Natural "crunchy" mom avoids fluoride, destroys her babies teeth, blames genetics.
Posted Apr 14, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC
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My kid and I had to do the breastfeeding co-sleeping thing for a couple of months (Long story, but a regular, normal, sane, licensed doctor approved this plan after trying EVERYTHING else). She turned 10 months old on the 12th and started to cut her first tooth the same day. Guess who got sent back to her own room so she can't nurse all night anymore?
Mama isn't playing with pediatric dental issues.
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electric, and i mean this with all my heart, chair
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It’s clearly the wicked mouth parasites! Dentists couldn’t possibly care about people’s well-being!!
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If only she was this dligent about stuff that was actually healthy for her child.
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Baby toothpaste doesn’t have fluoride in it anyhow, so she’s not doing anything weird. They keep it fluoride-free because little kids tend to swallow it. The real issue here is that she’s not getting this kid in to see a dentist, but is just showing the picture to her dentist and asking for advice. The kid needs specialist intervention.
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The American Dental Association recommends you use small quantities of fluoride toothpaste with babies, as soon as they have their first tooth.
https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/babies-and-kids/moms-guide-to-fluoride
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I was going to look into this topic today before I saw the post. Thank you for sharing, kind stranger!
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I specifically use kid toothpaste with fluoride because we have well water that has none. As far as i can tell the kid would need to eat a lot of toothpaste for any kind of poisoning.
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Look at those poor gums too, that kid must hate chewing.
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Chew? Sounds like he’s on an all breast milk diet with coconut oil.
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Well I assumed her breastmilk comes out in cubes from fermenting in there.
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Probably more like a can of spray cheese
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The dentist is right. The milk at night is the source of this problem, along with no fluoride.
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Though you can be genetically predisposed to bad teeth, as well. I could brush six times a day, and still...but they tell me I have the gums of someone in their 20's...like that helps.
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Oh this is true. I have bad genes and despite Doing Everything Right, my teeth are still going down a bad path.
better than that kid though lol
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I ended up with those silver caps all over. Neighbour's kid did too, but his was from her letting him sleep with a bottle of juice. She thought she was doing well by him, and even now (in her 70's) feels horrible guilt about it.
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She says they "brush with non fluoride," but that doesn't mean she's using toothpaste to brush. She could be using baking soda and water, for all we know, which damages enamel big time.
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She’s also probably filtering his water to remove fluoride so that with non fluoridated toothpaste means he’s getting no Fluoride at all
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Milk pooling in the mouth is actually a problem for babies teeth.
Poor kid though, trying to 'heal' this holistically. It's gotta start hurting soon.
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Why is no one mentioning the fact that this kid breastfed for 5 years. I'm pretty sure once you can have a conversation with someone they shouldn't be sucking on their mother's tit...
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Its the kid of her „dentist“. The mentioned kid is 19 months old
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So the dentist breast fed their kid until 4/5?
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Yeah, dentist seems like the enabling quack here...
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Makes sense, all ducks quack together after all...
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Apparently
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Holy shit dude, relax.
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What did it say?!
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Something along the lines of she should kill herself etc. And give her child to the system.
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Anti science and medicine but mentions genetic mutations
This is actually a common phenomena. People know just enough science to be afraid.
If you look up the countries with the best teeth in the world, none of them fluoridate their water. But, if you think burying your head in the sand because some dental associations said it was good for teeth while ignoring the hundreds of studies by doctors showing just some of the dangers, is the 'scientific way;, keep doing you.