"This is exactly what I was talking about, Mandrake! The life essence..."
Posted on 01/24/2006 3:11:50 AM PST by nyscof
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..."
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A typical Halloween night haul would put a kid in the hospital with fluoride poisoning.
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?
"Mandrake, did you ever hear of a thing called gay marriage?"
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!
For the past two years, when I take the rugrats to the peditrician, the doctor always ask if we have floridated drinking water. (We do). It would be nice if they were collecting this data to see how many children who drink floridated water get cancer, but I suspect it is more along the lines of, "do you have a gun in your home".
As a small child, we didn't have fluoride in our water or our toothpaste. I must tell you, all the kids I knew had terrible teeth. We would go to the dentist and have five or six cavaties every time. After the fluoride treatments, our teeth were much better. Of course, you could use fluoride toothpaste as well. I am older now and my teeth are still good. One woman would not let her kids have fluroide at all-bottled water etc. The kids teeth are terrible, they will need a complete bridge by 21.
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.
I was glad about that and also bought fluoride FREE tooth paste.
Never took the dentist up on his suggestion tht they get fluoride rinses either.
Just never was comfortable with the so called scientific data on how good fluoride was for your children's teeth.
My children never had fluoride in their drinking water or fluoride toothpaste.
My son, now 31 yrs. old has never had a cavity.
The daughter in her late 20s has two fillings.
Nowadays, every mass-market toothpaste has the same concentration of fluoride, so anyone who brushes his teeth gets a dose each time and the benefit of fluoridated water would be reduced compared to when fluoride toothpastes weren't widely used.
If children still don't get enough fluoride, perhaps the city governments should encourage children to brush their teeth with toothpaste once more each day (perhaps after lunch at school/home, which would be a good habit to instill anyway), instead of fluoridating all the water supplies that everyone must use. Or, they could encourage the FDA to allow the sale of fluoride supplements that some parents buy for their children with a prescription or to raise the limit on fluoride concentration in toothpaste or mouthwash so people can still control their exposure.
Fluoridating all water might not be so good for people who drink water in excess. A friend of a friend drinks 48 cups of water a day (six times the recommended minimum eight cups), and she doesn't even exercise much, so she and many people who exercise would be exposed to significantly more fluoride than most people if her water were fluoridated.
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'!
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