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It's in other products instead. I think it depends on the country, but usually salt and toothpaste. I don't think there are any developed countries that have stopped fluoridation entirely.
Only two countries, Germany and Switzerland, have fluoridated salt.
It's worth thinking about the fact that virtually the entire EU gets by with non fluoridated water.
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When people destroy their natural healthy teeth to put on veneers, it's very far on that. When people destroy their teeth enamel, it's very far on that too. Destroying your natural teeth for an extra shade of blinding white or marginally straighter teeth is insane, and quite common.
We can all agree that somewhere in between is certainly the preferred option. Walking around with all veneers or crowns is a problem, but so is walking around with constant cavities and yellow teeth, so likely somewhere in between what the US does and the EU does.
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Wow, I'd previously scoffed at anti-fluoridation stuff, thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper. But this was an interesting historical perspective. But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies? Aluminum companies, still? seems unlikely that their influence would hold sway for a century. A century during which we have found other environmental pollutants…
> But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies? > ...thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper.
The film didn't come out until half way into that century. And now we have generations who've never heard of it.
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We can all agree that somewhere in between is certainly the preferred option. Walking around with all veneers or crowns is a problem, but so is walking around with constant cavities and yellow teeth, so likely somewhere in between what the US does and the EU does.
Healthy teeth have nothing to do with veneers and crowns. The opposite of a decorated mouth is not a sick mouth, just like the opposite of a bright pink house isn't a burned down house.
Veneers don't last forever, they will require lifetime commitment.
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We can all agree that somewhere in between is certainly the preferred option. Walking around with all veneers or crowns is a problem, but so is walking around with constant cavities and yellow teeth, so likely somewhere in between what the US does and the EU does.
Healthy teeth have nothing to do with veneers and crowns. The opposite of a decorated mouth is not a sick mouth, just like the opposite of a bright pink house isn't a burned down house.
Both of these things can be true simultaneously.
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Healthy teeth have nothing to do with veneers and crowns. The opposite of a decorated mouth is not a sick mouth, just like the opposite of a bright pink house isn't a burned down house.
Worse, a veneer decorated mouth is a maimed mouth, whose healthy tissues were destroyed. Veneers don't last forever, they will require lifetime commitment.
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I always thought anti fluoridation sentiment in Utah was related to them having the highest dentist count per capita. It’s the only state that I know of where fluoridation isn’t common.
Dentists are the ones who are pro-fluoridation … at least it was a dental trade group that fought the release of this report (maybe they are funded behind the scenes by a different interest group)
https://www.deseret.com/2000/9/29/19531458/fluoride-brochure...
It was a weird position against back then similar to the anti-vax position today.