They did the same thing here in Florida. Every member of the county commission who voted to remove the fluoride was replaced in November, and the Fluoride was just recently added back. I guess I just don’t care either way.
There’s really no point if you take halfway decent care of your teeth. I’ve never lived in town or had fluoridated water and I’ve got better teeth than most people my age.
“Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.”
-General Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove(1964)
When I moved out into the country and we had well water, I started getting more cavities, until I realized what the problem was and started rinsing with flouride at night.
That seems to have fixed it. You don’t need flouride in the water if you use the right kind of flouridated toothpaste, and rinse at night.
But since a lot of people probably won’t do this, it makes sense to add it to the water, IMHO.
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How d’ya remove something invisible from water? Boil it?
Fluoridated water is of no benefit to adults. Fluoride in the water only benefits children, whose teeth are still forming. I grew up in a non-fluoridated area. Parents could get fluoride supplements and give them to their children if they wanted. In my 26 years as a dental hygienist, I’ve found that lots of kids get too much fluoride in their system, not from the fluoride in the water, but from accidentally ingesting toothpaste. If an adult wants the decay preventing benefits of fluoride, get a TOPICAL fluoride treatment after your dental cleaning. Or else, get a prescription strength fluoride rinse or brush-on paste. Supervise children carefully when they brush. The toothbrush only needs a pea-sized dab of toothpaste. Another thing that helps prevent cavities is to floss your child’s teeth. Kids generally don’t have the manual dexterity to floss their own teeth until about the age of 9. If you are adamant about minimizing your child’s fluoride exposure, good oral hygiene is a must!
If you think fluoride is important for your kid’s teeth (I do) then go to the dentist and get fluoride treatments. They are not that expensive.
I do hope they keep pasteurizing it, though.
Canadians should vote to add Windsor to their water.
50 years ago putting in the water may have been the most efficient way to get the dental benefits of fluoride. Not any more. There are better, more effective, more efficient ways to distribute it.
I live in Windsor as well. I think we have some of the best tasting water anywhere. They run that stuff through like a trillion spaghetti strainers...seems to work.
What about Chlorine in public water? Is that not worse then fluoride?
Anyway, from 1972 until I left the US in 2000, I had nothing but pure well water with NO chemicals at all.
Fluoridegate - the film that will absolutely obliterate any remaining credibility of chemical fluoride pushers
http://www.naturalnews.com/038888_Fluoridegate_water_fluoridation_documentary.html
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