The health hazards of fluoride (long)
Paul Callahan <calla...@cs.jhu.edu>
lub
...@apollo.HP.COM (David Lubkin) writes:
>From: kasso
...@minerva.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
>Message-ID: <11
...@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
>Date: 17 Sep 90 18:45 GMT
>> Oh, yeah, one really wants to watch the sodium intake, especially
>> if there is a history of heart trouble in the family. I think
>> most fluoridated toothpastes now use stannous fluoride, unless
>> P&G has a lock on it's use.
>Many of them have sodium fluoride. Read your labels.
Crest switched from stannous fluoride to sodium fluoride several years
ago (some time in the early eighties--I only know from reading the labels;
I never heard any explanation of why). As far as I know, all major
brands use sodium fluoride, with the exception of Colgate, which uses
"MFP" (sodium monofluorophosphate?). Last time I saw a label, that's
what it said, but I don't know if it's still the same.
The only documentation I can offer is the labels themselves.
--
Paul Callahan
calla...@cs.jhu.edu
