Which toothpaste can be dangerous?

Which toothpaste can be dangerous?
Caution: F!

There are so many toothpastes sold, some just do not have additives - from aloe with green tea, to silicon and chitin. Which should be treated with caution, which can not be children?

Director of the National Institute of Informatics, analysis and marketing in dentistry (NIIAMS), a member of the Dental Association of Russia, Vladimir SADOVSKY:

- It is better if a particular type of pasta you recommend a dentist on the basis of your problems or their absence. But toothpaste can not be selected once and for life. For example, the therapeutic paste should alternate approximately every two months. This is the case with antibiotics: bacteria "get used" to the active substances a paste and no longer afraid of it.

Precautions should be treated with fluoride toothpastes to the residents of the regions where an excess of fluoride in drinking water. For example, if you live in the Moscow region, Odintsovo it, Krasnogorsk, Kolomna, Ramensky district, Zelenograd.

Update information about the content of fluoride in water can be in the local sanepidorganah, from local doctors, dentists. Excessive replenish the body of the young generation in these settlements fluoride can cause damage to the teeth, cause the so-called fluorosis. Usually it gives a milky spot, but sometimes that brown. If your region no excess fluoride in the water or the lack of it, the paste with fluorine effective, especially during ripening teeth.

A list of regions where excess fluoride in water, and fluoride toothpaste should be treated with caution *:

Karelia.

Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Petrodvortsovsky district of St. Petersburg.

Ryazan Oblast.

Tver region.

Udmurtia.

Chita region.

Chuvashia.

* According to the handbook "Dental diseases the population of Russia in 2009".

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