What Can Replace Flouride? Part 1

I live in the unique city of Manchester, England. In addition to hosting one of the most famous soccer team in the world, and take into account the dampest weather conditions (although Seattle Worse, it seems), but there are also a strange properties in the country: it has clean water. No fluoride has been added. As most people know, fluoride is a rare metal, that is difficult to find in nature, but since the 1960s, the United Kingdom has been entertaining families, every day - in the water that they can be directly consumed.

Fluoride is a poison. You are not advised to take a bottle and swallow it, you will die. However, in small doses, it claims that it is a rare property: It can save your decay. Research shows that, or allegedly, a small amount of fluoride in water that we drink, can be strengthened in our teeth enamel and prevent the formation of cave. English children because some of the worst teeth in the world, anything that can help to prevent further decay was seen as a good thing, but no matter how strange. Because of course, this is a strange plan. Here the proposition: we will be added to your water, which is in itself dangerous, but it would prevent even worse problems, tooth decay. Who could vote against? Manchester done. They still retains water free of charge, non-metallic additives almost two generations, and the remaining overlap on the ground, literally. Others have mixed results.

In the first place, all levels of tooth decay in children is uncomfortably high. Why is this? Children in Manchester in bad teeth clean? Do they not understand the benefits of the use of dental floss? , And may be so, but this is not because we try. School nurses regularly lectures on children the best ways to use the toothbrush, if you go to any school in this city, you will see posters and photos on the wall, healthy teeth - purpose, after all. Perhaps there is another reason: good advice is, in itself, will not work. Said, the positive attitude, in other parts of the country. We do not want people to have bad teeth, they said, so we want to add fluoride to water and the amount of the filling material, will be greatly reduced, people will think that. They certainly hope that such a situation, you say! It's remarkable! But no, it is not obvious. If you or any of your family members would like to avoid losing your teeth, the answer is obvious, in front of your nose: eat candy and chocolate and brushes and cleaning more often. Why not do so? They say they will, they promise, they will, they even resolved to do this, every new year, when they made the resolution for the next 12 months. But, as plans to gym, and the great idea to give up other self-destructive habits, a common behavior is that all the good intentions and fell halfway bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles, to put the spring back in the spring.