Message from discussion The health hazards of fluoride (long)

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From: calla...@cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan)
Newsgroups: misc.kids,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: The health hazards of fluoride (long)
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:27:33 GMT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 20:27:33 1990

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