Posted on 01/21/2006 7:38:53 PM PST by BlueSky194
A two-year study in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Dentistry found that CaviStat, a calcium/arginine-based product, was more effective than fluoride in fighting tooth decay when used in toothpaste form. The study, involving 726 children, found the group using CaviStat had 58 percent fewer cavities than those using over-the-counter fluoride toothpaste.
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I have used DenClude toothpaste. I find it very harsh and irritating, and only use it occasionally now. Arginine has a very high pH.
Xylitol (gum, mints, toothpaste, etc.)is very effective in preventing tooth decay. Xylitol plus fluoride (toothpaste)is even better, just don't swallow the fluoride.
Fluoride is ok in toothpaste but not in the water supply.
Fun HF stories:
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Equip/HFfacts12.pdf
Thanks. I've never had a heart attack (that I know of), but I wonder how much difference my 3grams and their 9grams makes.
There are toothpaste's in health food stores that dont have fluoride in them.
I know Nature's Gate makes these Toothpastes with no fluoride in them.
The incredients are pretty impresive in the Nature's gate.
Free Calcium, Calcium Carbonate, sea kelp, Carrot Root, Vitamin C, etc.
Yeah. What they don't tell you is that HF feels just like water. It grabs the calcium so quickly that it deadens the pain nerves. You don't really feel it until it soaks all the way to the bone.
Charming stuff.
Months after one of my exposures to HF (In this case I ended up in the middle of a redish brown cloud of reaction byproducts from an 1:1:1 HF-Nitric-Acetic spill) my dentst said How did you get fluoride stains on your teeth?!?!??
Like the article says, you can't use it to remove decay on teeth that already have fillings in them. For example, if you have recurrent decay around a filling, you will need to have the filling drilled out the traditional way. Lasars have many wonderful applications, but most dentists around here are too frugal or don't have the high production to make using a lasar economically feasible for them.
I used some of it in college and no one gave any warnings other than that we should use rubber gloves and don't spill any of it on us. I poured some into a teflon cup and used a glass dropper to apply it to what I was doing. I left it sit and when I cam back, half of the dropper was gone.
This was back in the late 60s so I imagine they are a LOT more careful now. I hope. The stories about people spilling it on their legs and dying a few hours later is scary.
The types of fluoride used for dental purposes are usually sodium fluoride or stannous fluoride, NOT HF (hydrofluoric acid).
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