May
20
2025
Academia Links Guns to Tooth Decay
The liberal establishment is getting desperate in its attempts to persuade us to surrender our right of self-defense. A recent peer-reviewed paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine links guns to tooth decay:

Increases in firearm violence were associated with lower dental care utilization and higher rates of edentulism. A 1-shooting increase corresponded to a 0.01% reduction in dental care utilization and a 0.06% increase in edentulism the following year.

“Edentulism” means your teeth rotted right out of your mouth from buying too much candy with your EBT card.

Neighborhoods experiencing higher levels of firearm violence face disparities in dental care and oral health, highlighting firearm violence as a social determinant of oral health.

As an interim solution, until guns can be banned,

Interventions such as mobile dental clinics and integrating dental care into violence intervention programs could mitigate disparities in dental care access and oral health in communities affected by firearm violence.

Mike McDaniel picks it up from there:

And of course, it will be law-abiding, non-violent taxpayers who will have to shoulder the financial burden of “interventions” that might slightly raise the overall level of dental health in really bad neighborhoods, but do nothing whatever to lower the level of violence not committed by guns, but by people wielding the guns they’ve stolen or bought on the black market. One wonders how many taxpayer dollars paid for this pre-ordained result from Rutgers “scientists?”

The study acknowledges funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, which is part of the voracious maw known as the National Institutes of Health.

Only if someone shoots their mouth off....

I eat more ice cream in the summer. So I guess eating ice cream makes it hot out.

The real correlation with both occurrences is race.

Keith

Or, they can put the miscreants in jail.....where there's free dental.

“Edentulism” means your teeth rotted right out of your mouth from buying too much candy or crack with your ebt card.

Fixed it for ya.

Sarge

The only disparity here is the lack of the victims having any sense about watching and learning what's going on around them !!

People now days need to know what's happening and not be so freaking gullible, ignorant and closed eyed to what's going on around them, they might then be able to protect them selves and others from actions that seem to just {happen} all of a sudden !!