This report fails to report the obvious. Are any of these grading measures actually reducing tooth decay

e.g., South Carolina got an "A" but ranks 31 in tooth loss of those over 65 (Utah ranks #2 but got a "D") and ranks 37 in those who have lost 6 or more teeth due to decay or gum disease.(Utah ranks #1, the best)

In Connecticut which received an A, fluoridation is state-mandated. Yet a 2007 survey of Connecticut schoolchildren found that 31% of children in Head Start aged 2-4 have already experienced tooth decay and that 14% of those children had 5 or more teeth decayed or missing from decay. By Kindergarten, more than one in four children have experienced dental decay, 16% of which have untreated decay

In New York State, county data shows that tooth decay is lowest in the NON-fluoridated counties. Nation-wide, tooth loss is highest in the most fluoridated states.

These uncomfortable facts are being ignored. Rotten diets make rotten teeth. Healthy foods must be subsidized or poor kids fed for free. Fluoridation wastes money that would be better spent filling cavities and repairing bombed out teeth that fluoride has never been able to prevent.

If the first solution is too much government, then so is fluoridation which is wasting tax payers money with no benefit to the tax payer.