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Posted on 06/01/2015 5:25:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels
My dental health is something I have always taken seriously — and as a gadget fan, I’ve spent hundreds of pounds on the latest high-tech electronic toothbrushes and expensive toothpastes, gels and mouthwashes.
But then I had to go without brushing my teeth for a fortnight.
This was for a new two-part series on dental health for the BBC, and what we discovered was truly eye-opening, with implications not just for me, but for all of us.
My wife was anything but keen on the no-brushing experiment and there was a lot less kissing during that fortnight. And she was right to be worried about the outcome.
For two weeks, I wore a gum guard on one side of my mouth whenever I brushed my teeth, so that side didn’t get cleaned.
At the end of this time, I brushed my teeth without the gum guard on and my gums bled a bit and there was pink, blood- spattered spit in the bathroom washbowl. I had developed mild gum disease. Carry on like this and not treat the problem and I could theoretically lose some teeth.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Brits brush, floss and go to a dentist? Who knew?
Got to keep up the Vitamin C too.
Skurvy m’lad, your teef twill fall ut.
Well, this explains a few people I know...
"Alzheimer's disease - a neurospirochetosis."
The following is the statement I made on that thread explaining what protocols designed by specialists in oral hygiene that you can do to protect yourself from these very nasty bacteria that live in your mouth that can make you sick. . .
I hope this post will save my fellow Freepers' lives! How? I am going to tell you what we have been telling our patients at our dental office for the past five (now NINE) years... Now that we have scientific PROOF that oral spirochetes DO INDEED CAUSE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE and most likely also cause these other chronic plaque induced chronic diseases of heart disease and adult onset diabetes!This is proof of an hypothesis that we have been pursuing in the dental office I manage and several other dental offices we are associated with. We started noticing that in very elderly patients who were alert, healthy, and did not have any chronic diseases of the heart, diabetes, or mental incapacity that their oral health was also exceedingly good. They also had something completely missing in their mouths. They had no oral spirochetes at all! There was a 100% correlation! Other dentists also were observing this fact. Oral spirochetes were observed in 85-90% of the population but about 10% of the population seems to naturally immune to them and in fact show none at all in their mouths.
One exception to this observation was the edentulous... those without teeth at all. Those who had had all teeth removed! They also were in excellent mental health at an old age, had far less chronic heart disease, and far less likelihood of adult onset diabetes... IF their teeth had been removed at an early age. Strange. Hmmmm.
Oral spirochetes are, we have been observing, associated very strongly with patients who have Alzheimer's Disease, age related dementia, chronic heart disease, and Type 2 Adult onset Diabetes, all diseases associated with plaques. This is the first peer reviewed paper that proves that oral spirochetes, the particular bacteria that we have been seeing under our phase contrast microscope, ARE indeed the cause of Alzheimer's disease.
The same researcher, Dr. Judith Miklossy, who is the president of the Alzheimer's Prevention Association of Europe, issued another peer reviewed paper in 2008, in which she reported that examination of the Islets of Langerhans in patients with Type 2 Diabetes were also rife with oral spirochetes—also further confirming our hypothesis—and mentioned in her 2008 paper that they should be investigated as a possible causal infection for diabetes along with other bacteria she noted.
Spirochetes are bad actors... they are the bacteria that cause syphisis, Yaws, Enug, Lyme disease, and a host of other very nasty diseases. The tertiary form of Syphilis the same dementia and is indistinguishable from Alzheimer's. Lyme disease can do the same dementia.
Oral Spirochete movie from Implant Dr DM at our office.
Another Spirochete movie from our office on youtube.
We have seen a spirochete invade a Leukocyte (white blood cell) and kill it, then leave the dead Leukocyte and go on its way, in one of these movies! We have put up movies on YouTube where the doctor has mentioned the futility using of toothpaste and Youtube, being a part of Google has PULLED them every time! So we don't mention it, anymore... Advertising is king.
In our office, as part of our investigation of the linkage of oral spirochetes to these chronic diseases, our investigation has found that there is an historical progression of the advance of the spread of these chronic diseases in the population associated with the usage of toothpaste. It's a trailing indicator of about 20 years or so, because these diseases take about 20 years to actually appear after the bugs develop in the mouth and migrate into the blood vessels through bleeding gums. However, in the 1910s and 1920s the United States pioneered the use of sweetened pumice in the form of toothpaste to clean teeth, replacing the tooth powder that had been almost universally used prior to then. Sweetened pumice toothpaste has essentially no antibacterial effect even today, no matter what is claimed! Pumice is even harder than the enamel of the tooth surface. It did clean the teeth... but it did not kill bacteria. As a result, 20-30 years down the road, we can see an upsurge in the chronic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer's start to grow in the populations that adopt toothpaste teeth cleaning... and it's consistent as toothpaste oral hygiene spread from America to Europe to Asia, Latin America, and else where in the world, replacing the former usage of Toothpowder.
You may be asking yourselves what was the Tooth Powder our ancestors used that was supplanted by toothpaste. Some of you may already know. It was essentially ordinary Baking Soda with a little bit of common table salt. The table salt is unnecessary! Baking Soda has a FIVE SECOND kill time on bacteria! It's like dumping a load of poisonous rocks on the bug's heads! It is a mild abrasive that will also clean your teeth and leave your mouth smelling far fresher than toothpaste will! It's CHEAP! You probably have a box in your kitchen! Brush your teeth with Arm and Hammer Baking Soda and floss it down into the gums—the nasty bugs LOVE to stay down in the gingeva. If you have bleeding gums, you have a superhighway for them to enter your blood stream! We have started giving each of our patients an 8oz. box of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (we buy them for 47¢ each at WalMart by the case. You can buy it by the bag for a lot less per pound) instead of the free toothpaste we used to give.
The protocol is to take a heaping teaspoon of Baking Soda—I do it when I am in the shower—and load your toothbrush with the Soda. Then holding the toothbrush at a 45º angle to the tooth, brush into the gums, working the baking soda into the gums. Use all of the Baking soda and hit all off the gums line. Brush your tongue and the back of your tongue with a tongue brush. Leave the residue. Do not rinse. You will get to like the taste.
The second part of the protocol (this is not so palatable... but you can do it) is once or twice a week take a cap full of Clorox™ brand BLUE CAP bleach—do not use an off brand as we do not know the purity of any other brand—and put it in a glass. Add TWENTY caps fulls of water to make a 20 to 1 dilute mixture of water to bleach... and swish that around in your mouth like mouthwash. It is merely very strong "swimming pool water", called Dakin's Solution, but it will KILL any remaining bacteria in your mouth. It is also the only known substance that will dissolve plaque! Don't worry if you swallow any of it. It will convert to ordinary table salt in your stomach!
If you follow this protocol, you will kill the bacteria that live in your mouth and hopefully prevent any future infection that may cause Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, and adult onset Type 2 Diabetes. We do NOT yet know the life cycle of the Spirochetes... we think they have to reproduce in the mouth... but we are not certain. Dr Miklossy, and other scientists looking at this, hypothesizes the plaques in the brain, Islets of Langerhans, and in the arteries and blood vessels are the left over bodies of dead, twisted entertwined spirochetes... mixed with who knows what... and no one knows if the body can clean up the mess of twenty to thirty years of that build up... but we gotta start somewhere. Cleaning up the source in the mouth seems like a good place!
You can STILL brush your teeth with toothpaste if you like... the Fluoride is still a good idea... but don't be fooled: Even the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Tooth Paste doesn't have enough baking soda in it to make a difference... Alcohol based mouthwashes don't do it, either.
Over-brushing your teeth can lead to tooth loss and that can eventually lead to dementia due to nutrient loss via not wanting to chew your food with crappy choppers.
Yes, he is on the NH Primary ballot again
It depends on what you are brushing your teeth with. If you are using toothpaste with pumice in it, it could happen. Pumice is harder than enamel.
Wow, good post. Thanks.
Gross
If I die, I’m holding you liable. (Though I’ll be dead...)
what a bout 50/50 peroxide and h2o instead of Clorox?
Plus been hearing about “oil pulling”
Nope, that actually helps some bacteria grow that likes oxygen. Clorox in that low a concentration kills everything. . . and then turns to salt water. Perfectly safe.
Peroxide will eventually turn your teeth transparent and also increase nerve sensitivity. Not good either way.
Follow the 20 to one formula and you just make strong swimming pool water. Doesn't taste too good but it won't hurt you. It's called Dakin's Solution and is used in Medicine for cleaning wounds and also in Dentistry. You have to make it fresh every time you use it because it degrades within minutes to ordinary salt water. . . especially after hitting your stomach acids if you swallow any of it. Some people get so they just use this to clean their teeth in a slightly more dilute solution.
“Not brushing your teeth can trigger dementia and heart disease”
Similarly, dementia can lead to one not brushing their teeth.
I’m a dental hygienist. There is research to show that 50% of E.D. cases can be cured by treatment of gum disease and daily plaque control. Brush and floss, fellas!
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