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. 2023 Jun 20;25:e44586. doi: 10.2196/44586

Table 1.

Fluoride-free–related salient topics stratified according to the most frequent words, issues, and examples.

Topic Most frequent words Issues Examples
1 Natural, oil, product, vegan, organic, charcoal, people, black, care, kid, family, long, food, deodorant, good, and dentist Healthy lifestyle
  • “Chlorine free. Fluoride-free. We believe that a better you start with a better water.”

  • “Fluoride-free health products to support a healthy lifestyle”

2 Tooth, good, dental, low, health, paste, organic, people, Tom, well, aluminum, child, deodorant, cavity, year, and way Consumption of natural/organic oral care products
  • “Sprouts has very good vegan lip balm, lotion, deodorant, natural oils, fluoride-free and all natural tooth paste etc.”

  • “Anybody know of a site that does that organic fluoride free toothpaste, aluminum free”

3 Tooth, Tom, decay, oil, state, week, health, Maine, dentist, new, deodorant, oral, low, whitening, cavity, safe, and day Recommendations for using fluoride-free products/measures
  • “Fluoride does a body bad. Don‘t drink fluoride. I like to use Tom‘s fluoride-free toothpaste.”

  • “Tom’s of Maine natural fluoride-free baking soda toothpaste with propolis and myrrh”