Regarding the recent water without fluoride article by Jordan Miller.
I moved to Salt Lake City in the ’90s.
In my first dental appointment my dentist exclaimed, “Your teeth are fantastic, you must not have grown up in Utah.” I looked at him confused. Now that I’ve lived here for decades, I know but still don’t understand, all the hullabaloo.
I never have considered this some forced medical intervention so the comment from Aimme Winder Newton of why she voted to remove fluoride due to her belief in “medical freedom” seems oddly uninformed. Also, our “shoot from the hip” Gov. Cox and his scientific “research” as related to ABC4 says that 44% of Utahns had treated water since 2022, and he has not seen “drastically different” outcomes.
Based on what research one wonders? And oh, from 2022-24 is scientifically relevant? I don’t understand, since 60% of Utahns voted to approve fluoridated water in 2003, that our Legislature and Gov. Cox can just unilaterally take it away (HB81). Wouldn’t it be more democratic to put it to a vote again? It seems we are slowly giving our rights as constituents away to those who want the power to control us.
Oh look…squirrel!
Suzanne Wheaton, Millcreek
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