Like the previous poster I am around the same age and have never had a cavity either- no one in my immediate family has but I will admit its probably got to do with genetics as well as good dental hygene although we ate very little in sweets.

I would like to tell you about the toothpaste that we use- Jack n' Jill http://www.jackandjillkids.com/. Its organic and contains calendula, there is no flouride, sugar or preservatives. Flavours include Banana, Raspberry, Blueberry, Blackcurrant and Strawberry. They also sell compostable toothbrushes!!!

My kids especially love the banana flavour. 

More evidence...

http://naturalsociety.com/breaking-fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in-new-research/

Your teeth are the least of your worries if you ingest fluoride on a regular basis...

Actually Constance, that's not evidence at all:

SkepticalVegan >> Flouride & Heart Disease?

There you have it, the authors of the study we simply seeing if they could use fluorine-18 to image atherosclerosis rather than saying fluorine-18 induced atherosclerosis. But what about sodium fluoride? Sodium fluoride, along with hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium hexafluorosilicate, is used in small quantities to fluoridate water supplies or salt depending on where you live. Fluoridation has rightfully been called one of the most successful and cost-effective public health measures, saving millions of dollars in dental work and preventing untold cavities.

I could not help but write….  there are several important factors people raised about Fluoride and it was very interesting for me to read all of it since as a pediatric dentist with a public health degree, I have seen so many aspects of this issue.

I understand people’s sensitivity and worry about not putting any medicine or any kind to their diet and in to their  daily lives,  and I have immense admiration to Constance’s way of living and raising her child.  (and yes if we can take the processed food, and sugar  out from our diet  and we can go back way before 1600s  when there were very few people with dental disease since the Europeans did not introduce sugar or processed food until 1600s ), and if we could make “ all organic, no processed food,” healthy life style spread around the world, maybe than we can solve the transmissible, infectious dental disease” cavity” problem which is the most common  yet treatable disease of childhood.(5 times more common than childhood asthma) . I would love to see no children  (starting as young as 2 years old) going to Operating room for full mouth rehabilitation  due to their extensive decay(teaching hospitals have a 6 months waiting list ) and have  the risk of general anesthesia not only once sometimes twice or more  in their lives;  I would love to see no kids dying while  under sedation,  or on the clinic  chairs because of the complications of the treatment, or dying in the emergency room because the health care system failed and the simple dental decay –when  not treated- can be life threatening. I would love to see numbers of the children with decay go down ) by 17 years of age 78% of  children in US experienced caries (AAPD)…. I would love to see all people live healthy lifestyles and live longer as they should…. But until then water fluoridation,  semi-annual topical fluoride applications(fluoride varnish) are the most important interventions that these kids would have… and there are “ evidence based” universally” accepted norms , facts,  and research behind this. Thank you.

Thanks G GUL for your awesome and thorough response! I agree with Alicias post of Dr. Ted Spences suggestion that a healthy diet is a much better approach to avoiding dental decay. Simply put though, it is not the people who are intelligent enough to feed their children a healthy low carb low sugar less cariogenic diet and that provide good oral hygiene for them that we in the dental field are worried about! It is the uneducated parents and low income parents who have no idea what they are doing with their children's oral or overall health that we are worried about, and there are just too many of these instances compared to the previous. Fluoride HELPS these helpless children.

Hi, I would also like to know what is a good water filtration system?  My husband and I have been thinking about installing one directly on our faucet, but for now we use a Pur pitcher.  The only downfall is that I know it doesn't cut out the fluoride in our water system and that makes me nervous.  Please let me know if any of you have any suggestions for a great filter!  Thanks!  

i avoid fluoride AND glycerin in my dental products. the only commercial toothpaste ive found that is fluoride- and glycerin-free is coral white. i also use kiss my face peace soap (but NOT dr bronners, as all or most of them have glycerin in them) and a homemade solid soap i got from a seller on etsy (she was the only one at the time offering a soap that didnt come in only peppermint (allergic), clove, or tea tree - yuck. i got a vanilla, yay!).