This is kind of interesting. I ran a fluoridation campaign in a town I used to live in many years ago. I went all over town speaking to groups about fluoridation. I went on TV and radio and presented to the city council. I worked real hard but the issue failed.
I was kinda glad because it meant more business for me and the other dentists in town.
The really sad part was the number of kids who would pay a very high price for that.
The problem was/is that some kids had water with enough F- and other kids had water without enough F-. It wasn’t fair, but life isn’t fair. I just kept taking babies to the OR and fixing them. It’s good money!
“This is kind of interesting. I ran a fluoridation campaign in a town I used to live in many years ago.”
With all that said, it would be tough to have to admit that fluorides are not what we were all taught 50 or 60 years ago, wouldn’t it. Perhaps you should take a serious look at fluorosis - skeletal fluorosis does occur in this country as well as in India and China, but is often misdiagnosed. Dental fluorosis also occurs in this country - have you seen it in any of your patients? Makes for really ugly teeth.
Many of the old paradymes - medical, dental, nutritional - have been seriously wrong. Amalgam fillings, are a case in point regarding the practice of denistry. Mercury is toxic. Mercury in vaccines is another case in point. Mercury is no doubt a major factor in autism. And in some instances mercury in the mother’s amalgam fillings may have been responsible for a child’s autism, exposure having occurred in the womb.
Nutritionally speaking, we were taught that saturated fats were bad and the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable oils like corn & soy were good. Eat margarine, not butter. Eat egg whites and throw away the yoke (Egg Beaters). Wrong on all counts. When potato chips were cooked in coconut or other palm oil, when theater popcorn was popped in coconut oil, these snack foods were a lot more healthy than they are now, fried in polyunsaturated vegetable oils.