The long -term effects of prohibiting fluoride from public drinking water throughout the country may cost families billions of dollars and lead to millions of corrupt teeth, and a new analysis predicts.
The study, published on Friday in Jama Health ForumHe explains that if all the fifty states stop community of community water, children in the United States may expect an additional 25.4 million cavities during the next five years.
This is the equivalent of decomposing teeth in 1 in 3 children.
The number of cavities will double more than 10 years, to 53.8 million.
“This is an enormous increase,” said Dr. Tom Reed, President of the Teeth Association in Wisconsin. “It is another evidence that what we say for more than 80 years is 100 % accurate: the appropriate doses for the societal water flaw prevent the cavities.” Red did not participate in the new research.
Fluoride is increasingly under the fire, despite its dramatic ability to prevent teeth decomposition.
Two states, Utah and Florida, banned the addition of fluoride to public water systems. Others, including Kentuckyand Massachusetts and NebraskaIt can be followed – all supported by Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the role of the head of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.
Under the leadership of Kennedy, HHS softened the oral health and prevention department, which provides funds for local states and states to enhance good dental health practices, including the use of fluoride.
“We thought this was a truly important time to be able to put some numbers in discussions,” said Dr. Lisa Simon, a author of the study of medicine and internal medicine in Mass GENERAL BRIGHAM in Boston.
She and her colleague analyzed data on 8,484 children, from birth to the age of 19, from Wiping examination of national health and nutrition. NHANES is performed every year by the Center for Disease Control and includes interviews about what people eat and wide details about their blood works, examination of the doctor – and dental visits.
The team created a model of predicting what could happen under two scenario: if each general water system has the perfect fluoride levels, and if there is a complete national ban on fluoride in water systems.
Fill these cavities to reform this level of decomposition will cost money: $ 9.8 billion within five years, and $ 19.4 billion in a decade.
Simon said: “It is in fact a somewhat conservative estimate,” because he does not take into account the relevant issues, such as whether the child must undergo general anesthesia, or lifelong costs to replace fillings and implants, or if parents have to miss work to transfer children to the emergency room because of his intense teeth.
Dental caries exceed a simple cavity that must be filled. In severe cases, the teeth break, which makes it difficult for people to properly chew food. It can also lead to gingival disease and wide -ranging infection.
Simon said that low -income families who are struggling to obtain dental care and children in Medicaid will be affected by an impartial manner.
She said: “It harms everyone to get rid of fluoride, but it harms these children and families more than others.”
The effects of the real world
The possible fluoride repercussions of fluoride are not just a sporting magic.
The Canadian city of Caljari witnessed, for example, a significant increase in children’s cavities after its leaders removed fluoride from public water systems in 2011. In a decade, they voted to restore community water.
“I hate to see us, we do not learn from history.” ))
The United States has added fluoride to decades. Disease Control Center, as well as doctors and dentists, heralds minerals as one The greatest achievements of public health in the twentieth century.
But the fluoride has been demonstrated, especially among conservative groups that maintain tugin, at best, causing teeth discoloration, and in the worst case, leads to children’s intelligence.
Kennedy A Kennedy is often cited The study was published in 2019 This suggested that the intelligence rate levels were slightly lower in children whose mothers had higher metrics than fluoride in their urine during pregnancy. Jama’s study was also included in the “Make America Healthy Again” report recently issued by the Minister of Health.
However, the research was far from decisive. Similar studies have been conducted in other countries with much higher levels of water flu from the United States, which has not put any studies in the United States any measurable declines in the development of cognitive children since the introduction of fluoride.
The new analysis did not include potential cognitive effects – good or bad – for a complete ban on fluoride because the current levels of fluoride in public water systems, the authors wrote, “are not permanently related to the worst nerve behavioral results.”
They looked at the issue of teeth. Excessive fluoride quantities can cause white or sometimes brown signs on the teeth called fluorine. It is a cosmetic problem, not a material problem.
The modeling study found that the prohibition of community water floor will not make a large splash in the reduction of fluorine: only 200,000 cases less over a period of five years.
