Seriously, am I the only one wondering this.
On one hand it seems liek they're recommending it for a reason that it's good...
But think about it...
Dentists make money off us going to see them about our teeth.
Dentists recommend quite a lot of toothpaste products which 'take care' of your teeth and to use them daily, once when you wake up and once when you go to sleep.
Toothpaste contains fluoride, which comes from fluorine which is a harmful and poisonous chemical. That said, it may be their intention.
If they recommend the toothpaste, and we use it, they could be scamming us into using a product that weakens the barrier on our teeth in order to make us go back to the dentist.
Thus they're making more money out of our teeth, one; by originally going to them, two; by buying the toothpaste they recommend, and three; using it and returning.

My friend has never used toothpaste whilst brushing his teeth (He doesn't eat sweets/drink fizzy either..) and his teeth are pretty much perfect. Whereas other people who do use them still get infections like gum disease.

So what are your thoughts on this.
Do you trust them, if so, why?
Do you not trust them, if so.. justify your reason.

Do you have any articles stating that toothpaste is detrimental to us? I don't really have an opinion on it, but if I saw proof of your suspicions I may agree.

Heres one that I have found. Although this is more like a mental debate thats been going on, this article displays the harmful substances in toothpastes

http://www.livestrong.com/article/16...in-toothpaste/
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And this post is what made me originally start thinking about this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthough...ith_bad_teeth/

Neither of those links show any cases of toothpaste actually harming you.
If you're trying to argue dentists are causing other people's bad teeth and gum disease by offering up toothpaste, I'd argue that isn't the case. I had this phase where I didn't brush my teeth at all until the day before a dentist appointment. I had gum disease. I can guarantee that tooth paste doesn't cause that, since I didn't use any.
So yeah, use toothpaste until some ground-breaking evidence emerges that toothpaste is bad.

Grabbing at straws: the agenda

There are no actual studies that show toothpaste to be harmful
Also did you ever consider that brushing your teeth might make the job of a dentist easier
Plus you get to have white teeth.

Anyway your implying that people don't go to the dentist if they have good oral health which is also dumb

And table salt contains chlorine, which is incredibly poisonous. This is a meaningless argument.

Fluoride is an ion that can coat onto the surface of teeth, and once it does so doesn't leave, thus preventing anything worse from taking advantage of that location. It's essentially harmless at that point, and functions, in a sense, as a sort of chemical armor; for lack of better terminology.

Fluorine is a greenish-yellow gas which sets almost anything it touches on fire.

The only difference between them is that fluoride has one extra electron. However, toxicity properties are NOT intuitive from the elements used in something's formation. Fluorine containing compounds have a very small handful of standing concerns, none of which apply to fluoride, which has its own small handful of concerns (it's bad for the digestive system to actually swallow, which is one of many reasons to not swallow toothpaste).

Your friend's secret to good teeth is almost certainly just that he apparently doesn't eat sugar. Turns out, sugar promotes bacterial growth which can result in significant tooth decay.

Is dentistry a giant money making conspiracy? Considering that it's not really particularly difficult to look up the science behind toothpaste, and that said science has been written in a fashion that isn't really that hard to interpret, I'd say probably not.

Toothpaste does help with maintaining healthy teeth. I don't believe whatsoever that dentists are plotting an evil scheme to keep us going to them. To be honest I probably haven't been to the dentist in around 7 years, except for a clean up hear and there.

Well thank you for shedding some light on the situation, I know I don't have any concrete evidence or cases but it's something that has crossed my mind a few times and that I like to research and look up on from time to time.

Moving to off-topic.