Fluoride debate - Queensland election issue

Medicating via water supplies ...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24850173-952,00.html#submit-feedback

When I last checked, more than 250 responses had been received responding to a Courier Mail story on mass medication of the people via their drinking water.

The chemical is apparently imported from Belguim where they don't use it themselves!! Go figure.

I suspect a positive and negative placebo affect.

Some people are more aware of dental hygiene because a chemical is in their drinking water, so they make extra effort, but for some, with fluoride in the water, they think they don't have to be as diligent with oral health.

$35 million would fund a lot more dental assistants in schools.

Maybe they could add a subsidy to the sugar free, magnolia tree based bacteria fighting chewing gum promoted by the Mars lolly company.

Try teaching kids with aching, putrid mouths because it takes months to get dental treatment and then they are scared, so they avoid treatment.

I was told, but can't confirm yet, the fluoride in tablets is not the same as the poison added to the drinking supplies.

If Queensland dental health is so bad, why is it so expensive for many families to visit a dentist?

Unfortunately Ellen Pea's team don't seem to want the challenge of governing so we will just have to get over it and trust the Government to keep making decisions without consultation.