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I wonder how they know whether it’s specifically from a lack of fluoride or because of diet.

• Permit 5y ago
  What suggests to you that between 2011 and 2016 there was a large shift in children's diets?
  • elliekelly 5y ago
    I’m not the person you replied to but the Affordable Care Act implemented a requirement that health insurance plans offer optional pediatric dental coverage for anyone under 18 and IIRC it requires companies offering dental plans to employees to provide options for family coverage and not just individual plans. I recently posted a similar comment in a thread about drug addiction but perhaps it’s not an increase in cavities so much as it’s an increase in access to affordable pediatric dental care.
• SkittyDog 5y ago
  They don't know that... it's an anecdote, not an epidemiological study. But you also have no evidence that diets changed drastically for the whole city of 500k people around the same time... Probably because we don't even know what city this is actually referring to. Maybe all 500,000 people all stopped brushing their teeth... Maybe all the dentists left town... Maybe aliens are dosing the town from orbit with radiation weapons. It's not a useful counter-point for you to just assert some alternative causation... Of course there could be other causes, that's literally always true about any causative assertion.
• Analemma_ 5y ago
  Be serious. You’re suggesting that at the exact same time that this town, and only this town, stopped using fluoride, it is also the same case that this town, and only this town, had a rapid change in children’s diets?