I'm doing a science project on if you brush your teeth longer if it will help protect your teeth from the damage of acid (my father came up with the idea)and if so, is floride the source of help.
2006-12-27 16:02:26 · 7 answers · asked by It'll Be Alright 1 in Health ➔ Dental
Flouride can be a help, but in small doses. You can get it two ways. City water and in toothpaste. Too much of a good thing is bad, but in the small doses over a long period of time can help. Small doses of flouride is provided in the everyday life stituations, like brushing with toothpaste and your water. It helps maintain the integrity of your emamel, like when you have a pin-point cavity, it can reverse it. Large doeses can be bad, like all medicins. Brushing longer only helps if you are doing it effectivly. Soft tooth brush with 45 degree angle at the gums and on the tooth surface for two minutes at a time, with flouridated tooth paste (pea sized) on the brush. Brushing and flossing together minimizes the bacterial waste that causes tooth decay. Thats the key that keeps teeth from getting cavities. Other factors can also contibute, like enamel thickness. Lots of variables also, drink lots of pop, eat candy, so forth. Good luck with your project.
2006-12-27 17:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by fotocrazy06 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fluoride is a very toxic chemical that should have never been put in water or tooth paste.
Read the following web page. and if you scroll down you will find additional information on tooth paste and fluoride...
Shock your class with the truth about fluoride! Your science project might really do some good!
2006-12-27 16:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by pinelake302 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats not accurate
toothpaste is abrasive and has like little sand pebbles in it. so if u brush longer than usual you run the risk of harming instead of helping your teeth. teeth rebuild themselves in the presence of fluoride. so having fluoride in your mouth for an extended period of time will help this. but not in the time span youre talking about. you will need hours maybe days. not seconds as will longer brushing do.
2006-12-27 16:11:03 · answer #3 · answered by Raul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fluoride in toothpaste prevents tooth and enamel decay, flouride in water helps build stonger teeth.
2006-12-27 19:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by coldblooded 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old studies showed that in the presence of fluoride, the bacteria that causes the cavities couldn't reproduce or live
2006-12-27 18:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by doctorhector 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be careful about fluoride. Studies now show that too much exposure to fluoride is causing Alzheimers disease.
http://www.handlethetruth.net
2006-12-27 16:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by truthhandl3r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It enables the tooth (that's the outer layer of your tooth) remineralize. each time you consume any foodstuff containing organic or synthetic sugars, the micro organism interior the plaque on your tooth combine with those sugars and convey acids which ruin down your tooth. The fluoride strengths tooth so the acid won't be able to ruin it down so particularly.
2016-10-19 01:55:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋