Give Kids Their Smiles Back - Stop Fluoridation - One day a year, dentists country-wide celebrate “Give-Kids-A-Smile” day, (GKAS), with much self-promotion and merchandising. This year it’s February 2. But for the rest of the year, most dentists refuse children on Medicaid or other government-sponsored insurance (1). Instead, dentistry promotes water fluoridation to remedy tooth decay disparities between haves and have-nots. Unfortunately, that’s failing: New York State Department of Health statistics (2) illustrate fluoridation’s inability to equalize cavity rates between low and high socio-economic-status (SES) groups, and that fluoridation and tooth decay rates are not inversely related (3) See chart: http://www.
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