Am I first???
Great. Here in Virginia, the groundwater has large amounts of naturally occurring fluoride.
Am I first???
I smell a lawsuit
my FIL is a dentist and claims that fluoride in toothpaste is good since it is not swallowed. But fluoride in tap water is not effective and may even be bad. This seems to back up his position.
I sure wish we had known years earlier...
I did stop using toothpaste about a year ago, using herbal drops, and never had better dentist reports in my life, about how healthy my gums are, etc. And I had a bad, rotting mouth (TMI) no matter what I did, what I ate, how religious I was about flossing. Night and day when I quit with the poisonous fluoridated toothpaste.
We’ve added flouride to the water since the 60’s.
We have well and septic. Haven’t had a cavity in years; in fact, not since I had to put up with “city” water.
Has the EPA ever done anything right?
You mean the John Birch Society was correct?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=second-thoughts-on-fluoride
“in part by ridiculing opponents such as the right-wing John Birch Society, which called fluoridation a communist plot to poison America.
Imagine that.
It was only much later, at home, when drinking a glass of tap water that I realized what she said. I had a habit of swallowing tap water instead of spitting it out. Therein after followed horrid pregnant mom nightmares where I dreamed the floride that I had been innocently drinking somehow created a mutant baby. I'm still not sure if my baby is okay (He's twelve.)
Anybody else remember when the people who said fluoride was dangerous were derided as nut cases?
"It's the EPA on the phone General Ripper honey, they say you were right all along."
The EPA exists to give jobs to idiots who were fired by McDonalds.
Fluoride can mess with your thyroid by displacing iodine. I filter mine out with an alumina filter.
Not sure about this. All I know is it is another US government agency which may be trying to attain parity with the World’s toothless masses.
i remember when my 17 year old was an infant and his pediatrician found out that we had well water and he gave us a prescription for floride drops for the baby. i went so far as to fill the script. When I was almost ready to give the baby the floride i stopped and thought about what this might do to him. did i trust the government? did i trust that five years down the road they wouldn’t say “oops, its poison.” i threw it away and never used it. glad now that i thought for myself.
“found dental fluorosis – caused by too much fluoride – capable of ... discoloration”
Oh FGS - this is why it came to the attention of the discovering dentist in the 1st place. The irony of people with bad-colored teeth nonetheless having stronger teeth.
Maybe if it’s too much, they should stop the nonsense of saying we should brush twice a day, etc.
I had bad hygiene as a youth. I didn’t get a single cavity until I was 26 - after I started brushing more regularly. I DID always have the advantage of flouridated water.