Generally yes, IF you brush properly (not a lot of people do), for 2 minutes, 2 times per day, and don’t eat or drink immediately after. But you’ll be paying extra out of pocket. Adding fluoride in municipal water supply was one of the most (cost) effective public health interventions in modern history.
Most of the times, the people living without fluoride in their drinking water can replace it with fluoride tablets. So consuming it in pill form is a valid way of replacing the lost benefits, and is much more consistent than brushing your teeth with fluoridated toothpaste.
Don’t know the answer to your Q, but another option is to have your doctor prescribe fluoride tablets for your children if fluoride is removed from your municipal water supply.
Yes! As long as it’s actually fluoride toothpaste of course. As it turns out, it can actually be pretty easy to accidentally buy toothpaste that doesn’t contain fluoride. Also, eating fresh fruits and vegetables will also provide some benefits as well!
If you live in the US, and are ever curious as to the quality of your water, and you get your water from a public drinking water system, you can contact your water provider for a full Consumer Confidence Report, which is regulated to be published annually by the water provider by your state and the EPA.
Background: I am a water treatment operator who has worked in the treatment and laboratory water quality fields for 10 years, mainly working for municipal water treatment systems, as well as an overseas contract operator.
Fluoride is not at all beneficial when consumed. Only as a topical. That being said, drinking it is odd, adding it to the tap that nobody drinks from in 2025 is even more odd.
Good point. My hope there is that because those regulations are written into state level regulations, as well as federal, the DOGE chainsaw won’t be able to hack and slash everything positive that has been regulated since the Safe Water Drinking Act was enacted! Haha
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Generally yes, IF you brush properly (not a lot of people do), for 2 minutes, 2 times per day, and don’t eat or drink immediately after. But you’ll be paying extra out of pocket. Adding fluoride in municipal water supply was one of the most (cost) effective public health interventions in modern history.
Most of the times, the people living without fluoride in their drinking water can replace it with fluoride tablets. So consuming it in pill form is a valid way of replacing the lost benefits, and is much more consistent than brushing your teeth with fluoridated toothpaste.
Don’t know the answer to your Q, but another option is to have your doctor prescribe fluoride tablets for your children if fluoride is removed from your municipal water supply.
Yes! As long as it’s actually fluoride toothpaste of course. As it turns out, it can actually be pretty easy to accidentally buy toothpaste that doesn’t contain fluoride. Also, eating fresh fruits and vegetables will also provide some benefits as well!
If you live in the US, and are ever curious as to the quality of your water, and you get your water from a public drinking water system, you can contact your water provider for a full Consumer Confidence Report, which is regulated to be published annually by the water provider by your state and the EPA.
Background: I am a water treatment operator who has worked in the treatment and laboratory water quality fields for 10 years, mainly working for municipal water treatment systems, as well as an overseas contract operator.
Fluoride is not at all beneficial when consumed. Only as a topical. That being said, drinking it is odd, adding it to the tap that nobody drinks from in 2025 is even more odd.
Good point. My hope there is that because those regulations are written into state level regulations, as well as federal, the DOGE chainsaw won’t be able to hack and slash everything positive that has been regulated since the Safe Water Drinking Act was enacted! Haha