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Posted on June 18 at 2:28 p.m.

The LA fluoridation mandate bill may now go into the hands of a Conference Committee after the Senate rejected the House's amendments.

The Louisiana Senate yesterday (6/17) extensively debated whether there was sufficient evidence to ban hand-held cell phones while driving because there wasn't enough evidence that it causes accidents.

However, there is NO evidence that any Louisiana child or adult is fluoride-deficient, yet the Senators didn't utter a peep about the issue. I assume it's because they don't really understand it and don't want to look foolish asking a question they don't already know the answer to. Or maybe they don't care to hear the truth.

The truth is that since fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth, there is no fluoride-deficiency illness.

When fluoridation mandate bills are presented to legislators, I believe all they hear is blah, blah, blah; but what they see is dollars signs - representatives of organizations with loads of PAC money, potential $peaking engagements, photo ops, etc.

So passing this bill without constituent knowledge helps the dentists as well as the legislators but not their constituents.

The reality is that dentists need to be mandated to actually treat low-income people or allow other groups to do so because Americans are dying from untreated tooth decay.

However, there's no special interest group approaching our legislators to require that. Only organized dentistry working the system for its' own benefit

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Posted on January 28 at 8:18 a.m.

Poor diets create poor teeth. Fluoridation is not a factor in it at all. Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth.

No Louisiana resident is , or ever was, fluoride deficient. In fact, they may be fluoride overdosed as the Centers for Disease Control show that up to 41% of US school children have dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted enamel.

Dentists must be mandated to treat children on Medicaid. They didn't get rich on their own. The government subsidized their education and their unions, such as the American Dental Association, garner them perks through their influence in creating legislation favoring dentists.

The Dental Health Aide Therapists are a wonderful idea but the ADA is fighting it because they don't want anyone infringing on their lucrative monopoly - even if low-income Americans have to suffer so dentists can stay rich.

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