What is the source of the fluoride in a toothpaste or tooth powder?
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What is Fluoride?
Fluoride is a natural mineral found throughout the earth's crust and widely distributed in nature. Some foods and water supplies contain fluoride.
Fluoride is often added to drinking water to help reduce tooth decay. In the 1930s, researchers found that people who grew up drinking naturally fluoridated water had up to two-thirds fewer cavities than people living in areas without fluoridated water. Studies since then have repeatedly shown that when fluoride is added to a community's water supply, tooth decay decreases. The American Dental Association, the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, among many other organizations, have endorsed the use of fluoride in water supplies because of its effect on tooth decay.
How Does Fluoride Work?
Fluoride helps prevent cavities in two different ways:
Fluoride concentrates in the growing bones and developing teeth of children, helping to harden the enamel on baby and adult teeth before they emerge
Fluoride helps to harden the enamel on adult teeth that have already emerged
Fluoride works during the demineralization and remineralization processes that naturally occur in your mouth.
After you eat, your saliva contains acids that cause demineralization a dissolving of the calcium and phosphorous under the tooth's surface
At other times when your saliva is less acidic it does just the opposite, replenishing the calcium and phosphorous that keep your teeth hard. This process is caused remineralization. When fluoride is present during remineralization, the minerals deposited are harder than they would otherwise be, helping to strengthen your teeth and prevent dissolution during the next demineralization phase
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Smokestacks are where a lot of fluoride comes from.
Very rarely is it sodium fluoride.
It also comes from aluminum mining. Aluminum is one of the worst chemicals to get in the brain and fluoride helps get it there. Aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth but it is tied up in bauxite and has to be extracted using “fluoride”.
Fun Facts: Fluoride does not remineralize the teeth. Saliva remineralizes the teeth. Fluoride works like Bleach with Chlorine. It reacts with and cuts open the cell membrane of bacteria. These bacteria in the mouth are called Streptococcus mutans and they make lactic acid from 6-carbon sugars