• TacocaT@piefed.social
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    20 days ago

    Don’t swallow toothpaste. That is not good for you. Also, have you ever wondered why people have those white lines across their teeth? Most likely cause is from swallowing toothpaste during tooth development

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      20 days ago

      Listen dude, what you described is from ingesting too much fluoride, which is a problem that I mentioned if you’d read my entire comment. The swallowing of toothpaste is advice for people who are drinking water that hasn’t had fluoride added.

      The point of my advice is what to do if they stop adding fluoride to your drinking water.

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        Just because you drank the water when it was fluoridated doesn’t mean you should swallow the toothpaste if the water stops being so. Once the fluoride was in your mouth it had already done its job, being absorbed directly into your tooth enamel. You were drinking the water because it was water, not because it was necessary to do so for the fluoride to work.

        That’s why when you’re a kid getting a fluoride treatment at the dentist, they do it by putting gel in a mouthguard-like thing, rather than giving you a pill to swallow.