Facts About Fluoride

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The Truth about Fluoride
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• What It Does To Your Dental Health

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Beneficial effects of fluoride
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• Fluoride is known to have beneficial effects to
  your teeth. It protects the enamel from the
  corroding effect of toxins excreted bacterial
  activities.

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The strength of your teeth
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• As you grow older, the strength of your teeth
  becomes lower. Finding ways to keep it strong is
  worth the effort.

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Products containing fluoride
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• With many products containing fluoride, it wont
  be hard keeping your dentition strong and
  healthy. How beneficial fluoride really is for
  the teeth? Here are the most known benefits

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Dental Fluoride
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• Fluoride helps strengthen the enamel. It keeps it
  strong and protected from the toxic acids
  released by bacteria after they have digested
  food debris found in the creases of the teeth.

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Fluoride-rich food
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• Fluoride-rich food and supplements are beneficial
  to expectant moms and babies, too.
• When a pregnant mother gets fluoride supplements,
  the forming child inside her will acquire its
  benefits for his pre-forming teeth, but just a
  little.

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Mother that are lactating.
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• When the mother is lactating, the fluoride goes
  to the milk to be taken by the baby. In this
  manner, the baby gets the protective attribute of
  the fluoride for his tiny teeth.

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Deep-well drinking water
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• If you are living in rural areas where deep-well
  is still used for drinking, you can get a lot of
  fluoride benefits from it. Typically, deep-well
  drinking water contains high amounts of fluoride.

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Check your water analyst
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• You have to check it first with the water analyst
  to make sure that the fluoride content does not
  reach toxicity level.
• If the fluoride level is proven to be within the
  beneficial range, it can give you natural teeth
  protection just by drinking your deep-well water.

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Bottled water
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• Bottled water also contains some amount of
  fluoride. Urban drinking water does have some too
  but, not as much as the natural deep-well
  drinking water of the rural areas.

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Fluoride supplements
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• If there is fluoride in the water that your baby
  is getting, then there is usually no need for
  fluoride supplements. Many natural fruit juices
  are also good sources of fluoride.

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Juices available in the supermarkets
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• Keep a keen eye about the juices available in the
  supermarkets. While some are truly natural, most
  of the fruit juices from the shelf have high
  sugar content that do harm the teeth instead of
  protecting it.

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White grape juice
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• Among the common natural fruit juices, white
  grape juice is found to have the highest fluoride
  content.

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Fluoride fortified toothpastes
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• Although fluoride fortified toothpastes are good
  for your dental health, it is not advisable to be
  used for children before reaching 2 years old.

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Children between 2-5
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• For children between 2-5 it is best to use just a
  small amount of fluoridated toothpaste, like the
  size of the head of a match.

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The concentration of fluoride
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• They do not need any more than this, because the
  concentration of fluoride in childrens
  toothpaste is the same as the adults.

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Use your judgment
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• Use your judgment, if your child is 2 or 3 and
  still cant spit out, you may not want to use
  fluoridated toothpaste yet.

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Ingested fluoride
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• Ingested fluoride can cause a condition called
  fluorosis. Fluoride tablets that are prescribed
  by your dentist or pediatrician have best effects
  when taken right before bedtime on an empty
  stomach.

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Chewable fluoride
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• Chewable fluoride supplements should be taken
  after brushing to obtain best results. There are
  controversy on taking fluoride supplements

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Topical fluoride application
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• In United States, there is usually no need for it
  because there is enough fluoride from other
  sources. Topical fluoride application every 6
  months at your dentist is highly recommended.

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Simple and inexpensive

• This is a very simple and inexpensive way to keep
  your teeth and your childs teeth strong and
  protected against cavities.

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Keeping your dentition strong

• Fluoride is one of the elements that keep your
  dentition strong and well-protected from
  bacterial excretions.

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Choosing the right things!

• It can be found in many things that you eat and
  drink every day. Choosing rightly your water,
  food and food supplement for fluoride content
  will make your stronger and in good condition.

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