Why all this anti fluoridation talk. Teeth from fluoride areas extracted for orthodontic purposes (space to relieve crowding) are more resistant to acid than teeth from non-fluoride areas extracted for tooth decay.

Let us focus on easy ways people can reduce demineralisation and increase remineralisation, which can involve access of fluoride where food is left trapped and the brush cannot reach.

Fluoridation does reduce DK by making teeth more resistant to acid demineralisation but most people consistently leave acid forming food on teeth after eating and saliva has no access into trapped food to neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth, nor does brushing.

Tooth decay is the most common of diseases and one of the most expensive even in fluoridated communities, yet easy to prevent naturally.

Food is left trapped under chewing pressure displacing previously trapped food between teeth and inside grooves on chewing surfaces after every meal or snack and any carbohydrate is changed to acid demineralisation of tooth by plaque bacteria. Though you can avoid some eating acid forming food like cake and confection some healthy foods like fruit can cause acid attack.

Though 95% of trapped food is noticeably left packed between teeth after every meal or snack, over 80% of cavities develop inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where the brush cannot reach.

Fissure sealants placed over chewing surfaces block food access and prevent tooth decay.

Some tooth friendly foods like cheese and nuts are hard to displace when trapped under chewing pressure and help block meals and snacks from being trapped consumed just before eating. They can also help displace any trapped food after eating, however chewing celery after eating forces saliva into trapped food to dilute sugar, neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth helping prevent tooth decay naturally.

However it is possible to improve control over demineralisation and remineralisation in many ways as can be seen on www.supertooth.or

you keep beating up the mantra...of the fisures on top of the teeth[clearly govt KNOWS this..why dont govt seal up these fissures as the teeth emerge..[AS A MATTER OF POLICY/law]

you talk about gaps being filled with food[why is it not govt policy to fill the gaps...we are talking about simple procedures [painting teeth and filling[not drilling gaps]..

#WHY DONT GOVT SPEND..its money..on prevention...either govt wants our teeth to rot..[for private profit...

or the fissure gap issue..is a destraction from the need to poisen people with fleuride..to keep us docile..[why dont you rebut the facts the proffesor points out...

your clearly well informed..you must know of the dangers of fleuride[and the need to lower acidity..[and increase alcalinity]..as well as the need for magnesium to aid calcium depositing...

fleuride is an expensive destrasction...i hesitate to say on a cost/benifit ratio...fisure painting would be more affective than fleuridisation...

the question then becomes why dont govt fill fisures..[why does it insist on fleuride alone...some one is cleaning-up..on this issue bigtime...

and its not us suffereing with rotton teeth...its not the tax payer and seemingly not govt...[who benifits?...THOSE SELLING FLUERIDE TOOTHPAST/TOOTHBRUSHES/DENTAL FLOSS..[OR THOSE FILLING IN THE HOLES[AND PULLING OUT THE TEETH..[AND NOT FITTING DENTURES..excuse cap loc

we have a huge problem..[your suggesting simple cures..[excluding brushing..it has been suggested to me over brushing caused my tooth decay...lol..

[you exclude the dangers of brushing..after eating acid foods..and there are many acid producing foods..!..[why arnt govt insisting we prevent the disease]...and insisting we get fleurides?