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I'm 40 years old. Never had cavities. I eat plenty of sugar.
Scientist lurkers in the thread take note. We have a couple for the first cohort for testing to see if their mouth biome differs from base population. Inquiring minds want to know!
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If your friends are looking for feedback, you can pass on that at least one person on the internet finds it in very bad taste for them to describe the delay in treatment as a "civilizational embarrassment" while planning to charge $20k for a dose. The pricing point seems equally a civilizational embarassment to me.
I can easily imagine someone who don't brush their teeth ever to spend like $1000 a year for cavity repairs (because, well, I did). So I guess $20k is near to the market price you could expect people to pay for a lifetime (with refills and no cavities guarantee) for this product. If $20k it too much for you, just wait for cheaper generics.
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Or just rinse (water pick even better) with a dilute bleach solution (0.25%). Make the solution fresh each time or every 24 hours, since sodium hypochlorite tends to decompose easily. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9292655/
Don't use bleach when you can easily make hypochlorous acid. Hypochlorous acid is bleach but acidified and much safer to the human body than bleach. Bleach is thousands of times more toxic to humans at the same HOCl concentration. You suggest using an OCl- concentration of 2500 ppm which would be extremely high for an equivalent therapeutic use of hypochlorous acid. You can easily use a 10 times lower concentration o…
I'm interested in reading more, because I find diluting the bleach solution to be annoying and would obviously damage dyed fabrics if spilled.
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Yes! Rinsing your mouth REGULARLY after meals does a lot to prevent further cavities. Also a diet high in animal meat and fats (cheese, butter etc.) helps strengthen teeth https://www.healthygoods.com/blogs/news/dr-weston-prices-die... And cutting out sugars - especially fructose - avoids diabetes. Some people who are lactose intolerant cut out lactose, and some people prone to celiac disease cut out gluten. Sometime…
> Yes! Rinsing your mouth REGULARLY after meals does a lot to prevent further cavities. So basically drinking water?
Rinsing your mouth, like sloshing it around to make sure it gets rid of all the gunk. Maybe flossing too.
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I have very strong (and ugly) teeth. The few "cavities" that I had, were actually made by dentists (they do that, y'know), and have resulted in a couple of crowns. Otherwise, my teeth are great. I now have a dentist that doesn't make cavities, and she seems almost disappointed, when she checks me. But gum care is every bit as important as tooth care (take it from me, you don't want a gum-scraping), and that is why I…
> The few "cavities" that I had, were actually made by dentists (they do that, y'know) You are the only person I have ever heard entertain this idea, so it would be better to spell out how this happened than assume everyone knows it.
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If your friends are looking for feedback, you can pass on that at least one person on the internet finds it in very bad taste for them to describe the delay in treatment as a "civilizational embarrassment" while planning to charge $20k for a dose. The pricing point seems equally a civilizational embarassment to me.
I can easily imagine someone who don't brush their teeth ever to spend like $1000 a year for cavity repairs (because, well, I did). So I guess $20k is near to the market price you could expect people to pay for a lifetime (with refills and no cavities guarantee) for this product. If $20k it too much for you, just wait for cheaper generics.
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Does brushing and mouthwash really eliminate your microbiome? I heard it does precious little. Most of the microorganisms live below the gumline and surfaces. If that were true it would eliminate caries! Please post links
Mouthwash (WITH alcohol) daily almost completely eliminates the need for daily brushing and flossing. This was later retracted by demand of the ADA to only say "as good or better than flossing"; from here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894074/ "mouth rinses would be considered to be “at least as good as” daily flossing if the upper limit of the 90% confidence interval" there are a number of studies on…
A conversation with my friend who was a dentistry student, ~2013. > [The friend, let's call her L, trying to dissuade me from drinking some fizzy drink] > J: But I won't get a cavity if the liquid doesn't touch my teeth. > L: Cavities are caused by the ensuing low ph environment, not by contact with teeth > J: Does that mean I can drink as much of it as I want as long as I rinse my mouth with water afterwards? > L, w…
You drink fizzy drinks during the day, and each time that you drink you rinse your mouth with water without brushing your teeth.
And you only brush, say, before sleep, and this has reduced your cavities to zero?
thanks
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You should rinse and spit it out in the morning, don't swallow as you will be swallowing significantly more plaque from the over night build up. After initial morning cleaning swallowing should be fine.
Why would swallowing the plaque be significant?
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If this is such a revolutionary technology and it is cheap to mass produce, it should be like water fluoridation and similar state funded measures that increase overall population health. I am not arguing that $20k is more than regular dental work's cost over a lifetime, in the US at least, but that it's because dental work is so expensive is why oral health is so bad worldwide,Lifestyle, sugar consumtion and the lik…
Maybe it ought to be that way. But we believe in property rights and government confiscation of property isn’t something I support. Might be the pols manage to find a way to buy the tech to give away freely to the people. Until then it’s theirs to distribute as they please until their exclusive rights expire.