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Ask TH: What’s your take on flouride?
Flouride is not my first choice.
The way flouride works is that in its ionized form it is highly attracted to phosphate ions in your teeth. Flouride is a smaller ion than calcium, so it goes in your tooth and is tightly packed, meaning it’s harder to unravel the enamel with acids.
Topical flouride, as in toothpaste, is fine in severe cases because it’s usually the last measure to cover rampant decay or hypocalcification (areas where tooth is weak due to lack of calcium). Systemic, as in pill form, definitely not. It has to go through your stomach and blood to get to your teeth. This means flouride as access to bones, nerve and other tissues where we don’t want it to go.
Chitta Chatta with the Green Rapper
The Green Rapper visited Dr. Nammy’s Green Dentistry offices last December and made this fantastically thorough video. Chitta chatta.
