Fluoride Benefits
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Fluoride's benefits include:
- Fluoride is needed for healthy bones and teeth
Fluoride has a very important role in ensuring teeth and bones are healthy and it is especially implicated in preventing tooth decay. - Fluoride helps to metabolise calcium, iron and magnesium
Fluoride has an important role in helping the body metabolise and use the minerals calcium, iron and magnesium, two of which are important in mineralisation of bones and teeth to ensure they are healthy and strong. When teeth and bone are formed, calcium and phosphorus forms crystalline structures called hydroxyapatite. Fluoride then replaces a part of the hydroxyapatite crystal, creating fluorapatite, which makes the bones stronger and gives the teeth better resistance to decay.
Fluoride has a very important role in ensuring teeth and bones are healthy and it is especially implicated in preventing tooth decay
- Fluoride is needed to activate many enzymes
Fluoride is required to activate the activity of a number of important enzymes in the body.