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Comment by amazingamazing

8 months ago

why would you want this? brush your teeth or swish with high concentration fluoride mouthwash. there's actually no benefit of ingesting fluoridated water. any benefit is simply incidental since it must touch your teeth down the hatch. don't take my word for it - go read the papers yourself, they all say as much. Or to put it another way, would pumping fluoride to your stomach help your teeth? I hope you know the answer.

literally every toothpaste in the united states explicitly says to spit, not swallow. there's a reason for that.

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status_quo69  8 months ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2925001/

Not everyone has impeccable brushing habits and reducing cavities is a net benefit to public health like sanitation departments. I would be more interested to see a source as to why you think there's no benefit to fluorinated water when there are studies that are a quick search away for fluorinated water.

  • amazingamazing  8 months ago

    > reducing cavities is a net benefit to public health like sanitation departments

    what is the connection between reducing cavities and sanitation departments? cavities are not communicable.

    Also, the paper you linked is my point. there's no actual benefit of ingestion. the effect is purely incidental. it's more effective to apply fluoride to the teeth. nowhere does it actually explain that drinking it is what is beneficial. the difference in the incidence of caries is because by fluoridating the water it obviously will touch teeth, which has well known positive effects.

    the main conclusion of the paper is what everyone should hopefully know already - brush your teeth regularly with fluoride toothpaste.

    out of curiosity, would you be OK with vitamins being added to the water? most people are deficient in many.