can i
2006-12-14 13:58:04 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
go ahead! I do it all the time! My fave brands are Colgate, sonic, Listerine is like my beer!!!!!!
2006-12-14 14:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by harrypotterschick07 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Can I get too much fluoride?
In general, the use of fluoride is considered safe unless it's misused or overconcentrated. Drinking excessively fluoridated water can cause dental fluorosis, a harmless cosmetic discoloring or mottling of the enamel, visible by chalky white specks and lines or pitted and brown stained enamel on developing teeth.
Avoid swallowing toothpaste, mouthrinses or other topical supplements, check with your dentist on proper dosage, and be careful not to accidentally take too much. If you are concerned about the fluoride levels in your drinking water, call the local public water department. If the source is a private well, request a fluoride content analysis taken via a water sample through your local or county health department.
2006-12-14 14:23:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you cannot. Fluoride can make you sick and poison you in large amounts. This is also a major reason children under the age of 2 are not supposed to use fluoridated toothpaste as they have not properly learned to rinse and spit.
Secondly, why would you want to eat toothpaste?
2006-12-14 18:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by P H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can eat Toothpaste but ur stomach will have a burning effect and it will ruin ur intenal parts of ur small intestine and may affect ur catabolic juices. The benefit is that ur germs in ur intestine will have fresh breath and can smooch 4 longggggggggggggg!!!
2006-12-14 14:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by Kirsten 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Fluoride is poisonous at high doses.
5 grams of full strength sodium fluoride will kill most adult humans; a lethal dose is approximately 75 mg per kilogram of body mass. The acute toxic dose of fluoride is believed to be from 2 to 8 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
Poisoning most commonly occurs following ingestion (accidental or intentional) of products that contain fluoride.
2006-12-14 14:06:12 · answer #5 · answered by OK yeah well whatever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the flouride is harmful. That is why they often make toothpaste for very young children without flouride, because they can't be counted on not to eat it.
2006-12-14 14:01:16 · answer #6 · answered by AlphaBeta 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i used to eat toothpaste when i was a kid and i never died but it wasn't like spoon fulls of it, just a little taste every now and then... mom's fault, it tasted like strawberries
2006-12-14 14:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by Carole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not a dentist or doctor, but the toothpaste tube says no. If it was safe it wouldn't say that.
2006-12-14 14:00:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO,even a dentist will tell you not to eat nor swallow toothpaste!If you read on your toothpaste tube it will tell you " not to swallow!"
2006-12-14 14:02:52 · answer #9 · answered by bambi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noway, toothpaste contains fluride which is now link to memory loss
2006-12-14 14:00:09 · answer #10 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not recommended.
2006-12-14 14:44:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋