Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle.
The culture wars have a new target: your teeth.
Communities across the U.S. are ending public water fluoridation programs, often spurred by groups that insist that people should decide whether they want the mineral — long proven to fight cavities — added to their water supplies.
The push to flush it from water systems seems to be increasingly fueled by pandemic-related mistrust of government oversteps and misleading claims, experts say, that fluoride is harmful.
“The anti-fluoridation movement gained steam with Covid,” said Dr. Meg Lochary, a pediatric dentist in Union County, North Carolina. “We’ve seen an increase of people who either don’t want fluoride or are skeptical about it.”
There should be no question about the dental benefits of fluoride, Lochary and other experts say. Major public health groups, including the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, support the use of fluoridated water. All cite studies that show it reduces tooth decay by 25%.
i’m still just curious whether that “science” saying that “fluoride bad” is real or not.
Or if fluoride is actually just bad.
Until then i’m not doing anything because politics is probably going to kill me first anyway. No point in making a decision if you aren’t familiar with it i suppose.
My understanding is that there’s no evidence to support the idea that it’s bad for you in this application at these concentrations.
There is evidence to support it being effective at reducing the risk of cavities.
that was also my understanding as well. So far i’ve had little reason to believe anything else.
Although i will say, hexafluroidated uranium is a some fucked up stuff. That’s mostly because it’s a fluoride base though. Fluoride can fuck your shit up apparently.
A little bit will help your teeth, but too much fluoride will kill you. That is true.
But, the levels of fluoride they are talking about are so low that you’d probably die from drinking too much water before the fluoride got you.
Does fluoride bioaccumulate?
checks out, given that’s true for everything.