The Power and Money of Organized Dentistry and the Legislators they can influence are to blame.  Following organized dentistry's advice has created a dental health crisis in the US - an epidemic according to the Surgeon General in 2000 which still persists. 130 million Americans  lack dental insurance. Many with insurance can't afford dentistry's out of pocket fees.

The solution. Legalize Dental Therapists who just need 2 years training to do simple dentistry and who will go into  mouths and areas where dentists refuse to go. The obstacle - organized dentistry, with it's pockets full of corporate cash lobbies long and hard to thwart them 

Dentists like treating the water instead of low-income's teeth. Fluoridation is an illusion they care about the poor folks not welcomed in their dental chairs.  Mandate that dentists treat more low income folks.  Dentists love mandates. They are behind virtually every fluoridation mandate & make loads of money covering up fluoride-damaged teeth

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