On Aug. 24, 2012, it was reported that the town of Gilbert water supply has had no fluoride added to the water for the last 13 months. The North Water Treatment plant in Gilbert has just notified city management. If routine water tests are done every day, there should not be any reason why it took 13 months to notify the officials and the town. Fluoride should be added in our water supply. Fluoride helps prevent tooth decay in children and adults. Adding fluoride is the most cost effective way to prevent tooth decay in the community. If it took 13 months for the officials to notify the Gilbert residents, what else are they hiding?
Sincerely, A Fluoride Lover.
Kim Smith
Gilbert
Engaged Voter posted at 6:00 pm on Thu, Aug 30, 2012.
"Fluoride helps prevent tooth decay in children and adults."
A specious claim.
If true, it should be easy to prove, since the north Gilbert area has been without fluoridated water for OVER A YEAR. This means that tooth decay and related issues should have skyrocketed in the last year.
Easy enough to research - have Gilbert dentists seen a massive increase in business in the last 13 months?
If not...
mesateacher posted at 6:41 pm on Thu, Aug 30, 2012.
What the Gilbert employee did was wrong. He was hired to do a job that apparently had an agenda to subvert. However, if you want flouride, use a floridated toothpaste. I would prefer my water as natural as possible. The chlorine is obnoxious but easy to filter out.
Mike McClellan posted at 7:15 pm on Thu, Aug 30, 2012.
Regardless of your views on the substance, the town voted for it, pretty overwhelmingly.
The citizens had spoken, and, possibly, an employee decided his view on the substance is more important than the citizens'.
That is scary.
Arizona Willie posted at 7:20 am on Fri, Aug 31, 2012.
Engaged Voter ... having fluoride removed from the water supply would not result in a sudden noticeabel increase in tooth decay.
Fluoride acts over a period of time. It doesn't instantly cure tooth decay the day they start putting it in the water.
And, if I understand the article correctly, the water was previously un-floridated and this guy was supposed to START putting fluoride in and he didn't do it.Since the water had not been floridated -- the absence of fluoride would not show up as an increase in tooth decay anyway, because they people didn't have fluoride in their water anyway.
So their fluoride situation remained the same -- therefore their tooth decay rate would have stayed the same.
These employees decided their wishes trumped the voters.
I bet they are Tea Partiers or Republicans at the least.
We do some strange things in this country.
We employ hispanics as Border Patrol to prevent hispanics from illegally entering the country.We elect a Governor who has only a GED.
We put a guy in charge of fluoridating the water supply whose wife led the campaign AGAINST fluoridization.
Engaged Voter posted at 9:29 am on Fri, Aug 31, 2012.
"Fluoride acts over a period of time. It doesn't instantly cure tooth decay the day they start putting it in the water."
13 months is longer than one day.
"if I understand the article correctly, the water was previously un-floridated and this guy was supposed to START putting fluoride in"
You misunderstood the article - the voter approved fluoride started in 2000, the absence thereof has only been for 13 months.
"These employees decided their wishes trumped the voters."
And they were 100% wrong for doing so. This was not my point.
chatmandu002 posted at 11:11 am on Fri, Aug 31, 2012.
Hey, my teeth look great but all my hair has fallen out........ LOL
Engaged Voter posted at 11:35 am on Fri, Aug 31, 2012.
"Regardless of your views on the substance, the town voted for it, pretty overwhelmingly."
54 percent is not overwhelming.
It is scary that an employee decided his opinion carried more weight than the taxpaying voters. It is also scary that 54% of a population can tell the other 46% what they can or cannot consume.
Sound Orwellian to me.
VofReason posted at 12:39 pm on Fri, Aug 31, 2012.
Wait a minute, a public employee not doing their job. Despite being paid higher than a private counterpart. Despite platinum healthcare and a pension. Knock me over with a feather. Aghast, none of his superiors (likely many, similarly overpaid and benefited) or anyone else figured it out for 13 months. Hmmm, makes you wonder if all those tax dollars we send to city, state and fed are all be used effectively?
smartvoter posted at 5:21 am on Sat, Sep 1, 2012.
I read this article as well and the thing that makes me mad is the town of Gilbert made these employees stay home with pay.
Where I work if you don't do what your told you sit at home un-paid, it's called punishment.
Mike McClellan posted at 9:29 am on Sat, Sep 1, 2012.
Engaged Voter,
An 8 point victory today is considered pretty comfortable, and given the contest back in 2000, when the John Birch Society made a concerted effort to convince Gilbert voters of the mind control influences of fluoride, an 8 point victory's substantial.
Obama got on 52% of the vote, but no one really claimed that was a close election in 2008.
And your Orwell allusion? Not even close. In fact, the allusion itself is Orwellian.
remo303 posted at 9:43 am on Sun, Sep 2, 2012.
Fluoride has been added to public drinking water for decades.
Dentists still keep happily busy filling and treating cavities.
Think much, Mike?
Mike McClellan posted at 10:57 am on Sun, Sep 2, 2012.
remo303, do I "think much"? Well, occasionally, but it hurts if I think too much.
But I do know this: Not everyone get fluoridated water -- only 64% of American communities do. Which means that millions of Americans drink unfluoridated water, yes?
And no one makes the claim that fluoride is a cure all for cavities. Even with fluoridated water, people get cavities.
So, as I think about it, I guess that dentists will continue to treat cavities. And folks like you will continue to create straw men.
Arizona Willie posted at 12:55 pm on Sun, Sep 2, 2012.
Putting fluoride in the water is not a magic cure-all preventive for cavities.People still need to brush their teeth twice a day at a minimum.
It's amazing how many people don't brush.
You'd think the pain of having a cavity filled would teach them a lesson but it doesn't seem to sink in with many people.
Fluoride in the water HELPS prevent cavities -- but it doesn't do it all by itself.Unless people floss and brush religiously, they will get cavities even with fluorided water.
azmesa posted at 7:24 am on Tue, Sep 4, 2012.
The problem with putting flouride in the water supply is the waste it causes and then the environmental impact. Why should water be treated when 95% of it goes on the lawn, down the washing machine, or out the toilet? Put flouride in milk or something else that people eat/drink.