What is the Best Fluoride Free Toothpaste?
Ever since I was a child I always wondered why toothpaste had a warning label on to call Poison Control in the event the paste was swallowed. If a small amount of ingested fluoride could necessitate calling Poison Control, then why is it added in water that you can drink in uncontrolled amounts all your life. Surely, there should be some connection between these two statements about a known poison? Marketing a kids toothpaste with bubble gum flavoring and then adding enough fluoride to seriously harm or even kill a child if they ate the whole tube has to be wrong. How did that ever come to pass? A 1991 report from the Akron (Ohio) Regional Poison Center states, “Death has been reported following ingestion of 16 mg/kg of fluoride.” That means that one-hundredth of an ounce of fluoride could kill a 10-pound child and one-tenth of an ounce could kill a 100-pound adult. The report continues, “Fluoride toothpaste contains up to 1 mg/gram [1 milligram per gram] of fluoride.” This means that
