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Organized dentistry is always at the forefront of fluoridation. Legislators blindly trust them. This is especially so in Pennsylvania.

Right now there’s a dental health crisis in the U.S. 108 Million people don’t have dental insurance. And 80% of dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients. The recent highly publicized death of Deamonte Driver from untreated tooth decay, after being refused treatment by over 20 dentists, has brought more heat on the dental community.

Fluoridation gives the illusion that organized dentistry gives a whit about low income Americans and are doing something about this crisis.

However, the only immediate solution to the crisis is for every dentist (who have grown very rich by lobbying efforts in their favor)to accept a certain number or percentage of low-income Americans for free, on a sliding scale or for what Medicaid offers.

Dentists, who have received welfare for the rich through government subsidies to their colleges and to themselves, need to give back and they don’t want to.

Dentists don’t want government on their backs. The same dentists who put governments on our backs by forcing fluoride into every U.S. citizen, one way or another.

By the way, fluoride is not a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. There is NO evidence that any Pennsylvanian is fluoride-deficient. In fact, studies show the opposite, American school children are fluoride overdosed with up to 51% sporting dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and sometimes crumbly teeth. Covering these teeth with veneers brings cosmetic dentists up to $17,000 some dentists have reported.

It’s all politics. Dental groups are well-financed and big players with their Political Action Committees. Last I looked they were the second highest in terms of money spent in the medical field. Do you think they spend all that money because they care about us - they will do everything they can to protect their bottom line.

Dentists often pat themselves on the back saying, they are they are the only profession trying to put themselves out of business by forcing fluoride down our throats. Of course, that in itself is ludicrous because doctors could say that about any preventive measures they prescribed or administer - but the don’t. It’s just the dentists looking for the kudos.

However, after 60 years of water fluoridation, reaching 2/3 of Americans on public water supplies and virtually 100% via the food supply and with fluoridated toothpaste 95% of the market and with a glut of fluoridated dental products from toothpicks to mouthwash, tooth decay is an epidemic in the U.S. along with fluoride overdose.

And dentists - well they make more money than physicians while working fewer hours and fewer days doing less demanding work.

So I guess fluoridation worked very well - for dentists, anyway.