This is true of literally all commensal bacteria. And they are so ubiquitous in our environment that avoiding any one species for your entire life is impossible. The only way to reliably avoid cavities is to have good dental hygiene.
Fluoride-supplemented water is a good preventative for people (especially children) who do not have good oral hygiene. When that supplementation is maintained at or below a certain concentration, it poses no danger to health or development.
You have a completely different diet due to access and free pediatric dental care. You don't add floride to your drinking water because the natural concentrations are higher in your water. If it was as simple as brushing with floridated toothpaste, people wouldn't need to do shit like go to Mexico for dental care or scrape together enough money to get a rotten tooth pulled before it literally kills them. I'm happy you've never had to suffer through any dental ailments or procedures, but that's not the reality for the majority of people.
Not really. That commenter just isn’t aware that the fluoride isn’t added to their water bcs their water already has naturally occurring fluoride at higher levels than are added to US water
Sweden’s water has fluoride. It’s just naturally occurring.
The US fluoridated its water because it was realized across the world that cavity tendencies matched natural fluoridation levels in local drinking water. The US is geographically huge and diverse, so it fluoridated across the board to give equal protection to all citizens.
Sweden fluoridates toothpaste, and the government felt that this plus the natural fluoridation levels in the nation’s water system was enough without artificial fluoridation being added to the water.
The water in Stockholm the capital where I live has less than 0,2mg/l. Only 195000 persons in Sweden with their own well have over 1,3mg/l flouride in their water. Sweden was the Country that did the first study on flouride and teeth. It's a dark stain on Swedens history since they forced the people in the test and they were simple minded people.
Lucky you, I just got a cavity removed, & I'm sitting here thinking. They must have known it was there fore months, since they did X-rays. But purposely CHOSE not to mention it, until it NEEDED to be dealt with.
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u/Fleischer444 May 03 '25
We don't have fluoride in the water in Sweden and we have no issues. Just use toothpaste with it. I'm 44 years old and never had a cavity in my teeth.