Fluoride and osteoporosis - Osteoporosis Message Board

Misty800 · 08-09-2006, 02:21 PM

Saw my orthopedic specialist yesterday and he has also been recieving reports that fluoride is not good for the elderly when it comes to osteoporosis.

I will continue drinking Ozarka Natural Spring Water, has no fluoride (I called Ozarka to find out).

Thought others might be interested in this.

taape · 08-10-2006, 12:23 AM

I use prescription flouride tooth paste and a flouride rinse everyday for my teeth but neither are swallowed. What type or forms of flouride was your doctor talking about? Just the flouride in drinking water? I drink bottled spring water so get any there.

CrohnieToo · 08-10-2006, 09:12 AM

Don't it figure? All these years I've been drinking our faithful ole well water. Then our Christmas Tree farm neighbor decided to give up on marketing trees and got a permit to put in a 40 and a 22 acre lake and our well after all these years starts running dry on us so at 64, retired and w/osteoporosis we have to put in city water - with its flouride. Sigh. Now I'm supposed to pay for both city water for the house and bottled water to drink???

The darn lakes also dried up the old flowing well on some vacant property just down the road from us too so that option is out. We used to LOVE that flow on a hot day when we were horseback riding in the area.

Progress!!! Ptooooey!!!!!

elmhar · 08-10-2006, 01:12 PM

Taape,

Fluoride rinses tend to provide many times the EPA designated safe amt of fluoride. The tissues of the cheek, tongue, & under the tongue are highly vascular & will absorb fluoride quite well.

Best wishes.

Misty800 · 08-10-2006, 05:13 PM

Taape,
We were discussing drinking water. The amount of fluoride in drinking water is not good for the elderly (great for children developing bones). I had been reading about this for a long time and decided to ask the orthopedic specialist about it. He was head of orthopedics at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Most doctors at medical schools are on the cutting edge of new developments.

Most bottled water contains fluoride. However, the Ozarka Natural Spring Water does not (I called Ozarka).

Another orthpedic doctor I saw for my knees told me many treatments they have used for years is now considered wrong.

Like many things they tell us something is good and then later on down the road, like several years, they tell us it is not good for us. Hard to know what is good and what is not.

Misty