Flouride
Flouride
1. Drinking water containing flouride is very popular among water plants all over the country. It is a highly manufactured product due to the efficiency of it’s dispensing systems, and the simplicity of this products maintenance. However, eight of the largest fifty cities in the U.S. have managed to live without since it was introduced just two years ago. This is more than likely due to the fact that almost every existing brand of toothpaste in todays world contains flouride, and therefore flouridated water is not a necessity.
2. I do think that flouride should be added to drinking water. However, it should not be added to every type of drinking water. The consumer of each brand of water should have the option of drinking flouridated water, or not. This should be a personal decision. Those who brush their teeth on a regular basis using toothpaste containing flouride may not feel that they need to drink water containing flouride as well, where as those who don’t often use toothpaste containing flouride, or who don’t brush their teeth at all may feel that they should drink water containing.
3. Before flouride could be added to toothpaste, and become an ingredient in drinking water, it had to be in the form of a liquid or a gel. Another very influential technological advance in the toothpaste industry was a shift from granular SSF to liquid HFS. Finally, the production increase of fertilizer plays an effective role in the ongoing development of flouridated toothpaste.
4. Flouride, when overused, can be very dangerous. It can be known to cause some of the following cases, health problems, and threatening medical conditions: dental fluorosis (irreversible mottling, staining, and pitting of teeth); crippling skeletal fluorosis (deformities of the spine and major joints, muscle wasting, and neurological defects); arthritis; osteoporosis (a decrease in bone mass); hip fractures; infertility; and all types of cancers. It can lead to very severe health problems.
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