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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!
If you needed one last excuse to get out of Utah, then let this be it.
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.
We're not comparing with fluoridated tap water because that's not something you can control as an individual. At most, you can put pressure on your city to add it in. Until that happens, and even after that happens, you still need to put in work to care for your own teeth. It's very unhelpful to tell someone living in a city with unfluoridated tap water to just choose fluoridated tap water. They do not have that choice.
All toothpastes with the ADA Seal of Acceptance must contain fluoride.
I bet the idiots have shares in the dental industry though.