High Fluoride Toothpaste

Toothsmith

bazzyb wrote: »

A private dentist can give a (private) prescription for Duraphat. I'm not sure why your GP suggested otherwise.

Rather than give a prescription, the private dentist could just sell a patient Duraphat toothpaste.

The point of the NHS prescription would be that it would be free to anyone exempt from prescription charges.

tomtontom

Toothsmith wrote: »

Rather than give a prescription, the private dentist could just sell a patient Duraphat toothpaste.

The point of the NHS prescription would be that it would be free to anyone exempt from prescription charges.

Is it ok for them to sell it without prescription, given that it is a prescription only medicine?

Stompa

tomtontom wrote: »

Is it ok for them to sell it without prescription, given that it is a prescription only medicine?

See the original post in this thread.

caringa

DUTR wrote: »

I can beat that, I had 6 tubes of duraphat 5000 on a prescription this week. :cool:

Me too and fortunately I am a pensioner so it was free. The only problem is that I dont have many of my own teeth left now!!! Maybe this will prevent me from loosing the last few!:rotfl:

cepheus

Toothsmith wrote: »

Rather than give a prescription, the private dentist could just sell a patient Duraphat toothpaste.

That's what happened in the end, they sent it through the post to me for £6.80

Toothsmith wrote: »

The point of the NHS prescription would be that it would be free to anyone exempt from prescription charges.

Or if you've paid for a prepayment certificate.

Amica_2

With all the controversy about fluoride's side-effects on our health, it would probably be safer to use a regular toothpaste that contains some fluoride, Colgate, for example (and cut the cost of it). Plus check your diet - fluoride does support enamel health, but, frankly, unless the nutrition is fixed, it's not going to help. It's so frustrating that doctors prefer to rely on heavy meds etc. because they are supported by pharmaceutical industry - main goal of which is to make people as ill as possible and sell them as much drugs as possible... And at the same time they never explain that eating better diet, i.e. more fresh, no sugar/junk, plus foods containing calcium, magnesium, zinc, essential fats, beta-carotene, B vitamins and vitamin C will make a MASSIVE difference to people's teeth. And apart from numerous benefits for people's health, it's a lot more budget friendly, too. For the cost of one of those toothpaste, one can actually buy a month supply of colgate and a few days worth of groceries AND do NO HARM to their body.

coldstreamalways

To echo toothsmith, if you can't even spell Fluoride, your argument is automatically invalid because you clearly don't understand the subject matter and haven't read widely around it.

Same for those who bang on about aspartame but can't even pronounce it. Learn some facts, tell me some good research and then we can debate. Ill informed scaremongering is just ridiculous.

Toothsmith

Amica wrote: »

With all the controversy about fluoride's side-effects on our health

There is no controversy.

There is just the evidence - and a few vocal nutters who don't understand it!!