• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      20 hours ago

      Yeah, the amount of fluoride you need is miniscule. There hasn’t really been much of a need for fluoridated water since fluoridated toothpastes became common in the 1960s.

      There’s nothing wrong with fluoridated water, and anyone with teeth certainly needs fluoride. But toothpaste and mouthwash are more than sufficient sources.

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      2 days ago

      Well, I’ll say that most highly thought of European counties don’t do it so, yeah, use fluoride toothpaste and you’re gucci.

      Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

      Oh, despite us Finns not fluoridating water, there’s quite a lot of it in well water.

      Finland

      Kuopio is the only community in Finland with at least 70,000 people that has ever had water fluoridated.[56] Kuopio stopped fluoridation in 1992.[86] In regions with rapakivi bedrock (small, but densely populated regions), 22% of well waters and 55% of drilled well waters exceed the legal limit of 1.5 mg/L; generally, surface and well waters have 0.5-2.0 mg/L fluoride in affected regions.

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            21 hours ago

            So it makes your point unclear. Are you saying that they have good teeth even with no flouride in the water and not using flouride toothpaste?

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              21 hours ago

              Yes.

              There is no need to add fluoride to drinking water, even when fluoride is good for cavities.

              It’s not my problem if you want to have dirty teeth.

              Wash your fucking teeth man

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                21 hours ago

                Oh, I see. I think I get the misunderstanding.

                Poor people in this country have no money and no support. There’s no free toothpaste fairy floating around giving out supplies. In some parts of the country there isn’t even sewer lines.

                But I understand, it’s easy to mistake us for a first world country because you only see our media. We’re not. We’re a third world country with first world coasts.

                Wash your fucking teeth man

                You’re privileged. Learn some creativity and empathy, or stop wasting the world’s oxygen.

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                    10 hours ago

                    I had heard people in Finland had anger management issues.

                    But that’s my point. Many in the US simply can’t afford it. Most in Finland can. So simply saying “brush your teeth”, as if it’s a personal failing, is just wrong.