Good old Vitamin D3.... It's like the Bacon of the vitamin world. There isn't much that it won't make better!
That said, there's more to dental health your dentist never tells you. I have developed as much of a distrust for dentists as most of the rest of the medical profession. They only tell you the stuff that improves their bottom line!
Good old Vitamin D3.... It's like the Bacon of the vitamin world. There isn't much that it won't make better!
That said, there's more to dental health your dentist never tells you. I have developed as much of a distrust for dentists as most of the rest of the medical profession. They only tell you the stuff that improves their bottom line!
Back around 1990 the dentists started telling me I had problems with periodontal disease. So, being a good little patient, I went along with whatever they advised and took their antibiotics and had their scrapings and deep cleanings and whatever else they could come up with to charge me handsomely for. This went on for most of 20 years, probably averaging $1000/$2000 a year. After all that not only had they not cured my problem, it was getting worse. I was constantly getting painful gum infections and was starting to lose teeth.
I finally said to myself.... Well, this is stupid!
Now I honestly cannot tell you where I heard this from but I recalled someone saying that baking soda (very alkaline) is very good for disinfecting your mouth. Somebody else had told me that hydrogen peroxide is a very effective bacterial mouthwash. So I went down to the grocery store and got a box of baking soda and a couple quarts of hydrogen peroxide, enough to last most of a year, for the princely sum of about 10 bucks. Best thing I ever did. Teeth tightened right up, gums stop hurting, gums stopped bleeding. I wish I'd have done this in 1990 instead of listening to the dentist for 20 odd years.
Exactly the history we experienced, OldGuy52. When told we needed immediate (and expensive) periodontal gum surgery, we said "hLL no, there must be something better than cutting off body parts!" We discovered that all the dental advice we received over a lifetime was plain wrong (both parents were smokers and lost all their teeth, starting in their 50s).
On the recommendation of a friend who was a dental hygienist, we discovered hygienist Sheila Wolf (aka Mama Gums) and her book Pregnancy and Oral Health. (We were in our 50s, so pregnancy wasn't an issue.) We studied the book during a trip to visit parents and extracted (pun intended) what we needed for our own use. We then worked with Sheila to create a another book for -- yes, non-pregnant people -- and a one-page quick reference. We cured our periodontal disease in 2004. No issues since!
Good old Vitamin D3.... It's like the Bacon of the vitamin world. There isn't much that it won't make better!
That said, there's more to dental health your dentist never tells you. I have developed as much of a distrust for dentists as most of the rest of the medical profession. They only tell you the stuff that improves their bottom line!
Back around 1990 the dentists started telling me I had problems with periodontal disease. So, being a good little patient, I went along with whatever they advised and took their antibiotics and had their scrapings and deep cleanings and whatever else they could come up with to charge me handsomely for. This went on for most of 20 years, probably averaging $1000/$2000 a year. After all that not only had they not cured my problem, it was getting worse. I was constantly getting painful gum infections and was starting to lose teeth.
I finally said to myself.... Well, this is stupid!
Now I honestly cannot tell you where I heard this from but I recalled someone saying that baking soda (very alkaline) is very good for disinfecting your mouth. Somebody else had told me that hydrogen peroxide is a very effective bacterial mouthwash. So I went down to the grocery store and got a box of baking soda and a couple quarts of hydrogen peroxide, enough to last most of a year, for the princely sum of about 10 bucks. Best thing I ever did. Teeth tightened right up, gums stop hurting, gums stopped bleeding. I wish I'd have done this in 1990 instead of listening to the dentist for 20 odd years.
Check out the regimen we used along with a request to stop fluoride in water and in topical applications here: https://www.malone.news/p/cavity-and-periodontal-disease-prevention/comment/79142672
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Exactly the history we experienced, OldGuy52. When told we needed immediate (and expensive) periodontal gum surgery, we said "hLL no, there must be something better than cutting off body parts!" We discovered that all the dental advice we received over a lifetime was plain wrong (both parents were smokers and lost all their teeth, starting in their 50s).
On the recommendation of a friend who was a dental hygienist, we discovered hygienist Sheila Wolf (aka Mama Gums) and her book Pregnancy and Oral Health. (We were in our 50s, so pregnancy wasn't an issue.) We studied the book during a trip to visit parents and extracted (pun intended) what we needed for our own use. We then worked with Sheila to create a another book for -- yes, non-pregnant people -- and a one-page quick reference. We cured our periodontal disease in 2004. No issues since!