Parents are looking for fluoride dentists. Here the experts say.

Dr. Naomi Sedani, a pediatric dentist in Darien, Connecticut, has noticed a growing trend among her patients.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And supporters of “Make America Healthy Again” support the removal of fluoride from public drinking water, more parents come to the practice of sedani who are worried about his safety.

Disease Control and Prevention Centers call the practice of adding fluoride to tap water systems one of 10 Greater Public Health Achievements of the last century, but the Minister of Health and Human Services Kennedy called the fluoride “industrial waste. “The next day Trumpvictory, he said to MSNBC This “fluoride will disappear”.

In all crisp mom and parent pages on Facebook and Reddit, “Mommy“Looking for” holistic dental care “in growing numbers. They even got on social media Share their excitement Above Kennedy’s confirmation and anti-funeral attitude. Some mothers are categorically against fluoride toothpaste or in the mouth, indicating alternatives like hydroxyapatiteWhile others collide and look for more information.

As more parents come in the guidance search, Sedani believes that “RFK Jr. Especially” has put discussions on the fluoride “back on the market”. While clinging to the recommendations of the Board of Directors by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry for the administration of fluoride treatments, she says she will never force her to a patient and prefer to have an open discussion that weighs her safety and benefits.

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What is fluoride and is safe?

Fluoride is a mineral naturally present in water, soil and certain foods, such as tea, grapes and raisins, apples, potatoes and spinach. In dentistry, healthcare providers use fluoride as foam, varnish or gel reinforce teeth and reduce the risk of cavity.

When a person eats or drinks, bacteria in the mouth produce acid that dissolves minerals on the surface of a tooth, making the tooth weaker and sensitive to cavities. Low levels of fluoride replace the lost minerals, According to CDC.

Children are taught not to swallow fluoride (including fluoride toothpaste), as swallowing high quantities can lead to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea ,. According to poison check. Excessive systematic exposure to fluoride can also lead to skeletal fluoridationthat causes pain, stiffness and bone deformities or dental/enamel fluoroage, which causes tooth discoloration.

THE American dental union He says fluoride is a “safe, beneficial and cost -effective” public health measure, reporting studies that reduces cavities in children and adults by 25%.

Dental caries, a common chronic infectious resulting from attaching teeth cardiogenic bacteria, is the The most common chronic disease that disproportionately affects lower socio -economic status communities.

“It is very likely that the peoples, for example, who have less access to dental care, are likely to benefit more than water fluoridation.

However, A reference relargerelax in August 2024 The US Department of Health and Human Services found that drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter “was firmly associated with lower IQ in children”.

However, the report, which evaluated studies conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico, noted that the levels of fluoride found to cause such risks were more than twice the amount of US officials.

While US Public Health Service sets the recommended levels of fluoride, state and local governments apply their own levels of fluoride, sometimes determined by voters, According to CDC. In some areas, the level of natural fluoride in water is already at a level that can prevent cavities.

The report also did not specify how many IQ levels were immersed or if adults could also be affected.

Some people who have switched to holistic dentistry have had since then Posted on Tiktok expressing that their oral hygiene had deteriorated, resulting in cavities.

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This dentist is without fluoride for 33 years-and has never been more busy

Dr. David Villarreal, a biological dentist in Newbury Park, California, says that the anti -fluoride movement is nothing new. He has practiced dentistry for 40 years, 33 of which have been rid of fluoride.

Even in the 1990s, patients were looking for him for fluoride care. But now, he says demand has been strengthened.

“Now I get more because of the internet and social media,” explains Villarreal, who belongs to the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), explains a science of biological dental union. “There’s definitely an upward course on what makes me very happy.”

While some of Villarreal’s new patients are looking for more information, most are “ready to make a change” after reading for fluoride online.

However, he says that some patients are still following misinformation after “training themselves in a mistake”, such as believing that “you can repair your teeth”. Some fluoride -free supporters believe that you can reverse the cavities to avoid punching and fills, but this only applies to the early stages of a cavity before the decomposition process to go beyond the enamel, According to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

In biological dentistry, doctors underline the relationship between oral health and overall physical well -being and seek it “less toxic way to achieve treatment of treatment“While understanding that some toxicity is necessary, according to Villarreal and IAomt.

“You get a bunch of moms together who want to protect their children with everything. I think that’s why we see more and more of this movement,” he says.

Villarreal adds that an undervalued, motivation factor in searching for fluoride care is the calcification of gross glandA microscopic endocrine gland in the middle of your brain that helps regulate your body’s circadian rhythm, secreting the hormone melatonin.

Melatonin calcification and dysfunction were is independently associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Various studies declare that while fluoride from environmental sources can be created in the suffering glandThe theory that fluoride is associated with the production of melatonin dysfunction remains discussed and Need more research.

Some parents are not sure what to believe in when it comes to ‘Fluoride Struggle’

On the contrary, most of the sedani patients asking about fluoride “confused about what to believe” after hearing about fluoride “in the news” and want to get to know her attitude. For children who are at high risk for cavities (based on oral hygiene, nutrition and other preventive agents), it recommends the use of fluoride toothpaste at home and receiving fluoride treatments during their exams.

But sedani says when parents come curious, they usually let the varnish.

“Those who deny the varnish they tell us from get-go, and are not open to having the discussion,” he says. “I’m like,” it’s up to you, I’m here to tell you the information and you can make the decision. “But I would say that 99.9% of them put the varnish as soon as this conversation happens.”

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Parents are looking for control of their children’s health

Sedani believes that the desire to make independent, up -to -date choices about the health of their children is at the root of many parents’ worries when it comes to fluoride dentistry, as “you cannot have control everywhere when it comes to fluoride”.

“Parents are just worried, especially at this time and age, about what they put on their children’s bodies,” he explains. “So I think they are able to have control at home make this active decision is where I feel many of these conversations come from, not always,” Oh, reduces my child’s IQ? “”

As a provider, he gets a back seat on “Fluoride Fight”, and says at the end of the day, there is no “wrong answer”.

“Fluoride is just an element of the equation,” he explains, adding that diet, brush techniques, thread and oral wash play a piece. But for the time being, there is no recommendation for any form of treatment that does “something similar to fluoride. Fluoride still, for me, is what I am going to recommend for the pillar of equation”.

Contribution: Cybele Mayes-Enderman

This article first appeared in US Today: The fluoride discussion is heated in dental offices thanks to RFK Jr.