What age do you start children on flouride?

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The American Dental Association's current guidelines for fluoride use in infants and children: http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positi...The ADA recommends a minimum of age 2 before kids start using fluoride toothpaste, minimum age of 6 before kids start using fluoride rinses, and supplements are not recommended for infants under 6 months.Hope this helps.

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Children should not use flouride, it is a poison.

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Fluoride is already present in drinking water, so it doesn't harm them any. The best rule of thumb is when you think they are old enough to trust them not to swallow it.

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3 to 5, I was buying the special tooth paste before, the stuff for babies, and my son got used to brushing his teeth with that, so now at 3 he has moved on to the regular tooth paste. I only put on a very small amount mainly for taste, on the top of the bristles. Let him brush his teeth and get a drink, and so on. It's best to start with the baby tooth paste first. Good LuckBut they do have non floride toothpaste for kids. Check it out!

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You would do best to refer this question to the dentist taking care of your children's teeth. As a rule, they don't recommend using flouridated toothpaste until they are at least 2 and won't eat it, and most flouride anticavity rinses aren't recommended until they are 5 or 6, as you need to be sure they understand to spit and not swallow. Depending on the amount of flouride in your water and toothpaste, they may not recommend it at all. While flouride is helpful, it can also damage teeth if they get too much- so best be is to ask the dentist first. Proper brushing and flossing are the first lines of defense against decay, plus dental checks- not extra doses of flouride.

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Where we live we are on well water which unlike city water does not contain floride. The elementary schools here provide a monthly floride rince for the children. I would assume, without speaking to my dentist, that it is safe to start them on a floride rinse at age 4, which is school age for pre-k. I know my dentist would not even see my children until they turned age 4 when they had more developement. And at age 4 they know how to spit it out, because they are not suppose to swallow the floride. I hope this helps.

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