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Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

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Post by orev »

codr7 wrote: post #59
tdeck wrote: post #43

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At least fouride rinses provide some benefit. Although you can get much more benefit from buying a bottle of Act and rinsing with it every day.

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If it was “highly toxic” it would be obvious because people would be getting sick or dying after ingesting it. Maybe it’s got some issues that aren’t obvious, but there’s not a clear answer.

However you don’t swallow mouth rinses like Act, so any nonobvious issue is also greatly reduced.

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Post by Vortigaunt »

codr7 wrote: post #59
tdeck wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least fouride rinses provide some benefit. Although you can get much more benefit from buying a bottle of Act and rinsing with it every day.

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Like with everything else, the dosage makes the poison.

I personally intend to stay vigilante to dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.

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Post by s0sa »

codr7 wrote: post #59
tdeck wrote: post #43

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At least fouride rinses provide some benefit. Although you can get much more benefit from buying a bottle of Act and rinsing with it every day.

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Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

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Post by hi-v-rocknroll »

s0sa wrote: post #73
codr7 wrote: post #59

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Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids

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Post by scubadude »

Australian here, and I will say that I fully trust my dentist. I have had one tiny cavity in nearly 20 years. X-rays are every 2 years, and it's to see between the teeth where they obviously can't see visually. I've been told the radiation dose is the equivalent of an hour on a plane flight.

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Post by alliao »

criddell wrote: post #65
kart23 wrote: post #29

Isn't flossing not supported by science also, but all the news articles said you should keep flossing?

If flossing lowers the risk of certain types of gum disease and certain types of gum disease are associated with Alzheimer’s, then maybe flossing is (indirectly) good for your brain. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/good-oral-healt...

the whole Alzheimers field recently got turned upside down... not sure how to assess them anymore... https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-...

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Post by LorenPechtel »

codr7 wrote: post #59
tdeck wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least fouride rinses provide some benefit. Although you can get much more benefit from buying a bottle of Act and rinsing with it every day.

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Remember the old adage--it's the dose that makes the poison. There is *nothing* that is not lethal if consumed in sufficient quantity. That includes *everything* that we require to live, although in some cases it becomes effectively impossible to ingest a lethal amount.

Thus showing that something is toxic doesn't mean it's something you should never consume. And note that fluoridation started because it was observed that the people in areas with higher natural levels benefited.

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Post by tzs »

doe_eyes wrote: post #19
electronbeam wrote: post #10

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I was told they get harder to remove when you’re older

It's one of these areas where people (including medical professionals) hold strong beliefs, but then it turns out that there are other highly-developed countries where this is not routinely practiced, and the outcomes aren't necessarily different. Routine wisdom teeth removal is not a thing in most of Europe. Another random example are colonoscopies and routine flu vaccines (except for the elderly).

Flu may not be too dangerous in people who aren't elderly but it still sucks. Can a non-elderly, not in any other high risk group, person get seasonal flu vaccination in Europe if they ask for it, and is it covered by European health care systems?
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