Fluoride- & Chlorhexidine-Free Tooth Hygiene For You: What Alternatives are There? And How Effective are Natural and Not-So-Natural Fluoride-Free Products?
There are alternatives and adjuncts to fluoride you just have to know them. To start off with the most important information not in, but about this article: This is not an anti-fluoride article. I am not even going to mention the ongoing debate about the usefulness and safety of fluoride in toothpaste and co. What I am offering is a concise list of natural agents with similar anti-bacterial properties as fluoride anyone of you can use to improve his tooth hygiene - this includes those of you who believe the whole fluoride scare is another overweight child of the hype generating online health community. Various anti plaque agents, and other agents like enzymes have been effectively used as prevention of dental caries. Ever since 1970‘s researchers started to search for non-fluoride agents for the prevention of dental caries. And as Agarwal write in a recent article in Oral Hygiene & Health , "fluoride agents may serve as adjunctive therapeutics for preventing,...