From:	Da Twink Daddy datwinkdaddy@*******.com
Subject:	Second Hand
Date:	Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:47:58 -0400 (EDT)

> > Well, that's what they _claim_ it is there for. Personally I don't belive
> > it. If it was possible to just drink floride and get the effect of a
> > floride treatment, dentists would just send you home with a bottle of
> > grape flovoured flouride and say take X much Y times a day for Z days.
>
> Um, they do that, or at least did that. I think that I had a floride treatment
> once or twice. Most of the time it was a mouthwash looking bottle with some
> flavor or other that you measured in the cap, swished and made sure you didn't
> swallow.

Well, okay. I've actually had it two different ways. 1) They fill a mold
with a flavoured gel of high-concentrate floride. They stick in your mouth
and you bite down. The gel is quite viscous so, the bottom of the mold
doesn't leak all that much. You keep this there for what seems like an
eternity. Then they so they spray/vaccuum thing to remove all the excess
floride from your mouth. (This is direct, effective contact directly with
the enamel.) or 2) They give you some pink/purple liquid that you rinse
with 3x daily just like mouthwash. DO NOT SWALLOW. This isn't nearly as
concentrated as the gel but it probably 400x as concentrated as florinated
water. (This also isn't as effective as a floride treatment w/ the gel and
dentist know this... so they only do the mouthwash stuff if you don't want
to come in every week and your teeth are _realllllllly_ crappy.)

Either treatment doesn't sound like a good argument for florinated water
for me.

Da Twink Daddy
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