My dental hygienist gave me a little tip to prevent the gingivitis bacteria from forming or to kill it. That bacteria will cause a separation of the gums and tooth leading to the loss of that tooth once it progresses far enough.
Simply put a little bleach in with your water pic water. I think using a water pic once a day is more important than using floss. Both is best of course.
BKMK
This paralleled a study being carried out by our dental office along with others which tracked patients into old age who suffered from chronic plaque related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, type two diabetes, heart disease, age related dementia, peripheral artery disease, etc., and the existence of spirochetes in their oral fauna.
Spirochete bacteria are extremely difficult to kill. The dentists working on this have developed an oral hygiene protocol that will cure bleeding gums and kill oral spirochetes after trying all of the prophylactic suggestions I’ve seen made so far on this thread, none of which are effective on spirochetes at all. Most of these suggestions have a longer than five second "kill time" which will not work on spirochetes as spirochetes when presented with a hostile environment form what is termed a "spore form," balling up, presenting a hard impervious surface in less than three seconds, until conditions improve, and then uncurl and go about their business.
The protocol we have developed uses materials that provide a less than a two-second kill time, and then once our twice a week uses a stronger modality with a one-second kill time to kill the more resistant forms which uses the only known chemical that will dissolve plaque to get any spirochetes that may be hiding under that rock like substance.
For full information and the protocol click on the link below. The lead dentist at our office is one of the top 100 dental implantologists in the world and has been the keynote speaker at several world implant conferences having developed some of the primary modes of implants.
Alzheimer's disease - a neurospirochetosis. The Journal of NeuroInflamation| August 4, 2011 | By Judith Miklossy, MD Posted on FR August 26, 2011 by Swordmaker.
Our tracking of patients at eleven dental offices around the country has found that about 15% of the population have no spirochetes at all among their oral bacteria. . . and these people are hale and hearty healthy individuals with no chronic illnesses and live to ripe old ages without such debilitating diseases. They do have other oral bacteria, just zero spirochetes. About 1% of the population has zero bacteria at all. We’d love to know why for both of these populations.
What is very interesting about this is it shows how couples can pass Alzheimer’s to their partners. Kissing can pass p. Gingivalis to another person. Spouses kiss and more, a lot. They might even share drinks and toothbrushes at times.
There may not be one specific discrete cause of Alzheimers, but this area does explain the familial non genetic tendencies. A spouse is rarely from the same genes. Yet many, many couples both end up with it.
What lets you know you have this bacteria in your mouth? Bleeding from your gums on brushing or flossing or probing.
What kills or prevents p. Gingivalis? Eucalyptus, neem oil, camomile, and honey (esp manuka honey). And watch whom you kiss this weekend!!