The city commission placed the issue of water Fluoridation on the May ballot, Health Commissioner Charles Patterson said, who visited Exchange at the Wittenberg Student Center Tuesday Aug 28, 2018 at our regularly scheduled Noon meeting. About 85 percent of Ohio residents have access to fluoridated water. Springfield is the largest of 22 Ohio cities without fluoridated water, he said.
A report from the state health department says seven of the 11 worst counties for children’s oral health in 2012 were located in Applachia, he said. Clark County is among the other four counties, including Fayette, Knox and Marion counties.
In 2015, the No. 1 complaint among patients at the Springfield Regional Medical Center emergency room was oral health pain, Patterson said.“That’s why we do surveys because that’s not what we would’ve guessed,” he said.
