[LINK] The true cost of bottled water

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:09:27PM +0100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> I have only anecdotal evidence but dentists I have talked to say there
> was a generation (let's call them generation x say) when everyone
> drank tap water with flouride that hardly have any fillings at all.
> They say that since the introduction of bottled water the situation
> has gone downhill.  I also know some generation x'ers that have no or
> virtually no fillings at all.  I would be interested in seeing stats
> on this because up til now I have taken this on faith.

no stats, just another anecdote:

it must be pretty rare, even with flouridated water, because every time
i visit a dentist they express surprise and some amazement that not only
do i not have any fillings but that i don't actually need any. they say
it's extremely unusual for someone my age (40 next month) to not need any
fillings.

> And of course it's nothing to do with the fact that dentists were  
> left out of medicare entirely and that is causing a severe problems,  
> even having people hospitalised for bad teeth.

nah, couldn't possibly be anything to do with that.

craig

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