Fluoride Therapy

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Fluoride Therapy

Fluoride therapy is the delivery of fluoride to the teeth and is designed to prevent tooth decay from developing.

The most common way of topically applying the fluoride to your teeth is by using gels, varnishes, toothpaste or mouth rinse.

An alternative to topically applying fluoride is systemic delivery, which involves fluoride supplementation through the swallowing of either tablets or drops. This type of delivery is very rare, especially in areas where public water supplies are fluoridated. However systemic delivery, along with salt fluoridation, is more common in other European nations.

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Benefits

Fluoride therapy is generally regarded as a useful dental treatment amongst dental specialists, as fluoride helps combat the formation of tooth decay primarily in the following three ways:

• Fluoride has been found to enhance the tooth remineralization process. Fluoride found in saliva will adsorb onto the surface of a tooth where demineralization has occurred. As a result, the presence of this fluoride attracts other minerals such as calcium - resulting in the formation of new tooth mineral.
  
  
• Fluoride can hinder oral bacteria's ability to create acids. Fluoride disrupts the bacteria that live in dental plaque and its ability to metabolise sugars - the less sugar the bacteria can consume, the less amount of acidic waste produced.
  
  
• Fluoride can make a tooth more resistant to the formation of tooth decay. The remineralisation process helps create a new tooth mineral that is actually a "harder" mineral compound than the mineral that previously existed when the tooth initially formed.