What a state to be in.

Four times, Robinson-Gates said, the pain was so intense that it drove her to the emergency dental clinic at the San Mateo Medical Center. But, underscoring one of the biggest issues in the country's health care safety net, the dentists there could only pull out her front teeth to end the pain: There was no funding to replace them with dentures.

This is in CA, USA not sure if fluoridated but most likely is. Will it be like it here soon or is it already?
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