Comments on: The fluoride controversy vs. our kids natural teeth

By: yochad

yochad — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:18:37 +0000

you’d only have to take tablets if you didn’t have flouride in your water where i came from. but that’s pretty funny because why would the gov’t care about something trivial like our teeth health except now that i find out, it was obviously because they had nowhere better to dump it. you didn’t see us eating vitamins the gov’t would provide. and the teachers made it seem so important. it’s funny

By: olivia

olivia — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:35:55 +0000

Interesting. Then again the water in the UK is floridated and everyone knows how bad the teeth are there…

It just makes me nervous. If you’re getting it through your water supply and your toothpaste the levels in your body are probably high enough without having the stuff applied to your teeth at the dentist or taking fluoride tablets… especially when the safety levels are so low and its so easy to get fluorisis.

My brother and I grew up with fluoridated water in South Africa. I dont have a single filling or cap to this day, and he had a bunch of them by the time he was a young teen.

By: niqkita

niqkita — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:49:33 +0000

Interesting! when I was little, aged 3-6, we lived in Canada and I remember all the children having very bad teeth, many caps and filings, even I ended up with most of my molars capped before we moved down to California where I barely ever got anymore cavities and my mom always said it was because of the lack of flouride in the water up there. Now I wonder if it wasn’t just bad brushing habits or weak baby teeth?