For Want of a Dentist

The sad thing is that most poor people in America have insurance - Medicaid. But American dentists refuse to treat people with Medicaid or other low reimbursing government subsidized insurance.
It's a mystery to me that dental schools and dental education can be government subsidized and the government doesn't require dentists to treat a certain number of low-income people a year.
Most dentists also won't work and/or live in rural or low-income inner cities and leave many people without dental care.
The problem is that organized dentistry lobbies against any dental or healthcare group that tries to fill the void lest it infringe on their lucrative monopoly.
Most dentists make more money than most physicians while working fewer days and fewer hours doing mostly cosmetic treatment and offering spa therapy.
When Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) started drilling, filling and pulling teeth in rural Alaska which has been unable for decades to attract dentists, the American Dental Association and the Alaska Dental Society sued them.
DHATs have worked for decades in other countries as efficiently and more cheaply than dentists and are willing to work where dentists won't
Instead of actually treating America's low-income, dentists organize to throw more fluoride chemicals into our bodies via water fluoridation because "they care so much."
Or they apply fluoride varnish with an extremely toxic 22,600 ppm fluoride.
Fluoride is more toxic than lead, While we are getting the lead out, dentists force more fluoride into us by advocating and lobbying for water fluoridation incessantly.
However, there is no evidence that any American is or ever was fluoride deficient; but loads of data showing Americans are dentist deficient.
Deamonte Driver's water supply was fluoridated and I doubt he was drinking fluoride-free bottled water as dentists claim when tooth decay rates climb as they are begining to do despite 60 years of water fluoridation.
The millions of dollars spent on fluoridation throughout the country could be better spent actually treating inevitable cavities.
For more info
Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.Org

Interesting that you could take the sad news of this child's death to rant about fluoride--one of the greatest public health triumphs in history.

If you read the refereed scientific journals, I believe that you will find plenty of data to support the fact that fluoride does, in fact, inhibit dental decay.

--however, you are correct, that there is still an incredible amount of tooth decay found in American children--so why is that? Could it be that the American diet includes more refined carbohydrates than ever??????????

The point is organized dentistry convinced legislators that fluoridation was the magic bullet that would save low-income people against tooth decay. Often dentists show a picture of small child with a severely infected mouth and say "fluoridation would have stopped this." Dentists have lied and they need to be called on it. More than one child has died from untreated severe tooth decay on organized dentistry's watch.
Why should anyone trust anything they have to say anymore?

It seems they have held the country hostage until the government gives them more more to actually treat people who need their help.

You should know a recent study shows that fluoridation is unnecessary and increases the risk of dental fluorosis.

It's "Community water fluoridation and caries prevention: a critical review," by Pizzo, et al. in the current Journal Clinical Oral Investigations.

You need to start reading the medical literature and learn how too much fluoride can actually be hurting low-incomed people rather than helping them.

Your knee-jerk defense of fluoridation is out-dated and unscientific

I firmly agree that fluoride is detrimental to everyone's health. Remember they also add a chemical called fluoride to the toothpaste. Our need for dentists would go down considerably if we used natural products to clean our mouths. Mother Nature provides us with the answers we just have to trust her and use our own good judgement instead of listening to the mass public.

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Could someone reccomend a good dentist for dentures in the Walnut Ridge or Pocahontas, Arkansas area?
New around the area, I know they are all too damned high, but got to have some.