[QUOTE=tomcat13;24683453]The reason why is because it helps prevent tooth decay. People who drink tap water generally have much fewer cavities. It's been pretty well known that since the popularity of bottled water in the past ten years, the number of cavities has skyrocketed. Mostly because people drink more bottled water than tap water now, most bottled water is not fluoridated and most tap water is. That's not to say that just drinking tap water will keep you from getting cavities, but it does help.[/QUOTE]
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No, 100% wrong in every way possible.
Bottle water = tap water
even the so called fresh spring water is run through a steam and cleaning process and given the good old fluoride treatment.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24683527]:downs:
No, 100% wrong in every way possible.
Bottle water = tap water
even the so called fresh spring water is run through a steam and cleaning process and given the good old fluoride treatment.[/QUOTE]
Since when was it illegal to produce bottled water that is fluoride free?
i bet that the percentage of flouride that comes out of the tap of every house of yours is <0.0001% per liter.
In other words: Harmless.
there is so little in the water it won't make much of a difference.
[QUOTE=tomcat13;24683453]The reason why is because it helps prevent tooth decay. People who drink tap water generally have much fewer cavities. It's been pretty well known that since the popularity of bottled water in the past ten years, the number of cavities has skyrocketed. Mostly because people drink more bottled water than tap water now, most bottled water is not fluoridated and most tap water is. That's not to say that just drinking tap water will keep you from getting cavities, but it does help.[/QUOTE]
Just one flaw in that argument. People who drink tap water have better teeth, well obviously because people who do that dubstitute water for soda. People who don't drink a lot of tap water generally drink soda all the time so obviously they have worse teeth.
And, bottled water is generally sweetened, sometimes with sugar and sometimes with artificials, so really people who think they're being healthy drinking bottled water instead of soda are fooling themselves.
Tasmania has had fluoridated water for a long, long time. They have the best teeth in the country because of it.
Really, its just conspiracy theorists and those who want no government who are bitching about the fluoride....
Fluoride is dangerous, and will rip your teeth apart in larger, and pure amounts, the reason that it's in toothpaste is... It isn't exactly, it's fluoride [B]connections[/B] which aren't dangerous. The reason that fluoride is dangerous is that it's the most electro-negative atom that we know of. Which means it will rip out the electrons out of other materials to create molecular connections.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24683527]
Bottle water = tap water
even the so called fresh spring water is run through a steam and cleaning process and given the good old fluoride treatment.[/QUOTE]
Depends on the brand.
It's the goverment maan
They're putting stuff in our water maan
Interesting anyways, didn't know it was a bi product
But I used to swallow my toothpaste when I was about 4-8 years old, IS THAT BAD?
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[QUOTE=Miktor.;24686088]Fluoride is dangerous, and will rip your teeth apart in larger, and pure amounts, the reason that it's in toothpaste is... It isn't exactly, it's fluoride [B]connections[/B] which aren't dangerous. The reason that fluoride is dangerous is that it's the most electro-negative atom that we know of. Which means it will rip out the electrons out of other materials to create molecular connections.[/QUOTE]
The good thing about Fluorine being the most highly electronegative atom is that once it has reacted with something, it is incredibly stable and requires tremendous energy to seperate the bonds.
Think of PTFE (Teflon). It's a synthetic polymer containing twice as many Fluorine atoms as Carbon atoms. Thanks to the high electronegativity of fluorine, carbon - fluorine bonds are the strongest organic link possible, rendering it almost entirely inert.
So yeah... with a few exceptions (FOOF!), fluorine molecules aren't going to rip anything out of anywhere.
/not a chemist
//well, not much of one
///not to say fluorine can't be toxic, that just wouldn't be the mechanism for it
[QUOTE=Nilrus;24685166]And, bottled water is generally sweetened, sometimes with sugar and sometimes with artificials, so really people who think they're being healthy drinking bottled water instead of soda are fooling themselves.[/QUOTE]
are you actually posting this or am i just imagining it, i'm just not sure a post that stupid exists
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