"This is exactly what I was talking about, Mandrake! The life essence..."
WOW !!!
Seriously though, I've never understood the concept of adding flouride to water to prevent tooth decay.
Why not leave the water alone and add flouride to sugar?
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"This is exactly what I was talking about, Mandrake! The life essence..."
Excellent news! Next up - chlorine.
It occurred to me the other day that perhaps Floride is effective as a decay-preventive toothpaste because the residue prevents the growth of bacteria on your toothbrush. If so, the same effect could be achieved through the use of Barbicide or some other sanitizing agent.
Wouldn't that be a kick in the teeth?
Finally this is gaining traction! As a school nurse, I used to have to provide this rinse to my kids. I refused, so the dental clinic had to find a volunteer to do it!
We get enough Flouride in our toothpaste. This is over kill. We grew up with well water. We used Crest and had NO problems. There are problems with over kill of Flouride.
THere is no Flouride in the water in the UK.
And just look at their lovely smiles.
Chappie, as he was known, grew up on a ranch west of San Antonio and began dipping snuff when he was 12! He always carried a coffee can and had his tin of snuff in his shirt. He had this ritual when he was going to "dip". He would extract the tin from his shirt, drum his fingers on it, bang it against his elbows, knees and then toss it in the air. It would land in his hand and he would pop the lid, pinch the snuff and place it between his lip and teeth. Quite the display.
One night we were talking about his snuff usage and he said that every year when he was home in San Antonio he would schedule his physical, (he was 72) at Brooks Hospital! He said that his condition amazed the dentists since he had never had a cavity and the docs attributed it to the tobacco juice!
Go figger!
'Course I wouldn't want my daughter dippin'!
I got a study from my state a couple of years ago. I forget the exact numbers right now, but approx. half of the counties in the state had more flouride naturally occuring in the groundwater than is added artificially in other places. There were a couple of counties that had high enough flouride to cause stained teeth. It makes me wonder about the all the fuss.
Does this mean the left has inherited the ancient fluoride issue? Will we see Greenpeace start bombing water purification plants?
We have well water and my pediatrician asked if we wanted to get flouride drops 4 years ago. I said no. Now the dentist is after us. I have been telling them no too. Thank goodness I researched this earlier, but it is always nice to get confirmation of the decision, this is overwhelming though.
Sounds like a good basis for a Monty Python skit involving roving gangs of dentists.
"But the politics of organized dentistry keeps fluoridated water flowing."
Behold, DENTISTS, the source of all evil!
LOL
John Birchers and Greenpeacers: Dodos of a feather.
I question the use of fluoride in the water, simply because there is little contact time with the teeth, and significantly more with other tissues.
That is, it's true that overconsumption of fluoride is detrimental. No one disputes that. However in areas where there is no naturally occurring fluoride, there are positive effects to adding fluoride that greatly outweigh any (diminished) negative effects.
On a more personal note, my father is a dentist and I take it as a rather personal insult that by extension, my father must be engaged in a "commie conspiracy" by advocating water fluoridation. I'm just happy that FR is so large, we actually have some other dentists that come to such threads, and debunk such myths.
It's issues like these, issues that reject science because science isn't understood by the layman, that are an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere. It's the same objection I have to the "intelligent design/creation" foolishness that's headlining in recent news. Not an attempt to hijack the thread into that debate, but rather to point out that not all science is "evil", nor, just because the average person doesn't understand it, doesn't mean it should be rejected.