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Dedicated to spreading the knowledge of personal oral hygiene developed by C C Bass, MD. End suffering through simple prevention.

Jul 7, 2022, 9 tweets

#Fluoride is #SugarScience. Get over it, change your ways and save the teeth.

#Fluorine for preventing tooth decay is #SugarScience.

#TheyDidntKnow -|- "During the 1920 decade the mottled-enamel-dental-caries relationship was investigated by McKay and by Bunting and his associates -studies conducted during a period when the all-important factor, fluorine, was still unknown."

"When I first reported on this subject, high amounts of fluorine in drinking water had only recently been indicated as the cause of mottled enamel, and the general concept that fluorine has a deleterious effect upon teeth was not easy to abandon. -\- But they did.

#TheyDidNotKnowAndTheyDidItAnyway. -|- "Thus evidence from three different fields shows that #fluorine acts in some way to reduce the prevalence of dental decay."

A decade+ later, they still didn't know.

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