It's interesting that the NYS Department of Health still uses Newburgh as an example of how fluoridation is preventing tooth decay and preventing such a need for dental care. Guess they are lying!

After 60 years of water fluoridation, fluoride has seeped into our food and beverage supply. It's in pesticide residues on foods and it's in more and more drugs as well as in dental products. As a result, US children are fluoride overdosed and sport dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth.

In fact, Newburgh children have more dental fluorosis and more tooth decay than never-fluoridated Kingston New York. Yet we are told the opposite.

Fluoridation has hardly put a dent in dentists' income. In fact, many dentists make three times as much as physicians while working fewer hours, fewer days on less critical work, according to the Wall Street Journal.

While organized dentistry supports fluoridation wholeheartedly because they know it doesn't hurt their bottom line, they do vigorously oppose any group who dares to infringe upon their lucrative monopoly.

For example, the American Dental Association unsuccessfully sued Dental Health Aide Therapists in Alaska. DHATs are two or three year trained individuals who drill, fill and pull teeth in mouths and cities and towns where dentists refuse to go.
Organized dentistry is fighting against Therapists in Minnesota now. Many times they lobby against hygienists working independently because they want a slice of the money pie.

Meanwhile 80% of dentists refuse Medicaid patients and 106 million people don't have dental insurance.
We shouldn't reward dentists for creating this dental health crisis because of their greed.

Governments must mandate that dentists take a certain number of low income individuals a year. We know dentists love mandates because they are behind almost every fluoridation mandate in the country.