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This is anecdotal.
Public health management isn't really the same as making health related decisions for yourself and your family.
As a public health measure fluoridation of water is an undeniable success. It has reduced the incidence of dental cavities by about a third, with better results in rural and poorer demographics.
So rural and poor communities dont have access to healthier options or proper dental care and the solution your country picked was to put fluoride in the water instead of trying to actually support the poor.
What a country.
Hmm. You realise we're talking about Australia right? We have some of the best universal healthcare, and social security in the world.
Additives like fluoride in water, iodine in salt, and folic acid in flour disproportionately benefit people with lower incomes because in many cases their nutrition and other health care is not great due to lifestyle preferences, or co-morbidities that are resistant to health interventions like substance abuse or mental illness or cultural norms.
Another problem in Australia is low population density. A small town might be several hundred kilometers from the nearest dentist. If everyone in that place agrees to fluoridate the water, where's the harm in that ?
We do have government funded free dental services, although I admit the wait times can be considerable.
While I understand that it’s a useful, effective measure, I’m amazed that it’s needed at all. Most of Europe, despite having a comparable or on paper lower wealth status, has never heard of this as far as I can tell, and the introduction of the practice isn’t being discussed. What gives the US needs it?
In Europe, it varies by geology and country. Some places add fluoride to water, some to salt, some rely on fluoride toothpaste or mouthwash. https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/fluoridation/en/l-2/1.htm
Interesting. I didn't know that.
I'm in Australia BTW, about 90% of our water is fluoridated.
There's lots of information about various countries here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
I think a summary to answer your question is that it varies by region, in some areas there's enough fluoride present in the water naturally, in others fluoride is added to table salt, in some there's just no support for this measure.
That makes quite a lot of sense, yeah. Different regions be different, who woulda thunk :D