Fluoride in water costs almost nothing, and saves considerable pain and dental bills. You'd think the people obsessed with government efficiency would be all for it.
It also prevents dangerous infections in the mouth, which is right next to the brain. It's not just dental bills. Municipalities that use fluoride reduce pediatric hospitalizations for disseminated infections.
I've designed multiple fluoride feed facilities, and extensively read the AWWA fluoridation manual. I'm very familiar with the dental and bone health impacts of fluoride. I never heard the infection angle. Thank you for the cool new info!
Beats me on this. After WWII, Holyoke and Longmeadow Massachusetts started fluoridating their water. Both were affluent communities then. Holyoke declined in later years and is a poor city. The city could not possibly afford to treat its water today. Their children do not have cavities. Their adults do not have cavities. Over 80 years, no problems with fluoridating water in either community.
I'm so jealous. I grew up without fluoridated water and my teeth have cost me more money over my lifetime than clothing and food combined, probably. But genetics is mostly to blame!
Genetics helped me, but going to an inferior dentist while growing up, and not doing what I should when I was young, I paid a price as you did. Wish I had fluoridated water as a kid. DidnтАЩt know it existed then.
AWWA M4 says the history of artificial fluoridation started in Colorado Springs in 1908 when Dr McKay noticed excessive mottling of teeth. He also noticed particularly strong teeth. Other folks noticed similar things and off we went. The first municipal fluoridation was in Grand Rapids, MI in 1945.
Here's the thing. Some people are hypersensitive to fluoride and get tooth mottling or skeletal fluorosis at the recommended concentration.
When I grew up, my water company (Philadelphia Suburban Water Co) didn't fluoridate. My sister and I took supplement pills every day. Those work, too but fluoridation in water is cheaper and available to everyone.
Fluoride in water costs almost nothing, and saves considerable pain and dental bills. You'd think the people obsessed with government efficiency would be all for it.
It also prevents dangerous infections in the mouth, which is right next to the brain. It's not just dental bills. Municipalities that use fluoride reduce pediatric hospitalizations for disseminated infections.
I just pulled out my copy of AWWA Manual M4. No mention of infections. Again, thanks for the info.
I've designed multiple fluoride feed facilities, and extensively read the AWWA fluoridation manual. I'm very familiar with the dental and bone health impacts of fluoride. I never heard the infection angle. Thank you for the cool new info!
Yeah, it's tough because you have to compare similar places with and without fluoridation and compare hospitalization rates. Here's a study in Israel: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002817714001159
I think Canada had a similar situation where they could compare similar provinces.
Beats me on this. After WWII, Holyoke and Longmeadow Massachusetts started fluoridating their water. Both were affluent communities then. Holyoke declined in later years and is a poor city. The city could not possibly afford to treat its water today. Their children do not have cavities. Their adults do not have cavities. Over 80 years, no problems with fluoridating water in either community.
I'm so jealous. I grew up without fluoridated water and my teeth have cost me more money over my lifetime than clothing and food combined, probably. But genetics is mostly to blame!
Genetics helped me, but going to an inferior dentist while growing up, and not doing what I should when I was young, I paid a price as you did. Wish I had fluoridated water as a kid. DidnтАЩt know it existed then.
AWWA M4 says the history of artificial fluoridation started in Colorado Springs in 1908 when Dr McKay noticed excessive mottling of teeth. He also noticed particularly strong teeth. Other folks noticed similar things and off we went. The first municipal fluoridation was in Grand Rapids, MI in 1945.
Here's the thing. Some people are hypersensitive to fluoride and get tooth mottling or skeletal fluorosis at the recommended concentration.
When I grew up, my water company (Philadelphia Suburban Water Co) didn't fluoridate. My sister and I took supplement pills every day. Those work, too but fluoridation in water is cheaper and available to everyone.
Thanks Mike. DidnтАЩt realize how the two communities I wrote about were on the front line fighting tooth decay.