Transcript excerpt of a conversation (Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker) about strategies to reduce exposure to toxic substances in clinical and personal products. The speakers discuss practical challenges—lack of labeling on materials used in medical/dental practice—and recommend filtering products and contacting manufacturers to verify ingredients (notably avoiding fluoride).
So it's in the, yeah, it's kind of that same old situation, like how do we make things as non toxic, as non toxic as possible without making ourselves crazy in the process of trying to, to do that?
Yeah, I would say filter, filter things where you can. I personally don't use any products with fluoride in them. Even in the, in the practice, we don't have any, anything with fluoride in it, which is, believe it or not, it's an ongoing process because it's, it, it's not like the materials that I have in my office have nutrition labels on the back. They don't have drug labels on the back. So we actually have to call the manufacturers of all the products that we use. Anytime we get a new cement, anytime we want to use a new filling material, we have to check and see if there is fluoride anywhere in the formulation.
