| While Chicago children suffer with dental pain, | | | | since 1956, in Illinois where fluoridation is |
| limousines delivered dignitaries to a large white tent, | | | | state-mandated, has a serious dental health problem. |
| ringed with yellow-shirted security guards, where | | | | Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn said, "Dental disease in |
| dentists and others, on government payrolls, kicked off | | | | Illinois students has reached epidemic proportions," |
| a four-day 60th birthday party for water fluoridation | | | | because few dentists take Medicaid or KidsCare |
| replete with ice sculptures, free duffle bags, food and | | | | payments. (2) Only one fourth of Chicago dentists |
| specially made fluoridated bottled water, on July 13, | | | | accept patients covered by government-funded |
| 2005, in Chicago's Millennium Park, hosted by the | | | | insurance because payment is too low.According to |
| American Dental Association (ADA) and the U.S. | | | | the Illinois Public Health Department, 38% of 6 to |
| Centers for Disease Control (CDC).Attendees came, | | | | 8-year- olds and 30% of 15-year-olds live with |
| from many states and 7 foreign countries, for | | | | untreated tooth decay. Despite fluoridation, 33% of |
| continuing education credits, to learn political fluoridation | | | | 3-year-olds have cavities.(3)On July 14, while the ADA |
| strategy and/or for a free trip to Chicago. But first | | | | celebrated fluoridation as a cavity remedy for the |
| they had to pass through protesters handing out a | | | | poor, the ADA also lobbied in Washington against |
| timely Washington Post article entitled, "Professor at | | | | Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) -- a viable |
| Harvard Is Being Investigated -- Fluoride-Cancer Link | | | | solution for the dentist-neglected poor.(4)DHAT's drill, fill |
| May Have Been Hidden," published on July 13, | | | | and pull rotted teeth in people and places where |
| 2005.(1)Despite sixty years of fluoridation delivered to 2 | | | | dentists won't go. DHAT'S, with advanced dental |
| 3 of Americans via their water supply and 100% via | | | | hygienist degrees, work successfully in many countries. |
| the food supply, the U.S. Surgeon General declared | | | | Studies show their work is as efficient but less costly |
| tooth decay a national epidemic in 2000."Fluoridation is | | | | then dentists'."We believe the ADA's main priority is to |
| hardly anything to celebrate, " says lawyer Paul | | | | protect dentist-members lucrative monopoly," says |
| Beeber, NYSCOF President. "Time and money spent | | | | Beeber. "And fluoridation campaigns provide organized |
| celebrating fluoridation for four days, including | | | | dentistry with political viability to get more perks for |
| out-of-towners hotel and other expenses, could have | | | | dentists from our legislators. Fluoridation does not help |
| actually filled many cavities in Chicago's poor," says | | | | the poor."Eighty percent of dentists refuse Medicaid |
| Beeber.NYSCOF joined the Fluoride Action Network's | | | | patients.(5)References:(1) Beeber, Esq, President and |
| protest to educate Chicago residents, legislators and | | | | General Counsel, New York State Coalition Opposed |
| fluoridation party-goers that fluoridation is ineffective, | | | | to Fluoridation, Inc. |
| harmful and a waste of money.Chicago, fluoridated | | | | |