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.
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…
Yeah. The longitudinal study was already done: https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2021/august/community-water-fluoridation-prevents-caries/
USian tooth health isn’t great to start with.
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
Them luxury bones are gonna get even more luxury.
Where do I buy stocks to invest in dental companies?
Red states even use dental?
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.
I guess it’s a good time to be a dentist in Utah. They’ll have tons of new cavities to fill.
Invest in anything and everything related to tooth decay management.
Reality doesn’t give a fuck about opinions.
You’ll make money.
So will they back this up with affordable public dental care? Don’t bother answering that.
Their loss. Of teeth. Our should I say “loff”, just to show them their future?
You’ve seen the Kansas Experiment. Now get ready for the Utah Study.
Going to be some Nazi Mormons walking around with some busted ass teeth
That Petrified Forest smile.
You do realize large swaths of the population have well water right?
So there these things called jokes. It’s like when you take something and point out the irony in it.
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.
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.
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.
The coming dental apocalypse will be something to behold.
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.
thoughts and prayers for their tooth
