Although water fluoridation is proven to help prevent tooth decay some people are till unsure on the affects it has on the rest of your body. There are some dangers hat lurk in fluoride such as Acute Toxicity and fluorosis. Allot of people like to point at the toxicity warnings on toothpaste, and they believe that anything thing that needs to be used in care full dosages has to be dangerous. Other people believe that there is insufficient research that proves that the fluoride in the water to be safe.
I believe that adding fluoride to the drinking water is a good thing for everybody. I know that there are some risks with adding fluoride to the drinking water, but I think that the benefits out way the risks. One of the benefits is fluoride strengths your teeth and helps to fight plaque and germs. Another benefit is that studies show that fluoridated water supplies is proven to help decrease cavities in teens.
The first thing that had to be done was that fluoride had to be combined with an compatible abrasive, the easiest and most common was to combine sodium fluoride with calcium phosphate. The next step was combining sodium fluoride with hydrated silica abrasive, this allowed companies to create gel toothpaste. Then after companies and scientist were able to combine fluoride and another substance they then created color, flavoring, foaming agents, and
To be perfectly honest known of the side affects really scare or concern me, but if I had to choose one it would definitely be Acute Toxicity. The reason is because it has some of the worse side affects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, often accompanied by seizures, cardiac arrhythmias, and coma. Although this is more likely to happen with toothpaste because it contains higher amounts fluoride but it is still possible with fluoridated water.
