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status_quo69 | 10 months ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2925001/

Not everyone has impeccable brushing habits and reducing cavities is a net benefit to public health like sanitation departments. I would be more interested to see a source as to why you think there's no benefit to fluorinated water when there are studies that are a quick search away for fluorinated water.

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amazingamazing|10 months ago

> reducing cavities is a net benefit to public health like sanitation departments

what is the connection between reducing cavities and sanitation departments? cavities are not communicable.

Also, the paper you linked is my point. there's no actual benefit of ingestion. the effect is purely incidental. it's more effective to apply fluoride to the teeth. nowhere does it actually explain that drinking it is what is beneficial. the difference in the incidence of caries is because by fluoridating the water it obviously will touch teeth, which has well known positive effects.

the main conclusion of the paper is what everyone should hopefully know already - brush your teeth regularly with fluoride toothpaste.

out of curiosity, would you be OK with vitamins being added to the water? most people are deficient in many.

pjc50|10 months ago

> would you be OK with vitamins being added to the water?

Provided there's reasonable scientific evidence that this is fine and effective and not expensive, I don't see why not. I don't think I've ever seen it proposed.