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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by dawnerd »

imglorp wrote: post #79
Invictus0 wrote: post #67

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That's the parent's point: the tools and methods have changed so that now it no longer hurts.

Even now, sometimes it does hurt, plenty. Local anesthesia can be somehow negated by bacterial infection, something involving the pH getting altered. My endo apologized but had to keep drilling to reach relief.

I had to suffer through one as well. They have me the max number of shots after being on antibiotics and the pain was still unbelievable. Worst part… the dentist messed up and the whole root canal was for nothing.

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Post by xyzzy123 »

nemo44x wrote: post #51
benjaminwootton wrote: post #44

There really needs to be something like this. When we look back on dentistry in 50-100 years we will be amazed how barbaric it was! Ouch!

I think about this fairly often. When getting a root canal (it doesn’t hurt!) it’s sort of odd to see in this day and age the tools they use.

I have a friend who needed a major extraction at the panicky start of COVID, in Australia. The dentists weren't allowed to use drills. I'm not sure why but something to do with aerosolizing.

It turns out the things dentists use when they're not allowed to use drills are chisels.

Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by abecedarius »

windexh8er wrote: post #64
vineyardmike wrote: post #46

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What is this product you mentioned that reverses the start of cavities? Any google of it is filled with cheap SEO for me.

The one I remember is called MI Paste [0]. From what I understand it can help remineralize and strengthen teeth. Basically vitamins for your teeth. [0] http://www.mi-paste.com/about.php

I know nothing about this product, but https://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/dr-mellanbys-... makes it plausible that something like it could work; though personally I'd prefer the diet from the referenced paper unless the product has a better paper behind it.

Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by jcomis »

windexh8er wrote: post #64
vineyardmike wrote: post #46

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What is this product you mentioned that reverses the start of cavities? Any google of it is filled with cheap SEO for me.

The one I remember is called MI Paste [0]. From what I understand it can help remineralize and strengthen teeth. Basically vitamins for your teeth. [0] http://www.mi-paste.com/about.php

"Prevident 5000 Plus" supposedly works better than MI Paste. I've used both and prefer it. Plus MI paste has dairy ingredients. I've been using generic prevident 1x per day and it's crazy how much it helps.

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Post by hanniabu »

elliekelly wrote: post #94
klyrs wrote: post #87

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That itself could be a standalone product -- I'd expect lots of people would prefer sucking a lozenge over daily toothbrushing

It’s not a lozenge, but LivFresh dental gel (used like toothpaste) more or less dissolves plaque. It’s a bit pricey, but well worth it. Especially if you hate having the dentist lecture you every appointment.

Is it for maintenance or can it remove 6 months worth of plaque at once (like would be the case with the dentist)?

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Post by cmckn »

jrockway wrote: post #91
cmckn wrote: post #88

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A teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in a glass of cold water is also the absolute best, instant cure for heartburn. TUMS could never.

I like it too. I do wonder about the health effects; you end up consuming a lot of sodium by drinking baking soda. I see in one of the studies they gave patients 8 grams of baking soda a day, which is more than you'd need to relieve heartburn. But, the study doesn't mention sodium and the effect on blood pressure at all, nor is it a long-term study. I think that as terrible as chewing chalk is, calcium is better than…

A teaspoon of baking soda has about 1200mg of sodium, which is about half of your daily allowance. If you have heartburn regularly enough that this intake is worrisome, I'd say a prescription would be a better option for you.

I also prefer the baking soda over TUMS because it usually makes me burp, which feels soo good after it works its magic >_<

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Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by hanniabu »

saurik wrote: post #21
endisneigh wrote: post #13

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That seems like a lot though. Let's say it's just 1 micrometer per day. A tooth is about 10mm (10,000 micrometers). So over a period of about 28 years all of your teeth's enamel can be completely restored? 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, t…

Tooth decay isn't a generic slow wearing down of all of your enamel but instead a concentrated attack on a small location of enamel from food for example being consistently stuck in a small fissure. A big thing you use dentists for is managing plaque that makes these issues worse, and probably also will help block the effects of these lozenges. Polishing your teeth actually removes small quantities of enamel with the…

If it's depositing a layer, that will lessen the extent of fissures and round them out. That's a great thing to be convinced with polishing. This adds to the valleys and polishing removes from the peaks, making an overall much flatter surface.

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.

Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by OJFord »

gabereiser wrote: post #45
redisman wrote: post #18

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My coffee habit will make short work of any overly white teeth.

Haha, I was just going to say this. My 4 cup habit a day has destroyed any chance of having white teeth. They aren’t bad, but they aren’t white.

They aren't 'supposed' to be white; pure white teeth are bleached teeth, it's not natural.

(I suppose truly natural is also unhealthy, but my point is perfectly healthy teeth can be - and are, without other non-health-improving intervention - less than pure white.)

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