What preventative treatment is this? If it isn't just "brush & floss", then what is it? If it's so great, why not just tell everyone about it now - why do you need a microbiome test?
I have a lot of dentist family and friends. Anything that isn't "drill and fill" is controversial to them. :)
Dental school these days seems to really stress that everything must be treated with intervention by a dentist that happens to bring money to their practice.
They are also super frightened of new technology. There was a technology that was like a new kind of mouthpiece with microbrushes that could brush your entire mouth in a few seconds. The dentists I know would barely even look at the picture before dismissing it.
I don't know why this is, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the way their schooling works.
I wonder if she'd have useful input on your product. Of course, she's trying to promote her own stuff (she sells Xylitol mints) but she also advocates for OTS treatments like Listerine.
Thanks for sending!
Medical management of caries is anathema to assuming seven figures in debt to hang up a license and turn on the lights, and I’m not implying ill will. The first world countries with national healthcare sans dental could use this without coming close to the dental standard of care - a cavity arrested with silver nitrate is actually better to drill and fill since the infection is halted.
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2016/08/05/SilverDiamin...
You can supplement with probiotics, which have been proven in quality studies to improve mouth/nose/throat health, and, to a lesser extent, even prevent caries. The bacteria cultures are known by their shorthand K12 and M18, respectively. In New Zealand this is part of official health guidelines.
On phone so can't look for references but look it up, it is well supported.
I’ve noticed some people just have good teeth, and others are not so lucky.
I’ve been down on my luck for years now. Close to being homeless. I haven’t been to a dentist in over two decades. I still have my all my teeth, except wisdom which I had pulled proactively when I had insurance.
Why do I still have my teeth, and my gums don’t bleed, or are recessed?
1. I feel it’s because I developed a neurotic compulsion to pick my teeth with those disgusting disposable tooth picks, with the floss. (I say disgusting because I see them discarded everywhere, and I worked for the inventor of the product. (Actually his wealthy father invented them, and fully funded his sailboating brat of a son a son to peddle them. He is now a 1 percenter, and yes—I’m jealous.
2. I’ve tried to use an ultrasonic toothbrush once a day.
3. I don’t eat much sugar, but I eat a lot of carbs?
4. Buy a few dental cleaning picks/tools, and learn how to scale your teeth yourself. If you’re gentile, and use common sense, you can get most of the gunk off. Below the gum line is another story though?
Take what I said with a grain of salt. A dentist told me 20 years ago, “you have great teeth, but let’s wait for the X-ray, and look at the bone. He said I got lucky.
I hope my next exam goes the same way?
I don't know anyone who gets more cavities than me and my mom. Seriously every time we go to the dentist we're either getting a new filling or replacing an old one.
I even spent 3 years (for non-dental reasons) eating no sweets and not much changed. We just have "weak teeth". I could maybe take better care of mine but my mom is an obsessive brusher/flosser and it hasn't helped her much.
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