Fluoride is, next to arsenic, the most dangerous poison. How the propaganda to use fluoride in toothpaste has survived is a mystery.
American and Canadian toothpaste has long had to carry warnings on them, directly warning children not to use it. This warning is beginning to appear on Swedish toothpaste in recent years. On a few containers I have seen the text:
"Parents should participate while children brush their teeth, in order to prevent swallowing. If the child swallows more than the amount normally used, call 911".
If fluoride can bond with the enamel and make it stronger, this is still a very single-sided argument, that has little to do with how fluoride normally is used. What happens to fluoride in the body once digested, hardly anybody knows anything about:
Fluoride in drinking-water: Only 3% is drunk, the rest goes into the environment, laundry, cooking... And the water we drink, goes into the stomach, only a few seconds does it have contact with our teeth.
Fluoride in chewing gum, pills, etc. The fluoride goes into the stomach.
Nowadays most dentists say (and I quote the ones I have met the last few years):
It doesn't matter how much fluoride you use, if you put something in your mouth more than 5-6 times a day - if you do that, you will get cavities.
So, if you eat correctly, and at the most 5-6 times per day, you do not need fluoride. And you don't get poisoned by a very serious poison!
We can re-think dental hygiene.
Away with the poison fluoride, first and foremost.
Don't eat more than 5-6 times per day.
Away with the sticky glycerine in toothpaste. It makes things stick and causes plaque.
Away with too harsch abrasives, that causes little scratches that things stick to, aided by glycerine.
Products for dental hygiene should of course be as un-harmful to us as food!