Healthy Living; Flouride Falsehoods

Flouride has been added to public drinking water since 1945 in an "attempt to decrease tooth decay". But does it really help our dental health?

Fluoride’s Effects on the Formation of Teeth and Bones

Excessive systemic exposure to fluorides can lead to disturbances of bone homeostasis (skeletal fluorosis) and enamel development (dental/enamel fluorosis). The severity of dental fluorosis is also dependent upon fluoride dose and the timing and duration of fluoride exposure. Fluoride’s actions on bone cells predominate as anabolic effects both in vitro and in vivo. More recently, fluoride has been shown to induce osteoclastogenesis in mice.

Osteoclastogenesis is defined as the development of osteoclasts, bone cells that breaks down bone tissue.