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Flouridation became widely used in the US in the 1960s. It's hard to discern facts with all the hyperbole from activists against it but I thought flouridation
by researcher88 12y ago
Flouridation became widely used in the US in the 1960s. It's hard to discern facts with all the hyperbole from activists against it but I thought flouridation was unnecessary now because of toothpaste and how people brush their teeth more. From Wikipedia, most countries in Europe substantially reduced cavities without flouridation and tooth decay rates remained stabled or declined in Germany and Finland when it was stopped. Though it does say that in-school dental care and more going to the dentist in Europe than in the US may be the reason.
But so many people in the US have home filtration systems, filtered water jugs or drink bottled water that it seems it's more due to flouride toothpaste and better hygiene. While there is some flouride in some bottled water, it's generally less.
- jessaustin 12y agoFlouridation [sic] became widely used in the US in the 1960s. Yes but many communities only fluoridated in the 1980s (I know because my father was the concerned citizen who eventually got this done in several nearby towns), and the smallest water districts still don't have it.
- researcher88 12y agoOff topic, while I know how to spell fluoride I rarely write flurodiation. And I rely on Google's spellcheck which for whatever reason will show incorrect spellings. And in gmail, it will also do the opposite; indicate a correctly spelled word is wrong.
- jessaustin 12y agoHaha actually even simple "fluoride" eludes me fairly often. The gmail remark reminds me of the "please advice" idiom that MS-Outlook established. Of course the original, grammatically correct request is "Please advise," which one might expect to see at the end of any issue-raising business email. Because Outlook "corrected" this phrase to "please advice" for so many years, many people now actually think "advice" is correct.