Everybody's health is slightly worse because of fluoride in the water, but kids who don't brush their teeth regularly have much better teeth because of it.
So of course put it in the water... think of the children!!
In a sane world the kids getting free school lunches/breakfast would just have to brush with fluoride toothpaste as a condition of getting free food. The outcome for poor kids would be way better and the rest of us wouldn't suffer.
And then children who grew up from birth exposed to fluoride in tapwater develop moderate and severe dental fluorosis, which causes permanent structural damage to the teeth.
Moderate and severe dental fluorosis used to be rare, now 25% of US teens have it.
Oh and ''mild'' dental fluorosis ( cosmetic damage and texture change to the teeth ) used to be uncommon, now the vast majority of teens have it.
Short term limited benefit for permanent crippling of the future generations.
Other jurisdictions solved the question : if you're dumb enough, you can buy fluoridated salt to cook with to poison your children with that instead on a voluntary basis.
Fluoride is like hand soap : you're not supposed to swallow it. Wash and rince off.
I'm not sure I believe that. I think kids going without brushing their teeth for a while would be okay if they weren't constantly ingesting vast quantities of sugar.
Yes and no, if you look into older dental recorders in history you will find that missing teeth was very common, and that dental hygiene was...not great.
Now their teeth was certainly not as filthy as we portray it as, they actually did brush their teeth with rudimentary things, but it was certainly no where even remotely close to the level that we have nowadays, and as a result having dental issues was unfortunately fairly common.
Everybody's health is slightly worse because of fluoride in the water, but kids who don't brush their teeth regularly have much better teeth because of it.
So of course put it in the water... think of the children!!
In a sane world the kids getting free school lunches/breakfast would just have to brush with fluoride toothpaste as a condition of getting free food. The outcome for poor kids would be way better and the rest of us wouldn't suffer.
And then children who grew up from birth exposed to fluoride in tapwater develop moderate and severe dental fluorosis, which causes permanent structural damage to the teeth.
Moderate and severe dental fluorosis used to be rare, now 25% of US teens have it.
Oh and ''mild'' dental fluorosis ( cosmetic damage and texture change to the teeth ) used to be uncommon, now the vast majority of teens have it.
Short term limited benefit for permanent crippling of the future generations.
Other jurisdictions solved the question : if you're dumb enough, you can buy fluoridated salt to cook with to poison your children with that instead on a voluntary basis.
Fluoride is like hand soap : you're not supposed to swallow it. Wash and rince off.
I'm not sure I believe that. I think kids going without brushing their teeth for a while would be okay if they weren't constantly ingesting vast quantities of sugar.
Yes and no, if you look into older dental recorders in history you will find that missing teeth was very common, and that dental hygiene was...not great.
Now their teeth was certainly not as filthy as we portray it as, they actually did brush their teeth with rudimentary things, but it was certainly no where even remotely close to the level that we have nowadays, and as a result having dental issues was unfortunately fairly common.
I don't disagree with that, I just think the sugar is probably the primary culprit.