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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Trust me - I know far too well and used to warn people about this myself. Tap water in Japan is not fluoridated, so cavities pop up like CRAZY if you don`t use fluoride toothpaste.
This is actually something that kind of put me off the fluoridation of water in general as it seems your teeth sort of lose the ability to preserve themselves after a while and develop a dependence upon fluoride. (Kind of like how using lip gloss all the time reduces your lips ability to keep themselves from chapping.)
Of course, if you`ve had fluoride in all your water from childhood - there isn`t much you can do other than just make sure you keep getting that fluoride.
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Where I live now in the US is one of the few places in our area (if not the only place) where the water is not fluoridated. It means we are careful about toothpaste and mouthwash and our local dentist recommends kids up to 12 take fluoride pills.