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We moved to Portland about ten years ago and we really love it here.
When we, our daughter was born we found out soon after she got her first teeth that she
was having dental problems and we found out there was no fluoride in the water.
We were really shocked we never really thought about it before we just kindof assumed that
major cities had fluoride in the water and were surprised that it didn't.
We probably fall into the super-organic, doing things "the Portland way" most of the time,
and our kids don't eat alot of junk food they've never had soda and when she started
at one, at just one, having some decay on her teeth we took her to the dentist and just
the slow decay of these teeth by the time Anouk was 2 years old she had to have surgery to
have her 4 front teeth extracted.
Having a 2 year old have oral surgery is traumatic for the child and even after having four teeth
extracted at two years old she had to have a total of eight crowns on all of her teeth.
I felt we tried everything.
She has xylitol spritz and there are wipes for your teeth and brushing your teeth all
the time, and not eating sugary things or juice or candy, and there wasn't anything
that I could do to really stop this.
That's why I feel like fluoridating the water is so important.
There's a reson we should be doing this there is a reason why so many municipalities do
this: it's because it works, and it's safe, and it helps.
I'm an engineer by training and I run a small business, so any time I make a decision I
tend to do a lot of research. All the bad things we had heard about fluoride,
we just couldn't find any study, any information, any research that showed any validity to the
concerns about health or that it doesn't work.
In fact it was the opposite, that fluoride always helps protect our teeth and there were
absolutely no health risks.
You are harming people by not fluoridating the water.
Without fluoridated water, too many children are going to go through what my child has
already gone through.