Canada's Chief Dental Officer of Health Dr. Peter Cooney
This man says every $1 spent on water fluoridation saves $38 (or more) in dental treatment.
If it costs $1/person/year to fluoridate, it can certainly cost $75/person/lifetime to fluoridate (person living just 75 years x $1 per year).
If $1 spent on fluoridation saves $38 in dental treatment, $75 spent should save $2850.00 (75 x 38) in dental treatment.
Modern studies show lifetime fluoridation may save up to 1 filling per person.
1 average filling costs about $150 (2012 Ontario dental fee guide).
So $75 spent on fluoridation may save only $150 … not $2850.00
$1 spent per year on lifetime fluoridation may save only $2.00/year (150 ÷ 75) … and the feds don’t even pay for fluoridation, municipal taxpayers do!
Beyond just the chemical costs to fluoridating, there are training, handling, monitoring, management, repair and equipment replacement costs to keep the fluoridation flowing.
Added to that is the cost of accelerated corrosion to water distribution pipes/systems/infrastructure due to the highly corrosive nature of the fluoridation chemical hydrofluorosilicic acid.
Then there are health and safety compliance costs, ministry of environment regulatory related costs, and municipal liability costs assumed when a community decides to fluoridate and chooses what fluoridation chemical to use.
The cost of treating dental fluorosis caused by water fluoridation should also be considered. One in 10 children nowadays have objectionable fluorosis from fluoridation for which they seek dental treatment. The treatments can range from $500 per person for simple microabrasion and bleaching to $20,000 per person for caps or veneers.
Also, the significant cost to taxpayers for the continual federal/provincial/territorial public health marketing and promotion of water fluoridation.
After adding all these costs into the ‘mix’, water fluoridation actually saves us nothing.
Fluoridation ends up costing taxpayers more money than it ever saves.
It’s time we addressed dental decay in a much more direct and targeted manner.
Let’s also consider the environmental harm being done. People only drink 1 to 2% of this chemically fluoridated water. The rest (98-99%) is used for other things and ends up polluting our natural lands and waters
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