Once again Winston makes me feel ashamed to be a Kiwi and makes me despise the majority of the country which put people like this in power over our lives.
Once again Winston makes me feel ashamed to be a Kiwi and makes me despise the majority of the country which put people like this in power over our lives.
Why do you swallow fluoride tablets when the benefit is from contact with teeth?
From what I can find, you’re supposed to suck or chew them. I can’t remember what we did as kids but chewing them seems reasonable since I was probably 4-6 at the time.
They weren’t little gummy bears or anything though, I remember them being tiny, maybe 3mm across, white and round. The kind of pill that you’d expect to break into powder when bitten. And I think we only had half a tablet.
But even if swallowed whole it seems it can get into your teeth via things like fluoride making it’s way into your saliva production, but it’s less effective because of the low concentration.
It helps for it to be in contact with teeth but ingestion helps but mostly in tooth formation. Its effects are akin to vitamin D and vitamin K which you don’t have to rub all over your bones but I would not be surprised if it would not be helpful to if that was at all possible.