• Im_old@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The question is: does it make sense to buy toothpaste with fluoride then or can I buy one without? Just because my kids don’t like the peppermint ones and other flavours are most of the times without fluoride

    • Nougat@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      Non-fluoridated toothpaste is mainly for kids who are too young to be able to consistently spit it all out. The concentration of fluoride in toothpaste is high enough that you shouldn’t be swallowing it, because doing that on the regular is harmful to your teeth. Gray discoloration is one of the first symptoms.

      If your kids are capable of doing “rinse and spit,” then they should be using fluoridated toothpaste.

      • Dabundis@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        And even then, there’s a significant safety margin worked into the advice that you shouldn’t swallow toothpaste. You’d need to eat several tubes of prescription strength toothpaste to get sick from fluoride.

        Still rinse and spit though