_______________________________________________Oral health I've healed many cavities, gum inflamation and infection in my life, but I've also lost many teeth. I have big teeth which got filling at a young age, these teeth seems really hard to heal. I wish I could remove these filling. I've had 1 root canal which became massively infected and needed quite a serious intervention from the dentist. I will never get another root canal in my life. These are my notes, experiment and research so far. RULE of THUMB for ORAL HYGENE - Flossing is the most important activity - Brushing with a non-fluoride paste (or no paste at all) - Make sure your brush is clean from bacteria - Remove processed sugar from diet - Remove flours from diet - Take Zinc and magnezium - Practice pulling* - Gum sweetened with Xytol help mineralize teeth - Massaging the gums with clean finger will help keeping a healthy mouth and might indicate when there are inflamation / infection in the mouth. - The body can heal the mouth as long as you are ready to make a change in your habits. - I still go to the dentist, and they help me spot cavities. I just don't let them drill and fill my teeth anymore, I heal my cavities instead. PULLING - Pulling is the action of rincing your mouth with your own saliva. - You can use coconut oil as a starter which help with saliva production but also cleans the mouth from bacteria and leave a good taste - You can also use sea salt to help clean the mouth after the pulling. - If you don't have any of that you can simply generate your own saliva and swish it around your mouth for an extended period of time (20 minutes) - Some animals are known to do that for their own oral hygene. SCHOOL of DENTISTRY - There are 2 main school of dentistry - Traditional and Biologic dentistry - Traditional believe tooth can't heal, where you can eat as much sugar as you wanr, and fluoride helps you teeth. - Biologic believes tooth can heal, sugar is always bad for your teeth and general health and that fluoride is not so good for you teeth. TRADITIONAL TREATMENT - Eat whatever you want - Brush with fluoride to strengthen the teeth - Cavity are irreversible - Drill and fill the teeth to slow down cavities - Drill and kill once the nerve is attacked - Root canal / crown is the final step BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT - Look at your diet / change you diet for your teeth - Use vitamins to help supplement the teeth healing - Use ozone to clean the inside of the gums - Use pulling and massaging with brushing and flossing - Try to avoid filling / root canal. - Look at the body as a whole. FLUORIDE - Floride does strengthen the teeth, but also strengten the deposit on the teeth. These two elements remove the ability of the tooth to heal. - I haven't used floride for over 20 years now, when I go for a clean up at the dentist, the hygenist doesn't have anything to do, as nothing is stuck to my teeth. - Fluoride also seems to have other negative health benefit, linked to mental capacity (neuro inhibitors). SUGAR - Sugar is bad for you oral health, not because it create acides in your mouth but because it inhibit the healing 'flow' of the teeth. - So there is no way to eat tons of sugar and still have a healthy mouth. - I have the impression the present dentistry school might be lobbyed to a certain degree by corporation profiting from sugar. - Alchool is also bad for your teeth. BRUSHING and FLOSSING - Brushing and flossing is still really important - Flossing is actually more importnat - Brushing can be done without toothpaste - The goal of toothpast would be to keep the bacteria off the brush - Massaging the gum, with the brush but also with your finger is really important. VITAMINS - Teeth needs a lot of minreals to heal - Eating sugar will prevent you to absorbe many type of vitamins - Magnezium and zinc are really important - Vitamin C is always good when dealing with healing INFLAMATION - The roots of teeth will get inflame once in a while when there has been too much preasure or a hit to the face - Taking aspirin or tumeric will help reduce the inflamation - Inflamation can transform in infection if not dealt with - Do not use cold/ice on a tooth with inflamation, it will only make it worst - Clove is also good to reduce inflamation INFECTION - Root canal will always create an infection - Because there is no more nerve you won't feel the infection - Infection might occure at the root of a tooth (even before the root canal) - You can feel that infection when you massage your gum with your (clean) finger. - Massaging will help the flow of blood which will help reduce the infection. - I have found that strong antibiotic isn't the best to fix root infection. - Using raw crush garlic as antibiotic is the best for tooth infection - 2 cloves a day (morning and night) for 10 days seems to get rid of most infection. - Replenish your stomach flora after this, use yougurt or pre/pro biotic, ferment and a diet without sugar or process flour for a few weeks. - There are Lymph-nodes in the neck that might swell when you have an infection in your lower jaw. - Massaging the lymph node will help clean them - But you should follow with a treatment of raw garlic and Apple cider vinagre. TEETH and OTHER PART OF THE BODY - Infection of tooth can infect other organs - A root canal on a mollar can infect the heart for example - Root canal are alway a center of infectionn - Headache, nerve ache, sinus infection can all be caused by tooth problems.