{"id":118623,"date":"2026-10-05T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/?p=118623"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:18:30","slug":"dentistry-instead-of-fake-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/dentistry-instead-of-fake-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentistry instead of Fake Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article class=\"tbfc-article tbfc-dentistry-war\">\n  <style>\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war{\n      --ink:#181818;\n      --muted:#666;\n      --paper:#fffdf8;\n      --accent:#8b1e1e;\n      --soft:#f4eee4;\n      --line:#ddd3c4;\n      max-width:920px;\n      margin:40px auto;\n      padding:clamp(28px,5vw,64px);\n      background:var(--paper);\n      color:var(--ink);\n      font-family:Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif;\n      font-size:20px;\n      line-height:1.72;\n      box-sizing:border-box;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war *{\n      box-sizing:border-box;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war header{\n      margin-bottom:38px;\n      padding-bottom:28px;\n      border-bottom:2px solid var(--ink);\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .kicker{\n      margin:0 0 12px;\n      font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size:13px;\n      font-weight:700;\n      letter-spacing:.12em;\n      text-transform:uppercase;\n      color:var(--accent);\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war h1{\n      margin:0;\n      font-size:clamp(42px,7vw,74px);\n      line-height:.98;\n      letter-spacing:-.045em;\n      font-weight:800;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .standfirst{\n      margin:24px 0 0;\n      max-width:760px;\n      font-size:24px;\n      line-height:1.45;\n      font-weight:700;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war p{\n      margin:0 0 24px;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war h2{\n      margin:54px 0 18px;\n      font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size:26px;\n      line-height:1.15;\n      letter-spacing:-.02em;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .busy{\n      margin:32px 0;\n      font-size:30px;\n      font-weight:800;\n      font-style:italic;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .pull{\n      margin:36px 0;\n      padding:26px 28px;\n      background:var(--soft);\n      border-left:6px solid var(--accent);\n      font-size:27px;\n      line-height:1.38;\n      font-weight:700;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .number{\n      display:block;\n      margin:34px 0;\n      padding:28px;\n      border-top:1px solid var(--line);\n      border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\n      text-align:center;\n      font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .number strong{\n      display:block;\n      font-size:clamp(46px,7vw,72px);\n      line-height:1;\n      letter-spacing:-.05em;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .number span{\n      display:block;\n      margin-top:10px;\n      font-size:15px;\n      color:var(--muted);\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .lofty{\n      padding:26px 0;\n      font-size:23px;\n      font-weight:700;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .ending{\n      margin-top:48px;\n      padding-top:30px;\n      border-top:3px solid var(--ink);\n      font-size:27px;\n      line-height:1.45;\n      font-weight:800;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .sources{\n      margin-top:58px;\n      padding-top:24px;\n      border-top:1px solid var(--line);\n      font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n      font-size:13px;\n      line-height:1.55;\n      color:var(--muted);\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .sources h3{\n      margin:0 0 12px;\n      font-size:14px;\n      color:var(--ink);\n      text-transform:uppercase;\n      letter-spacing:.08em;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .sources ul{\n      margin:0;\n      padding-left:20px;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .sources li{\n      margin-bottom:9px;\n    }\n\n    .tbfc-dentistry-war .sources a{\n      color:var(--accent);\n      text-decoration:none;\n      border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;\n    }\n\n    @media (max-width:640px){\n      .tbfc-dentistry-war{\n        margin:0;\n        padding:28px 20px 40px;\n        font-size:18px;\n      }\n\n      .tbfc-dentistry-war .standfirst{\n        font-size:21px;\n      }\n\n      .tbfc-dentistry-war .pull,\n      .tbfc-dentistry-war .ending{\n        font-size:22px;\n      }\n    }\n  <\/style>\n\n  <header>\n    <p class=\"kicker\">World Ruler Sherika Trott Bailey<\/p>\n    <h1>Dentistry Instead of Fake Wars<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"standfirst\">Put down the fake wars and clean somebody\u2019s teeth.<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <p>I am tired of hearing about another pre-planned nuclear war trying to cover up ineptitude. The ineptitude being: you leaders have no actual plans for your people\u2019s future, so hey, let\u2019s start a war and we won\u2019t have to explain why their lives are no better. Blame it on the war.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Russia this. America that. Iran this. Somebody has a missile. Somebody moved a submarine. Another map. Another general. Another frightened television presenter pointing at red arrows.<\/p>\n\n  <p class=\"busy\">Busy, busy, busy.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Meanwhile somebody has been chewing on one side of their mouth for three years because a tooth hurts. And then leaders tell us there is no work.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"pull\">What do you mean there is no work? Have you looked inside people\u2019s mouths?<\/div>\n\n  <p>In the United States, about <strong>one in five adults aged 20 to 64 has at least one untreated cavity.<\/strong> Among adults who reported needing dental care but not getting it, <strong>80 percent said they could not afford it.<\/strong> More than <strong>70 million Americans<\/strong> were living in federally designated dental-health shortage areas as of March 2026. And there is not even a national minimum adult dental benefit under Medicaid. States decide what adult dental coverage they provide.<\/p>\n\n  <p>But there is no work?<\/p>\n\n  <p>Train people. Train 100 million people to offer basic dentistry for free. Train 200 million. Train 300 million if that is what it takes.<\/p>\n\n  <p>They do not all need to become oral surgeons. Train people to clean teeth, watch gums, recognize trouble early, help children maintain their teeth and send the deeper problems upward. Maintain and prevent better than having to cure all the time.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"number\">\n    <strong>320 million<\/strong>\n    <span>One dental-care person for every 25 people across an eight-billion-person world.<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p>If one dental-care person looked after five families averaging five people each, that is one person for 25 people. Eight billion divided by 25 is 320 million. I am not married to 320 million. I am showing you the scale of useful work sitting right in front of us.<\/p>\n\n  <p>And since Iran is one of the countries everybody wants us staring at now, let us look inside Iranian mouths too. WHO estimated that <strong>33.6 percent of Iranians aged five and older had untreated decay in permanent teeth<\/strong>, and <strong>18 percent of people aged 15 and older had severe periodontal disease<\/strong> in 2019.<\/p>\n\n  <p>There is work. Real work. Useful work. Work that leaves somebody physically better at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n  <p class=\"lofty\">But national leaders want to stay pretending lofty. Geopolitics. Strategic deterrence. Great-power competition. Military posture. Nuclear readiness.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Please. We just want to get our mouths cleaned.<\/p>\n\n  <p>And don\u2019t let me even get started on pernicious toenail fungus. That stuff is so hard to get rid of.<\/p>\n\n  <p>There are mouths to clean, feet to care for, eyes to check, children to help, old people to look after, houses to repair, food to grow and water to manage. Do not tell me there is no work. There is work everywhere. You buffoons just keep looking over ordinary human life because apparently it is not lofty enough for you.<\/p>\n\n  <p class=\"ending\">Iran has mouths. America has mouths. The people supposedly being prepared to kill each other on television would probably both rather get their teeth cleaned. Handle reality.<\/p>\n\n  <section class=\"sources\">\n    <h3>Sources<\/h3>\n    <ul>\n      <li>U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, oral-health facts and untreated tooth decay: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/oral-health\/data-research\/facts-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC Oral Health Facts<\/a>.<\/li>\n      <li>Health Resources and Services Administration, Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.hrsa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HRSA Data<\/a>.<\/li>\n      <li>U.S. Medicaid, adult dental benefits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaid.gov\/medicaid\/benefits\/dental-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medicaid Dental Care<\/a>.<\/li>\n      <li>World Health Organization, Iran oral-health country profile: <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/country-profiles\/oral-health\/oral-health-irn-2022-country-profile.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Iran Oral Health Profile<\/a>.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/section>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"118625\" src=\"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/file_00000000a334820eb65fcb45b30246a6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118625\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"118626\" src=\"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/file_00000000e15c820e934dcda8b66b4d14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118626\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Ruler Sherika Trott Bailey Dentistry Instead of Fake Wars Put down the fake wars and clean somebody\u2019s teeth. 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The ineptitude being: you leaders have no actual plans for your people\u2019s future, so hey, let\u2019s start a war and we&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/dentistry-instead-of-fake-wars\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tbfbkm_featured_url":"","_tbfbkm_featured_mime":"","_tbfbkm_featured_type":"","_tbfbkm_featured_title":"","_tbfbkm_featured_poster_url":"","_tbfbkm_featured_mode":"","_tbfbkm_featured_music_video_url":"","_tbfbkm_featured_music_video_items":[],"_tbfbkm_featured_music_video_slide_duration":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":"","_tbfbkm_featured_dynamic_movie_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-tbu-1drop"],"tbfbkm_featured_media":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118627,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118623\/revisions\/118627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}