A pro fluoride viewpoint. Attacking the rich.

More than just a pretty smile
Only the rich or uninformed could love Oregon's record of ignoring fluoride and let teeth rot where they may
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Nielsen: One dollar spent on fluoride saves $38 in treatment
Rich people with beautiful teeth may have no idea what I'm talking about. Their teeth are private treasures, to be whitened like fine cotton and tended like box hedges. Their smiles aren't a matter of public health, but of personal pride.
They can be forgiven for shrugging off Oregon's high tooth-decay rate and the endless fringe campaign to keep fluoride out of drinking water. They've never blanched at an unaffordable dental bill. They've never spent weeks steering cold drinks to one side of their mouth, waiting to see the dentist.
They've certainly never sent their kids to a free clinic. They bought fluoride supplements for their lovely children, and they can't imagine a dental problem too big to prevent or pay for.
The toothsome rich can be forgiven for their ignorance.
No one else can.

Not the activists who try to protect us from fluoride, and definitely not state lawmakers, who've helped maintain Oregon's status as a fluoridation backwater with the cavities to prove it.

There are 2 pages of this in the paper, if you click on "outside of the USA" you do not have to register to see second page. Amazing you can get this viewpoint and the complete opposite from yesterday's post from the doctor.

20% of Oregon is fluoridated