What you should call for is following the need for operations under general anesthesia in little preschool kids for mouth fulls of rotten teeth.  These operations include pulling teeth, root canals and ugly metal crowns.  Fluoridation has been shown over and over to prevent 2/3 to 3/4 of these procedures.  Washington Medicaid will have the computer billing for the economic burden of these very expensive procedures.   In 3 years this consequence of discontinuing fluoridation will be clearly shown.

Isn't it obvious that a 4 year old has no meaningful choice in her diet, her education, her ability to see a dentist, her mother's mouth bacteria or any of the other factors that cause her severe cavities.

Sadly, the harm to adult life-time cavities and to the elderly's cavities on exposed tooth roots cannot practically be studied.

The City Council should formally request Washington Medicaid study the need for these hospitalized treatments following fluoridation stopping.