I had a conversation with a woman today, who told me her friend is a dentist. He says that in 20 years as a dentist, he has never seen anything like it.
People's teeth are rotting and falling out. He has had to pull more teeth, both adults and children, than anytime in his career.
He says he believes it is due to the constant wearing of face masks.
Truly.
I had heard similar reports over the last year. My theory is that it has to do with how carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid and the high levels trapped behind the mask are creating a very acidic environment all day long.
https://edu.rsc.org/experiments/the-reaction-of-carbon-dioxide-with-water/414.article
Ok, maybe the cause.
My family has a background in dental, and I bet he's right but not for the reason you think....
...I'd bet a million dollars it's because people aren't brushing regularly because they know no one will see their mouth all day anyway so they just skip it.
About half, or maybe 60% of all people have a daily regular brushing habit. So let's say you were spending your Saturday totally alone, about half to 60% of all people would brush their teeth in the morning anyway.
But there are a LOT of people who don't notice or mind when their teeth are dirty, or when their breath is not fresh. And they are ONLY motivated to brush out of social pressure or potential embarrassment. They prolly won't admit it, but I bet you there's a lot of people out there just not brushing hardly at all because no one will see and they don't care enough to be bothered.
Only 60% brush every day? I thought twice a day was the norm.
y'know what else, i'll tell ya sumtin else interdasting...
so I like to ask people lots of questions, like Barbara Walters, I just try to dig the most interesting things possible out of people. It's just my inclination, I'm curious about everything.
So the cable guy comes over to my aunt's house while I'm there. I say to him, "You have a very interesting job, because EVERYONE has to have you in their house at some point, from every single walk of life, every neighborhood, all people. So I have a question for you. About what percentage of people have relatively clean homes - not perfect mind you, just even modestly tidy and looking like a normal home - and how many people live totally messy and disorganized with like garbage lying around, or pack rats or whatever."
He says "About 50-50."
It's nearly the same in dental. A lot of responsible middle aged people, kids with good parents, or neat freaks, or healthy living people... they brush and floss like they're supposed to. But for every one of those, there's about one other person who just... doesnt. There are various reasons for this. Sometimes it's past sexual abuse, and people can get this thing where they don't like having anything in their mouth. For others, it's just that they don't mind the feel of dirty teeth. For some, they get too lazy. Some people feel that their mouths are so messed up already that what's the use of cleaning them all the time. Some people are on a lot of drugs that either dry out their mouths or make them unaware of time. Lots of times teens and early adults who had parents who never managed their children's oral health will develop bad habits.
[also, you only really need to brush and floss once a day. Brushing after every meal, IF it's done with a soft bristle brush and not too much aggressive flossing, is bonus good, but even if you just do a really good job once every 24 hrs or so, that's generally fine. Also, if you eat about a one inch cube of cheese after you brush, it coats your teeth with a sort of protective film that has good bacteria in it, it will keep your teeth cleaner longer. ALWAYS brush right after eating sticky sweet food like toffee when you can. Invest in a sonicare and a waterpik. And if you want to really do the best job ever cleaning your teeth, then when you're finished cleaning them, gently outline your entire gumline with a tea tree toothpick.] ---> But that's just what I would do if it were me, that is in NO way intended as dental or medical advice. I am NOT giving you - or anyone else - advice. (My obligatory disclaimer)
i don't have one. I guess just use whatever floats your boat. I use a japanese toothpaste called apagard premio, sometimes. other times i use a sensitive tooth formulation. I like Uncle Harry's tooth whitening powder, but I think they may have discontinued it? Loved that stuff. I would personally just stay away from anything too abrasive if it's for regular use. And I wouldn't use anything that irritated my gums.
Hah! What a weeb! 😉 I'm going to go buy some now. 😎
well aaaackshally it's because it has this shit in it developed for NASA astronauts that helps remineralize their bones after they come back from space or some shit. This company has the rights to add that shit to their toothpaste, but it can't be sold in America, because I think Sensodyne has the rights to sell it in North America, but they just don't do it for some reason.
It's because it's the only brand I know of that I can purchase and have shipped that has a tooth strengthener in it that isn't flouride. I don't care if its japanese or swedish or peruvian or whatever. I found it researching on flouride.
That's very interesting. Do you know if it is similar to silver diamine fluoride?
That's fascinating! I heard Japanese L'Oreal shampoo was better as well, probably for similar reasons.
I should probably do a deeper dive to confirm that.
A lot of toothpastes have plastic particulates in them for the abrasive cleaning action. It it sparkles, it’s probably got plastic in the formulation.
You also don’t need fluoride in your toothpaste. I used to use sensodyne but started using fluoride free toothpaste about a year ago. My teeth are surprisingly not sensitive anymore and they’re more white with the fluoride free paste.
the ingredient that blocks calcium channels in your teeth to prevent sensitivity is like sodium something or other? IDK, but it's not flouride. All flouride does is reinforce your enamel. Which is important if you want to keep your teeth. But it doesn't prevent tooth sensitivity. You have to figure out some way of strengthening your teeth (flouride or that nasa stuff), or some people say they can remineralize your teeth, i don't know about that but at least it's proactive.
Anyway the company Sensodyne (I think it's sensodyne) has this other non-flouride flouride ingredient that they LEASE the rights to use... but they don't use it. It's not available in any of their regular formulations. So sensodyne does NOT have the NASA shit in it.
But because they lease the rights to sell it in North America, that means no one else can sell it except them. So that means basically Sensodyne makes it so you can't buy it anywhere from anyone. But if you get your shit imported, you can kind of get around that.
Is fluoride in our drinking water enough for strengthening enamel? What are your thoughts on fluoride calcification of the pineal gland?
My mom gifted me a Sonicare the winter before I got married. I still have the same one 11+ years later. I hated getting a toothbrush for Christmas at 18, but my mom is wise and invested in my health and my spouses even when I didn’t think it a priority (:
I don't think a person should live without one, personally.
While I'm dispensing dental not-advice, another thing people tend to do that is BAD, is using your toothbrush too long before replacing.
When to replace your brush: When the outer bristles start to curve outward and lose their original straightness, or if one or more bristles is sticking out at an angle. That shit can just rip up your gums, and stops cleaning the way it used to because of the way the bristles are no longer making the correct angle with your teeth when you brush.
Not that you have any of these habits. Just kind of a tack-on to my earlier post.
Also, floss erry day, guys. Anyone in dental can tell if you have gingivitis if you just smile at them from eight feet away. Red puffy gums that bleed when you floss them is no bueno.
I clean my teeth with coffee. One cup a day. Lol. Jokin... it's two cups.
True. There’s also the increase in drinking and binge eating. Also some of these morons Probably didn’t go see the dentist for two years since it started. I’m more inclined to attribute the increase in dental disease to habits than the mask.
Have read this same thing elsewhere. Husband has to wear a mask at work. Went to dentist recently and was shocked to learn he needs 2 teeth pulled, 2 crowns and 3 large fillings.
When the lawsuits fly over dental problems, caused by company-mandated mask wearing, the executives and directors will start to panic.
Maybe criminal charges will be filed against those who issued the mandates.
Zero evidence that there is any benefit at all in wearing face masks, and hard evidence of harm.
Should make for easy lawsuits.
Masks make it harder to breathe through the nose. Hmm...
Would be fairly easy to verify by talking to dentists in places where mask use was not mandated.
It could be that the working-from-home thing is the cause, with more people snacking during their work day on sugary crap. And maybe without the diligence in keeping up with dental hygiene as much since much less in person contact.
Likely they've been home eating more junk, not brushing or grooming due to depression and deferring treatment for too long.
Not sure otherwise how a mask is the cause.
This is true...all the toxins that are expelled from your body when you exhale...being trapped in your mouth...
Un, I think not.