do you think we still need fluoride added to our drinking water?

[vash]

it's in our toothpaste.

was it introduced into our water because people didnt brush, or because toothpaste didnt have fluoride in it in the past?

sorry, slow news day here.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I'd rather just have water personally. Every good health idea today has side effects 30 years from now. I already brush my teeth, I don't need the government trying to take care of them for me.

[M.D. Holloway]

Is it required by the government ? Who drinks tap water anymore ? Won't boiling it drive it out? I can see chlorine to kill bugs but it it's not required then by cutting it a town could save some money.

[Flieger]

Hey, Lubey I for one drink tap water.

I'm not afraid of no commie Fluoride.

[aschen]

I drink tap water almost exclusively

[look 171]

I drink tap water too. Now I know why I am so damn fat and dumb.

Whos the water guy here? I forgot.

[rusnak]

Fluoride in tap water has offered the single biggest public health benefit for it's cost since the advent of sanitary sewers. Preventing tooth decay and gum disease also benefits the health of every organ in your body, since the mouth is the gateway to infections and bacteria in your bloodstream.

[Nostril Cheese]

No flouride here. Our tap water is amazingly clean and tastes good.

[aigel]

Tooth paste doesn't have high enough concentration to make a difference where it matters. It matters in kids ... while your teeth grow - after age 12, not so much.

Most water districts don't use it any more. Check with your water district - it is likely they don't use it.

Lubey - I thought you were a chemist? The fluoride will stay in the water just like sodium. If you want to use boiling to remove it you have to catch the steam and cool it down ... distilled water. Also, you get a lot of your tap water into your body through hot drinks and boiled foods.

IMHO it should be everyone's own responsibility to medicate their kids at the tooth growing age. Let's not medicate the entire population life long, including pets etc. If the water district has it, I drink it, but I'd rather not.

G

[Chocaholic]

Well water here. Tastes great.

[jyl]

Portland is one of the few major (sort of) cities in the US that does not flouridate its water. When I moved here and went to my first Portland dentist, she looked at my X rays and immediately said "I can tell you're not from here". She told me the difference between the teeth of people who grew up in Portland, without fluoridated water, and people who grew up elsewhere, with fluoridated water, is very obvious to her. No, the Portland natives don't have better teeth.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by jyl

When I moved here and went to my first Portland dentist, she looked at my X rays and immediately said "I can tell you're not from here".

It wasn't the x-rays that gave you away as a non-Portland-native; it was the lack of a flannel shirt, hipster beard, and body odor.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by aigel

Tooth paste doesn't have high enough concentration to make a difference where it matters. It matters in kids ... while your teeth grow - after age 12, not so much.

Most water districts don't use it any more. Check with your water district - it is likely they don't use it.

Lubey - I thought you were a chemist? The fluoride will stay in the water just like sodium. If you want to use boiling to remove it you have to catch the steam and cool it down ... distilled water. Also, you get a lot of your tap water into your body through hot drinks and boiled foods.

IMHO it should be everyone's own responsibility to medicate their kids at the tooth growing age. Let's not medicate the entire population life long, including pets etc. If the water district has it, I drink it, but I'd rather not.

G

Yup, your right - the fluorine is in a salt state so boiling it won't remove it. It was late and I was half asleep.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by jyl

Portland is one of the few major (sort of) cities in the US that does not flouridate its water. When I moved here and went to my first Portland dentist, she looked at my X rays and immediately said "I can tell you're not from here". She told me the difference between the teeth of people who grew up in Portland, without fluoridated water, and people who grew up elsewhere, with fluoridated water, is very obvious to her. No, the Portland natives don't have better teeth.

I believe it, my question is what other impacts fluoride has on your body? The medical community has the bad habit of pushing treatments or drugs, only to discover 30 years later that there is an unfortunate side effect.

[biosurfer1]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I believe it, my question is what other impacts fluoride has on your body? The medical community has the bad habit of pushing treatments or drugs, only to discover 30 years later that there is an unfortunate side effect.

Well if that's the case, the unfortunate side effect should have been found 40+ years ago since they started water fluoridation in the 1940's.

[pksystems]

Should I disregard the warnings to not swallow toothpaste then?

You want the fluoride on your teeth, not getting absorbed into your body.

[vash]

Is it the soaking if the teeth as the water is flowing by? Or ingesting it?

Super interesting. I drink tap water. Hate plastic bottle litter. I never think abut fluoride.

[cashflyer]

How is the government supposed to keep us controlled if they don't put the fluoride in the water?

The Use Of Flouridation For Mass Mind Control

http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/environmental_risks/docs/scher_o_122.pdf

[sck007]

My daughter just had her 18mos checkup a few weeks back. Wife told pediatrician she needed to check her teeth since they were a little brownish. None of our other girls had that issue at the same age. Doctor recommended that we start giving her some tap water.

[scottmandue]

I can't confirm or deny but a dentist told me you teeth stop absorbing fluoride around age 18.