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I have to share more information on my experience with prevention of cavities.

This is why I am not completely on the side of “avoid fluoride like the plague” 

Even though I grew up in a family of dentists, that did not prevent me from having tooth decay.  I had many cavities filled with mercury amalgams. 

Many of the dentists in my family had dental work done in their own mouths, with metal bridges and frames. 

When I was in college, I wanted to prevent cavities on my sister who is 9 years younger than me. 

I got to experience how my little sister (who I took to my college as my guinea pig to fill out my Prevention Clinic school requirements), got NO cavities due to prevention education and from the benefits of topical application of fluoride.

She has never had a cavity and she is now 37. Note that it is no secret, all my family has gut dysbiosis. Antibiotics were and still are in some areas widely used and are sold over the counter in pharmacies in México. My point is when good oral microbes don’t exist, people are prone to cavities and fluoride can make a difference in their prevention.

Also, I saw prevention of cavities in all young patients treated with fluoride and prevention education. 

Being saved from cavities, prevented them from being subject to mercury amalgams and all other metals, plastics, and chemicals used to repair a tooth with cavities. 

Fluoride is one of the most unstable elements in the periodic table. It latches to calcium in apatite, the mineral in tooth enamel. It latches so strongly that it forms a compound called fluorapatite, and it is stronger than appatite alone. 

Fluorapatite is best formed when teeth are mineralized at a young age and we did not have further standard recommendations for fluoride applications in adulthood. 

Now it’s speculated that it also makes adult teeth stronger because it binds strongly to calcium. This is why they add it to toothpaste but these studies also strongly advise fluoridated water. I suggest against this, there should be plenty of natural sources of fluorine in a healthy diet. 

Some researchers and doctors advise against all fluoride. This quote comes from Harvard Medical.

“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain,” Grandjean says. “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brainpower of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”

Some naturopaths feel very strongly about avoiding all kinds of fluoride and with good scientific reason. But also, as I said, it is about the benefits and pitfalls of using or not using fluoride. It’s about the timing and frequency and also the careful application. 

My opinion

When I was seeing patients in the dental clinic (a long time ago), application of fluoride was only recommended as a protocol of four applications during permanent teeth development time. 

No more fluoride applications after this time were necessary. More applications did not show substantial benefit in comparison to brushing and flossing daily and  implementation of a balanced diet without excessive amount of sugar and carbohydrates. 

We only applied topical fluoride to the surface of the teeth in varnish form with a brush, maintaining a dry surface area. Some fluoride maybe is still swallowed with this careful procedure but the doses of fluoride can’t be compared with drinking fluorinated water every day. Eventhough the ratios of fluoride in water are .7 parts per million, water is a constant source of unnaturally ingested fluoride. Also research shows that safe amounts of fluoride in water is at the .3 parts per million, not .7 parts per million.

In my opinion no amounts of fluoride should be added to water or toothpaste. Fluorine should come from organic food only. Some pesticides are fluorinated pesticides. 

This is what I did for my kids especially I needed to prevent cavities on permanent teeth on my son with cavities in baby teeth.

I followed fluoride applications only at the dentist in the form of topical gel. I asked the dentist to be careful, so they did not swallow the gel too much.

I asked for dry surface area using cotton around the application of fluorine. 

I stopped giving fluorine tablets

I don’t buy toothpaste with fluorine (except nobody really worries about my advice at home, so kids still brush with fluoridated toothpaste now and again when my toothpaste runs low).

Toothpaste is scary high in fluoride. “The most commonly used dental products, toothpastes, contain 900-1,100 ppm fluoride (ca. 0.10%), most often as sodium fluoride. If you swallow these products, you will be exposed to higher levels of fluoride. Swallowing toothpaste can account for a large percentage of the fluoride to which a child <8 years of age might be exposed. The Food and Drug Administration requires that toothpaste tubes be labeled with instructions to minimize ingestion of fluoride by children including the use of a “pea-sized” amount of paste and parental supervision of brushing”

I have a double filtration system in my house that filters fluoride. 

I trust foods as a natural way of obtaining fluorine in nature smart ways.

I work on their microbiome to address bone and mineral deficiencies. Two of my boys have very mild scoliosis. And I have bone issues, too (this is from a lack of microbiome).

In short I would skip all further fluoride encounters of all types. I have not had a fluoride application in about 25 years and I keep my teeth healthy by removing biofilms at least before every 24 hours (this is the time when bacteria in biofilm start secreting strong acids). Floss and brush

Another critical part of my oral health prevention routine is probiotics. Some probiotics I recommend to all and some after sensitivities to streptococci are addressed.

One amazing piece I discovered about my oral health was after gentle chelation of heavy metals therapy.

My breath is fresher longer. My tongue and oral tissues look healthier (I couldn’t achieve anything like this with the amount of dental studies, neither with probiotics).

You may follow my path if this is what you think would be best for you with the sources of information given.

All the best microbiome,

Adri.

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