My dental hygienist said the best thing you can brush your teeth with is Listerine.
Wrong! The best thing you can brush your teeth with is baking soda. It has a five second kill time on all bacteria. Listerine doesn't. Use dry baking soda and work the baking soda down into your gum line.
Then once a week swish your mouth out with a 20 to one water to Clorox bleach mixture called "Dakins solution" (it's basically strong swimming pool water and tastes about the same). That will kill anything the baking soda misses and is the only known substance that will dissolve dental plaque. Don't worry if you swallow any of it, it converts in seconds to salt water.
That will kill any bacteria in your mouth including the hardest bacteria to kill called Spirochetes.
I usually take a swig of the stuff.
I’ve used straight baking soda for the last fifty years. Still have all my teeth. A few cavities from my teens and one cavity since then.
Biggest problem I have is cracking teeth when I bite into an unpopped piece of popcorn.
But then, I was raised on high plains water with lots of natural fluoride in it. Dad had all his teeth, my wife has all her teeth, my kids have super strong teeth.
Mother-in-law had super strong teeth but a quack dentist convinced her that her arthritis was caused by pyria so she had them pulled. She still had arthritis, but no teeth, till she died.
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I prefer Fire Ball Cinnamon Whisky, brush, swish and swallow, then throw a little shot in the coffee and it eases the shoulder pains as well while you warm up, loosen the joints and get about business.