Why does an infant with no teeth need fluoride?
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I was telling my son's dentist that if fluoride works at all to harden teeth, it only works topically, ie. in toothpaste on the tooth surface.
Systemic fluoride in drinking water only does harm.
She couldn't really argue with that.
I think fluoride may damage teeth in any case.
When I was a kid the dentist told my parents that the fluorosis on my teeth was "cavities" and had them filled. I only learned later in life what fluorosis looks like.
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Severe fluorosis can pit teeth and totally jack up the enamel to the point that some teeth have to be restored. In addition, it can make them very brittle. One of the things I am concerned with patients that have fluorosis is the state of their bone health. If it makes teeth brittle, it can make bones brittle.
Since I have stopped using fluoride toothpastes my teeth have improved.
Wow that's interesting! What do you use instead?
I'm guessing baking soda or non-fluoride toothpaste.
I use Tom's and only buy it when it's on sale.
Tom's of Maine was bought out by Colgate over 20 years ago. They slowly have cheapened the raw ingredients in their products. It is not the same company. You are basically paying for a name.
Baking soda is great. It is very low on the abrasion scale and it neutralizes acids - which are the problem. doTerra essential oils makes a toothpaste that is awesome. It has a calcium mineral complex that is closely related to natural tooth minerals in addition to some essential oils formulated for oral health - not toxic fluoride. The key to using a product like this is to clean teeth first with baking soda and then apply a very small amount to the teeth and spit out the excess. Do not rinse the toothpaste off the teeth - good to do at bedtime. It takes about 20 - 30 minutes for teeth to take up minerals. So it does no good to rinse the stuff down the drain. Using just a tiny amount like medicine for your teeth will go a long way.
I buy Tom's of Maine toothpaste too. I live in Japan and up until 20 years ago, Japan used to not allow fluoride in toothpaste, but now it all has it. I order Thom's online. I used to really like the Infowars Super Blue toothpaste with colloidal silver, but that's gone.
They have lots of fluoride free toothpastes.
Natural toothpaste with xylitol, baking soda and plant extracts.
Mine too! I switched to Jason's Whitening Paste. My teeth have never looked better!
And even if it is beneficial to teeth, there wouldn't be any real benefits until the child starts getting permanent teeth.
The permanent teeth are presumably present in the jaw and face bones as tooth buds before they grow, but I think fluoride just harms them if it's taken systemically, just as it weakens bones.
If fluoride hardens permanent teeth then it will be only as a topical application and as you say, only any use after those teeth appear.
If fluoride is penetrating the gums to impact teeth that have not broken through the surface, that inherently shows a potentially negative impact in any amount.
I'm not all on board with the fluoride bad discussion, but it is bad to consume and that's not contested.
There are two ways in which fluoride impacts a tooth - before it erupts, and after. During tooth development, rather than a calcium ion being incorporated into the mineralization of dental structures, a fluoride ion replaces it instead. Fluorine is a very greedy element and it is taken up more readily than the calcium. Therefore, the fluoride becomes part of the actual tooth structure and is intrinsic to the tooth. This is where fluorosis takes place and it is permanent.
The formation of dental structures takes place inside the actual jaw bone and the fluoride gets there systemically. The whole process actually starts before birth - so what a mother takes in also has an impact on this process for a developing baby. Tooth development continues after birth till around the average age of 12. After the tooth structure is complete and a tooth erupts, the only impact fluoride can have on a tooth is topically in the mouth as the enamel is exposed to the oral environment. The fluoride is only able to interact with the enamel surface and not internally within the tooth. Whatever mineralization a tooth possesses before it erupts, is the maximum mineralization the tooth with have. This is why most of the damage that people deal with on their teeth was a process that started in childhood when they could care less about taking care of them. It is basically a downhill process.
Fluoride also is taken up into the bones as well - but no one wants to talk about that. I heard from some older orthopedic surgeons that had been around long enough to notice the changes in their patients that may or may not have been exposed to all the water fluoridation when younger. They told me that they did notice the difference in bone structure and that it was more brittle. They said they had to adjust their techniques to account for these changes when doing procedures like hip and knee replacements. This is an area that some of the younger surgeons may not be as acutely aware of since the bulk of their patients now have all been exposed to fluoridated water. In addition, fluoride does some really nasty things to thyroid function and is not good for gut or brain health. Overall, fluoride is a poison and should not be taken internally.
When I was in grade school in the 80s we did a thing called swish once a week. We had to swish with fluoride for 30 seconds and don’t swallow it!! So I think your theory makes sense. I was raised on well water so I didn’t grow up drinking the city water.
I hated that so much. In the little white cup. So messed up.
The study that they use to prove fluoride efficacy goes something like this:
Select a poverty-stricken community. Introduce a dental hygiene and supply program alonside fluoride treatments.
100% credit fluoride for the reduction in cavities.
Wish that I were kidding about this being the way that they pushed industrial waste into our water supply.
I never considered epidemiological studies as being real science. It is basically someone's opinion as to why one group is different from another with no hard data to back up the assumptions. You are correct in that an entire public health policy that has led to the poisoning of millions of people was based upon these type of assumptions and was motivated by huge financial interests. It was all a lie.