Fluoride free toothpaste

i tried this started having problems the dentist said the fluoride in toothpaste is minimal and is needed ,so I went back to normal

[greygoose]

No-one ever needed fluoride for anything. Especially not if you're hypo. Silly man!

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Hidden What problems did you start having?

[Hidden in reply to SeasideSusie]

Ended up on antibiotics sore gums x

[SlowDragon Administrator]

I am intrested in this as I have recently changed to flouride free toothpaste.

[Geniler]

Ecodenta from Holland and Barrett is flouride free, tastes ok and has charcoal for whitening.

[kezza2shoes]

I went fluoride free and had a noticeable decline in my teeth, switched back before the dentist appointment. No noticeable improvement in my hypo symptoms whilst fluoride free.

My tap water is fluoridated, I drink it, my toothpaste contains fluoride.

My thyroid problems started whilst I lived in an area where fluoride wasn't added to the water.

Fluoride is a poison but I consider it a necessary evil. It's a personal choice that I make for myself.

[greygoose in reply to kezza2shoes]

No, there wouldn't be any noticeable improvement when you went fluoride free, because the damage is already done. But, the question is, did you teeth improve in any way when you went back to using toothpaste with fluoride?

[GM50]

I've used Aloe Vera toothpaste from Holland and Barrett for years. That is fluoride free and I've not had any problems with it at all. It was part of my overall endeavour to achieve 'wellness' after being diagnosed with Hypothyroidism and continuing to feel so rubbish on just thyroxine. Eventually I was prescribed T3 and have taken a small amount of it(still prescribed thankfully) with the thyroxine for over 10 years now but I love the toothpaste and have stuck with it. The less fluoride the better as far as I'm concerned as it's so bad for thyroids.

[Hidden]

I use kingfisher toothpaste, the fennel one without fluoride. It works a treat! I don't brush my teeth everyday though, I oil pull some days with coconut oil. People don't realize that brushing your teeth scrubs away at the enamel, without doing anything to repair it. Fluoride doesn't do anything for this at all, it hardens the outer layer and the inside of the tooth becomes pulpy and rots from the inside! My dentist hates fluoride and says it is part of the reason there are so many kids with cavities. Avoid it at all costs if you ask me. Oil pulling helps to repair the enamel so do that for 2 days then brush your teeth for a day and keep doing that. Your teeth will feel better I promise you!

[thyr01d in reply to Hidden]

Superparrot, and please excuse me Mollymaid, this is fascinating, please could you tell me more about oil pulling as the enamel on my teeth is so worn my, lovely, dentist suggests using my guard to allow teeth to soak in fluoride to help decrease the sensitivity. Having avoided fluoride in all forms for decades I am loathe to do that but have never heard of oil pulling and can't imagine how that might work.

[Hidden in reply to thyr01d]

Sorry for the delay, oil pulling is where you take a mouthful of coconut oil and swish it around your mouth for about 15 mins. Then you spit it out and rinse with warm water. It is something that was done in India and a few other countries to keep the mouth clean and free of infection. The toxins and bacteria are absorbed by the oil (oil and fats absorb toxins) and gently "pulls" any uh, debris from your teeth. It also puts a layer of oil on your teeth and protects them a little bit for a while. All they really need is enough time to remineralize on their own, and the right nutrients. Try not brushing for a month and just using oil pullingand floss or interdentals and see if your teeth don't improve! I know Iit was "trendy" to oil pull at one point but it was used in India for ages for a reason. Just don't swallow the oil!!

[Hidden]

Flouride is incorporated into the structure of teeth but it is present in small but widely varying concentrations in practically all soils, water, plants, animals and fish. My biggest bugbear with dentists is that they now seem to push additional fluoride products onto their patients, as if fluoride is the only player in the field with regard to dental caries. General mineral deficiencies also impact on the teeth, especially calcium and phosphorous and being hypothyroid doesn't help either.

I personally stay away from toothpaste with fluoride, on the basis that our bodies don't need vast amounts of it and I am sure I get sufficient from my diet.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Oh, you are so right!

But we also have to take into consideration that the fluoride in water and toothpaste, isn't natural fluoride, like you get from food. It is industrial waste, the left-overs from the aluminium industry. And, rather than pay to have it disposed of, they came up with the idea of selling it, using the idea that it is good for teeth! But it's not the same thing at all.

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

It kind of makes you wonder who it was that sat round a table one day and made the decision to dump industrial waste into the mouths of the general population - thankfully my water supplier does not add fluoride but does say there is 0.1ppm from natural sources. And while I am having a moan about dentists, almost everyone I know is now being given a prescription for toothpaste which I am informed costs the NHS around £20 for one tube - its utterly disgraceful.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Good lord! Since when did you need a prescription for toothpaste???

Unfortunately, there are a lot of evil genii in the world who come up with schemes like that. They have no compassion and no conscience. The world is full of psychopaths!

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

Ha! now ain't that the truth - my name is Bond, James Bond - a licence to kill!! My son and I were both handed prescriptions from the dentist for toothpaste - I can only assume it contains high levels of fluoride not available over the counter. This seems to have become routine practice as my husbands cousin who lives in a different area was also given a prescription - only difference we threw ours away and she religiously uses her - and she's hypothyroid.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Oh dear. So, it would seem, we're not consuming enough of the dreadful stuff to suit Big Pharma - or Big Someone! They have to encourage you to do it at the cost of the NHS! Brilliant thinking, Batman!

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

You just couldn't make it up - with hindsight I should have had the prescription filled just to find out what was in it and who was making it.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Well, perhaps next time you go to the dentist...

[hunny59]

I switched to a remineralising tooth powder back in October last year and my teeth have been considerably better since then (my teeth have been pitifully awful since I was about 10). At the last checkup with the dentist, they didn't even need to be cleaned

[annie-7 in reply to hunny59]

Hi hunny59 , can I please ask the name of your remineralising tooth powder and where I can buy it? Thanks.

[Silver_Fairy in reply to hunny59]

Which one do you use please?

[Silver_Fairy in reply to Silver_Fairy]

Snap!

[hunny59 in reply to Silver_Fairy]

I bought it from Amazon. I'll PM you both the details rather than post product details on the forum

[greygoose in reply to hunny59]

You can mention product names, and you can give details of where to buy it, as long as it isn't prescription only.

[hunny59 in reply to greygoose]

Thanks gg. I always prefer to err on the side of caution as I'm somewhat averse to getting my knuckles rapped

[greygoose in reply to hunny59]

Only hurts for a moment. lol

[Glynisrose]

Fluoride in toothpaste and drinking a glass of fluoridated water puts you OVER the safe limit.