Want job security? Become a dentist
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Fluoride in the water didn't anyone's teeth. But your point remains valid I think
Want to see what happens when you do this?
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/childrens-headline-indicators/contents/indicator-7
Notice the two states with the highest rates of dental decay are Queensland and Northern Territory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_Australia
Yeah, those states didn't get flouride in their water until around 2012.
Such a coincidence...
It's also completely silly because many places have naturally fluoridated water!
Yes but what about all the autism. Or mind controlling. Or whatever the hell it is that fluoride is evil for?
Makes you listen to pop music.
Uh, here in Oregon it's already been banned for a long time. This headline is sus.
The difference is in verbiage. Oregon doesn't require it, but Oregon also doesn't ban it and leaves it up to municipalities. Utah is trying to actively force municipalities to not be allowed to use it.
Ah makes sense.
It isn't banned in Oregon. Many communities have simply decided not to do it. Hillsboro recently voted to stop fluoridating their water, for example.
This would be the first time an entire state has literally banned the practice.
And it's stupid. There are maps of the US that show which states have the lowest/highest rates of dental caries. The states with the lowest rates just happen to have mandatory water fluoridation, and the states with the lowest rates of fluoridation all have the worst dental health. Meanwhile there's zero evidence that drinking fluoridated water has negative health effects.
Ah gotcha. And yeah I agree it's dumb to not fluoridate our water but toothpaste companies need to be able to upcharge on extra fluoride toothpaste and dentists need work right? /s
People are going to be whining about cavities, in fact people who went flouride free toothpaste and complained they got cavities and blamed in on the effectiveness of the toothpaste
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To finally stop the conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Sadly, this is unlikely to lead to the death of people, so it won't be reverted in a week, but have long lasting effects. I guess it's not a problem as long as there's a decent health infrastructure to hold up the increased issues, right?
RFK Jr. has criticized fluoride
Yeah see, that right there is the only thing you really need to see that the ban is a bad idea.
Dental issues increased in Calgary and they voted to put it back.
This is the way. The idiots have been coddled for generations. They need to have the experience of their teeth rotting out for themselves.
And what about the other 49% they dragged down with them? You've also just made everyone's dental insurance 10x more expensive. Thanks!
For anyone in a state without fluoridated water, you can get fluoride drops to put in your/your children's water.
Why not just brush their teeth? I'm pretty sure fluoridated toothpaste is much easier to come by than fluoride drops.
Because adding fluoride to tap water provides measurable benifits regardless of socioeconomic status.
In addition, other countries where municpal water is not as developed, they will add fluoride to salts and other consumer products.
We're comparing toothpaste to fluoride drops, not fluoridated tap water.
Because your logic is flawed coming that question. It insinuates that one is needed over the other. This is not a fair comparison because toothpaste and fluoride suppliments are purchased and flouridated tap water costs almost nothing to consumers of municipal water. All sources must be taken into account for public health programs like this.
We're not comparing with fluoridated tap water because that's not something you can control as an individual. At most, you can put pressure on your city to add it in. Until that happens, and even after that happens, you still need to put in work to care for your own teeth. It's very unhelpful to tell someone living in a city with unfluoridated tap water to just choose fluoridated tap water. They do not have that choice.
I grew up with well water and we didn’t have naturally occurring water.
Our doctor prescribed us a chewable tablet we took every night after dinner.
Didn’t get my first, and only, cavity until I was 35.
My ex-wife who grew up with me had a dad who was “they’re putting gay vaccines in our fluoride to turn our cavities to queers” type and they didn’t …. Cavity city.
If you needed one last excuse to get out of Utah, then let this be it.
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Shit; the serial killer sympathizers, racist, cousin fuckers, are about to add this to the list
Sorry to all my brits, I know this hits home.
To be fair, you can have more cavities and still not eat rocks
you underestimate how fragile teeth can be
I've seen this parks and rec episode
next up (unless it happened first): no more data collection or research about statewide dental health
Insurance companies will still collect it since they need to pay out for a lot of this shit. We’ll also be able to quantify this impact by looking at dental premiums and copays. They’ll eventually go up in states without fluoridated water.
Good Guy Insurance.
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DōTerra probably also behind this to an extent. Gotta find new ways to sell "essential" oils.
Utah poised to overtake UK as butt of bad teeth jokes.
EU countries don't add fluoride to the water supply. At least half of the US seems to have cognitive impairment, by the way they vote.
Maybe they're on to something?
/s
important to note about the "not adding Fluoride" bit: many countries have to remove fluoride from drinking water because there's too much of it...
Dentists in ~~Florida~~ Utah: yesssss thanks for the increased business!
The Utah dental association was strongly against it. Dentists already make good money and most of them actually care about their patients health.
Dental health is also strongly correlated with cardiovascular disease and other diseases.
Yeah I'm in dental myself (another country), and when anti-fluoride patients come in, we generally sassily remark that we thank them for keeping us in business. Bit of dark humour to see the silver lining in things, I guess?
There have certainly been dental clinics going out of business in the last few years, something quite unheard of - unlike other 'new businesses', the success rate of opening a new dental clinic was normally guaranteed (unlike say a new cafe).
If the general population want to remove one of the best public health initiatives, then so be it. We'll make hay while the sun shines.
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There’s Swig all over the place in Utah… it’s literally liquified sugar. The dentists in that state are going to have an absolutely stellar future as their customers increase.
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