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.
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?
I think it would be way WAY better to deflouridate the water and give people the choice of if they want to do something topical. Topical flouride is just as effective. The reasoning they use behind putting it in the water is to protect poor people and retards from growing up with rotted teeth. But in this day and age, anyone who wanted a topical solution should be able to get one easy. There's gels, rinses, special toothpastes, etc. No one should be eating that shit.
As far as whether it's enough in tap water to strengthen enamel, yeah basically. But the more your teeth absorb, the stronger they are. So a little bit is a little good, and more is more good. But that's just in terms of your enamel. Flouride is good for your enamel, but not good for your body. So you have to balance how much you want to use with whether or not youre overdoing it.
I have no strong opinion on the pineal calcification thing. I'm open to different opinions and theories.
Another good way to save your enamel and make it last longer is go keto.