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Here where i grew up in Europe they add iodine to salt. And we all got fluoride treatments as a kid. As a result my teeth are super strong. I'm nearly 50 and only twice I've had a cavity. In my life. It's not all bad. Though adding it to water is probably not the best idea. It's good to stop that.

And really the Americans are very hypocritical on this point. Most of the food eaten there is highly engineered processed crap intended to get people to eat too much and instill a feeling of instant gratification. Quick sugar highs, artificial flavouring, MSG. Hollow carbs. The whole nation is poisoning itself willingly. They don't even need chemtrails for that. They pay for their own poison at Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts and every supermarket.

Yes I know some people buy local natural food but I'm speaking overall.




> And we all got fluoride treatments as a kid. As a result my teeth are super strong.

As far as I can tell, there is little to no evidence in favor of any sort of causation there. There’s some evidence that fluoride exposure as a child reduces childhood cavities a little bit.

Here’s a review: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010856.pub3


That's about water fluoridation. Not about the direct gel treatments we get which contain very strong fluorine. Which are done on the post-childhood teeth. We get them like 4 times, every 6 months for 2 years for about 5 minutes. They're very strict about not swallowing it because it's toxic and the smell made me nauseous.

As far as I've heard they really improve enamel strength a lot. My dentist used to joke it put them out of business.




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