No I’m not.
psssh mid 90’s North Carolina schools made kids take a fluoride wash everyday at school.
In practice since the mid 1960’s he has watched kids cavities take a dramatic plunge - and there is no question that Fluoride in water and toothpaste is most of the reason. In his words the Fluoride Experiments went quite well.
Yes ...but there were many decades BEFORE the governments starting adding fluoride to water - where natural fluoride in water was drunk by unsuspecting people.
Areas in the Southwest - including areas of Texas, has groundwater used for drinking water that has much higher concentrations of fluoride than is usually added in cities. I had an uncle who grew up in such an area. The higher fluoride in the water actually caused his teeth to have brown spots - but he never had any cavities!! (And BTW - it was this sort of long-term experience that caused people to consider that fluoridation of water would reduce cavities. And the people who proposed adding fluoride to water were able to show that the people in the regions where they were regularly consuming higher quantities of fluoride had no abnormal problems (or any problems had the same statistical chance of occurring as in areas without fluoride in water.)
So ....the studies should be evaluated as to whether or not there is a degree of hysteria in the study. Recall that there are many studies showing dangers of amalgam fillings or using Thimerisol as a preservative in medicines - yet most studies declare that the amalgam fillings are very safe, and Thimerisol is a safe preservative - and the other studies are based on junk science. Buyer beware!! Are the studies reliable - or are they the equivalent of the Anthropomorphic Global Warming hyped studies?
My uncle, a retired physician, has been on a crusade for the last three years to rid fluoride from the water supply.
From the info I have come across flouride was first used in the Soviet gulag and in Nazi concentration camps. The reason? To keep their subjects docile and compliant.
people scoff that autism and ADHD are epidemic compared to the good ol’ days when kids just got spanked
Parts of Arkansas do not have fluoridated water. Are there significant statistical differences between those areas and one with fluoridation?
Later, at home, still pregnant, and drinking a glass of floridated tap water, the impact of that statement hit me.
For everyone out there that feels dentists are low-life, money hungry, boat-payment, corporate whores (I think I got most of them) feel free to go to dental school and change the future of dentistry. Obviously you don’t understand the real issues behind serving the lower class. There’s more to it than providing cheap services. The appointment turnover rate is unreal. Half never show up for appointments. So even if dentists accepted medicare, medicare will not reimburse for missed appointments. You can’t pay employees, insurance, and overhead when appointments don’t show. You could, I guess, but dental offices would cease to exist. When they do show up, they obviously have not been caring for their teeth even after much dental education. On some fronts, until the lower class starts caring a little more it’s a waste to try and help them...not all, but some.
Not me. I have a real deep well.
Lucky me! I have well water, and a trout stream in the back yard!