On the plus side, I smell a great opportunity for a longitudinal population study. 🤔
They did this in Calgary and then everyone’s teeth went tits up.
Yeah. The longitudinal study was already done: https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2021/august/community-water-fluoridation-prevents-caries/
Which province has the worse teeth? Quebec
Which province has the worst access to water with fluoride? Quebec
But it might also be the maple syrup…
USian tooth health isn’t great to start with.
Time to invest in dentists i guess
or be the first to add fluoride to bottled water, or ‘import’ tap water from elsewhere, for sale in the state.
i remember seeing bottled city of houston water on shelves in san antonio grocery stores back in the 1990s. san antionio was then, and until ~2002, the largest u.s. city without fluoridated water.
I’ve got a great idea. What if we thicken up the flouride water into a plaster-like consistency so the people hesitant to swallow it can put it directly on their teeth? We could even sell little brushes to make it easier!
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There are two ways to prevent tooth decay. First is the easy way which is to put fluoride in the drinking water. It’s easy and protects everyone, but particularly the poorer segments of the population that might struggle with things like preventative dentist appointments.
The second way is the hard way which is to modify your diet to avoid foods high in sugars and carbs and to prefer more proteins and fiber. This is the approach some European countries take.
If you do neither you will get significantly increased rates of tooth decay.
how about adding full dental coverage to Medicaid & Medicare?
US health insurance don’t cover no luxury bones!
The irony here is that the Mormons in Utah LOVE sodas because it’s the only thing they can have. Tons of them are literally addicted to soda.
I eat very healthily! I just love plain grapefruit to a ridiculous degree!
Plain fruit is literally fructose sugar, citric and ascorbic acid and some fiber plus a little Roundup mixed with the wax coating.
The acid is terrible for your teeth. That’s why I mentioned grapefruit in particular. My dentist and I have had conversations :-(
Edit: also, I do peel the grapefruit. I eat them much like oranges.
You don’t eat the coating of a grapefruit.
But that’s the most appealing part.
The crust.
What a pithy reply.
I pithy the fool!
What if we start putting flouride in the junk food 🤔?
Most European countries do not fluoridate their water. Our solution is brushing our teeth and public healtcare that also includes dental care (albeit it can still be fairly expensive and many prefer private due to long queues in public (Private is like 100-250 per visit in Finland and generally its recommended to do 1-2 visits a year but many visit much less frequently)
Invest in anything and everything related to tooth decay management.
Reality doesn’t give a fuck about opinions.
You’ll make money.
Them luxury bones are gonna get even more luxury.
If you are dentist in the area or plan to be a dentist you are about to make big money in the next few years.
This is why I only drink grain alcohol and rainwater.
Poe
I guess when their teeth start falling out they’ll just say that it’s god’s will for them to have less teeth. 🙄
that works for measles, so…probly works for teeth too
Their loss. Of teeth. Our should I say “loff”, just to show them their future?
You see, the brilliant part of this is that the leopards drink the same water. It’s going to make it a lot harder for them to eat everyone’s faces if their teeth are all rotted out.
DISCLAIMER: This is only true to the population that does take care of their teeth, which means that it will actually negatively affect some people in a serious way.
While stopping the usage of fluoride in water is a bad decision that will lead to people having more dental issues, I would like to say that there are other developed nations that don’t have fluoride in their water and it’s not the end of the world. Because in modern times people use toothpaste and dental floss and have all of this routine that most people do twice a day, the fluoride in the water is not nearly as significant as that routine.
I don’t have the research right now but I do remember that I once dove into it and most of the studies are pretty old and the dental hygiene that we have today did not exist to the same degree and therefore fluoride in the water was a more significant additive.
You’d be surprised how many people don’t brush their teeth, let alone twice a day, and let alone floss. Those who do the correct shit will probably not feel the difference, those who don’t will lose the only protection they had left.
Yeah, it will definitely hurt some populations a lot.
I take it back.
Rural dental care is notoriously poor in the US. Also, for some ridiculous reasons, dental care is treated separately from medical care when it comes to insurance. I know people who can’t afford to go to the dentist and one who is lucky to have access to low cost dental school care. Putting fluoride in water at least helps those who don’t or can’t take good care of their teeth.
Yeah, I was actually wondering if it’s still necessary if every toothpaste already has fluoride in it. It’s probably still better to keep adding it just in case, since there’s no real downside to doing it. But I guess we’ll see in a generation what the long term effect is.
It’s absolutely still necessary. There’s a hundred reasons someone isn’t brushing their teeth and it’s a crucial support for them.
There’s flouride free toothpaste and the kind of people who don’t want flouride in their drinking water also don’t buy toothpaste with flouride in it.
I guess it’s a good time to be a dentist in Utah. They’ll have tons of new cavities to fill.
You’ve seen the Kansas Experiment. Now get ready for the Utah Study.
The coming dental apocalypse will be something to behold.
The Golden Plates didn’t say anything about teeth, so it’s fine, right?
