I'm wondering if you give flouride tablets to your kids and what kind you use? I've been giving my kids the pediatrician recommended Multi-vitamin with Flouride for years and then at the dentist today, she seemed to think those were only for kids under three. My kids are 7 and 9. The dentist prescribes straight flouride tablets called Flor-Dac that the kids chew before bed apparently.
I'm trying to decide if we should switch to straight Flor-Dac tablets or what. Our area has no flouride in the water.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice. I also don't mind hearing from those who have decided against flouride all together. I'm on the fence, but since my son has serious genetic enamel issues, we have decided to do flouride.
Thanks for all of this information. I appreciate the links and opinions. I'll check them all out and make an informed decision. We've been told the kids are great brushers and flossers, so I might go without flouride after my son has his enamel issue fixed this month. We'll see what the Ped Dentist thinks when she sees him.
Nope. No fluoride tablets or fluoride in the vitamins for us. I just don't think the research shows that the benefits outweigh the risks. In the area we live, almost everyone is on a well, so the water isn't fluoridated and we've never had a doctor or dentist mention that it could be a problem. I do use fluoride toothpaste for both kids and adults, though. I'm fine with the topical application.
I would stop giving fluoride to your child. Read this: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/0...
Scary stuff!! We do not use fluoride at the dentist, and I'm even thinking of getting fluoride free toothpaste, or making homemade toothpaste.
Here's an article about the real causes of tooth decay and how to CURE cavities naturally instead of filling them.
http://m.naturalnews.com/news/022564_cavities_root_canals...
I would switch to the fluoride tabs if I were you. The others may only have a dosage for little kids and may not be enough to actually work to provide enough fluoride protection. The dentist should have been more specific about this with you.
Before fluoride was in municiple water supplies, people had mouthfuls of cavities and fillings. Mouthfuls. I'm one of them. So is my husband. My kids have NO fillings in their mouths because I gave them fluoride supplements. You will have people trying to fill your head with conspiracy theory rhetoric, showing you crazy internet sites, terrible things about fluoride that have nothing to do with the form that we take for preventing tooth decay. Ignore them. Your child's teeth are important to you. People today don't have to live like we did 50 years ago having a head full of cavities. In our great-great-grandparents and great-grandparents generation, most older people ended up having to have all their teeth pulled and they wore dentures. If people had said NO to all the strides modern dentistry has made since then, we'd STILL be wearing false teeth.
One of my sons had 4 baby teeth with no enamel - not even enough for sealants to stick to. I'm sorry if your son has this same problem with his adult teeth. Thankfully, my son's adult teeth are normal. I kept up with the fluoride until he was 13, took him to the dentist every 6 months faithfully, and had them put sealants on his teeth. Good luck with your son.
Dawn
I have used flouride toothpaste (Tom's of Maine) on my son since he was 2 and he has never had a cavity (he is 4 1/2 now). He did have some minor decay on his front tooth at about 18 months due to nursing but I put a tiny amount of Tom's on there every day and rubbed it in. It fixed it! I do not think there is sufficient information to support taking flouride internally though. I think as long as your child is brushing his teeth at least 2 times a day properly and then maybe your dentist can reccomend a flouride rinse then he should be ok. It is too easy to take in too much flouride and it can easily become a neurotoxin.
There are drops, you can use. In their liquids.
When I was a kid, that is what my Mom used, the drops.
Any Pediatrician or Dentist, should know of this.
Unless you have well water, there is already fluoride added to your drinking water. Too much fluoride can do more harm than good to teeth as well by weakening and staining them. I have genetic enamel issues too and the only thing I can do is brush and floss all the time. No amount of extra fluoride is going to help me. My daughter has stained teeth because of too much fluoride ingestion from drinking water and toothpaste and there is nothing that can be done to make that go away either. The only treatment myself and the kids get are at the 6 month check ups with the dentist.
Good luck
S.
Fluoride is somewhat "safe" when applied topically, such as when the dentist paints it on in his office. However, it is a wasteproduct of the aluminum industry and is toxic to humans when ingested. It should not be in our water or taken in tablet form, from what I've learned in my study of it for my 4 girls. This is a photo on FB, from a source I can't vouch for, but I can vouch for what the actual photo says because of what I've learned. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.182840368396284...
Skip the tablets!
Did you read about the new Harvard study that confirmed what several previous studies have found - that fluoride lowers IQ in young children and acts as a neurotoxin?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/idUS127920+24-J...
If your water is already fluoridated, you need to look into this, and also speak to your doctor.
