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Does anyone have any evidens that sodium fluoride prevents cavities ??? My own research shows that it more proberly calcium fluoride which prevents cavities.
- Sorry can't provide you with evidence, perhaps some other user can. But there seems only 3 fluoride compounds are commonly used in commercial tooth paste as a decay retarding compounds. Stannous fluoride SnF2 (Tin fluoride), sodium monofluorophosphate or sodium fluoride. All these fluoride compounds are manufactured from hydrofluoric acid, which commercially is usually manufactured from fluorspar (calcium fluoride). So yes in a manner of speaking, calcium fluoride prevents cavities if you accept that sodium fluoride does. I have responded further on you talk page User talk:Equanimous2.--blue520 15:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't accept that sodium flouride prevents cavities. I think calcium is an importen component. I just think that if we can't find hard evidence that sodium fluoride prevents cavities then it should be removed from the article or we should write that it is in the article with out any evidens. Equanimous2 19:27, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
There is an article at J Am Dent Assoc. 1959 Feb;58(2):43-55 titled "Dental caries in the molar teeth of rats. III. Bio-assay of sodium flouride and sodium lauroyl sarcosinate as caries-inhibitory agents." Unfortunatly I dont think its online. This might shed some light on the argument, though I dont have access to this particular year. However there is another article "Clinical evaluation of sodium flouride chewable tablets in dental caries." Indian J Dent Res. 1999 Oct-Dec;10(4):146-9. Abstract: Chewable tablets containing low dosage flouride content were prepared using two varities of celluloses and their in vitro parameters were evaluated. An eighteen month clinical trial revealed that both these formulations were effective in controlling the caries. However, ethyl cellulose is proved to be superior to methylcellulose as a controlled release matrix material in controlling caries. Thus this study recommends ethylcellulose matrix tablets containing low flouride content is an efficacious and cost effective drug device in controlling dental caries. So it is my belief that sodium flouride does indeed contribute to the prevention of cavities. Fitz05 21:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Behavior on heating
What happens to NaF if you heat up to melting point in air vs pure nitrogen vs hydrogen nitrogen? Do you retain the original chemical? Does it decompose? Do you form HF and Na2O? Do you form Na metal, HF? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.20.140.8 (talk • contribs) .
- In general, metal halides are very stable, and sodium fluoride is no exception. No element is more electronegative than fluorine, and only the heavier alkali metals are more electropositive than sodium, so it doesn't react with any of the gases you mention. —Keenan Pepper 22:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sodium fluoride is toxic
Guys, this article is crap, calcium fluoride in TINY trace amounts is good for the human body, sodium fluoride is HIGLY toxic. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.122.133.80 (talk • contribs) .
Er... calcium flouride is also toxic. Sodium flouride is added to toothpaste and other such things, in small quantities. Fitz05 21:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The TRUTH about Fluoride
Fluoride is as toxic as lead: http://www.laleva.cc/food/fluoro_rense.html
The Truth About 'Fluoride': http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/F/Fluoride.htm
Dr. E.H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles. http://www.sonic.net/kryptox/history/perkins2.htm
The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from Mr. Charles Perkins, a chemist: "I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation regarding a statement made in my book, The Truth About Water Fluoridation, to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England from Russia by the Russian Communist Kreminoff. "In the 1930`s, Hitler and the German Nazi`s envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place. ...
"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual`s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient light lobotomy]
"The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children`s teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty.
"When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go into Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communize the world. ...
"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years` research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically." CHARLES E. PERKINS, Chemist, 2 October 1954.
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Quoting Einstein`s nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952:
"It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the 'next' on the agenda of the water poisoners.
"There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless 'intellectual' parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic--from within if they can, according to their plan--for their own possession.
"The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us.
"Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration. ..
"As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don`t do it.
"Even in small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it is the most efficient rat-killer. ... Sodium fluoride is entirely different from organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate needed by our bodies and provided by nature, in God`s great providence and love, to build and strengthen our bones and our teeth. This organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate, derived from proper foods, is an edible organic salt, insoluble in water and assimilable by the human body, whereas the non-organic sodium fluoride used in fluoridating water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble.
The body refuses to assimilate it. "Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting `dental health,` fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a "health" plan? What`s behind it?
"That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity. "No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin`s Last Will and Hitler`s Mein Kampf:
> "America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within." ...
"Are our Civil Defense organizations and agencies awake to the perils of water poisoning by fluoridation? Its use has been recorded in other countries. Sodium fluoride water solutions are the cheapest and most effective rat killers known to chemists: colorless, odorless, tasteless; no antidote, no remedy, no hope: Instant and complete extermination of rats. ...
"Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity--treason!" I RULE ALL PEATMOSSSSS
