Flourine
Some people disapprove of of adding fluorine to drinking water because it was proven that fluorine, even natural amounts, can give brown spots to people’s teeth. This was proven by the incident in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There were abnormal amounts of people with brown spots on their teeth and it was because the public drinking water in that area had excessive amounts of fluorine in it. Another reason people don’t want flourine in their drinking water is because fluorine is a poison that accumulates in your bones. By adding more flourine to the water, you are adding more poison into our body. It has also been associated with cancer in young men. Even hough it has only been proven to cause cancer in men, omen are worried too. So, because they don’t want to risk getting cancer, they want to avoid flourine completely. The side effect that scares me the most is cancer. This is the most important to me because cancer is the hardest to get rid of. It affects your bod the most, and it is also the most dangerous of the side effects. Brown Spotts do not severely affect the body. It simply affects your outside appearance, but that can be changed and helped where as cancer is hard to find a cure for.
I think that it should be legal to have fluorine in the water because it can be healthy for your teeth to a certain extent. At the same time, I do not want to risk people getting cancer or brown spots on their teeth. Even though fluorine is a necessity for clean teeth, I do not think that it is necessary to add any more fluorine if there is enough in the drinking water already. My opinion is mostly based on the trial in Michigan. In the case, Michigan adjusted the fluoride content of its water supply to 1.0 ppm (the best level of fluorine to prevent tooth decay). So, they became the first city to mess with community water fluoridation. By 1992, more than 60 percent of the U.S. population hat used public water systems had access to water with about a 1.0 ppm fluoridation.
Some technological advances in toothpaste had to be made before fluoride could be widely used in toothpaste and mouthwashes. First, the Food & Drug Administration composed three decay-preventing mixtures. This was needed because there are ways that fluorine can prevent decay, but only if the fluorine ion is available. So, it made fluorine safe for drinking water and toothpaste. After getting the basics done (making toothpaste safe) they continued to make ore interesting products. The next advancement was gel toothpaste, and so on.
The side effect that scares me the most is cancer. This is the most important to me because cancer is the hardest to get rid of. It affects your bod the most, and it is also the most dangerous of the side effects. Brown Spotts do not severely affect the body. It simply affects your outside appearance, but that can be changed and helped where as cancer is hard to find a cure for.
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