Wouldn’t it be better to give families vouchers for toothpaste and toothbrushes? Or have subsidized lower price ones available?
I never really understood how water briefly swishing through your teeth with some minimal amount of fluoride in it has any effect on the teeth. (edit: explanation in the replies). Fluoridation comes across as a way for industry to legitimize toxic waste instead of having to treat it and dispose of it responsively and ecologically.
Meanwhile we are ingesting it when drinking tap water, along with our pets and all other animals that have access to the water supply, and we wash our hands with it and shower with it, and we ingest it further through crops/food that is grown/prepared with the water.
Wouldn’t it be better to give families vouchers for toothpaste and toothbrushes? Or have subsidized lower price ones available?
I never really understood how water briefly swishing through your teeth with some minimal amount of fluoride in it has any effect on the teeth.(edit: explanation in the replies). Fluoridation comes across as a way for industry to legitimize toxic waste instead of having to treat it and dispose of it responsively and ecologically.Meanwhile we are ingesting it when drinking tap water, along with our pets and all other animals that have access to the water supply, and we wash our hands with it and shower with it, and we ingest it further through crops/food that is grown/prepared with the water.
Have you tried learning about it?
Here, you can learn about it: https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faq/index.html
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to cover the explanation for the process, but I did find an explanation (linked in my other comment)