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: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Monday December 16 2019, @11:53AM (4 children)
I do that because it does not come from the paper.
See how logic works?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @04:01PM (3 children)
Wow! This is peak idiocy I've seen on this site. Those quotes come directly from this paper.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @09:37PM (1 child)
Both of you quoted the paper. You each are suffering from what you accuse the other of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @11:43PM
Where do you see that?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 17 2019, @10:28AM
Are you confusing the paper for the article?
My quotes have almost exclusively come from the paper.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves