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This Fluoride Fact Friday is going to be salty! Fluoride is an anion similar to chloride and iodide. They are all negatively charged atoms that form useful salts with positively charged sodium. Sodium chloride is the primary salt in table salt, sea salt, and pink Himalayan salt. Sodium iodide is added to iodized salt to … Read more
Did you know? Nearly 2 million people in rural China have skeletal fluorosis from burning coal. Millions of people in rural China cook inside their homes over open stoves using coal that exposes them to all kinds of pollutants, as well as far too much fluoride. Regions such as Shaanxi province, Guizhou, and Eastern Yunnan … Read more
Did you know? Fluoridation has the ADA seal of approval. Community water fluoridation is recommended by the American Dental Association, the largest scientific body for dentists in the U.S. and the same dentists who evaluate whether fluoride toothpastes and mouthwashes meet scientific criteria for the Seal of Acceptance program. That is some important smile science … Read more
Did you know? The benefits of fluoride include less severe cavities. The health benefits of fluoride include having fewer cavities, less severe cavities, less need for fillings and removing teeth, and less pain and suffering because of tooth decay. Did you know? Fluoridated water prevents one of every four cavities. Over our lifetimes, on average, … Read more
Communities in the United States have been drinking fluoridated water for 80 years now. And that fluoridated water prevents cavities at all ages. Even if you’re older than fluoridation! Everyone, from kids to seniors, gets little bits of fluoride remineralizing their enamel throughout the day, when they drink fluoridated water. Light up the truth! We love this … Read more
Fluoride makes your teeth more like shark teeth! Sharks have enamel that is nearly pure fluorapatite. When you drink fluoridated water and brush your teeth with fluoride toothpaste, fluoride remineralizes the cavity-prone carbonated apatite in your teeth and forms a mixture of fluorapatite and hydroxyapatite. Fluoride is the major ion of fluoride which is the … Read more
Is fluoride a hoax? Nope, but it did prove the Piltdown Man skull was a hoax! The longer a fossil is in the ground, the more naturally-occurring fluoride it absorbs from groundwater. This new method of dating fossils was used in 1953 to show that the Piltdown Man skull was not a new species of … Read more