In my book, the jury’s still out on fluoridation. My son is 20 and has never had a cavity. My husband and I have a mouthful of fillings from our childhood, teenage years.
The only difference between my kid and us was in our (husband and my) growing up years the water wasn’t fluoridated and we didn’t have fluoride toothpastes (and my son is not a fastidious “brusher”...he does about a 1 minute quick brushing a couple times a day...so good dental hygiene doesn’t account for his lack of cavities and neither does genetics.)
Don't let localities or individuals decide what way they will be medicated. Just make sweeping decrees for everybody even though it is not in the traditional realm of “public health” as in communicable diseases.
Typical liberal thinking. I'd really like to see reporters start to report the facts, like:
New York City taxpayers, alone, spend approximately $14 million or more yearly on fluoridation chemicals, equipment and manpower...
A minor point, perhaps, but states the facts correctly.
Governor Patterson (Mr. Magoo) needs to stop piling on taxes, as all the extra hours people have to work to pay them contributes to gorebull warming.
Paging General Jack D. Ripper - please pick up the courtesy phone, and grab a cigar on your way in!
- John
I hear the English don’t floridate; maybe we can emulate their teeth.
Dentists don’t accept new Medicaid patients because the system pays maybe half of what a procedure costs, ties them in red tape and leaves the bill for 6 months or more.
I call BS. i entered the Navy in 1962, having never seen a dentist and i drank water from a shallow well most of my life. I had no cavities. the dental officer took one look at my teeth and said that i must have grown up in east texas. He was right, i grew up on the stateline of louisiana and texas. he said that it was common for kids from that area to have great teeth due to the natural flourides in the water there.
Annual nutcase attack on good teeth
You people are all anti-dentites
I don’t have a dog in the flouride fight. I will say that I spoke to a dentist about it once. He claimed that tooth decay had a sharp increase, after bottled water became popular, because people weren’t getting flouride from the water anymore.
Personally, I drink distilled water, because of taste issues in my water. I haven’t noticed an increase or decrease in cavities.
There are lots of options out there, if you are that opposed to flouride. We actually drink a fairly small amount of water each day...and it can be bought @ $0.79 a gallon in Wal Mart and cheaper through a local distributor who sells 5 gallon bottles.
I just don’t think there’s that much to get upset about.
This is the only part of the article that I disagree with. No one, not dentists, physicians, lawyers, bricklayers, mechanics, butchers, or people of any other profession or trade should be required by government to accept patients, clients, or customers against their free will. If government can usurp powers over the people that the Constitution does not grant to it then we may as well stop pretending that it is anything more than an interesting museum display.
OTOH, I am adamantly opposed to fluoridation of public water systems. Fluoride has now been proven beyond doubt to be a major factor in what has become a virtual epidemic of osteoporosis in the elderly population of North America where fluoridation of public water systems has been common for many decades. (Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue that causes most of the serious and often fatal fractures that are so prevalent in the elderly segment of the population).
A few years ago the president of the CDA, the Canadian counterpart of the American Dental Association, resigned from the association because he could no longer in good conscience support the association's position on fluoridation. In his resignation speech he cited the statistics and medical research that now shows beyond question that fluoridation of public water supplies is a major cause of osteoporosis.
There are many brainwashed parents who still believe that fluoridated drinking water is beneficial to children's teeth in spite of the growing stack of evidence to the contrary. And if those people want to have fluoride in their children's water there is no shortage of enterprising merchants who will be happy to provide it for them. But if the popular catch phrase, "freedom of choice" means anything at all, government should not be given the power to force a noxious compound on those who don't want it.
2 weeks ago one of my teeth was hurting and especially
sensitive to cold fluids.
My dentist advised me to use fluoride mouth rinse.
My tooth pain has got a lot better with the fluoride rinse.
And you don't need dental insurance, which is a rip-off and doesn't cover anything except x-rays & exams. Pay dentists in cash and you'll get a great deal and a great smile (Cue white sparkle from teeth)