On the plus side, I smell a great opportunity for a longitudinal population study. 🤔

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    DISCLAIMER: This is only true to the population that does take care of their teeth, which means that it will actually negatively affect some people in a serious way.

    While stopping the usage of fluoride in water is a bad decision that will lead to people having more dental issues, I would like to say that there are other developed nations that don’t have fluoride in their water and it’s not the end of the world. Because in modern times people use toothpaste and dental floss and have all of this routine that most people do twice a day, the fluoride in the water is not nearly as significant as that routine.

    I don’t have the research right now but I do remember that I once dove into it and most of the studies are pretty old and the dental hygiene that we have today did not exist to the same degree and therefore fluoride in the water was a more significant additive.

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      You’d be surprised how many people don’t brush their teeth, let alone twice a day, and let alone floss. Those who do the correct shit will probably not feel the difference, those who don’t will lose the only protection they had left.