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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