Relax!
The amount of flouride in the water supply is quite safe. It is lower than that in some naturally occurring water supplies.
Chlorine is also a highly toxic gas but is used to setrilize the water supplies across the nation.
True, fluoride is fluoride, acetic acid is acetic acid, and vanillin is vanillin (whether it comes from an orchid, petroleum, or from the paper industry by the oxidative breakdown of lignin.) The problem is that one cannot completely get rid of all of the possibly nasty biproducts that are floating around with the desired product. True, we can get pretty darn close. There are certain “acceptable” levels as designated by some government organization, but some people may not want to eat the levels of eugenol or hydroxybenzaldehyde that are allowed in the final product.
I don’t know much about where the fluoride used in water comes from, but I wouldn’t be surprised if different sources also include different proportions of undesireable contaminants. Whether the concentrations of these contaminants are even detectable or high enough to worry about is an other matter.
Indeed, that’s how it was discovered that fluoride is beneficial for teeth - communities with fluoride-stained teeth (caused by too high natural fluoride levels) were unusually cavity-free. It took years to figure out that the fluoride was what caused both the staining and the health.
As I said before, toothpaste has fluoride up to a few parts per thousand. If you want to worry about anything, worry about that rather than tap water with one part per million. (But actually, don’t worry about that either!)
Ahem! Wolverine’s skeleton is plated with Adamantium, not Titanium.
That is all. :rolleyes: