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.
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!
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.
next up (unless it happened first): no more data collection or research about statewide dental health
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.
Or decline renewing your insurance.
Good Guy Insurance.
Utah poised to overtake UK as butt of bad teeth jokes.
Dentists in
FloridaUtah: yesssss thanks for the increased business!The Utah dental association was strongly against it. Dentists already make good money and most of them actually care about their patients health.
Dental health is also strongly correlated with cardiovascular disease and other diseases.
Yeah I’m in dental myself (another country), and when anti-fluoride patients come in, we generally sassily remark that we thank them for keeping us in business. Bit of dark humour to see the silver lining in things, I guess?
There have certainly been dental clinics going out of business in the last few years, something quite unheard of - unlike other ‘new businesses’, the success rate of opening a new dental clinic was normally guaranteed (unlike say a new cafe).
If the general population want to remove one of the best public health initiatives, then so be it. We’ll make hay while the sun shines.
Bit of dark humour to see the silver lining in things, I guess?
Silver linings? Is that a dental filling turn of phrase? The joke doesn’t work with composites though. :(
Haha no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_lining_(idiom)
But still funny in context 🤭
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I’m familiar with the saying, I thought you might be going for the double entendre. :)
why florida? i feel i’ve missed something
Last bullet point in OPs post:
- Similar legislation is proposed in Florida, emphasizing the importance of consent in public health measures.
thanks. i’m apparently still high from my saturday night
I 100% misread the title and thought it was Florida.
I mean, it’s a pretty safe bet for something like this.
I thought they just misspelled “Florida” myself.
Shit; the serial killer sympathizers, racist, cousin fuckers, are about to add this to the list
Sorry to all my brits, I know this hits home.
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.
There’s Swig all over the place in Utah… it’s literally liquified sugar. The dentists in that state are going to have an absolutely stellar future as their customers increase.
I’d agree, but Utah has an excessive glut of dentists. Folk who could be earning half a million annually working three days a week go to Utah and earn 75k.
Up next in Utah, higher dental insurance premiums, copays, and deductibles.
Children’s ice cream, Mandrake!
They’re just protecting their precious bodily fluids
Dentists’ wet dream.
I’ve seen this parks and rec episode
this is just sad
DōTerra probably also behind this to an extent. Gotta find new ways to sell “essential” oils.
Obviously fluorinated water is fine but having never grown up with it, it seems kind of unecessary. Maybe stop shoving sugary food and drinks in everyone’s faces would have a better impact?
This is anecdotal.
Public health management isn’t really the same as making health related decisions for yourself and your family.
As a public health measure fluoridation of water is an undeniable success. It has reduced the incidence of dental cavities by about a third, with better results in rural and poorer demographics.
Define “unnecessary “. Seriously.
This is more targeted towards the poorest and least educated of the community. Eating healthy and having a stable home with healthy habits is expensive.
