And up to 48% of US school children sport dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth - from ingesting too much fluoride while their teeth were forming.
Covering up fluoride discolored teeth is a hugely lucrative market for dentists in cosmetically conscious Americans. It’s one of the reasons dentists can make so much money while neglecting the people who need dental care the most - low income people.
80% of dentists refuse Medicaid patients and 130 million Americans don’t have dental insurance.
Dentists fight hard and long to hang onto their lucrative monopoly. If fluoridation truly reduced tooth decay, organized dentistry would be telling us it is unsafe and ineffective. Then the would be telling the truth.
Like Chris Rock says about OJ the knife;
"I don't agree, . . . but I understand."