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Dental caries can be prevented by flossing your teeth, then spitting (most of) the fluoride out. Or even better, by avoiding sugar and eating calcium rich vege
by euccastro 16y ago
Dental caries can be prevented by flossing your teeth, then spitting (most of) the fluoride out.
Or even better, by avoiding sugar and eating calcium rich vegetables.
- caf 16y agoCertainly, but that doesn't change the point that saying it's about "cutting down on a few bucks" is overly downplaying the potential benefit.
- euccastro 16y agoTFA doesn't even mention death by caries, only the savings. If avoiding those deaths was the reason, I guess lithium would have been used before fluoride. I don't know the stats, but I know of several people that committed suicide in my area and never heard of a single death by caries.