't a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth.
http://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/community-health/dental-health/reports/_documents/HeadStart2017-2018DataBrief_FINAL.pdf
posted by FluorideNews at 8:40 AM
