AI Summary:
- Utah is poised to ban fluoride in public water systems, pending the governor’s signature.
- The bill prohibits adding fluoride to public water and repeals previous related laws.
- Federal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized fluoride, influencing the bill.
- Studies on fluoride’s impact on children’s IQ have mixed results, with some showing negative effects and others showing no harm.
- Major public health groups support fluoridation for dental health benefits.
- The anti-fluoridation movement has gained popularity post-Covid-19.
- Similar legislation is proposed in Florida, emphasizing the importance of consent in public health measures.
Slaps dental premiums this baby is going places!
The tooth fairy economy is about to face an inflation crisis.
Want job security? Become a dentist
Fluoride in the water didn’t anyone’s teeth. But your point remains valid I think
Get some baking soda toothpaste and some fluoride rinse and you’ll be okay.
What’s the point of baking soda toothpaste if you’re going to use fluoride rinse anyway
Want to see what happens when you do this?
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/childrens-headline-indicators/contents/indicator-7
Notice the two states with the highest rates of dental decay are Queensland and Northern Territory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_Australia
Yeah, those states didn’t get flouride in their water until around 2012.
Such a coincidence…
It’s also completely silly because many places have naturally fluoridated water!
Yes but what about all the autism. Or mind controlling. Or whatever the hell it is that fluoride is evil for?
Conservatives are concerned that the miniscule chance of fluoride reducing children’s IQ is enough to cause children to grow up to be conservatives.
Makes you listen to pop music.
Hahaha😂
People are going to be whining about cavities, in fact people who went flouride free toothpaste and complained they got cavities and blamed in on the effectiveness of the toothpaste
It’s because critical thinking is a dead skill in this country.
We have essentially trained an entire generation to not rely on critical thinking skills anymore. And apparently in the process of graduating a second generation of the same.
It is the plot of Idiocracy. Where the people don’t even understand the things that affect them on a day-to-day basis they just know that “it’s what plants crave”
Dan Halen is ecstatic 14 years later
To finally stop the conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Sadly, this is unlikely to lead to the death of people, so it won’t be reverted in a week, but have long lasting effects. I guess it’s not a problem as long as there’s a decent health infrastructure to hold up the increased issues, right?
Uh, yeah. About that last part…
Dental issues increased in Calgary and they voted to put it back.
This is the way. The idiots have been coddled for generations. They need to have the experience of their teeth rotting out for themselves.
And what about the other 49% they dragged down with them? You’ve also just made everyone’s dental insurance 10x more expensive. Thanks!
For anyone in a state without fluoridated water, you can get fluoride drops to put in your/your children’s water.
I grew up with well water and we didn’t have naturally occurring water.
Our doctor prescribed us a chewable tablet we took every night after dinner.
Didn’t get my first, and only, cavity until I was 35.
My ex-wife who grew up with me had a dad who was “they’re putting gay vaccines in our fluoride to turn our cavities to queers” type and they didn’t …. Cavity city.
Why not just brush their teeth? I’m pretty sure fluoridated toothpaste is much easier to come by than fluoride drops.
Because adding fluoride to tap water provides measurable benifits regardless of socioeconomic status.
In addition, other countries where municpal water is not as developed, they will add fluoride to salts and other consumer products.
We’re comparing toothpaste to fluoride drops, not fluoridated tap water.
Because your logic is flawed coming to that question. It insinuates that one is needed over the other. This is not a fair comparison because toothpaste and fluoride suppliments are purchased and flouridated tap water costs almost nothing to consumers of municipal water. All sources must be taken into account for public health programs like this.
If you needed one last excuse to get out of Utah, then let this be it.
I bet the idiots have shares in the dental industry though.
RFK Jr. has criticized fluoride
Yeah see, that right there is the only thing you really need to see that the ban is a bad idea.
Uh, here in Oregon it’s already been banned for a long time. This headline is sus.
The difference is in verbiage. Oregon doesn’t require it, but Oregon also doesn’t ban it and leaves it up to municipalities. Utah is trying to actively force municipalities to not be allowed to use it.
Ah makes sense.
It isn’t banned in Oregon. Many communities have simply decided not to do it. Hillsboro recently voted to stop fluoridating their water, for example.
This would be the first time an entire state has literally banned the practice.
And it’s stupid. There are maps of the US that show which states have the lowest/highest rates of dental caries. The states with the lowest rates just happen to have mandatory water fluoridation, and the states with the lowest rates of fluoridation all have the worst dental health. Meanwhile there’s zero evidence that drinking fluoridated water has negative health effects.
Wanna add that Columbia County has fluorinated and chlorinated water.
Ah gotcha. And yeah I agree it’s dumb to not fluoridate our water but toothpaste companies need to be able to upcharge on extra fluoride toothpaste and dentists need work right? /s
next up (unless it happened first): no more data collection or research about statewide dental health
“Utah now has zero reported cavities! We were right to ban fluoride.”
Insurance companies will still collect it since they need to pay out for a lot of this shit. We’ll also be able to quantify this impact by looking at dental premiums and copays. They’ll eventually go up in states without fluoridated water.
Good Guy Insurance.
Or decline renewing your insurance.
I’ve seen this parks and rec episode
Utah poised to overtake UK as butt of bad teeth jokes.
EU countries don’t add fluoride to the water supply. At least half of the US seems to have cognitive impairment, by the way they vote.
Maybe they’re on to something?
/s
We believe that water fluoridation is the single most effective public health measure there is for reducing oral health inequalities and tooth decay rates, especially amongst children.
important to note about the “not adding Fluoride” bit: many countries have to remove fluoride from drinking water because there’s too much of it…
