Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 I thought I'd share what I learned from my dentist today as he did some fillings for me. He stressed the importance of keeping the teeth free of bacteria and plaque, because they feed upon the sugars in fruit and excrete acid, which wears the enamel off of your teeth. I had upper teeth on both sides of my mouth where this happened since my initial evaluation in March. He mentioned using a Sonicaire toothbrush and rinsing the mouth out with Listerine to reduce plaque and bacteria in the mouth. He said (emphasis HE said) it is a natural product which uses eucalyptus oil suspended in alcohol. I think I would rather find some eucalyptus oil and use that, if it is so effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Hello, I am very new on this list and I have been lurking as I am not really a raw foodie yet. I am migrating that way very very slowly and have been looking to learn stuff. However, I have to jump in on this thread as I am an aromatherapist (how is that for odd and amusing) Listerine is made of thymol and eucalyptol in alcohol. Commercial products like that always use either a synthetic oil or a commercial (very low) grade oil. Eucalyptus oil has thymol and eucalyptol in addition to about 500 other chemical components. That is what makes essential oils so wonderful – the hundreds of naturally occurring chemical compounds that can’t be made synthetically. Anyway, he is on the right path as essential oils are great for dental health. Since I started using a blend of oils daily for dental care, my gum have gotten extremely healthy. Kellie On 8/13/03 6:35 PM, " Ron Koenig " <ron.koenig wrote: I thought I'd share what I learned from my dentist today as he did some fillings for me. He stressed the importance of keeping the teeth free of bacteria and plaque, because they feed upon the sugars in fruit and excrete acid, which wears the enamel off of your teeth. I had upper teeth on both sides of my mouth where this happened since my initial evaluation in March. He mentioned using a Sonicaire toothbrush and rinsing the mouth out with Listerine to reduce plaque and bacteria in the mouth. He said (emphasis HE said) it is a natural product which uses eucalyptus oil suspended in alcohol. I think I would rather find some eucalyptus oil and use that, if it is so effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Kellie, please enlighten me (and us) about which oils you use and how you use them, how often, etc. Ron Koenig Bellevue, WA RawSeattle , Kellie LaRue <klarue@m...> wrote: > Hello, > > I am very new on this list and I have been lurking as I am not really a raw foodie yet. I am migrating that way very very slowly and have been looking to learn stuff. However, I have to jump in on this thread as I am an aromatherapist (how is that for odd and amusing) Listerine is made of thymol and eucalyptol in alcohol. Commercial products like that always use either a synthetic oil or a commercial (very low) grade oil. > > Eucalyptus oil has thymol and eucalyptol in addition to about 500 other chemical components. That is what makes essential oils so wonderful the hundreds of naturally occurring chemical compounds that can¹t be made synthetically. > > Anyway, he is on the right path as essential oils are great for dental health. Since I started using a blend of oils daily for dental care, my gum have gotten extremely healthy. > > Kellie > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Thanks so much for your interest, I just love oils and could talk about them all day long. However, I don’t want to digress too far as I am new around on this list and this is a raw foods list, not an aromatherapy list and I don’t want anyone to think that I am trying to sell them anything. That said, I use oils all day long pretty much for any and every thing. I follow a pretty simple philosophy that you can replace everything in your medicine cabinet with an essential oil of some sort. For dental stuff, I use a blend of orange, lemon, cassia bark (similar to cinnamon) and rosemary. The more classic dental treatments tend to involve tea tree oil and clove bud oil but well, they don’t taste very yummy. I mix the blend both in my drinking water and my tooth powder, so I use it every day. I got interested in essential oils when my daughter had chronic ear infections and nothing seemed to help. As it turned out, the essential oils were much better at killing the infections than antibiotics with no side effects. They were also better at prevention than most of the classic complementary medicine (acupuncture, chiro, cranial, etc) Anyway, that is what started my nutrition and health craze that has led me to essential oils and to dapple in raw foods. On 8/13/03 8:40 PM, " Ron Koenig " <ron.koenig wrote: Kellie, please enlighten me (and us) about which oils you use and how you use them, how often, etc. Ron Koenig Bellevue, WA RawSeattle , Kellie LaRue <klarue@m...> wrote: > Hello, > > I am very new on this list and I have been lurking as I am not really a raw foodie yet. I am migrating that way very very slowly and have been looking to learn stuff. However, I have to jump in on this thread as I am an aromatherapist (how is that for odd and amusing) Listerine is made of thymol and eucalyptol in alcohol. Commercial products like that always use either a synthetic oil or a commercial (very low) grade oil. > > Eucalyptus oil has thymol and eucalyptol in addition to about 500 other chemical components. That is what makes essential oils so wonderful – the hundreds of naturally occurring chemical compounds that can’t be made synthetically. > > Anyway, he is on the right path as essential oils are great for dental health. Since I started using a blend of oils daily for dental care, my gum have gotten extremely healthy. > > Kellie > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 >He said (emphasis HE said) it is a > natural product which uses eucalyptus oil suspended in alcohol. I > think I would rather find some eucalyptus oil and use that, if it is > so effective. hi ron and all... i just talked to a dentist about bacteria and mouth washes, etc. and he said products with alcohol in them cause gum damage he recommends using oral irrigator with either of these recipes mix 2 teaspoons baking soda in a cup of warm water or 1 drop goldenseal (yuk) in a cup of water both these ingredients are antibacterial brushing often and rinsing out your mouth with water, especially after eating fruit should help but personally, i'm mixed on the mouth bacteria thing it's back to the ''good guys verses the bad guys'' a healthy body should be able to deal with it and since we swallow a fair amount of bacteria from our mouths and microbes are a source of b-12 wouldn't it be beneficial to let 'em live??? norm )~ ...... raw food, simply wonderful ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Bacteria are incorrectly blamed for disease, " infection " , etc., but there is no causal connection. They are found at the site of disease or inflammation because that's where their food is. All living organisms can only live where there is food for them to eat. A body that produces an inordinate amount of waste from wrong foods, wrong living, etc., will consequently have more bacteria than a clean body. The bottom line is that bacteria are our friends, as Victoria likes to say. No need to kill them, just remove their food supply. Smiles, Nora Original Message: ----------------- kelpguy kelpguy Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:23:34 -0700 kelpguy [RawSeattle] RE: Keeping healthy teeth >He said (emphasis HE said) it is a > natural product which uses eucalyptus oil suspended in alcohol. I > think I would rather find some eucalyptus oil and use that, if it is > so effective. hi ron and all... i just talked to a dentist about bacteria and mouth washes, etc. and he said products with alcohol in them cause gum damage he recommends using oral irrigator with either of these recipes mix 2 teaspoons baking soda in a cup of warm water or 1 drop goldenseal (yuk) in a cup of water both these ingredients are antibacterial brushing often and rinsing out your mouth with water, especially after eating fruit should help but personally, i'm mixed on the mouth bacteria thing it's back to the ''good guys verses the bad guys'' a healthy body should be able to deal with it and since we swallow a fair amount of bacteria from our mouths and microbes are a source of b-12 wouldn't it be beneficial to let 'em live??? norm )~ ...... raw food, simply wonderful ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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