State Data Raise Questions About Fluoride's Impact, KATU Reports

Michael Connett  Christopher Errante • 4 hours ago

Fluoridation provides good PR for dental trade associations, but bad medicine for those it’s supposedly meant to serve. Poor populations need dental care, not fluoridation chemicals in their water. The millions of dollars spent each year promoting fluoridation would be better spent advocating for policies that provide real dental care: like allowing dental therapists to provide affordable care to populations with little access to dentists (which the ADA adamantly opposes).

In (fluoridated) Detroit, 91% of 5-year-old black children have tooth decay, with 42% suffering from “severe” decay.

In (fluoridated) New York City, 34% of preschool black children from 
low-income families have rampant tooth decay, with a staggering 6.4 
cavities per affected child.

In (fluoridated) Chicago, 64% of third graders have tooth decay.

In San Antonio, annual head start surveys show that fluoridation failed to
reduce the high rate of tooth decay among the city’s head start 
children. After eight years of fluoridation, the tooth decay rate did 
not decrease--it increased.

A national survey by the CDC found that the most fluoridated state in the U.S. (Kentucky) suffers the highest rate of tooth loss (44%) while the least fluoridated state 
(Hawaii) suf fers the lowest rate of tooth loss (16%).