You are wrong there is a GREAT demand for dental care.
After 60 years of water fluoridation reaching 2/3 of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply along with a host of fluoridated dental products, U.S. school children are fluoride-overdosed and are sporting dental fluorosis (fluoride-damaged teeth). Yet tooth decay is growing in our most fluoridated generation - toddlers.
Dentists now make more money than physicians while working fewer days and hours doing less critical work, such as tooth whitening and spa treatments.
However, over 40% of Americans have no dental insurance. Low-income folks theoretically have Medicaid to cover dental. However, 80% of dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients.
Many Americans are living their lives with dental pain and disfigurement. And dentists haven’t lost a dime endorsing fluoridation.
Many children live in pain from tooth decay that must get bad enough to qualify for dental care in a hospital’s emergency room.
The recent death of a 12 year old Maryland boy (in a fluoridated area) highlights that Americans are dentist-neglected. He was refused treatment by over 20 dentists before being admitted to an emergency room where it was too late to save his life from the infection that spread to his brain.
Dentists education and/or dental schools are government subsidized. They, as a group, should be required to treat all Americans either for free, on a sliding scale, or for what Medicaid offers.
Never feel sorry for a dentist. Organized dentistry is so powerful that they get laws passed that hurt us but benefit dentists.
>>You are wrong there is a GREAT demand for dental care. After 60 years of water fluoridation reaching 2/3 of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply along with a host of fluoridated dental products, U.S. school children are fluoride-overdosed and are sporting dental fluorosis (fluoride-damaged teeth)...
However, over 40% of Americans have no dental insurance. Low-income folks theoretically have Medicaid to cover dental. However, 80% of dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients.
Many Americans are living their lives with dental pain and disfigurement. And dentists haven’t lost a dime endorsing fluoridation<<
You might want to read up some more.
The number of dentists per 100,000 population peaked in the 1980's. There is less demand for dentists, in spite of more insurance and more ostrasization of people with bad teeth.
So it looks like Dentists are encouraging behavior that hurts them Its hard to see that as a conspiracy. Also treating this like a conspiracy lessen the actual work on the real concerns. The CDC found dental fluororis has increased by 9%. That's a real concern and even though most of that is in baby teeth and cavities are down by 80% its still a concern.
But claiming a great conspiracy isn't the way to address it.