Toothpaste Giant Colgate-Palmolive launches right now a new toothpaste. The advertisement claimed fluoride toothpaste with “sugar acid neutralizer” be “the most significant innovation to combat tooth decay in over 50 years.”
Behind the claim is eight years of research with over 14 000 people, the company writes on its homepage.
The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU) is not true in worship.
Not only that it is impossible to prove that the current toothpaste is better than regular fluoride toothpaste. The research behind the toothpaste is deeply unethical too.
In two of the four studies that the SBU has examined included hundreds of children of different control groups, which received toothpaste without fluoride for six months to study the enamel damage.
– I was absolutely horrified when I discovered these studies, says dentist Aaron Naimi-Akbar included in the SBU project.
In the studies, that was performed in China in 2013, trying to prove that Colgate toothpaste in addition to fluoride also contains the amino acid arginine, is better than toothpaste that contains only fluorine.
But this is successful, the company is not with, says SBU in its report.
According to Aaron Naimi-Akbar, there are several problems with the studies. One is that there is an obvious jävsproblematik.
– Colgate has been involved in each step of the research. They have reviewed and analyzed the results, but has not reported how they have gone about.
In addition, note the SBU, can research contrary to the ethical principles by Colgate let children use toothpaste without fluoride.
– It is a scientific issue that does not need to be answered. You already know that fluoride prevents tooth decay, says Aaron Naimi-Akbar.
TT: Do you have “sugar acid neutralizer” -tandkräm?
– No, I use regular fluoride toothpaste. The cheapest available.
TT has tried to get in touch with Colgate-Palmolive, but the company is only accessible via a consumer form on our website.
No comments:
Post a Comment