Years without fluoridated water show pattern of tooth decay experts warned about

Some places (like in BC) have naturally occurring fluoride. It's at like 1/4 the level but it's still there.

Any dentist in Toronto can tell you what Montreal teeth look like.

This whole thing started by a dentist who was investigating "brown stain" in a town in Colorado. Town water had very high levels of natural fluoride, causing mottling on teeth, but very hard enamel and almost no tooth decay. By the 1930s, the best levels were figured out. Now there is 100 years of data, but scientists now are considered wizards.

Makes your teeth heathy and look good

Was fluoride not for mind control ?

Calgary was facing a big infrastructure cost to update our EOL fluoridation system. Three counsellors drove the charge to get rid of fluoridation entirely: a 'stop all government spending!' con, an anti-science earth mother type, and a progressive who kept screaming 'we need to address dental care as a societal issue!'

And so we saw tooth decay climb for a decade. When we finally decided to put it back in, the cost was higher than the initial upgrade plus a decade of maintenance would have cost.

Idjits,

"My naturopath and the Yuka app told me it is tHe ToXicS so I advocated for its elimination. I ask the questions. I do the Facebook research. I am accredited by the TikTok Academy of Science. I know my body. I know my health. We must protect the children from toxics, vaccines, pharma, and lesbian" - that kind of person happened to fluoride.

Too much fluoride injested softens bone, while when applied to the enamal externally it reinforces the filament bonds of enamel. So there's that argument?

But they are also comparing old generation to 12 years later. I'm sure there is correlation with increased sugar drinks, and people losing jobs with benefits and not getting as many dental visists for fluoride treatment.

In many cases, it looks like a funding issue - it's admittedly a pretty huge expense to be handled at the municipal level.

The various conspiracy theories are just icing on the cake.

I think in this case it was a budget thing (at least officially).

Saved $ 177k per year by pushing the costs onto kids. Hoorah! /s

As someone with genetically shitty enamel AND bruxism, i'm double fucked

I only realized i'm living in a non-fluoride municipality a few years ago

What are my options for adding more fluoride to my teeth without poisoning myself or needing a prescription?

Shouldn't Halifax Water have known ahead of time that the tank was approaching end of life and prepared for it?

We've both driven the roads. I'd joke that 'planning' isn't really what they do there, but really it's the population: low, spread out, and those two things kill infrastructure budgets.

So they probably knew about it and were magically hoping to find the money earlier.