027-Protecting Our Public Health with Sharity Ludwig

This week on Protecting our Public Health Sharity Ludwig dives into this months topics of fluoride! She brings on Dr. Kurt Ferre to speak to us about Fluoride and the impact it has made on oral health. 

 

Episode Highlights

• Dr. Ferre’s Background
• Dr. Ferre’s epiphany moment
• Criteria for a public health measure 
• History of Fluoridation 
• How Fluoridation works

Quotes 

 

“Very quickly I had my ‘Dorothy we are not in Kansas anymore’ epiphany” 

 

“The goal of public health is to improve the population of a community, and it values the collective good of all citizens” 

 

“Many of the citizens that were born and raised in Colorado Springs had this unsightly brown staining on their teeth” 

 

“Not only did these patients have the staining, they had virtually no cavities” 

 

“The critical time of the crown formation is the first 8 years of life” 

 

“I like to think of that is a little barrier to protect from future acid attacks” 

 

“The basic rule of toxicology is that the dose makes a poison” 

 

“Fluoride is the 13th most common element in the earths crust” 

 

“A fluoride ion, is a fluoride ion, is a fluoride ion” 

 

Links

Sharitys Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/sharetherdhlove/

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429