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- Some Amish adults do have all their teeth pulled and replaced with dentures, often young. The reason is cost and the absence of insurance, not religion.
- Most Amish churches discourage commercial insurance and meet medical costs through church aid funds. That suits a catastrophe and suits a slow accumulation of cavities badly.
- A study of 210 Amish children in Geauga County, Ohio (Heima, Harrison and Milgrom, 2017) found over 88% with untreated decay and only 11 cavity-free; 54 had never had any dental treatment.
- Among ages 3-5, decay prevalence was 88.6% against roughly 20% nationally — yet 87.7% of parents rated their children’s oral health as good or very good.
- Most who have teeth removed see a licensed dentist. Practice varies enormously across more than two thousand church districts; there is no single Amish rule.
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Sources: Heima M, Harrison MA, Milgrom P, “Oral health and medical conditions among Amish children,” Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry 9(3), March 2017, e338-e343 (210 children, Geauga County, Ohio, May 2011 to May 2012). Scripture quotations referenced from the NIV via BibleGateway (Galatians 6:2; 2 Corinthians 6:14). Descriptions of Amish mutual-aid arrangements and the variation between settlements follow standard accounts of Old Order practice.
