On 5/12/2013 4:00 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> In article >,
> Pete C. > wrote:
>>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>> If fluoride is (allegedly) so bad why is it added to toothpaste? Why do
>>> they sell fluoride rinses? Why do dentists give fluoride treatments? I
>>> really don't understand the paranoia about fluoride.
>>
>> Have you read the warning not to swallow more than a pea sized amount of
>> fluoride toothpaste? It's on every single tube of fluoride toothpaste
>> since fluoride is highly toxic. If you don't understand the significant
>> difference between topical application of fluoride toothpaste to teeth
>> followed by a rinse, vs. drinking the toxic fluoride (and it's reaction
>> by-products) daily then you need to go back to grade school level
>> science classes.
>
> If you don't understand the difference between 0.7 ppm fluoride
> in drinking water and 1000 ppm fluoride in toothpaste, then you
> need to go ack to grade-school level science classes.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
Yep - if it was THAT bad for you, everyone in Australia who's been
drinking it for 51 years would be dead. Quite clearly, they're not.