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1 drop clove oil, 1/2 cup water. Swish regularly. It's an antiseptic.

19 years ago I went to the dentist and he told me I needed to have a cavity filled. I skipped that. I didn't go back (or to any other dentist) until last year. Got the x-rays. No cavities.

Stuff works.

Oh and stop eating sugar.

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A cavity is a literal hole in your tooth. No amount of clove oil can fix that.

I'm glad you found something that works for you, seriously, but I'd be careful over attributing. The most likely explanation would be never actually having had a cavity in the first place.

Often going to another dentist and getting a second opinion will "fix" your cavity, but give you a new one in a different tooth.

Either the first dentist thought you had a cavity when you had none, or the second one missed it.

One of them was just wrong.

Or he had a boat payment due.

Seriously though... some dentists will fill any tiny crevice, others wait until there's more clearly a cavity. I'm not sure why the difference.

Yes I had a dentist who told me all of a sudden "you need 3 crowns" and I was like "bwah?" . Just 6 months before I was notified he was happy I hadn't had a cavity the 6 years I'd been seeing him. Naturally I went to another dentist who told me my teeth were fine and to not go back to the other dentist for anything let alone crowns but he said that was just his opinion as he didn't know the dentist personally. So I switched over to him. He took the time to point out on xrays from people who had decay bad enough to get crowns and that my teeth were nothing like those.

Antiseptic regrows enamel?

No. Saliva regrows enamel.

"The Verdict: You can do a lot to protect and strengthen your tooth enamel, but once it has eroded, it’s gone, baby, gone!" Says webmd.

https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/features/can-tooth-enamel-...

Webmd is an awful reference

Many results under webmd were the same. They know SEO unfortunately.

Sounds like a generalization of the SEO problem.

This is unscientific nonsense. Clove oil isn’t going to repair a hole in your tooth.

Possibly the grandparent is confused because clove oil is a local anaesthetic traditionally used by dentists in South Asia.

I eat tons of olive oil and drink water while doing so, I’ve had plenty of cavities, what do you think about that ?

I mistook clove oil for olive oil too

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