{"id":40059,"date":"2025-05-02T22:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40059"},"modified":"2025-05-02T22:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:51:39","slug":"two-cities-stopped-adding-fluoride-to-water-science-reveals-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40059","title":{"rendered":"Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sciencenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/042425_av_flouride-removal_feat.png\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">As calls to end fluoride in water get louder, changes to the dental health of children in Calgary, Canada, and Juneau, Alaska, may provide a cautionary tale.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/fluoride-drinking-water-dental-health\">Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: worse outcomes in Calgary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In Calgary, the team surveyed 2,649 second-graders around seven years after fluoridation ended, meaning they had likely never been exposed to fluoride in their drinking water. Of those,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/cdoe.12685\" target=\"_blank\">65 percent had tooth decay<\/a>. In Edmonton, 55 percent of surveyed children had tooth decay. While those percentages may seem close, they mark a statistically significant difference that McLaren calls \u201cquite large\u201d on the population level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and Juenua, AK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Meyer and her colleagues analyzed Medicaid dental claims records made before and after the city stopped fluoridation. They found that the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12903-018-0684-2\" target=\"_blank\">average number of procedures to treat tooth decay rose<\/a>\u00a0in children under age 6, from 1.5 treatments per child in 2003 to 2.5 treatments per child in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As calls to end fluoride in water get louder, changes to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[853,945,22],"class_list":["post-40059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fluoride","tag-rwnj","tag-science","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40061,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40059\/revisions\/40061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}