Fluoridation Fails Alabama

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