That being said, even if this worked, it's not like it's instant, so you still have to be careful with your teeth. I wonder how this differs from novamin, which supposedly does the same thing and you can already purchase now.
So while this will be a great thing for a lot of people it will likely be another tool in a dental professional's belt more than anything.
> Fluoride is a mineral that can prevent tooth decay from progressing. It can even reverse, or stop, early tooth decay.
[0] https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/fluoride-superhero
[1] https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay/more-info/...
Most common is prevident 5000
Plus, it really doesn't matter how well you brush and floss. There's always something for the hygienist to remove. Which, I can only assume prevents this lozenge from actually doing anything.
I suspect that without a plaque removal step, these lozenges could contribute to plaque mineralization into dental calculus.
Again paraphrasing and dramatizing, but you get the idea.
So my mom never gave me anything with sugar. To this day I don't eat any sweets and I have no cavities or tooth problems. I eat ice cream once a year, and mostly because people seem to like shaming me for not liking it. I always just have a couple of bites.
Anyways my teeth are in great shape.
Me neither. I ate candy and chocolate when I was a kid. I still do now 50 years later. Never had a problem with my teeth.
I have always had a sweet tooth. And while fortunately I dont have diabetes or similar. I've developed IBS and other gut ailments.
I’ve only recently learned you aren’t supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing!
Wait, what? Where did you learn that?
Google it and you’ll see! I asked my wife about and she concurred that she doesn’t rinse but does get her toothbrush wet while brushing.
The research is still nascent and inconclusive, though. Here’s an interesting study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17263856/.
> Conclusions: The results suggest that chewing gum with xylitol or sorbitol/maltitol can reduce the amount of dental plaque and acid production in saliva in schoolchildren, but only the xylitol-containing gum may also interfere with the microbial composition.
When I lived in Morocco, however, it was the opposite.
Moroccan food is some of the best in the world, but they have sugar in everything. Their mint tea is something that should come with an insulin injector. They buy these giant bricks of sugar, wrapped in blue paper, and just drop them in the pot.
When many Moroccans smile, it looks like a brown picket fence.
Did I mention that Moroccan food is awesome?
The goal is to starve the streptococcus mutans bacteria in your mouth. Since that lives off sugar and starch, you both (a) rinse your mouth with a bactericidal (b) brush teeth, tongue, and gums after ingesting any sugar or starch.
The downside is excessive bactericidal use or brushing can damage your mouth tissues and teeth.
Another approach I had heard about but have no further info was to be vaccinated against S. mutans, so presumably your saliva would attack it somehow. I don't understand the mechanism here.
In the meantime, I use a prescription dose of fluoride toothpaste daily to harden the hydroxyapatite in my mouth.
> Review shows that Novamin has significantly less clinical evidence to prove its effectiveness as a remineralization agent in treating both carious and non-carious lesion. Hence, better designed clinical trials should be carried out in the future before definitive recommendations can be made.
Water flossers are advertised as being as effective as floss. However, it turns out studies on floss haven't borne out either.
Given that most people don't lose all of the enamel of any of their teeth it seems like there wouldn't be any point of going to a dentist. By the time you're getting the age where you'd even think about dentures, this treatment would completely reverse all tooth decay no?
Where I think this would really shine is with receding gums. It'll be able to slowly add protecting to a part of the teeth that has absolutely no protection. That will help "clog" the pores and reduce sensitivity as well as likeliness of a cavity.