Visitor creator Johnny Johnson, Jr., DMD, MS is a Pediatric Dentist in Pinellas County, Florida. He’s a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and present President of the American Fluoridation Society.
At the night time of Monday June 10, 2024, nestled subsequent to different comfortable communities in Central Florida, the Town of Leesburg, inhabitants 50,000, voted to begin fluoridation of their group.
After a work of kit had long past unhealthy twenty years in the past, the verdict used to be made in 2004 to discontinue fluoridation. As in lots of different communities, this horse rode off into the sundown with out the group being conscious about it.
Dr. Chris Wollenschlaeger, a second-generation orthodontist, informed the tale of ways his father started noticing that he used to be seeing an increasing number of cavities across the brackets. Chris’s dad sniffed out the issue. He went to the water gadget’s Shopper Self assurance Experiences and found out that fluoridation had ceased. This spark off an effort via native dentists to reinstate fluoridation.
On June 10, the Leesburg Town Fee voted 5-0 to transport ahead with ordering and putting in the important apparatus. This used to be the ultimate step in a procedure that spanned two town councils. (Underneath the make-up of a kind of councils, the pause button have been hit.) Now, then again, during the efforts of Drs. Wollenschlaeger , Wade Winker, Summer time Younger, Don Ilka, and Alan Hays, this feat used to be achieved. The skilled preparation and execution in their testimony sealed the unsure deal. What seemed to be a imaginable vote of 3-2 became a unanimous victory. (A commissioner who used to be firstly antagonistic modified their vote because of this.)
The water division anticipates that it’ll take about six months to get it up and operating. Present and long run citizens of Leesburg can look ahead to profiting from prevention of dental illness simply by filling their glasses from the faucet. Hip hip hooray for the better just right.