Re: NEW Idea for baby teeth!

[Steve Frey <sfreyohp@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Tom Savin has a point. Sr-90 could actually benefit teeth. 

Moreover, radioactive teeth could help prevent illness by 
sterilizing food, and right at the point of consumption. Oh, 
the elegance!

Irradiators, schmirradiators. Gimmie dat Sr-90!

Steve
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At 01:40 PM 5/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I don't believe anyone has thought of this.  So strontium 90 is increasing 
>in baby teeth, I can accept this, but why would it be so.  In Scientific 
>American there is a section called "working knowledge" well about six months 
>ago the topic was how flouride protects your teeth - it actually binds to 
>the tooth - like calcium, and also strontium. It helps form a protective 
>layer. We also drink flouridated water (most of us anyway).  With the 
>costant loss of calcium it follows that St90 would also increase in being 
>deposited on the teeth (eating celery, or other foods which concentrate 
>St90, and kept in place by flouride.  Please remember that flouridation was 
>a communist plot.
>
>Not a bad explanation of the issue.
>
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