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UK Against Fluoridation

Friday, March 23, 2007

Dental access: the growing health care crisis

...................In recent years, an increasing number of studies reveal that poor dental health may also be at the root of a number of other, more serious health effects, with strong links found to lung infections, diabetes, pancreatic cancer, heart disease, viral infections, birth defects and oral and throat cancer. The list goes on, and when combined with national figures that indicate more than 51 million hours of school are lost each year by children, and adults miss more than 164 million hours of work due to dental-related illness, it's concerning that just 22.8 percent of Wisconsin Medicaid recipients and 50 to 70 percent of private paying patients receive dental care in any given year. ........................

Wisconsin is 89% fluoridated:NYSCOF

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