if you consume substantial amounts of fluoride, your body is going to deposit it in your skeletal system. it's not going to get excreted through your kidneys, and it's not going to just disappear. it's really going to end up in your teeth.
Approximately 80% or more of orally ingested fluoride is absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract [1]. In adults, about 50% of absorbed fluoride is retained, and bones and teeth store about 99% of fluoride in the body [1,3]. The other 50% is excreted in urine [1]. In young children, up to 80% of absorbed fluoride is retained because more is taken up by bones and teeth than in adults [1].
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/
so, what happens if you have a cavity and you ingest a lot of fluoride? this is the part that doesn't make sense to me - supposedly, you deposit the fluoride in your teeth unless you have a cavity? but, then what happens to it if you do?
it can't just disappear.
if i'm convinced that i'm not consuming enough fluoride and that's what the problem is, i am sort of skeptical that i can't fix it by taking....not high but higher doses of fluoride. what else is going to happen to this fluoride?
i get tons of calcium, tons of phosphorus, tons of just about everything else. fluoride is the singular hole in the diet that needs to be plugged.
now, you might say something like the remineralization will be unnatural, but i'd rather have an unnatural remineralization than a mercury amalgam, or a plastic resin. that's a better choice, even if it's a little discoloured.
i am fully aware that this is not the currently accepted view, but i'm willing to take a chance on it and see what happens, because what i've been told my whole life doesn't make any sense to me.
if your body doesn't deposit these minerals, what does it do with them?