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What’s Lurking in Your Toothpaste?
We all want to fight cavities and have a megawatt movie-star smile. But some toothpaste may be going too far, adding ingredients that could be bad for our overall health. Here are a few of the more insidious ingredients: Sodium Fluoride Used in Rat Poison While it’s one of the main ingredients in toothpaste, sodium […]
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American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation on use of toothpaste for children
Excerpt from Fluoride Use in Caries Prevention in the Primary Care Setting: Use of fluoride toothpaste should begin with the eruption of the first tooth. When fluoride toothpaste is used for children younger than 3 years, it is recommended that the amount be limited to a smear or grain of rice size (about one-half of […]
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Best-selling toothpaste contains hazardous endocrine-disrupting chemical
Triclosan Removed from Soap, But Still Found in Best-Selling Toothpaste Three years ago, Colgate-Palmolive responded to safety concerns brought forth by consumer groups by removing triclosan from its soap products. But the company left it in its best-selling toothpaste, Colgate Total. (Colgate Total is the only triclosan-containing toothpaste sold in the US.) But if triclosan […]
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Department of Health to indicate fluoride in toothpaste for children to prevent over consumption
BANGKOK – The Department of Health (DOH) is coordinating with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to indicate the amount of fluoride added to toothpaste for children, in order to prevent over consumption which may lead to mottled teeth. Children aged below three should not be given fluoride toothpaste over 500 PPM, but aged above […]
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New Public Heath England dental health guidance recommends a healthy lifestyle to help protect oral health
Public Health England has released the latest Delivering Better Oral Health guidance today [see guidance for children]. The guidance is aimed at dental health professionals and provides them with evidence based interventions and advice that can improve and maintain the oral health of their patients The guidance highlights the positive impact a healthy lifestyle has […]
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Dentists warn about fluoride-free toothpaste, water
Your toddler’s toothpaste may not be working in their favor. Since more and more kids are drinking bottled water instead of tap water, they aren’t getting the fluoride they need to keep their teeth strong. This, combined with the special fluoride-free toothpaste for toddlers, is causing their teeth to decay, and some may even fall […]
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Decay-busting toothpaste for children in Scotland
Children in Scotland at increased risk of dental decay should be offered special high-fluoride toothpaste on prescription to help protect their teeth, new guidance says. According to recommendations by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), youngsters with a higher chance of developing tooth decay, such as those from deprived backgrounds, should use products with higher […]
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Chemicals like fluoride in toothpaste may be eroding child IQs: disputed study
Paris: Two public health experts warned on Saturday about the stunting effects that a wide array of industrial chemicals, including toothpaste ingredient fluoride, may be having on child brain development, in a report some called alarmist. The pair, Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Philip Landrigan from New York’s Icahn School […]
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Dental Group Advises Fluoride Toothpaste Before Age 2
The toothbrush on the left shows a smear of toothpaste and the one on the right a pea-sized amount.Credit ADA Council on Scientific Affairs. Fluoride toothpaste use for young children. JADA 2014;145(2):190-191. Copyright © 2014 American Dental Association. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission. Parents should use a tiny smear of fluoride toothpaste to […]
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New advice: Use fluoride toothpaste on baby teeth
Parents should no longer wait until a child turns two to start brushing baby teeth with fluoride toothpaste, the American Dental Association says. Instead, parents should use a rice-grain size smear on a child’s first teeth and move up to pea-size blobs once the child reaches age three, the group says in updated guidelines published […]
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