The dental lobby sent a mass email to Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox urging him not to sign a bill that bans fluoridation in Utah, saying:

“Most of the non-fluoridated counties experienced an increase in dental disease where Salt Lake showed a drop in disease to nearly the lowest level in the state after fluoride was added per the voters’ request. The overall state reduction was led by the counties choosing to fluoridate.”

BIG PROBLEM. They cherry picked the data.

In their letter to Governor Cox, the American Dental Association, who promotes fluoridation, linked to old data and neglected to include the most recent data from 2015 which shows cavities went UP not down since fluoridation began in Utah.

The fluoridation rate in Utah went from 2% in 2000 to 52% fluoridated in 2014. But after all that additional fluoridation, the rate of children who experienced tooth decay in Utah went up 15 years later in 2015. Tooth decay went higher than before fluoridation started!

FAN’s Scientific Director Chris Neurath said:

“I looked at the data. Utah has very shoddy data on caries in kids. Davis County, the only other county with substantial fluoridation besides Salt Lake County is mysteriously missing data for their 2005 dental survey.  And even more mysteriously, caries rates aren’t broken down by county (or health district) at all for the 2010 and 2015 surveys, so the only survey with any data for the two fluoridated counties is the year 2000 survey, which was before any fluoridation started! The only usable data available from the state website is state-wide rates for the four survey years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015.”

The dental lobby will do and say anything to protect their pet project, fluoridation.

Governor Cox should be aware of this.