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| Stormin Mormon |
 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:47 am |
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After years of my dentist encouraging me to give up sucking on
life savers, I changed dental care from high fluoride Prevident.
Changed to using baking soda on my tooth brush. He kept talking
about sugars decomposing to phosphoric acid. Few better ways to
neutralize phosphoric acid than applying baking soda.
Yesterday was the second hygenist appointment since the change.
Nearly no stuff scraped off my teeth. They did find the two
places where I knew the plastic fillings were chipped, and one
other place they want to repair. These will have to wait a bit.
Have you considered that instead of "harder, faster, more" that
you should try a different approach? If the prescription high
fluoride doesn't work, try....
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Christopher A. Young
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You have to starve them.
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<odedwolff@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Of course, oral hygiene and topical fluoride agents are taken
care of.
I appreciate your reply, however, this is all common knowledge,
and
just about every kid knows all of that.
My question was, Since all these conventional measures don't
seem to
leave my mouth very healthy, what else can
I do, and more specifically, will quitting sugar altogether
make a real
difference.
Thanks again for your reply, but that just not what I asked.
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| odedwolff@gmail.com |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:56 am |
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On Jan 24, 4:47 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61-&spambloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: After years of my dentist encouraging me to give up sucking on
life savers, I changed dental care from high fluoride Prevident.
Changed to using baking soda on my tooth brush. He kept talking
about sugars decomposing to phosphoric acid. Few better ways to
neutralize phosphoric acid than applying baking soda.
Yesterday was the second hygenist appointment since the change.
Nearly no stuff scraped off my teeth. They did find the two
places where I knew the plastic fillings were chipped, and one
other place they want to repair. These will have to wait a bit.
Have you considered that instead of "harder, faster, more" that
you should try a different approach? If the prescription high
fluoride doesn't work, try....
Absolutely - That's exactly what I am looking for - a different
approach.
The last paragraph is my thoughts exactly.
Unfortunately, I still don't have enough information, but I am on it.
the replies I got about baking soda are a new idea for me - i will
certainly consider it seriously.
Also, I am thinking about replacing much of my sugar consumption as
possible with Xylitol,
which lately I became aware of and still learning about.
BTW, is baking soda considered safe ? has it any side affects ?
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| Mark & Steven Bornfeld |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 pm |
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odedwolff@gmail.com wrote:
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On Jan 24, 4:47 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
cayoung61-&spambloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
After years of my dentist encouraging me to give up sucking on
life savers, I changed dental care from high fluoride Prevident.
Changed to using baking soda on my tooth brush. He kept talking
about sugars decomposing to phosphoric acid. Few better ways to
neutralize phosphoric acid than applying baking soda.
Yesterday was the second hygenist appointment since the change.
Nearly no stuff scraped off my teeth. They did find the two
places where I knew the plastic fillings were chipped, and one
other place they want to repair. These will have to wait a bit.
Have you considered that instead of "harder, faster, more" that
you should try a different approach? If the prescription high
fluoride doesn't work, try....
Absolutely - That's exactly what I am looking for - a different
approach.
The last paragraph is my thoughts exactly.
Unfortunately, I still don't have enough information, but I am on it.
the replies I got about baking soda are a new idea for me - i will
certainly consider it seriously.
Also, I am thinking about replacing much of my sugar consumption as
possible with Xylitol,
which lately I became aware of and still learning about.
BTW, is baking soda considered safe ? has it any side affects ?
Thank you
Well, obviously you'll want to minimize your ingestion if you are on a
sodium restricted diet.
Steve
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Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
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| Stormin Mormon |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:15 pm |
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I don't know anything about Xylitol, so I'll leave that to others
to comment.
My present dentist doesn't like me using baking soda. At least
one of the dentists on this group has mentioned baking soda in a
positive light.
What I do know, from my own mouth, is that after using baking
soda, the hygenist appointment brings up a lot less stuff that
has to be scraped off my teeth. Also the healthy color is coming
back. My teeth had been chalky white near the gum line.
If you don't like baking soda, you can always go back. I have no
financial interest in your teeth. My dentist, who reccomends
fluoride, gets paid by the cavity. I think that's signifigant.
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Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
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<odedwolff@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Also, I am thinking about replacing much of my sugar
consumption as
possible with Xylitol,
which lately I became aware of and still learning about.
BTW, is baking soda considered safe ? has it any side affects ?
Thank you
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| odedwolff@gmail.com |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:27 pm |
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On Jan 26, 5:15 am, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61-&spambloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: I don't know anything about Xylitol, so I'll leave that to others
to comment.
If you don't like baking soda, you can always go back. I have no
financial interest in your teeth. My dentist, who reccomends
fluoride, gets paid by the cavity. I think that's signifigant.
Did you quit using flouride or do you use both fouride and baking soda
combined (today i've seen at the pharmacy a toothpaste that
have them both. BTW - the only tooth paste I could find that contains
baking soda and no flouride was for kids... I bought it anyway.
The chewing gum flavoure takes some getting used to... |
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| Stormin Mormon |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:20 am |
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When I say "baking soda", I mean the powder that comes in the
yellow Arm and Hammer box. I havn't used fluoride in any form in
about a year.
I'm surprised that a kid tooth paste would be sold without
fluoride.
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Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
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<odedwolff@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
On Jan 26, 5:15 am, "Stormin Mormon"
cayoung61-&spambloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Did you quit using flouride or do you use both fouride and
baking soda
combined (today i've seen at the pharmacy a toothpaste that
have them both. BTW - the only tooth paste I could find that
contains
baking soda and no flouride was for kids... I bought it
anyway.
The chewing gum flavoure takes some getting used to...
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