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Bad Tooth + No Insurance= Death for 12-Year-Old from Infection
The sad thing is that most poor children in America have insurance - Medicaid and/or state sponsored insurance. But American dentists refuse to treat people with Medicaid or other low reimbursing government subsidized insurance. It's a mystery to me that dental schools and dental education can be government subsidized and the government doesn't require dentists to treat a certain number of low-income people a year. I guess having one of the most high spending political action committees has something to do with it. (The American Dental Association) Most dentists also won't work and/or live in rural or low-income inner cities and leave many people without dental care. The problem is that organized dentistry lobbies against any dental or healthcare group that tries to fill the void lest it infringe on their lucrative monopoly. Most dentists make more money than most physicians while working fewer days and fewer hours doing mostly cosmetic treatment and offering spa therapy. When Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) started drilling, filling and pulling teeth in rural Alaska which has been unable for decades to attract dentists, the American Dental Association and the Alaska Dental Society sued them. DHATs have worked for decades in other countries as effectively as dentists but more cheaply and they work where dentists won't. Instead of actually treating America's low-income, dentists organize to throw more fluoride chemicals into our bodies via water fluoridation because "they care so much." Or they apply fluoride varnish with an extremely toxic 22,600 ppm fluoride. Fluoride is more toxic than lead. While we are trying to get the lead out, more and more fluoride is being introduced into our bodies. However, there is no evidence that any American is or ever was fluoride deficient; but loads of data show Americans are dentist deficient. Deamonte Driver's water supply was fluoridated and I doubt he was drinking fluoride-free bottled water as dentists claim when tooth decay rates climb. The millions of dollars spent on fluoridation throughout the United States could be better spent actually treating inevitable cavities. For more info Fluoridation 101 http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof Fluoridation News Releases http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/ Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.Org

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