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Agreed. We cant even get 10 dentists to agree which toothpaste to use. Getting 100 experts to agree on anything is a miracle.

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> We cant even get 10 dentists to agree which toothpaste to use.

The 1 in 10 who didn’t recommend $PASTECORP made up the 9 in 10 who recommended $NUTRAPASTE

Toothpaste brand/variant, by and large, doesn't matter.

There is over 30 different variants of Colgate Toothpaste, do dentist believe ALL the Colgate ones are better than the alternatives?

Fluoride is good for teeth but not for your gut and the rest of the body

I don't think you're supposed to be eating the toothpaste.

I eat a quarter of a tube of toothpaste per day. Other than the weight loss, hair loss and reduction in bowel control, I have not noticed any negative side effects. Helps keep my insides clean.

Oh but it does, they just don't give the US access to the good stuff. Sensodyne Repair & Protect with NovaMin is available in Europe, but because American Crapitalism, aka money aka FDA, you can't get it in the US.

Sometimes yes. My dentist explained she recommended Colgate because none of their 30 equal choices used to contain stannous floride, so it was easier to shop by brand than search for which ingredient to avoid specifically amongst the competitors 30 choices

Because different toothpaste is helpful for different cases and reasons?

The same applies to software though.

Most people with bad vision want higher contrast for text, while most people with dyslexia want text with lower contrast.

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