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Toothpaste: Doing more harm than good?
Your Toothpaste ...
... is likely to contains fluoride - a severe biological poison.
- Fluoride causes us to absorb extra aluminum and aluminium is the metal that show up alarmingly in the brains of Alzheimer's victims.
- If you look at your tube of toothpaste, you will see a warning similar to this: "Warning. Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If more than [sic] used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."
The warning on toothpaste tubes is due to lawsuits in which children were poisoned by fluoride-containing toothpaste.
For instance, Keith Cantor, a little boy from Oregon died in the dentist’s chair from ingesting ½ teaspoon of fluoride, and 3 kidney dialysis patients were killed in 1998 at the University of Chicago Medical School, when nurses used unpurified Chicago tap water for dialysis.
To add to the problem, most states add at least 1 ppm of sodium fluoride or fluorosilic acid (radioactive toxic waste that contains fluoride) to the water supply, even though it has been proven that at least 113 medical side effects from cancer to headaches are caused by fluoride in the water.
Toothpaste Prevents Tooth Re-enamelization
Toothpaste contains viscous, sticky glycerin, the main ingredient in toothpaste, which coats the teeth and prevents re-enamelization from nutrients in the diet. Glycerin takes over 20 rinses to be removed and leaves your teeth coated! Skeptical? Try this simple test. Start with a clean sink and smear some of your toothpaste on the sink. Rinse it off and watch how the water beads up because of the sticky glycerin. You will have to keep rinsing and rinsing to remove it! Your teeth are similar to a porcelain sink, and your teeth are being coated every time you use toothpaste. Coated teeth cannot re-enamelize from nutrients in the diet!
Toothpaste Contains Silica
Silica, which is sand, can harm gums and abrades (wears away) tooth enamel.
Alternatives to Toothpaste:
- According to Dr. Mark Manhart DDS from calciumtherapy.com saliva works better than toothpastes for cleaning teeth? It is low in salt, anti-microbial, and an excellent "buffer" for the entire mouth, according to Archives of Internal Medicine.
- Mix your own:
- Baking Soda:
- Mix baking soda with salt
- Even better: mix baking soda either Aloe Vera Gel or 3% hydrogen peroxide (H202) to make a paste.
- If you like a mint taste -- just add peppermint essential oil.
- Hydrogen Perioxide: Just dip your brush in 3% hydrogen peroxide (H202) and brush.
TIP: Only use the hydrogen peroxide paste once a day (my dentist recommended the evenings) and use the Aloe Vera gel in the morning.
- Herbal Toothpaste: Powder sea salt and dried horsetail stems in a coffee grinder; mix dry and wet ingredients separately; then slowly mix all ingredients into a paste.
- More is not better! My dentist recommended not to brush more than twice a day - it wears your enamel down! However, frequent rinsing - especially after each meal -- is very conducive to maintaining a healthy mouth.
Use as you would use common toothpaste. Baking soda is less abrasive than normal toothpaste, which protects your tooth enamel from wearing off.
- Mouthwash:
- Rinsing your mouth throughout the day, and most certainly after ever meal / snack, will keep your mouth fresh and clean, and teeth and gums healthy.
- Hydrogen Peroxide: Use 3% Hydrogen Peroxide. Add a dash of liquid chlorophyl for flavoring if desired. I use this in the evening and take a herbal mouth wash in the morning and throughout the day. I found the hydrogen peroxide whitens my teeth. I used to buy various inconvenient products to whiten my teeth (those uncomfortable trays) and was amazed that using hydrogen peroxide as a mouth wash works better - and is so much less expensive! Live and learn.
- Herbal Mouth Wash: 2 Cups Water, 2 Tbsp Organic Sea salt, 5 drops Peppermint extract, 4 drops Horsetail extract, 1 drop Sage extract ... Combine ingredients and store in a tightly sealed bottle; shake before use.
I use Hydrogen Perioxide in the evening and a herbal mouth wash in the morning and after meals. For about 15 minutes each (usually during my shower and while getting dressed) I use Coconut Oil, which has antibacterial / antifungal properties. This will keep your mouth and teeth fresh and healthy.
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Please note that Dr. Mark Manhart recommends saliva instead of toothpaste or tooth soap (info below) .
Saliva is the body’s most important protection against tooth decay.
- Tooth Paste: Some ingredients in tooth paste (even in "organic / non-toxic" toothpaste) detrimental effects on our teeth. The glycerin that they contain inhibits the teeth from naturally re-enamelizing and flouride is associated with numerous health problems. Many toothpastes also contain glycerin, artificial sweeteners, silicates (sand), dyes, stabilizers and/or other materials that can damage teeth and be detrimental to your overall health.
According to Dr. Mark Manhart DDS Did you know that Saliva works better than toothpastes for cleaning teeth? It is low in salt, anti-microbial, and an excellent "buffer" for the entire mouth, according to Archives of Internal Medicine.
Instead of toothpaste:
- Mix baking soda and hydrogen peroxide ... if you like, add peppermint essential oil for taste. Use as you would use common toothpaste. Baking soda is less abrasive than normal toothpaste, which protects your tooth enamel from wearing down; alternatively. Hydrogen peroxide cleans, whitens, disinfects.
- Toothsoap is highly recommended. Typical ingredients include saponified coconut, palm, and organic, extra virgin olive oils and essential oil. As is the case with toothpaste, they should never contain glycerin, sweeteners, silicates (sand), fluoride, dyes, stabilizers or other materials that can damage teeth. Silica will wear out the enamel of your teeth. Occasional use of baking soda isn't as abrasive and works just as well.
- Another option would be to brush the teeth with bar soap - however, do NOT use ordinary bar soap to brush your teeth! Most bar soaps contain many artificial ingredients that should not be ingested and can also coat teeth. What would work is a plain, unscented olive oil soap, which is sold at most natural food stores.
- - perfect prescription tooth soap contains NO added glycerin, artificial / synthetic sweeteners, silicates (sand), fluoride, dyes, stabilizers or other materials that can damage teeth. All batches of Perfect Prescription bar shreds and liquid soap are made in small quantities to insure you are getting a fresh product. Tooth Soap tastes best if used within 3 months of opening the jar. Perfect Prescription Tooth Soap is made in the USA in a commercial kitchen licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture and is Certified Kosher by Star-K.
Below is what I am using for both my face (instead of harsh soaps) and my teeth!
What I LOVE about it is that it doesn't taste like soap! I wouldn't use anything else on my face either nowadays. It's also convenient that you have one "less item" on your bathroom counter. It's also much cheaper. Items sold as "tooth soap" often cost more than $20 - and I found the ingredients very similar or the same.
Organic Virgin Coconut Oil Liquid Soap - 8 oz. with Tea Tree Oil Organic Virgin Coconut Oil Liquid Soap - 8 oz Ingredients: Organic Fresh UNREFINED Virgin Coconut Oil for the unscented version. Organic high-quality Tea Tree oil essential oils has been added to the one on the left. These soaps are packaged in a special foam pump dispenser that adds air to the soap, causing a rich lather of foam to come out. - Freshen your mouth and sweeten your breath naturally ...
- Chew a pinch of the following herbs: parsley, basil, cilantro or dill - which are rich in chlorophyll.
- Chew the seeds or make tea by adding the leaves or mashed seeds to boiling water.
- Cardamom contains cineole, a potent antiseptic that kills bad-breath bacteria. You can chew the seeds and then spit them out.
- Anise: Boil the seeds in a cup of water. Strain, and then drink or use as a mouthwash.
- Peppermint tea, a strong antiseptic, fights halitosis
- Oil of Oregano: Plaque and gum disease can be prevented with the oral application of oregano oil because of its anti-bacterial properties. Swish one or two drops in your mouth, or put a drop on your toothbrush when cleaning your teeth.
- Avoid all fluoride products - They occur in drinking water, tooth pastes or gels.
- Fluoride destroys 83 enzymes that deliver phosphate to calcium at the tooth surface needed for strong teeth,
- Fluoride is a severe biological poison.
- Fillings commonly contain toxins (i.e., mercury) that leak into our body and causes disease. Request fillings made of quartzite and epoxy as safe substitute.
Hydrogen Peroxide and Its Multiple Uses in Mouth Care:
Toothpaste: Use baking soda and add enough 3% H202 to make a paste. Or, just dip your brush in 3% H202 and brush. Soak your toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide to keep them free of germs.
Toothbrush: Soaking your toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide will help keep them free of harmul germs.
NOTE: Do not swallow any hydrogen peroxide. When the peroxide rinse is done, be sure to rinse out your mouth with tap water.
Your Toothpaste ...
... is likely to contains fluoride - a severe biological poison.
- Fluoride causes us to absorb extra aluminum and aluminium is the metal that show up alarmingly in the brains of Alzheimer's victims.
- If you look at your tube of toothpaste, you will see a warning similar to this: "Warning. Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If more than [sic] used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."
The warning on toothpaste tubes is due to lawsuits in which children were poisoned by fluoride-containing toothpaste.
For instance, Keith Cantor, a little boy from Oregon died in the dentist’s chair from ingesting ½ teaspoon of fluoride, and 3 kidney dialysis patients were killed in 1998 at the University of Chicago Medical School, when nurses used unpurified Chicago tap water for dialysis.
To add to the problem, most states add at least 1 ppm of sodium fluoride or fluorosilic acid (radioactive toxic waste that contains fluoride) to the water supply, even though it has been proven that at least 113 medical side effects from cancer to headaches are caused by fluoride in the water.
Toothpaste Prevents Tooth Re-enamelization
Toothpaste contains viscous, sticky glycerin, the main ingredient in toothpaste, which coats the teeth and prevents re-enamelization from nutrients in the diet. Glycerin takes over 20 rinses to be removed and leaves your teeth coated! Skeptical? Try this simple test. Start with a clean sink and smear some of your toothpaste on the sink. Rinse it off and watch how the water beads up because of the sticky glycerin. You will have to keep rinsing and rinsing to remove it! Your teeth are similar to a porcelain sink, and your teeth are being coated every time you use toothpaste. Coated teeth cannot re-enamelize from nutrients in the diet!
Toothpaste Contains Silica
Silica, which is sand, can harm gums and abrades (wears away) tooth enamel.
Alternatives to Toothpaste:
- Mix your own:
- Baking Soda:
- Mix baking soda with salt
- Even better: mix baking soda either Aloe Vera Gel or 3% hydrogen peroxide (H202) to make a paste.
- If you like a mint taste -- just add peppermint essential oil.
- Hydrogen Perioxide: Just dip your brush in 3% hydrogen peroxide (H202) and brush.
TIP: Only use the hydrogen peroxide paste once a day (my dentist recommended the evenings) and use the Aloe Vera gel in the morning.
- Herbal Toothpaste: Powder sea salt and dried horsetail stems in a coffee grinder; mix dry and wet ingredients separately; then slowly mix all ingredients into a paste.
- More is not better! My dentist recommended not to brush more than twice a day - it wears your enamel down! However, frequent rinsing - especially after each meal -- is very conducive to maintaining a healthy mouth.
Use as you would use common toothpaste. Baking soda is less abrasive than normal toothpaste, which protects your tooth enamel from wearing off.
- Mouthwash:
- Rinsing your mouth throughout the day, and most certainly after ever meal / snack, will keep your mouth fresh and clean, and teeth and gums healthy.
- Hydrogen Peroxide: Use 3% Hydrogen Peroxide. Add a dash of liquid chlorophyl for flavoring if desired. I use this in the evening and take a herbal mouth wash in the morning and throughout the day. I found the hydrogen peroxide whitens my teeth. I used to buy various inconvenient products to whiten my teeth (those uncomfortable trays) and was amazed that using hydrogen peroxide as a mouth wash works better - and is so much less expensive! Live and learn.
- Herbal Mouth Wash: 2 Cups Water, 2 Tbsp Organic Sea salt, 5 drops Peppermint extract, 4 drops Horsetail extract, 1 drop Sage extract ... Combine ingredients and store in a tightly sealed bottle; shake before use.
I use Hydrogen Perioxide in the evening and a herbal mouth wash in the morning and after meals. For about 15 minutes each (usually during my shower and while getting dressed) I use Coconut Oil, which has antibacterial / antifungal properties. This will keep your mouth and teeth fresh and healthy.
Gums are firm and resilient, with a healthy pink color. Healthy gums do not bleed on probing. Tissue is firm with a normal variation of lighter and darker areas.
Common Dental Health Problems:
- Cavities / Demineralization:
Tooth erosion, teeth wearing down / cavitiy formation
- Dental plaque:
Plaque is a combination of bacteria and sticky bacterial products that forms on the teeth within hours of cleaning. Its source is the natural bacteria in the mouth, In small amounts and when newly formed, plaque is invisible and relatively harmless. But when left to accumulate, it increases in volume and the proportion of harmful species in the plaque grows.
- Gum pockets:
Gum pockets are formed as the plaque pushes the gums away from the teeth. However, they are also formed by fluoride (ingredients in commercial tooth care products and added to drinking water) - as fluoride severs the protein molecules adhering the gums to the teeth.
- Periodontal disease:
Any form of ill health affecting the periodontium--the tissues that surround and support the teeth. These include the gums (or gingiva), the bone of the tooth socket, and the periodontal ligament, a thin layer of connective tissue that holds the tooth in its socket and acts as a cushion between tooth and bone.
Periodontal disease is an infection of the tissues that support your teeth. Your gum tissue is not attached to the teeth as high as it may seem. There is a very shallow v-shaped crevice called a sulcus between the tooth and gums. Periodontal diseases attack just below the gum line in the sulcus, where they cause the attachment of the tooth and its supporting tissues to break down. As the tissues are damaged, the sulcus develops into a pocket: generally, the more severe the disease, the greater the depth of the pocket.
Periodontal diseases are classified according to the severity of the disease. The two major stages are gingivitis and periodontitis. Gingivitis is a milder and reversible form of periodontal disease that only affects the gums. Gingivitis may lead to more serious, destructive forms of periodontal disease called periodontitis.
Some factors increase the risk of developing periodontal disease:
- Tobacco smoking or chewing
- Systemic diseases such as diabetes
- Some types of medication such as steroids, some types of anti-epilepsy drugs, cancer therapy drugs, some calcium channel blockers and oral contraceptives
- Bridges that no longer fit properly
- Crooked teeth
- Fillings that have become defective
- Pregnancy or use of oral contraceptives
Several warning signs that can signal a problem:
Besides his program I have also added brushing with coconut oil, using food grade hydrogen peroxide in the waterpik, and am going to buy Dr. Schultz's Tooth and Gum formula pretty soon. My gums already look about 75% better! They were awfully red on the bottom especially. My teeth still hurt when I chew, but I am not sure if it is from the cleaning or not because they didn't hurt before she cleaned them execpt for a couple of them. I had never had them cleaned so...she was pretty rough.
- Gums that bleed easily
- Red, swollen, tender gums
- Gums that have pulled away from the teeth
- Persistent bad breath or bad taste
- Permanent teeth that are loose or separating
- Any change in the way your teeth fit together when you bite
- Any change in the fit of partial dentures
I bought an Interplak by Conair at K-Mart for $20 and it had all the same attachments as waterpik, the same two year warranty, just didn't look as fancy and it works great. The waterpik brand cost $40 so it saved a lot...If you can not find a waterpik in your area I would buy the Interplak for you and ship it to you if you like. By the time you pay shipping prices it might not save you much from the waterpik price, but he'd have something to clean his teeth with really well...I have five gallons of virgin coconut oil so I could send you some of that too if you'd like for nothing. Coconut oil has really wonderful properties, it is anti-viral and anti-parisitical. Several people that belong to the coconut oil group I am a member of said it has done wonders for their mouth, the gums especially. Just let me know if I could be of help...hope this helps a bit,
- Gingivitis:
In its earliest stages, gum disease (inflammation or infection of the gums) is referred to as gingivitis
- Periodontitis:
If gingivitis is left untreated, the bone becomes inflammed or infected -- resulting in the loss of bone tissue and teeth. This is the number one cause of tooth loss in adults. Furthermore, researchers have identified a link between periodontitis and the risk for a fatal heart attack or stroke. Untreated periodontitis may be as significant a risk factor for heart disease.
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