Make a Payment Membership Plan. To schedule an appointment, please call during normal business hours to speak with one of our staff:. The second line of defense is typically a filling , but a deep cavity may require a crown and a root canal to clean out all of the bacteria. Frederick McKay. He noticed that children in the community had severe brown stains on their teeth but their rate of tooth decay was extremely low.
After 3 decades of research into the cause of the staining, it was discovered the extreme levels of natural fluoride in the water was causing both the brown stains and the cavity-resistant teeth.
The levels were high enough to make teeth more resistant to decay, but low enough not to cause brown staining. The HHS department finally settled on a concentration of 0. Greeley participates in this program and the local water supply is exactly 0. The addition of fluoride into the public water supply is considered one of the top 10 most successful public health initiatives in history by the CDC because of the dramatic decrease in tooth decay after the addition of fluoride to the water supply.
Fluoride is the combination of the natural element Fluorine see below and some other element, like Sodium to stabilize it. When fluoride comes in contact with saliva, it combines with the calcium and phosphorus naturally in your saliva and bonds to tooth structure, increasing its hardness making it more resistant to acid attacks by bacteria.
Fluoride also directly inhibits bacteria from functioning properly, thus decreasing bacterial acid production in the first place!
