I’ll have to find the link but flouride in drinking water has been shown to do little, if anything, to affect tooth decay. It also isn’t harmful to our health in concentrations found in tap water. More of a neutral thing than the “flOuRidE Is goNnA cAlCifY yoUr PeeNer GlAnD” that usually gets associated with people saying flouride doesn’t work. Idk what side of that argument the person you responded to is on but it’s not entirely unfounded
Edit: I had it wrong. It’s not that flouride in our water isn’t helpful, it’s just that topical flouride in things like toothpaste is more helpful, so in places where flouride is available in topical products, you won’t see much of a benefit from it.
My buddy moved to Oregon where they don’t add fluoride to the water, and recently saw a dentist. The dentist could immediately tell he was from out of state and advised him he’d have to add supplementary fluoride rinses to his dental hygiene regimen to compensate.
I thought that was pretty cool the dentist could eyeball how impactful fluoride in the drinking water was.
They removed flouride from the water in the backwards antiscience hick province er I mean Alberta and now the rates of oral health issues in kids is much higher
Theres direct evidence that morons choose to ignore
At a time where rural dental care is poor to nonexistent and dental care is usually not covered under health insurance we shouldn’t be promoting MORE tooth decay.
I edited my comment and straight up said I had it wrong. You’re getting upset with the wrong person. Use topical flouride, it works so well that it obscures the benefits of flouride in water. If you’re not gonna use flouridated toothpaste or mouth rinses, then flouridated water is better than nothing
it gets worst , since people also buy into the flouride free toothpaste, usually with or without nHA, and what a surprise the people in the reviews for those toothpaste ends up having bad teeth and still cavities. the people reporting thier "teeth or whiter or fresher attributes to it being nHA or flouride free, but dont account for the amount abrasives and whitening agents in these toothpaste, and since its not really standardized, since theres many different toothpastes flouride free made by different companies, people have reported allergies to it(ulcers or chelitis)
Call me the Aluminium mining industry the way I sneak fluoride into places it may or may not belong depending entirely on your trust of government authorities in capitalism.
It happened. Whether or not you think it was a good thing depends on whether you believe the 1950s US government were corrupt or not. You know, the government that hunted down nazis… to recruit into its own ranks and was bribed into allowing leaded gasoline and sugar industries to do whatever they wanted to the American public while also giving black men syphillis and refusing to treat them while directly lying to them in order to study its effects.
Snuck in flouride there huh.
I’ll have to find the link but flouride in drinking water has been shown to do little, if anything, to affect tooth decay. It also isn’t harmful to our health in concentrations found in tap water. More of a neutral thing than the “flOuRidE Is goNnA cAlCifY yoUr PeeNer GlAnD” that usually gets associated with people saying flouride doesn’t work. Idk what side of that argument the person you responded to is on but it’s not entirely unfounded
Edit: I had it wrong. It’s not that flouride in our water isn’t helpful, it’s just that topical flouride in things like toothpaste is more helpful, so in places where flouride is available in topical products, you won’t see much of a benefit from it.
My buddy moved to Oregon where they don’t add fluoride to the water, and recently saw a dentist. The dentist could immediately tell he was from out of state and advised him he’d have to add supplementary fluoride rinses to his dental hygiene regimen to compensate.
I thought that was pretty cool the dentist could eyeball how impactful fluoride in the drinking water was.
They removed flouride from the water in the backwards antiscience hick province er I mean Alberta and now the rates of oral health issues in kids is much higher
Theres direct evidence that morons choose to ignore
Theyre a simple folk, people of the land
At a time where rural dental care is poor to nonexistent and dental care is usually not covered under health insurance we shouldn’t be promoting MORE tooth decay.
I edited my comment and straight up said I had it wrong. You’re getting upset with the wrong person. Use topical flouride, it works so well that it obscures the benefits of flouride in water. If you’re not gonna use flouridated toothpaste or mouth rinses, then flouridated water is better than nothing
My apologies and I agree with you
it gets worst , since people also buy into the flouride free toothpaste, usually with or without nHA, and what a surprise the people in the reviews for those toothpaste ends up having bad teeth and still cavities. the people reporting thier "teeth or whiter or fresher attributes to it being nHA or flouride free, but dont account for the amount abrasives and whitening agents in these toothpaste, and since its not really standardized, since theres many different toothpastes flouride free made by different companies, people have reported allergies to it(ulcers or chelitis)
Call me the Aluminium mining industry the way I sneak fluoride into places it may or may not belong depending entirely on your trust of government authorities in capitalism.
I actually have you tagged as aluminum mining idiot, and I was wondering why.
Yeah, idiot spreading little known history that is backed by every single historian.
It happened. Whether or not you think it was a good thing depends on whether you believe the 1950s US government were corrupt or not. You know, the government that hunted down nazis… to recruit into its own ranks and was bribed into allowing leaded gasoline and sugar industries to do whatever they wanted to the American public while also giving black men syphillis and refusing to treat them while directly lying to them in order to study its effects.