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UK Against Fluoridation

Monday, September 04, 2006

Greenville, Mississippi, is fluoridated: NYSCOF

GREENVILLE - School nurses deal with dental health needs ranging from toothaches, chronic headaches, bleeding gums, abscesses, even cardiac problems caused by poor dental care, but a program new to Greenville public schools will work to change that.

“There were 54 million hours of education lost last year due to chronic dental needs,” Rice said, “and 81 percent of low-income children in the United States today don't get any type of decent dental care or follow-up.”

The biggest reasons for lack of dental care for many low-income children, Rice said, is lack of access to Medicaid providers, dental indifference on the part of parents who may not have enough dental education themselves, and parents who don't have the ability to take time off from work or don't have transportation to get to the dentist.

Low income children again and incomes are going down with third world migration

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