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In other words, what happens when a population suddenly stops taking fluoride in their drinking water, like Juneau's citizenry did?
Now, thanks to a recent study led by first author and public health researcher Jennifer Meyer from the University of Alaska Anchorage, we've got new insights into the subsequent effects.
In the study, Meyer assessed Medicaid dental claim billing records for two groups of children and adolescents aged 18 or under.
One of these groups represented what the researchers call "optimal" community water fluoridation (CWF) exposure: 853 non-adult patients on behalf of whom Medicaid dental claims were filed in 2003, years before the fluoride cessation began in 2007.
The other group was made up of 1,052 non-adult patients from families who similarly met Medicaid income requirements, and who made the same kind of dental claims almost a decade later, in 2012.
[...] "By taking the fluoride out of the water supply... the trade-off for that is children are going to experience one additional caries procedure per year, at a ballpark (cost) of US$300 more per child," Meyer explained to KTOO News.
Reference: Jennifer Meyer, Vasileios Margaritis & Aaron Mendelsohn, Consequences of community water fluoridation cessation for Medicaid-eligible children and adolescents in Juneau, Alaska, BMC Oral Health, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-018-0684-2
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday December 16 2019, @11:50AM (3 children)
FFS. Before and after figures are right there in the article. Does being so clue-resistent hurt? It ought to, in order to discourage such a maladaptation.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Monday December 16 2019, @12:57PM (2 children)
You should read again what I wrote, I was talking about the propaganda conclusion, which is the one going into the media. Had I written "article" but I didn't.
And my own conclusion implies the article is correct. The only thing I got it wrong is the price which is the one asked to the insurance (so the official reduced price, which might or not be subject to more bulk discounts), but again if you read, it was not a declaration but a question.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday December 16 2019, @01:46PM (1 child)
> you cannot tell the increase in percentage
Yet you can tell, as they provided that data.
You also wrote:
> nor can you tell when one becomes adult, so no data overall.
Which is again utter bogosity - they say explicitly what ages they are considering, which happen to be almost universally adopted, so can actually be safely assumed most of the time.
If by "you cannot" you mean "I cannot", then please say that, however, it order to save us the effort of spoonfeeding you, please word it as "I cannot, as I'm too damn lazy to read the thing I'm commenting about, ".
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday December 16 2019, @05:54PM
You are still talking about the article, I still talk about the conclusion in TFS. Its conclusion focuses one aspect and says nothing about how the situation for everybody in the place differed from the average situation in the country, all variables considered, because the study maybe doesn't consider them all as other commenters are pointing out.
And, again, the conclusion I wrote clearly bypasses the problem of determining how correct is the article.
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