Fluoride, use it? Yes, no, or maybe so
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Daniel, the fact that you have a prescription for fluoride toothpaste may mean that your dentist believes you have a condition that necessitates MORE fluoride content than is allowed in over-the-counter toothpaste. For a time, I was using it when I experienced acid reflux.
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I buy fluoride toothpaste, no script needed.
It’s in my water.
I did a quick check and it looks like all the places I lived in the US for more than a year since moving to upstate New York for high school had fluoridated water. Where I was born did too (TX). But from age 2 to 14 (OH, FL) it wasn’t. That was probably the more important time to have it. Lol.
I buy fluoride toothpaste, no script needed.
It’s in my water.
I did a quick check and it looks like all the places I lived in the US for more than a year since moving to upstate New York for high school had fluoridated water. Where I was born did too (TX). But from age 2 to 14 (OH, FL) it wasn’t. That was probably the more important time to have it. Lol.
@jon-nyc I'm seriously considering it because I have two previous cavities that didn't filled because I missed an appointment. I had to start the process again and I have 3 new cavities.
Also demineralization.
They only have time do do 1 or 2 per appointment.
So I have to go to get cavities filled 3x in a row.
Then it it will be time for a 6 month cleaning.
So 4 more appointments within six months.
Yikes.
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Daniel, the fact that you have a prescription for fluoride toothpaste may mean that your dentist believes you have a condition that necessitates MORE fluoride content than is allowed in over-the-counter toothpaste. For a time, I was using it when I experienced acid reflux.
Daniel, the fact that you have a prescription for fluoride toothpaste may mean that your dentist believes you have a condition that necessitates MORE fluoride content than is allowed in over-the-counter toothpaste. For a time, I was using it when I experienced acid reflux.
Joe, This makes sense.
Please clarify? How was your floride use related to your acid reflux if at all?
'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik
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Fluoride reduces the need for dental treatment. The rest is debated.
At our ages I'd be more concerned with enamel loss and gums receding.
Careful brushing with electric toothbrushes helps reduce the latter.Enamel erosion can possibly be helped by some rather pricey toothpastes like Bioniq.
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I've come to the same conclusion. At our age...
I want an electric toothbrush, with rotating round heads, and definitely plan to buy one.
In the meantime I just bought some brand name ones like the one the dentist gave me- Colgate- to replace the generic ones I've been using for years- Walmart Equate- because the free one was worked so much better. Very nice.
The generic ones- Soft-was too soft, the bristles were too small, and they fell out in your teeth.
Not Elizabeth I bad but not good. The worst quality toothbrushs
So the new ones are in the mail. I have plenty of the cheap ones. I'll put them in a zip lock bag and use them for house cleaning.
TANGENT
OMG. The strangest thing just happened.
UPS delivered a Christmas present to me from "Secret Santa".
One of those 3D theater type boxes that has a light you can turn on, with a Christmas theme of white deer in a white snow covered forest.
Love it. Wouldn't have bought it.
The package was addressed to my address, and the unfamiliar name must belong to (or probably) the owner who lived here before the couple I bought the place from. It might be a gift someone sent "my" previous owners.
Either way- delightful!
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I've always been pretty firmly convinced that fluoride was a net positive. More importantly, I think it's what scientists in the field think.
There's no effort involved in buying toothpaste with fluoride, which I've always done. Like Jon, I lived in a household with unfluoridated water during the key years--age 3 to 17 for me--and this has surely contributed to my current situation: healthy teeth and gums, but not-great enamel.
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I was told when I was young that I must have a natural immunity to cavities. I only every had one or two in my entire life and they were so small that they required no novocaine to fill. That was when I was about 18 years old and had a serious addiction to Mountain Dew and other sugary drinks.
I still use fluoride toothpaste. I floss daily and don't really care about whitening. As long as they are functional I hope to keep my natural teeth until my skeleton turns to dust. Some of my siblings were not so lucky with my one sister having a cavity in every tooth she ever produced, an untold number of root canals, and now permanent implants. My older brother has a full set of dentures, etc. My grandmother and father had dentures. My mother had her natural teeth for her entire 90 year life.
Use the fluoride.
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@mary-anna Interesting!
@mark I will!
I have no root canals or anything like that (and thanks be to God I never got cosmetic work, because it falls apart at 20 years, and would have done).
But this was the worst dentist evaluation appointment I've had by a mile.
2 cavities I knew about, 3 more in the space of 1 year, and never before spots where the reverse of mineralization has happened.
In 1 year. Yikes.
Aging FTW.
I'll die with my natural teeth, and I plan to do everything I can (on a timely basis now) to keep them sealed, not rotting, and clean.
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Daniel, the fact that you have a prescription for fluoride toothpaste may mean that your dentist believes you have a condition that necessitates MORE fluoride content than is allowed in over-the-counter toothpaste. For a time, I was using it when I experienced acid reflux.
Joe, This makes sense.
Please clarify? How was your floride use related to your acid reflux if at all?
Please clarify? How was your floride use related to your acid reflux if at all?
Acid reflux —> acid “overflows” back up to your mouth in your sleep —> acid soaking some of your back teeth —> wears down the enamel of those teeth —> fluoride helps your keep more of your enamel in that situation
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