A review of a fluoride mouth rinse (sic) sold by Amazon.
Ha ha ha. A fluoride mouth rinse. Yeah, this brings
back some memories from my childhood. All Swedish children were required to
undergo fluoride therapy to combat caries. The whole thing was very well-organized.
Without warning, the "fluoride lady" would show up during a class in
elementary school, with the fluoride we kids were supposed to "rinse but
not swallow".
Most kids hated the procedure - they thought fluoride tasted like cow - so the lady always had an assistant, an even older and considerably grumpier lady whose job was to make sure everyone took their fluoride properly, and nobody tried to wash his mouth with water afterwards. A more weird detail was that the fluoride rinse came in small plastic cups which were differently coloured each time: sometimes they were blue, sometimes red, once they were yellow?! A mystery of my childhood I never solved, since the mouthwash itself was the same (and tasted the same) every time.
The above experience (which reminds me of Medication Time in a famous film starring one Jack Nicholson) is probably one of the few things the ever-so-diverse Swedish people have in common. I'm being ironic. Being forced by Nurse Ratched and her pet dinosaur to wash my mouth with an inorganic anion (whatever that is) made me into what I am today. An underemployed, over-aged fatality of Big Nurse State...with really good teeth. Happy rinsin', boys and girlz! :P
Most kids hated the procedure - they thought fluoride tasted like cow - so the lady always had an assistant, an even older and considerably grumpier lady whose job was to make sure everyone took their fluoride properly, and nobody tried to wash his mouth with water afterwards. A more weird detail was that the fluoride rinse came in small plastic cups which were differently coloured each time: sometimes they were blue, sometimes red, once they were yellow?! A mystery of my childhood I never solved, since the mouthwash itself was the same (and tasted the same) every time.
The above experience (which reminds me of Medication Time in a famous film starring one Jack Nicholson) is probably one of the few things the ever-so-diverse Swedish people have in common. I'm being ironic. Being forced by Nurse Ratched and her pet dinosaur to wash my mouth with an inorganic anion (whatever that is) made me into what I am today. An underemployed, over-aged fatality of Big Nurse State...with really good teeth. Happy rinsin', boys and girlz! :P
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