Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Wow, this is fabulous! Thanks so much for posting it, Laura!!! Judy In a message dated 1/5/2005 10:46:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, iamdunroamin writes: How To Enjoy Healthy Teeth & Gums - In Spite Of Your Dentist ROBERT O. NARA, D.D.S. Speaking at Total Health '87 The dental profession has the public pretty well boondoggled into thinking that we have to go to the dentist & get our teeth cleaned & checked every six months & we've been conditioned to believe that somehow or other this has something to do with our having healthy teeth & gums. I don't particularly believe that that's true. In fact, I believe that you could very easily live out an entire lifetime & never see a dentist. Every time you have your teeth cleaned, about 2 to 3 microns of your enamel goes away. It's a very abrating kind of process, this business of having your teeth cleaned. In fact, I believe that there are a lot of detrimental things that happen in the cleaning process & the scraping of the roots. Even in dental professional literature, they state that there is probably some damage to the root surfaces when they scrape with these scalers. CALCULUS OR TARTAR: I want you to think about another thing. At some time or other you've had a tea kettle or some kind of a pot on your stove that boils water & , over a period of time, a scale forms on the bottom. If you've ever looked carefully at that scale, you will find that it's kind of dark brown in color, kind of brittle looking & , in fact if you scrape at it a little bit, some of it may come off in chunks. If you look inside your mouth & you have a large number of deposits on your teeth, what dentists call calculus or tartar, you'll find that it's going to look just about the same as that stuff that collects on the bottom of your tea kettle. The reason that it looks like it's the same stuff, is because it is the same stuff. Now, once every six months or so you could scrape the bottom of the tea kettle & try to get that stuff off, which would be a tough job as you can appreciate, or you could put a little bit of vinegar in your tea kettle & the calcium hydroxide salts that are stuck on the bottom of your tea kettle would go back into solution, because the acetic acid from the vinegar, working with the calcium hydroxide, which is a base, neutralize each other & you can dissolve the deposits. So if I suggested that, instead of having all that scraping all the time that we just dissolve the tartar off of the teeth, that would make a whole lot of sense, wouldn't it? STRUCTURE OF THE TOOTH: Now, let's take a look at the tooth structure. The hard structure of a tooth is the enamel & the dentin is underneath it. What is the tooth made of? Well, it's primarily made of calcium & phosphorus, the same stuff our bones are made of except there is a little more calcium & phosphorus in the teeth than there is in the bones. That's why they are harder. If you fall down & break a leg & the doctor puts the two pieces of the bone back together & puts a cast over the whole affair so that it can't move; in about six weeks your leg is healed. How did it heal? Did the Doctor put some super glue in there? No, you grew some brand new bone. In order for the bone to heal, for the two pieces to heal back together, you grew brand new bone. If you have a cavity, why don't we grow some brand new enamel? Now, there is no reason to believe that if we can grow new bone, that we can't grow new tooth structure. There's no reason to believe that if a substance comes out of solution & deposits on your teeth, that it can't go back into solution & get off of your teeth. BIOLOGICAL BALANCE IN THE MOUTH: I would like to talk to you about a hypothetical situation which can take place inside of a person's mouth, let's call it biologic balance. Let's pretend that we have a condition inside of your mouth which is identical to the first few hours after you were born. Now, when you were first born, your body was completely sterile - there was no bacteria anywhere in your system. All the bacteria that your body takes on, where do you get it from? Your body gets it from your environment. But, at the time that you were first born, you had saliva in your mouth. There was no bacteria in your mouth. The saliva at that time was, for all practical purposes, for several days or even longer, sterile. No bacteria. The saliva has a high concentration of calcium & phosphorus ions, the same stuff our teeth are made of. Our blood also has a high concentration of calcium & phosphorus ions floating around in it. So you see, the basic building blocks of the body are all around. They're in the blood, they're in the saliva, & if you have something going wrong later on, there is no reason that these building blocks are not available. They're there & they can work for you. But only under the right conditions. Saliva is a very good first-aid type fluid that helps us. It has very beneficial effects. It also contains calcium & phosphorus ions which are available at any time. If you have a decent diet, you will have a pretty high concentration of these calcium & phosphorus ions in your saliva. If your diet is not good, you're going to have a lower concentration of them. So obviously, diet is very important to good dental health. Diet is important to all health. If we don't eat right, we're not going to be healthy no matter what. BACTERIA CAUSES DECAY! The dental profession has been telling us all these years that sugar is the thing that raises all the ruckus with our teeth. Most people that I have talked to have said that they have a friend, or relative, who seldom brushed, didn't clean their teeth very well & ate candy bars till they were coming out of their ears, & never got a single cavity. How come? The environment wasn't right. That particular person was immune to the types of bacteria that cause decay. & , there are about 3 or 4 main decay-producing types of bacteria, the two primary ones really are the strep-mutanes, which are the big ones & then after that comes lacto-bacillus. These bacteria, the 3 or 4 main types which attack our teeth, do it by producing toxic waste products in the form of acids that literally eats holes in the enamel. If you want to stop that process, the first thing you have to do is get rid of the infection. You all know what appendicitis is. That's inflammation or infection of the appendix. You may also have " molaritis " or " bicuspiditis " , infection of the tooth. Dentists just refer to these things as cavities to be filled. If you're a dentist every cavity looks like a filling, not a healing, but a filling. My wife & I have 3 children, the oldest one is a dentist, the next oldest one is a medical doctor & the next daughter is a physical therapist. None of our children have ever had a cavity. They never will, any more than there's every going to be grass growing in this room; because the environment is not right. Now, you can create this. It takes a little effort. REMINERALIZATION OF CAVITIES: Modern research has shown in the past several years that almost every human being walking around today, even people whose mouths are in good condition, has on the average about 20 cavities in their mouth at all times. & these cavities are either getting bigger or getting smaller, & the availability of the calcium & phosphorus ions from our saliva depositing in these areas is the thing that keeps the teeth healthy enough. Now, if the deposits are coming back onto the tooth structure about as fast as they are leaving, then your teeth stay healthy. If the reverse is true, then a hole starts to develop. People have asked me what they can do about some of these things? Well, let me offer just one idea about this business of speeding up the remineralization of cavities. If you have a hole in the tooth, it's nothing more than soft tooth structure; earlier it had more calcium & phosphorus ions in it. If you want to strengthen it & harden it, there is a mouth spray called Zero-lube. Zero-lube was originally designed & produced by a laboratory in the United States called Scheer Labs, in Dallas, Texas. This product is very unique. It was designed originally for people who had severe radiation of the head & neck regions. What radiation does is, it atrophies the saliva glands in the floor of the mouth & on the side of the cheeks. & as these saliva glands atrophy, they don't produce saliva anymore & , if they do, it's a very small amount. The average human being produces about a litre of saliva every day. Without it, however, people have a very dry condition because their salivary glands have atrophied & any dentist will tell you that the roots of the teeth, the root surfaces, the gum areas that protect the roots, deteriorate at an extremely rapid rate. So, this product was originally designed to help these people who had had excessive radiation & didn't have enough of their own saliva to even keep their teeth wet. All you have to do is spray with this stuff a few times a day & you are adding a very high concentration of the calcium & phosphate ions in your mouth, & if you swish with it for several minutes before you spit it out, you are actually helping to heal these areas that have softened up. Your saliva contains these same ions on its own & , if your teeth are perfectly clean & your mouth is in biologic balance, you do not need this product. In fact, when you achieve biologic balance you don't need hardly any products except just a toothbrush, some dental floss & maybe an irrigator. (See also: Demineralization & Remineralization) GUM & NECK OF THE TOOTH PROBLEMS: Now, most of the people in this room are already doing a pretty good job with a toothbrush & with floss or tape, but the serious problem that exists today is gum tissue problems. Once they have started, there is a little space down between the neck of the tooth & the tooth itself. For all practical purposes, let's call it the neck of the tooth disease. This is the area of the biggest amount of problem, & it seldom gets cleaned properly because food & bacteria collect in this space, on the outside of the tooth & on the tongue side, & we don't really clean there very well. The dental floss is designed to clean in between the teeth, & the brush cleans the outside, the biting surface & the inside, but this little space between tooth & gum, unfortunately does not get cleaned, or in most places not very well. Now, if you are using a brush in a very unique manner, & if you are young & you have used that solculus brushing method very carefully, you can probably get by without every using an oral irrigator. But, if you have any dental problems, or any amount of disease or any amount of dental recession, then it is highly advisable that you use some form of irrigation to clean around the neck of the tooth. The pattern of gum tissue disease is that it is basically a problem of not getting the neck of the tooth clean, & that is why the disease process starts marching down the tooth. From the time I graduated from dental college I had figured out that the Water-Pik was a pretty handy device, because you could remove a lot of debris from the mouth with it. In fact, the people that we have on Water-Piks, especially with the special tips to flush out pockets, tell me, all of them, that after their evening mean they brush well, they use their dental floss, they clean very well, they do everything right. Then they use the Water-Pik with the special tip, with their head in the sink in the bathroom, & the food & the debris & the particles that come out is unbelievable to them. They say, " Wow, no wonder I have been having these problems. " So about twenty-some years ago, with the help of my dental staff, my wife & a couple of other people, we took the conventional Water-Pik tip, which is kind of like a shotgun tip, it just squirts water in every direction, it's not very directional. We made it very directional by adding a section of stainless steel surgical tubing, so that instead of it squirting in every which direction, it would squirt in a very specific place. It's kind of like a garden hose with a blunt end on it, that just squirts all over the place & if you put a nozzle on it & tighten it down & it squirts in a specific place, you can get more pressure & you can get a better cleansing action, & you can flush out dental pockets. Pockets are nothing more than the same little space we started off with earlier which was normal, & which has now gotten deeper & this is called a periodontal pocket. It's nothing more than a space between the tooth & the gum, & the deeper they get, the more food & the more bacteria pack down in there. & the deeper it gets, the more it ruins the attaching fibers. If you want to know how your gum tissue sticks to your teeth & bone, all I want you to do is think about the Velcro that we have on clothing & wallets, because that is how your gum tissue sticks. There are little attaching fibers, & the minute that there is some irritation in the depth of that first crevice which is only about a millimetre deep when we are a young child & a millimetre or two deep when we get to be a teenager. If it starts to get to three or four millimetres you have a pocket & you cannot clean the depth of that pocket. So, this little space that keeps getting deeper & deeper, you can't clean it with a toothbrush, you can't clean it with dental floss, you can go to the dentist & have it scraped out & , generally speaking, the dentist is going to tell you that instead of coming back every six months for a scraping, to come back every three months for a scraping. I call it " Scrapeodontics. " & after it gets very bad they might tell you to come back every one or two months for a scraping. This isn't doing any good. The net result is that, not only is it not stopping the cause, but it is damaging the roots of the teeth besides. So it is up to you to decide which way you want to go, if you want to pay a little attention & put on a little effort, you can enjoy a state of what is called biologic balance in your mouth. & if the depth of the pocket is not enjoying the same state of biologic balance, then that " neck of the tooth disease " is marching way down the neck of the tooth headed right for the tip of the tooth & , by the time it gets about two-thirds of the way down there, your teeth are going to start wobbling around. There is not enough bone left to hold the teeth in place. But, you can grow new bone, & grow it right back up the neck of the tooth again. In October, 1977, the Journal of the American Academy of Dentists, tells all about the bone growing right back up the necks of the teeth. When my wife & I were young & met at Michigan State University, her mother had, at that time, five teeth in her mouth, two on the bottom & three on the top. She had suffered a lot of gum disease over the years & dentists had done all of the things which they could do. These five teeth were so wobbly that you could move them around with your fingers, in fact, she was already scheduled to have those removed & have upper & lower dentures made. Her soon to be son-in-law dentist said, now wait a minute. At least those five teeth will help stabilize partial dentures. It is better to have partial dentures than a full denture. & these teeth were so loose that they were practically ready to come out on their own. We put her on the program of cleaning the neck of the tooth. We eliminated the " neck of the tooth disease " in her mouth & the bone grew back. My wife & I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary this summer, & her mother still has the five teeth. So, when dentists tell me that you can't do these things, I just say, " Well, Doctor, it is kind of like if you believe that you can't do them, then you can't. " VIADENT: A company in Switzerland by the name of Viadent, who consulted with me by the way, built some special tips for their unit which is similar to the Water-Pik. It is different in several ways & the Viadent unit comes with four tips, two conventional tips which are good for young people, particularly small children because it will flush away the food & bacteria that collects below the neck of the tooth, & the other two (sulcus) tips that come with it are designed to flush out pockets. Now, those of you who heard Reverend Willhelm, heard him tell you just how effective hydrogen peroxide was in killing bacteria. (this should be pharmacuetical grade if possible) If you want to get hydrogen peroxide down into the space between the tooth & the gum, if you just rinse your mouth with it that is partially beneficial, but if you have pockets & spaces down along the necks of the teeth & someone has recommended surgery for you or whatever, then I would highly advise you to get a unit like this & use it initially two or three times per day & squirt the hydrogen peroxide or salt water or salt & soda or a variety of other rinses that are mentioned in that Issue No. 9. The Gum Tissue Issue of the No. 9 (People's Dental Association) newsletter has a whole page on rinses & the different variety of rinses that are available. If you are going to stop your own gum disease, you have to stop the bacteria. So, I just want you to think about these things. They're your teeth. They're going to be either with you or not with you for the rest of your life. The person that is in control is you. You are in charge of your own dental destiny. The more you rely on the dentist & the less you rely on yourself, the more likely you will wind up with teeth at a ripe old age. You're going to have to do a little homework, you're going to have to study a little bit, you're going to have to change your frame of reference, & you're going to have to say, well maybe there is a better way. THE PEOPLE'S DENTAL ASSOCIATION: The biggest problem that this whole situation faces is the lack of knowledge. In the first place, the public does not have this knowledge, but that's not really where the problem lies. An organization in the United States called Opinion Research Corporation did a very extensive study to find out just why it is that prevention & the knowledge that has been produced in the past 20, 30, 40, 50 years, is not being practiced. Dentists practice with drills, doctors practice with forceps, they don't practice with knowledge. & Opinion Research Corporation set out to figure out why. Why is this existing knowledge not being put to use? Why is it not being taught to the public? Opinion Research found out that the dentists don't know. There is a big block & no communication between the scientific world of dentistry & the delivery system of dentistry out in the field. Also, the practicing dentist today is not practicing much different than the dentist practiced 25 years ago or even 50 years ago. I graduated, in essence, number one in my class from the University of Michigan in 1959 & my son graduated from the same University with the same position in his class 25 years later, & the courses were all the same. There wasn't one course that had been appreciably changed in the 25 years between the time that I had left there & the time my son left there. Nothing has been changed. They are taught the same old mechanics. So, you have a choice, you people that are the public can decide. Your dentist that you have seen in the past, or even in the future, if they choose to think in the old way, I guess there is not much we can do about that. But you can certainly choose to think in a new way. That is your decision to make. I think that it is very possible to live for a lifetime without seeing a dentist, as long as you have this knowledge & you break up the bacterial colonies that collect around the teeth & gums. If you don't believe that these things can work, if you don't want to understand how they work, if you're not willing to deal with an open mind & learn that there may be some other ways to think about this, well then your best bet is to just continue what dentists have been preaching for a long time; see your dentist twice a year, brush your teeth twice a day, & don't eat sweets. You will then have a typical pattern of a lot of cavities & gum problems & root canals & all different kinds of things. I guess there is not a whole lot I can do to change the profession anymore, because I spent about 15 years of my life travelling around the Dental Schools teaching these same concepts. These same things I am presenting to you, I have presented to over 15,000 dentists in a period of several years' time. I wrote a thick textbook about it published by Prentice Hall in the United States, & sold all kinds of them. I'm sure the dentists, at least some of them read it, but I can assure you none of them practice it. Or if so, very, very few. That's unfortunate. I finally decided instead of talking to dentists & trying to reason with them, I turned it all into a program which can be done directly for the public, either in the form of lectures like this & even more effectively through the mail. Everything which I am saying to you about learning & doing is included, & there are about 15 or 20 different modern day products listed that will help you, in addition to some old ones, like salt & soda & peroxide & all of these things. There is no one exact answer for any given person. So, we reduce the whole thing down to a four-page description which is now published in a newsletter called " The People's Dental Association Network News " Issue No. 7. Issue No. 7 is an overview of everything I am saying to you here this evening. It is a synopsis of the entire Oramedics Program that has been developed by myself & other people, to bring people's mouths back to a state of biologic balance. Now, if you have gum tissue problems, then there is another issue which is a condensation of about 450 research articles, all put into a four page newsletter called " Issue No. 9 " which has to do with gum disease. I see part of my job on the face of this earth these days as answering the problem that Opinion Research Corporation found out; that the scientific world & the dental practitioner world don't communicate. So I see my role as being a source. I can't expect you all to go out & read a half dozen different dental journals each month & analyze what they say & try to figure what that means to the health of your mouth. So, I have assumed that responsibility. I read the Journals & determine what I think is important for the public to know, & periodically we condense it into an issue of a newsletter & we mail it out to the people that belong to this organization called " The People's Dental Association " . We do issues of the Network News when we have something important to say, if there is a breakthrough in the field of dentistry or the health of the mouth, we will come out with a special issue & it will be off the presses in a matter of days. We have tried to design this whole process so that you can conquer your own dental disease, at home without the benefit of a dentist. I used to worry about the fact that dentists are not going to practice prevention. (At least probably for the rest of my life, but I don't worry about that anymore>) By condensing these important preventive types of knowledge into books, pamphlets, materials, & tapes under the label of " Oramedics, " we have made available through the " People's Dental Association " an inexpensive way of self-help & learn at home to conquer your own dental problems. QUESTIONS: Q: Will irrigation with the appropriate solution remove the calculus that builds up around the teeth? A: Well, let's reverse that question, because if you were doing this already, no calculus would build up around the teeth. Now, if you do have calculus there, & if it is large deposits, you might think about going one last time to the dentist & have them scraped off. If they are really big deposits I would suggest that you do that. You could dissolve it all, but it would probably take you a better part of a year. Q: Can anything be done to reverse gum recession? A: What causes recession in the first place? If there has been recession, anywhere in the mouth, I can pretty much assure you that it's there because there was an episode in which the " neck of the tooth disease " went on there earlier. If there is bacteria of any kind in your mouth, whether it's in the bone or around the neck of the tooth or below the gum tissue or whatever, I know of no way to get it out of there without squirting it out. You cannot get it out with a toothbrush & you can't get it out with dental floss. My morning's program covered about six different research projects or research papers that I quoted from, that prove to me & I think anybody who will listen, that surgery is not the answer. DEMINERALIZATION & REMINERALIZATION Demineralization & Remineralization have a vital impact on the strength & hardness of dental enamel. WHAT IS DEMINERALIZATION? Demineralization is the process of removing minerals, in the form of mineral ions, from dental enamel. " Demineralization " is another term for " dissolving the enamel. " Dental enamel is a crystalline latticework composed of various minerals, the principal component of which is a complex calcium phosphate mineral called hydroxyapatite ( " hi-drox-e-appetite. " ) A substantial number of mineral ions can be removed from hydroxyapatite latticework without destroying its structural integrity; however, such demineralized enamel transmits hot, cold, pressure & pain much more readily than normal enamel. For example, if you feel something like a toothache, but the dentist says you don't have a cavity, chances are good you are feeling the results of a severely demineralized spot on your tooth that hasn't yet formed a cavity. Your dentist may also tell you that your enamel is soft at that spot, & that s/he can actually penetrate your enamel with a probe. Dentists frequently recommend brushing with a prescription high-dose fluoride gel to retard demineralization. When too many minerals are dissolved from an area of the hydroxyapatite's latticework, you have a cavity. Cavities are the loss of the hydroxyapatite's crystalline latticework structure. Fortunately, the latticework can be strengthened & restored through the process of remineralization. WHAT IS REMINERALIZATION? Remineralization is the process of restoring minerals - again, in the form of mineral ions - to the hydroxyapatite's latticework structure. Remineralization is like replacing the missing rungs in a rickety ladder to make it strong & stable again – except that remineralization is three-dimensional, & the lost " rungs " (i.e. different mineral ions) must be replaced with " rungs " having the exact same shape, size & the same electrical charge as those lost from the lattice. Both remineralization & demineralization occur on the surface of the tooth. If you examine the cross-section diagram of a tooth, you will see there is no connection between the bloodstream & the enamel. Therefore, taking mineral supplements has virtually no impact on remineralizing the teeth. (It's also worth noting that this is true in reverse too: An event that draws on minerals in the blood, such as pregnancy or healing a broken bone cannot extract minerals from the teeth, as is widely believed.) WHAT CAUSES DEMINERALIZATION? Strong, stable acids, mostly: To a certain extent, these are found in acid foods, such as tomatoes or oranges; but they're also formed by oral bacteria that feed on starches & sugars in your mouth, especially refined sugars, secreting acids as by-products. WHY DO STRONG STABLE ACIDS CAUSE DEMINERALIZATION? Dental enamel is mineral, a " living stone. " In your mouth, as in the rest of nature, acids dissolve minerals, transforming them from solid mineral molecules into mineral ions that exist only in solution. Strong stable acids do not break down easily, so very small quantities can keep on dissolving the minerals in your enamel. In the presence of these acids, millions, even billions, of calcium & other mineral ions are removed from the hydroxyapatite latticework. Eventually, the enamel loses its structural integrity. HOW DOES THE BODY FIGHT DENTAL DEMINERALIZATION? To counter demineralization, the body had to solve an interesting problem: If dental minerals are only soluble in acids, how can it create replacement mineral ions in a way that also doesn't dissolve enamel, as strong stable acids do? The solution is so elegant, so simple, & so invisible that you don't even realize it's happening! Th is natural mechanism is enhanced be eating unprocessed foods, rich in minerals, including trace minerals, such as natural & organic foods. WHAT IS THIS NATURAL REMINERALIZATION MECHANISM? Our bodies utilize carbon dioxide from our breath & water from our saliva to create a mild, unstable acid, carbonic acid. Carbonic acid is the heart of the natural remineralization process. Like all acids, carbonic acids can dissolve minerals in our saliva (present from our food); however, unlike strong stable acids, carbonic acid quickly & easily converts to carbon dioxide & water. When this happens, the mineral ions that are dissolved in I,t precipitate out as solid mineral ions again - but not necessarily as the original mineral molecules: If a particular mineral ion is near a demineralized portion of the hydroxyapatite crystal that requires that ion, the ion is incorporated into the dental enamel! Though natural remineralization is always taking place, the level of activity varies according to conditions in the mouth. In fact, for remineralization to proceed, six conditions or events must occur at the same time: FIRST, sufficient minerals must be present in the saliva. Since foods are the principal source of minerals for the teeth, an adequate diet, or insufficient time chewing foods (which transfers minerals to the saliva) may result in mineral-poor saliva. (Cooking changes these minerals into a form our bodies can’t use, as does the heat processing into Vitamin supplements.) SECOND, a molecule of carbonic acid must be produced. Only a miniscule fraction of the carbon dioxide from the breath is converted to carbonic acid. THIRD, the carbonic acid molecule must be produced in proximity to a mineral molecule, which it then dissolves into its ionic components. FOURTH, this all has to occur in proximity to a demineralized spot in the hydroxyapatite latticework that requires that exact mineral ion. FIFTH, that spot of the tooth has to be clean, so that the mineral-deficient spot is accessible. If it is, then the mineral ion is attracted to the " hole " in the lattice by the opposite electric charges of the ion & the " hole. " Many different ions have the correct charge, but only the correct ion has the correct shape & size to fit into the " hole. " FINALLY, the carbonic acid must convert to carbon dioxide & water before any of the above circumstances change! When all this happens, a mineral ion is precipitated out of solution into the structure of the enamel. All mammals (dogs, monkeys, lions, mice, etc.) utilize this same carbonic acid remineralization mechanism. In the wild, animals generally have strong enamel, so we know that with a natural diet, this subtle & invisible process really is able to maintain the strength of enamel! This also indicates that with a pre-modern diet, humans probably also had strong enamel naturally. For strong enamel in today's world, though, the natural remineralization process needs to be augmented. TODAY, WHY IS NATURAL REMINERALIZATION FREQUENTLY INADEQUATE TO MAINTAIN STRONG ENAMEL? As you can see, natural remineralization is a pretty " iffy " occurrence. In contrast, demineralization is enormously accelerated by the refined sugars & cooked/processed foods in most of our diets. The destruction caused by the strong stable acids abundantly present in our mouths is constant & unremitting. TO RESTORE THE BODY'S NATURAL EQUILIBRIUM, EITHER REMINERALIZATION MUST BE ENHANCED OR DEMINERALIZATION MUST BE RETARDED. EFFERVESCENT ACTION ENHANCES REMINERALIZATION; FLUORIDE RETARDS DEMINERALIZATION. http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/prevent.html ===== Peace, Joy and Good Health Laura test'; " type=text/css> Take Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile./maildemo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 How To Enjoy Healthy Teeth & Gums - In Spite Of Your Dentist ROBERT O. NARA, D.D.S. Speaking at Total Health '87 The dental profession has the public pretty well boondoggled into thinking that we have to go to the dentist & get our teeth cleaned & checked every six months & we've been conditioned to believe that somehow or other this has something to do with our having healthy teeth & gums. I don't particularly believe that that's true. In fact, I believe that you could very easily live out an entire lifetime & never see a dentist. Every time you have your teeth cleaned, about 2 to 3 microns of your enamel goes away. It's a very abrating kind of process, this business of having your teeth cleaned. In fact, I believe that there are a lot of detrimental things that happen in the cleaning process & the scraping of the roots. Even in dental professional literature, they state that there is probably some damage to the root surfaces when they scrape with these scalers. CALCULUS OR TARTAR: I want you to think about another thing. At some time or other you've had a tea kettle or some kind of a pot on your stove that boils water & , over a period of time, a scale forms on the bottom. If you've ever looked carefully at that scale, you will find that it's kind of dark brown in color, kind of brittle looking & , in fact if you scrape at it a little bit, some of it may come off in chunks. If you look inside your mouth & you have a large number of deposits on your teeth, what dentists call calculus or tartar, you'll find that it's going to look just about the same as that stuff that collects on the bottom of your tea kettle. The reason that it looks like it's the same stuff, is because it is the same stuff. Now, once every six months or so you could scrape the bottom of the tea kettle & try to get that stuff off, which would be a tough job as you can appreciate, or you could put a little bit of vinegar in your tea kettle & the calcium hydroxide salts that are stuck on the bottom of your tea kettle would go back into solution, because the acetic acid from the vinegar, working with the calcium hydroxide, which is a base, neutralize each other & you can dissolve the deposits. So if I suggested that, instead of having all that scraping all the time that we just dissolve the tartar off of the teeth, that would make a whole lot of sense, wouldn't it? STRUCTURE OF THE TOOTH: Now, let's take a look at the tooth structure. The hard structure of a tooth is the enamel & the dentin is underneath it. What is the tooth made of? Well, it's primarily made of calcium & phosphorus, the same stuff our bones are made of except there is a little more calcium & phosphorus in the teeth than there is in the bones. That's why they are harder. If you fall down & break a leg & the doctor puts the two pieces of the bone back together & puts a cast over the whole affair so that it can't move; in about six weeks your leg is healed. How did it heal? Did the Doctor put some super glue in there? No, you grew some brand new bone. In order for the bone to heal, for the two pieces to heal back together, you grew brand new bone. If you have a cavity, why don't we grow some brand new enamel? Now, there is no reason to believe that if we can grow new bone, that we can't grow new tooth structure. There's no reason to believe that if a substance comes out of solution & deposits on your teeth, that it can't go back into solution & get off of your teeth. BIOLOGICAL BALANCE IN THE MOUTH: I would like to talk to you about a hypothetical situation which can take place inside of a person's mouth, let's call it biologic balance. Let's pretend that we have a condition inside of your mouth which is identical to the first few hours after you were born. Now, when you were first born, your body was completely sterile - there was no bacteria anywhere in your system. All the bacteria that your body takes on, where do you get it from? Your body gets it from your environment. But, at the time that you were first born, you had saliva in your mouth. There was no bacteria in your mouth. The saliva at that time was, for all practical purposes, for several days or even longer, sterile. No bacteria. The saliva has a high concentration of calcium & phosphorus ions, the same stuff our teeth are made of. Our blood also has a high concentration of calcium & phosphorus ions floating around in it. So you see, the basic building blocks of the body are all around. They're in the blood, they're in the saliva, & if you have something going wrong later on, there is no reason that these building blocks are not available. They're there & they can work for you. But only under the right conditions. Saliva is a very good first-aid type fluid that helps us. It has very beneficial effects. It also contains calcium & phosphorus ions which are available at any time. If you have a decent diet, you will have a pretty high concentration of these calcium & phosphorus ions in your saliva. If your diet is not good, you're going to have a lower concentration of them. So obviously, diet is very important to good dental health. Diet is important to all health. If we don't eat right, we're not going to be healthy no matter what. BACTERIA CAUSES DECAY! The dental profession has been telling us all these years that sugar is the thing that raises all the ruckus with our teeth. Most people that I have talked to have said that they have a friend, or relative, who seldom brushed, didn't clean their teeth very well & ate candy bars till they were coming out of their ears, & never got a single cavity. How come? The environment wasn't right. That particular person was immune to the types of bacteria that cause decay. & , there are about 3 or 4 main decay-producing types of bacteria, the two primary ones really are the strep-mutanes, which are the big ones & then after that comes lacto-bacillus. These bacteria, the 3 or 4 main types which attack our teeth, do it by producing toxic waste products in the form of acids that literally eats holes in the enamel. If you want to stop that process, the first thing you have to do is get rid of the infection. You all know what appendicitis is. That's inflammation or infection of the appendix. You may also have " molaritis " or " bicuspiditis " , infection of the tooth. Dentists just refer to these things as cavities to be filled. If you're a dentist every cavity looks like a filling, not a healing, but a filling. My wife & I have 3 children, the oldest one is a dentist, the next oldest one is a medical doctor & the next daughter is a physical therapist. None of our children have ever had a cavity. They never will, any more than there's every going to be grass growing in this room; because the environment is not right. Now, you can create this. It takes a little effort. REMINERALIZATION OF CAVITIES: Modern research has shown in the past several years that almost every human being walking around today, even people whose mouths are in good condition, has on the average about 20 cavities in their mouth at all times. & these cavities are either getting bigger or getting smaller, & the availability of the calcium & phosphorus ions from our saliva depositing in these areas is the thing that keeps the teeth healthy enough. Now, if the deposits are coming back onto the tooth structure about as fast as they are leaving, then your teeth stay healthy. If the reverse is true, then a hole starts to develop. People have asked me what they can do about some of these things? Well, let me offer just one idea about this business of speeding up the remineralization of cavities. If you have a hole in the tooth, it's nothing more than soft tooth structure; earlier it had more calcium & phosphorus ions in it. If you want to strengthen it & harden it, there is a mouth spray called Zero-lube. Zero-lube was originally designed & produced by a laboratory in the United States called Scheer Labs, in Dallas, Texas. This product is very unique. It was designed originally for people who had severe radiation of the head & neck regions. What radiation does is, it atrophies the saliva glands in the floor of the mouth & on the side of the cheeks. & as these saliva glands atrophy, they don't produce saliva anymore & , if they do, it's a very small amount. The average human being produces about a litre of saliva every day. Without it, however, people have a very dry condition because their salivary glands have atrophied & any dentist will tell you that the roots of the teeth, the root surfaces, the gum areas that protect the roots, deteriorate at an extremely rapid rate. So, this product was originally designed to help these people who had had excessive radiation & didn't have enough of their own saliva to even keep their teeth wet. All you have to do is spray with this stuff a few times a day & you are adding a very high concentration of the calcium & phosphate ions in your mouth, & if you swish with it for several minutes before you spit it out, you are actually helping to heal these areas that have softened up. Your saliva contains these same ions on its own & , if your teeth are perfectly clean & your mouth is in biologic balance, you do not need this product. In fact, when you achieve biologic balance you don't need hardly any products except just a toothbrush, some dental floss & maybe an irrigator. (See also: Demineralization & Remineralization) GUM & NECK OF THE TOOTH PROBLEMS: Now, most of the people in this room are already doing a pretty good job with a toothbrush & with floss or tape, but the serious problem that exists today is gum tissue problems. Once they have started, there is a little space down between the neck of the tooth & the tooth itself. For all practical purposes, let's call it the neck of the tooth disease. This is the area of the biggest amount of problem, & it seldom gets cleaned properly because food & bacteria collect in this space, on the outside of the tooth & on the tongue side, & we don't really clean there very well. The dental floss is designed to clean in between the teeth, & the brush cleans the outside, the biting surface & the inside, but this little space between tooth & gum, unfortunately does not get cleaned, or in most places not very well. Now, if you are using a brush in a very unique manner, & if you are young & you have used that solculus brushing method very carefully, you can probably get by without every using an oral irrigator. But, if you have any dental problems, or any amount of disease or any amount of dental recession, then it is highly advisable that you use some form of irrigation to clean around the neck of the tooth. The pattern of gum tissue disease is that it is basically a problem of not getting the neck of the tooth clean, & that is why the disease process starts marching down the tooth. From the time I graduated from dental college I had figured out that the Water-Pik was a pretty handy device, because you could remove a lot of debris from the mouth with it. In fact, the people that we have on Water-Piks, especially with the special tips to flush out pockets, tell me, all of them, that after their evening mean they brush well, they use their dental floss, they clean very well, they do everything right. Then they use the Water-Pik with the special tip, with their head in the sink in the bathroom, & the food & the debris & the particles that come out is unbelievable to them. They say, " Wow, no wonder I have been having these problems. " So about twenty-some years ago, with the help of my dental staff, my wife & a couple of other people, we took the conventional Water-Pik tip, which is kind of like a shotgun tip, it just squirts water in every direction, it's not very directional. We made it very directional by adding a section of stainless steel surgical tubing, so that instead of it squirting in every which direction, it would squirt in a very specific place. It's kind of like a garden hose with a blunt end on it, that just squirts all over the place & if you put a nozzle on it & tighten it down & it squirts in a specific place, you can get more pressure & you can get a better cleansing action, & you can flush out dental pockets. Pockets are nothing more than the same little space we started off with earlier which was normal, & which has now gotten deeper & this is called a periodontal pocket. It's nothing more than a space between the tooth & the gum, & the deeper they get, the more food & the more bacteria pack down in there. & the deeper it gets, the more it ruins the attaching fibers. If you want to know how your gum tissue sticks to your teeth & bone, all I want you to do is think about the Velcro that we have on clothing & wallets, because that is how your gum tissue sticks. There are little attaching fibers, & the minute that there is some irritation in the depth of that first crevice which is only about a millimetre deep when we are a young child & a millimetre or two deep when we get to be a teenager. If it starts to get to three or four millimetres you have a pocket & you cannot clean the depth of that pocket. So, this little space that keeps getting deeper & deeper, you can't clean it with a toothbrush, you can't clean it with dental floss, you can go to the dentist & have it scraped out & , generally speaking, the dentist is going to tell you that instead of coming back every six months for a scraping, to come back every three months for a scraping. I call it " Scrapeodontics. " & after it gets very bad they might tell you to come back every one or two months for a scraping. This isn't doing any good. The net result is that, not only is it not stopping the cause, but it is damaging the roots of the teeth besides. So it is up to you to decide which way you want to go, if you want to pay a little attention & put on a little effort, you can enjoy a state of what is called biologic balance in your mouth. & if the depth of the pocket is not enjoying the same state of biologic balance, then that " neck of the tooth disease " is marching way down the neck of the tooth headed right for the tip of the tooth & , by the time it gets about two-thirds of the way down there, your teeth are going to start wobbling around. There is not enough bone left to hold the teeth in place. But, you can grow new bone, & grow it right back up the neck of the tooth again. In October, 1977, the Journal of the American Academy of Dentists, tells all about the bone growing right back up the necks of the teeth. When my wife & I were young & met at Michigan State University, her mother had, at that time, five teeth in her mouth, two on the bottom & three on the top. She had suffered a lot of gum disease over the years & dentists had done all of the things which they could do. These five teeth were so wobbly that you could move them around with your fingers, in fact, she was already scheduled to have those removed & have upper & lower dentures made. Her soon to be son-in-law dentist said, now wait a minute. At least those five teeth will help stabilize partial dentures. It is better to have partial dentures than a full denture. & these teeth were so loose that they were practically ready to come out on their own. We put her on the program of cleaning the neck of the tooth. We eliminated the " neck of the tooth disease " in her mouth & the bone grew back. My wife & I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary this summer, & her mother still has the five teeth. So, when dentists tell me that you can't do these things, I just say, " Well, Doctor, it is kind of like if you believe that you can't do them, then you can't. " VIADENT: A company in Switzerland by the name of Viadent, who consulted with me by the way, built some special tips for their unit which is similar to the Water-Pik. It is different in several ways & the Viadent unit comes with four tips, two conventional tips which are good for young people, particularly small children because it will flush away the food & bacteria that collects below the neck of the tooth, & the other two (sulcus) tips that come with it are designed to flush out pockets. Now, those of you who heard Reverend Willhelm, heard him tell you just how effective hydrogen peroxide was in killing bacteria. (this should be pharmacuetical grade if possible) If you want to get hydrogen peroxide down into the space between the tooth & the gum, if you just rinse your mouth with it that is partially beneficial, but if you have pockets & spaces down along the necks of the teeth & someone has recommended surgery for you or whatever, then I would highly advise you to get a unit like this & use it initially two or three times per day & squirt the hydrogen peroxide or salt water or salt & soda or a variety of other rinses that are mentioned in that Issue No. 9. The Gum Tissue Issue of the No. 9 (People's Dental Association) newsletter has a whole page on rinses & the different variety of rinses that are available. If you are going to stop your own gum disease, you have to stop the bacteria. So, I just want you to think about these things. They're your teeth. They're going to be either with you or not with you for the rest of your life. The person that is in control is you. You are in charge of your own dental destiny. The more you rely on the dentist & the less you rely on yourself, the more likely you will wind up with teeth at a ripe old age. You're going to have to do a little homework, you're going to have to study a little bit, you're going to have to change your frame of reference, & you're going to have to say, well maybe there is a better way. THE PEOPLE'S DENTAL ASSOCIATION: The biggest problem that this whole situation faces is the lack of knowledge. In the first place, the public does not have this knowledge, but that's not really where the problem lies. An organization in the United States called Opinion Research Corporation did a very extensive study to find out just why it is that prevention & the knowledge that has been produced in the past 20, 30, 40, 50 years, is not being practiced. Dentists practice with drills, doctors practice with forceps, they don't practice with knowledge. & Opinion Research Corporation set out to figure out why. Why is this existing knowledge not being put to use? Why is it not being taught to the public? Opinion Research found out that the dentists don't know. There is a big block & no communication between the scientific world of dentistry & the delivery system of dentistry out in the field. Also, the practicing dentist today is not practicing much different than the dentist practiced 25 years ago or even 50 years ago. I graduated, in essence, number one in my class from the University of Michigan in 1959 & my son graduated from the same University with the same position in his class 25 years later, & the courses were all the same. There wasn't one course that had been appreciably changed in the 25 years between the time that I had left there & the time my son left there. Nothing has been changed. They are taught the same old mechanics. So, you have a choice, you people that are the public can decide. Your dentist that you have seen in the past, or even in the future, if they choose to think in the old way, I guess there is not much we can do about that. But you can certainly choose to think in a new way. That is your decision to make. I think that it is very possible to live for a lifetime without seeing a dentist, as long as you have this knowledge & you break up the bacterial colonies that collect around the teeth & gums. If you don't believe that these things can work, if you don't want to understand how they work, if you're not willing to deal with an open mind & learn that there may be some other ways to think about this, well then your best bet is to just continue what dentists have been preaching for a long time; see your dentist twice a year, brush your teeth twice a day, & don't eat sweets. You will then have a typical pattern of a lot of cavities & gum problems & root canals & all different kinds of things. I guess there is not a whole lot I can do to change the profession anymore, because I spent about 15 years of my life travelling around the Dental Schools teaching these same concepts. These same things I am presenting to you, I have presented to over 15,000 dentists in a period of several years' time. I wrote a thick textbook about it published by Prentice Hall in the United States, & sold all kinds of them. I'm sure the dentists, at least some of them read it, but I can assure you none of them practice it. Or if so, very, very few. That's unfortunate. I finally decided instead of talking to dentists & trying to reason with them, I turned it all into a program which can be done directly for the public, either in the form of lectures like this & even more effectively through the mail. Everything which I am saying to you about learning & doing is included, & there are about 15 or 20 different modern day products listed that will help you, in addition to some old ones, like salt & soda & peroxide & all of these things. There is no one exact answer for any given person. So, we reduce the whole thing down to a four-page description which is now published in a newsletter called " The People's Dental Association Network News " Issue No. 7. Issue No. 7 is an overview of everything I am saying to you here this evening. It is a synopsis of the entire Oramedics Program that has been developed by myself & other people, to bring people's mouths back to a state of biologic balance. Now, if you have gum tissue problems, then there is another issue which is a condensation of about 450 research articles, all put into a four page newsletter called " Issue No. 9 " which has to do with gum disease. I see part of my job on the face of this earth these days as answering the problem that Opinion Research Corporation found out; that the scientific world & the dental practitioner world don't communicate. So I see my role as being a source. I can't expect you all to go out & read a half dozen different dental journals each month & analyze what they say & try to figure what that means to the health of your mouth. So, I have assumed that responsibility. I read the Journals & determine what I think is important for the public to know, & periodically we condense it into an issue of a newsletter & we mail it out to the people that belong to this organization called " The People's Dental Association " . We do issues of the Network News when we have something important to say, if there is a breakthrough in the field of dentistry or the health of the mouth, we will come out with a special issue & it will be off the presses in a matter of days. We have tried to design this whole process so that you can conquer your own dental disease, at home without the benefit of a dentist. I used to worry about the fact that dentists are not going to practice prevention. (At least probably for the rest of my life, but I don't worry about that anymore>) By condensing these important preventive types of knowledge into books, pamphlets, materials, & tapes under the label of " Oramedics, " we have made available through the " People's Dental Association " an inexpensive way of self-help & learn at home to conquer your own dental problems. QUESTIONS: Q: Will irrigation with the appropriate solution remove the calculus that builds up around the teeth? A: Well, let's reverse that question, because if you were doing this already, no calculus would build up around the teeth. Now, if you do have calculus there, & if it is large deposits, you might think about going one last time to the dentist & have them scraped off. If they are really big deposits I would suggest that you do that. You could dissolve it all, but it would probably take you a better part of a year. Q: Can anything be done to reverse gum recession? A: What causes recession in the first place? If there has been recession, anywhere in the mouth, I can pretty much assure you that it's there because there was an episode in which the " neck of the tooth disease " went on there earlier. If there is bacteria of any kind in your mouth, whether it's in the bone or around the neck of the tooth or below the gum tissue or whatever, I know of no way to get it out of there without squirting it out. You cannot get it out with a toothbrush & you can't get it out with dental floss. My morning's program covered about six different research projects or research papers that I quoted from, that prove to me & I think anybody who will listen, that surgery is not the answer. DEMINERALIZATION & REMINERALIZATION Demineralization & Remineralization have a vital impact on the strength & hardness of dental enamel. WHAT IS DEMINERALIZATION? Demineralization is the process of removing minerals, in the form of mineral ions, from dental enamel. " Demineralization " is another term for " dissolving the enamel. " Dental enamel is a crystalline latticework composed of various minerals, the principal component of which is a complex calcium phosphate mineral called hydroxyapatite ( " hi-drox-e-appetite. " ) A substantial number of mineral ions can be removed from hydroxyapatite latticework without destroying its structural integrity; however, such demineralized enamel transmits hot, cold, pressure & pain much more readily than normal enamel. For example, if you feel something like a toothache, but the dentist says you don't have a cavity, chances are good you are feeling the results of a severely demineralized spot on your tooth that hasn't yet formed a cavity. Your dentist may also tell you that your enamel is soft at that spot, & that s/he can actually penetrate your enamel with a probe. Dentists frequently recommend brushing with a prescription high-dose fluoride gel to retard demineralization. When too many minerals are dissolved from an area of the hydroxyapatite's latticework, you have a cavity. Cavities are the loss of the hydroxyapatite's crystalline latticework structure. Fortunately, the latticework can be strengthened & restored through the process of remineralization. WHAT IS REMINERALIZATION? Remineralization is the process of restoring minerals - again, in the form of mineral ions - to the hydroxyapatite's latticework structure. Remineralization is like replacing the missing rungs in a rickety ladder to make it strong & stable again – except that remineralization is three-dimensional, & the lost " rungs " (i.e. different mineral ions) must be replaced with " rungs " having the exact same shape, size & the same electrical charge as those lost from the lattice. Both remineralization & demineralization occur on the surface of the tooth. If you examine the cross-section diagram of a tooth, you will see there is no connection between the bloodstream & the enamel. Therefore, taking mineral supplements has virtually no impact on remineralizing the teeth. (It's also worth noting that this is true in reverse too: An event that draws on minerals in the blood, such as pregnancy or healing a broken bone cannot extract minerals from the teeth, as is widely believed.) WHAT CAUSES DEMINERALIZATION? Strong, stable acids, mostly: To a certain extent, these are found in acid foods, such as tomatoes or oranges; but they're also formed by oral bacteria that feed on starches & sugars in your mouth, especially refined sugars, secreting acids as by-products. WHY DO STRONG STABLE ACIDS CAUSE DEMINERALIZATION? Dental enamel is mineral, a " living stone. " In your mouth, as in the rest of nature, acids dissolve minerals, transforming them from solid mineral molecules into mineral ions that exist only in solution. Strong stable acids do not break down easily, so very small quantities can keep on dissolving the minerals in your enamel. In the presence of these acids, millions, even billions, of calcium & other mineral ions are removed from the hydroxyapatite latticework. Eventually, the enamel loses its structural integrity. HOW DOES THE BODY FIGHT DENTAL DEMINERALIZATION? To counter demineralization, the body had to solve an interesting problem: If dental minerals are only soluble in acids, how can it create replacement mineral ions in a way that also doesn't dissolve enamel, as strong stable acids do? The solution is so elegant, so simple, & so invisible that you don't even realize it's happening! Th is natural mechanism is enhanced be eating unprocessed foods, rich in minerals, including trace minerals, such as natural & organic foods. WHAT IS THIS NATURAL REMINERALIZATION MECHANISM? Our bodies utilize carbon dioxide from our breath & water from our saliva to create a mild, unstable acid, carbonic acid. Carbonic acid is the heart of the natural remineralization process. Like all acids, carbonic acids can dissolve minerals in our saliva (present from our food); however, unlike strong stable acids, carbonic acid quickly & easily converts to carbon dioxide & water. When this happens, the mineral ions that are dissolved in I,t precipitate out as solid mineral ions again - but not necessarily as the original mineral molecules: If a particular mineral ion is near a demineralized portion of the hydroxyapatite crystal that requires that ion, the ion is incorporated into the dental enamel! Though natural remineralization is always taking place, the level of activity varies according to conditions in the mouth. In fact, for remineralization to proceed, six conditions or events must occur at the same time: FIRST, sufficient minerals must be present in the saliva. Since foods are the principal source of minerals for the teeth, an adequate diet, or insufficient time chewing foods (which transfers minerals to the saliva) may result in mineral-poor saliva. (Cooking changes these minerals into a form our bodies can’t use, as does the heat processing into Vitamin supplements.) SECOND, a molecule of carbonic acid must be produced. Only a miniscule fraction of the carbon dioxide from the breath is converted to carbonic acid. THIRD, the carbonic acid molecule must be produced in proximity to a mineral molecule, which it then dissolves into its ionic components. FOURTH, this all has to occur in proximity to a demineralized spot in the hydroxyapatite latticework that requires that exact mineral ion. FIFTH, that spot of the tooth has to be clean, so that the mineral-deficient spot is accessible. If it is, then the mineral ion is attracted to the " hole " in the lattice by the opposite electric charges of the ion & the " hole. " Many different ions have the correct charge, but only the correct ion has the correct shape & size to fit into the " hole. " FINALLY, the carbonic acid must convert to carbon dioxide & water before any of the above circumstances change! When all this happens, a mineral ion is precipitated out of solution into the structure of the enamel. All mammals (dogs, monkeys, lions, mice, etc.) utilize this same carbonic acid remineralization mechanism. In the wild, animals generally have strong enamel, so we know that with a natural diet, this subtle & invisible process really is able to maintain the strength of enamel! This also indicates that with a pre-modern diet, humans probably also had strong enamel naturally. For strong enamel in today's world, though, the natural remineralization process needs to be augmented. TODAY, WHY IS NATURAL REMINERALIZATION FREQUENTLY INADEQUATE TO MAINTAIN STRONG ENAMEL? As you can see, natural remineralization is a pretty " iffy " occurrence. In contrast, demineralization is enormously accelerated by the refined sugars & cooked/processed foods in most of our diets. The destruction caused by the strong stable acids abundantly present in our mouths is constant & unremitting. TO RESTORE THE BODY'S NATURAL EQUILIBRIUM, EITHER REMINERALIZATION MUST BE ENHANCED OR DEMINERALIZATION MUST BE RETARDED. EFFERVESCENT ACTION ENHANCES REMINERALIZATION; FLUORIDE RETARDS DEMINERALIZATION. http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/prevent.html ===== Peace, Joy and Good Health Laura test'; " type=text/css> Take Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile./maildemo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Laura, What a great article. Did you get the book? If so, what did you think! Thanks, Vegigran > How To Enjoy Healthy Teeth & Gums - In Spite Of Your > Dentist > ROBERT O. NARA, D.D.S. Speaking at Total Health '87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Wow, thanks for this post, I really appreciate it. On Jan 5, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Laura Haddaway wrote: > > How To Enjoy Healthy Teeth & Gums - In Spite Of Your > Dentist > > ROBERT O. NARA, D.D.S. Speaking at Total Health '87 > > The dental profession has the public pretty well > boondoggled into thinking that we have to go to the > dentist & get our teeth cleaned & checked every six > months & we've been conditioned to believe that > somehow or other this has something to do with our > having healthy teeth & gums. > > ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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