for national prosperity. I found this post pretty interesting since a number of my clients are dentists and for the last couple of years they’ve been complaining about slow business. While the recession and the (lack of) recovery certainly has something to do with it, I think they’re in part victims of their own success. Water fluoridation, early care, and self-maintenance are paying off in terms of lower demands for the services of dentists. During the boom times they made it up via aggressive sales of cosmetic services but those have fallen off along with other, related product classes.
Basically, they’re underestimating the long-term effects of demographics coupled with effective public health measures. The pre-fluoridation generation is dying off and the Baby Boomers have healthier teeth.
Possible relationship with the up-tick in the incidence of thyroid cancer is a subject for another time.
General Ripper also has concerns about that fluoridation.
Steve