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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.

Good teeth are more a result of good nutrition, good brushing habits and a little bit of heredity too.

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.

As a small child, we didn't have fluoride in our water or our toothpaste.

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.

Toothpaste and floride treatments you spit out. There is a special 'baby' toothpaste sold in the stores. I asked my dentist if I should brush my babies teeth with regular kids floride paste or use the special baby paste and he said we should use baby paste because babies do not spit out the toothpaste like older kids and adults. Well, guess what. I DON'T SPIT OUT MY WATER AFTER I DRINK IT, EITHER.

I had fluoride treatment in school as a kid, I brush regularly, floss and visit my dentist every six months. If I had all the money in my hand right now for all the fillings, veneers, root canals and crowns I have had to put in my mouth over the years, I'd go out and pay cash for a new SUV.......

Fluoride and dental hygiene are overhyped in my opinion......... (^/^)