I thought I’d share this quick video about long term protection of our teeth. Remember: A little prevention is worth a pound of cure!
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Stress Harms Your Dental Health…
When stress attacks, the results often show up in the mouth. Stress can increase your likelihood of developing gingivitis which can then easily progress into true gum disease.
The problem of stress is two fold. First the chemicals that your body creates may have a direct impact. It is also possible that stress can cause you to miss part or all of your daily dental health regimen.
If this goes on for any length of time, it is quite easy for gingivitis to worsen or to set in. Not to mention that your risk for tooth decay may rise as well.
Harmful bacteria secrete their toxins onto teeth and gums. As a result, both are more at risk for developing a diseased condition.
Perhaps you are working late, night after night, attempting to reach a deadline.
Perhaps you are worried about some matter relating to your those you have a close relationship with. There are many doorways for stress to enter your life. I am certain you could list a dozen without even trying.
What Can Make Your Daily Dental Health Routine More Effective?
The hydrofloss oral irrigator is a tool that many dentists and hygienists have recommended to their patients. You hygienist should be your number one coach for you dental home care.
She knows that what you do at home is far more important than what she does on your visit. That is because she understands that the fight against gum disease must be fought every day. You should realize this too!
What Can Help With Stress?
One activity you can do to alleviate stress is to practice meditation. Try the peaceful exercises of Falun Dafa. They can help your body to relax.
Stress is tricky and causes many harmful chemicals to be released. In a short term crises, these chemicals are helpful to meet environmental challenges. But when these chemicals remain high chronically – they can be the doorway to trouble.
By now, it should be clear that stress can not only impact your overall health, it can also have an impact on your dental health. Keeping our teeth healthy and happy is an activity that requires varying amounts of effort for each individual.
When you are at the dentist’s office, make sure they tell you what your pocket depths are. This is an objective way to monitor the health of your gums. Since gum disease is the number one cause of tooth loss, keeping tabs on this information should be very important to you.
Read more about protecting your dental health at https://www.HowToStopGumDisease.com
David Snape is the author of the book: What You Should Know about Gum Disease. ISBN: 978-0981485508 – Available online at most book retailer sites. It can also be ordered by most book stores.
This article is for information purposes only and does not intend to offer advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have or think you might have a health issue of any kind, please visit your doctor or dentist for advice, diagnosis and treatment
I Do Not Have Time to Care For My Teeth and Gums…
I understand that feeling that many people have. The one that tells them they just do not have enough time to properly care for their teeth and gums. It is a common problem. The stress of life and all of the things we have on our daily checklist causes some of the really important things to be 
overlookew many times have you gone to bed without performing proper maintenance on your teeth and gums. Think of all that bacterial food that gets left on your teeth overnight. Some people breathe with their mouth open at night. This dries the mouth and aids the bacteria at the same time.
Is it really any wonder that people face dental health problems and expensive dental bills. Tooth decay and gum disease are fed by our bad habits. I say our bad habits because I have them too! However, this article is here to remind you of the importance of taking care of your teeth and gums.
If you must, print it out and keep it by your mirror in the bathroom or next to your bed stand. Let it remind you in those moments when you are just too tired to care anymore.
Our teeth and gums are part of our most precious assets that encompass our overall health. Many doctors of all sorts have understood and theorized about the relationship between your oral health and your body’s health. This has actually never been a secret. Many cultures and societies have understood this. Why did people check the mouth of a horse or even a slave (unfortunately) before making their purchase?
They knew even then that if you bought a horse with bad teeth, that horse might not be around much longer. It is instinctive and intuitive. Care for you teeth and gums now, so that you can help yourself enjoy better health into your old age. Not too mention the fact that you may save yourself a lot of money as a side benefit!
Learn more secrets to preserving your dental health at https://www.HowToStopGumDisease.com
David Snape is the author of the book: What You Should Know about Gum Disease to be found through any bookseller ISBN: 978-0981485508
This post is for information purposes only and does not intend to advise on, diagnose or suggest treatment for any health condition. If you have or think you might have a health problem, visit your doctor or dentist for advice, diagnosis and treatment.
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Are Broken Teeth a Natural Part of Aging?
There is an incredible misconception that you must have broken and crumbled teeth and receding gums as a consequence of aging. Is this really the truth?
I remember a coworker who broke a tooth while eating. The tooth split in half on some morsel of food that may or may not have been very hard. Even in the worse case scenario a piece of the tooth may have chipped, but for the tooth to split in half means there must have been some underlying weakness that allowed this to happen.
Our teeth are very important to us. We need them to eat – that is obvious. But we also need them to insure that our jaw does not deteriorate. You can lose bone mass when the jaw has no tooth to support. In addition, a lost tooth can cause your teeth to shift creating an uneven bite which in turn can cause uneven wear and tear on your teeth.
I will theorize for the rest of this article. I would speculate that my friend’s problem may have had two components. One would be nutritional and the other would be repetitive failure to maintain proper pH of the mouth.
Much depends on both – as I continue to speculate. You can imagine the teeth as being made of calcium and phosphate ions. When there is a more acidic environment those ions can be dissolved or ‘pulled’ right out of the enamel of your teeth, thereby weakening them. You could imagine that over time, this could be a problem.
Energy drinks, coffee drinks and fruit juices can all lower the pH of the environment in your mouth, making it more acidic. What if you consistently were to raise that pH back up after eating or drinking an acidic food or beverage?
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Disclaimer: This article is for information and entertainment purposes only. It does not intend to render advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have or think you might have gum disease or any other health problem, visit your periodontist or physician for advice, diagnosis and treatment. The USFDA has not evaluated statements about products in this article.
Gingivitis – Why it is So Hard to Keep Your Gums Clean and Free of Disease…
The reason why it is so difficult to prevent gum disease and gingivitis is that the mouth is a very unique area in our bodies. There are these structures that poke out of our gum tissue called teeth. In a sense, this can be viewed as a wound that never completely heals.
The presence of the teeth leads to a frustrating problem. There are folds of tissue that connect to the teeth. This is your gum tissue. There is no way around. That bond between the teeth and the gums is not perfect. This allows for the existence of a ‘pocket’ between your gums and teeth.
When ‘bad’ bacteria proliferates in those pockets they secrete toxins and those toxins are harmful to the gum tissue. This causes the body to respond with inflammation, just like it would with any other wound. If the bacteria is not kept in check, the gums start to recede from the destruction they have experienced.
Ironically, this destruction leads to even bigger pockets than before which allows for greater quantities of bacteria to proliferate. You see, losing a little bit of gum tissue increases the surface area that can be attacked by gum disease. What a problem! It sounds like something that isn’t so easy to defeat, doesn’t it?
It would be great if there was an instruction manual that helped us to understand this disease better. In light of all that you just read, assuming you agree. Do you think that regular brushing and flossing are really enough to prevent gum disease? Next: Follow the links below to learn what you can do to stop gum disease and keep it from coming back again.
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David Snape is the author of the book: What You Should Know about Gum Disease. ISBN: 978-0981485508 – Available online at most book retailer sites. It can also be ordered by most book stores.
Disclaimer: This article is for information and entertainment purposes only. It does not intend to render advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have or think you might have gum disease or any other health problem, visit your periodontist or physician for advice, diagnosis and treatment. The USFDA has not evaluated statements about products in this article.
Reversible Pulpitis
The words hung in the air and the implied meaning struck me like a hammer. There was no way I was going to allow this dentist to make a permanent hole in my tooth and then fill it after hearing the word, ‘reversible’. I was going to do a little research first. I feared that what the dentist wanted to do and what was really necessary were two very divergent realities. Turns out that I was right.
I did my research. The majority of the sources I checked indicated that reversible pulpitis will go away without intervention. So why did this dentist want to drill into my perfectly good tooth? That is a question that still disturbs me, more than a year later.
It does appear that there is a ‘gray’ area nestled in among the qualified opinions of dentists. Some believe that the very beginning of tooth decay should be immediately drilled and filled. Others are not so quick on the draw.
Having a number of negative experiences with dentists, I’ve become a bit cautious around them. It seems to have paid off on at least a couple of occasions to hold off on ‘immediate’ treatment and do a little research first.
I equate the dentist attempting to ‘start right away’ with the type of high pressure tactics that often take place on a used car lot. The stakes are a little higher in the former case. The health of our teeth and gum tissue is not the realm where sharp salesman or NLP wielding marketers should tread. Yet, the phrase, ‘let the buyer beware’ still seems apropos.
What happened at the end of my story? I dropped that dentist like a bad habit. I was so sure that nothing was wrong that I didn’t even bother getting a second opinion. Six months later, I went to another dentist and guess what? There was no cavity in sight. “But, isn’t it in my chart?”, I asked. “Yes, I see it in there.” Not wanting to harm the reputation of the other dentist, I decided not to say anymore.
I’ve thought a lot about it though. The words that first dentist said before declaring her wish to drill and fill my tooth were about her impending wedding. I can’t help but think she felt some special need to make more money then her usual take.
I briefly considered reporting her to the state board that regulates her profession. I decided not to. I believe in the saying, ‘what goes around, comes around’. I don’t wish for anything bad to happen to this dentist. I just believe that there is a universal justice system that balances things out in the end.
In any case, I’m glad that I didn’t have a cavity that was permanent. The moral of this story is to underscore a point that I think is important. The body does have the ability to heal itself. Softness in dental enamel is no different. Still, perhaps there are times when it cannot.
Of course, I’m not a dentist and I’m not suggesting self diagnosis or treatment. If you have or think you might have a cavity or any other dental condition, you should go to your dentist for diagnosis and treatment.
But it does appear that sometimes you can start to develop a cavity and it can go away. I found a reference to a November 1991 study published in the Journal of Oral Rehabilitation in PubMed. (PMID 1762023). This study was conducted by the Dental Research Unit of Hadassah Medical School located in Jerusalem, Israel.
After intentionally softening enamel utilizing a popular cola drink, they found significant hardening of the enamel from eating hard cheese. This is important because it suggests that when the tooth enamel is weakened it can become strong again.
That makes sense because the human body is not a machine in the true sense. For example, a car doesn’t have any self-healing mechanisms. It breaks down sooner than a human body and requires external intervention to keep it running. The human body has many ways to heal itself in contrast. Consider a cut or an abrasion and how the body can often repair those problems without serious medical intervention.
Remember, if you have or think you might have any dental problems at all, be sure to consult your dentist for diagnosis and treatment.
If you want to read more about taking care of your teeth and gums, including things that may help your enamel to stay tough, consider my inexpensive but worthwhile e-book. You can find it at: https://WhatYouShouldKnowaboutGumDisease.com
David Snape grew up in small town New Jersey and joined the US Navy when he was 18. He worked as an electronics technician. David attended Chiropractic school after the Navy and later worked in a toxicology lab. Currently he labors in Information Technology. David believes in and practices Falun Dafa meditation. David is also the author of What You Should Know about Gum Disease. ISBN: 978-0-9814855-0-8. He also writes for All Things Pondered and ToBeInformed.
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The Hydro Floss Oral Irrigator Worked for Me and Has for Others Too
Why do dental professionals tell us that up to 80% of adults suffer from some form of gum disease? I feel like I’ve been misinformed in regards to what it takes to get rid of gum disease or prevent it in the first place. Gum disease is a serious problem, it can cause a person to lose some or all of his teeth. Yet, so many people walk around oblivious to the fact that they have gum disease.
Sometimes the professionals that we rely on for our dental care don’t always tell us what we can do to stop or prevent gum disease. Those same people are ready to provide expensive treatments when things get really bad. That age old saying, ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ seems so apropos in regards to gum disease.
When my hygienist and dentist wanted to perform a procedure called a root scaling and planing is when I began to take serious notice of the problems that my gums were having. Up until then, I didn’t really think that I had gum disease.
I did not like the sound of the procedure they described to me and decided to do some research and find out if there was anything that could improve my condition without having to go through the treatment. One of the earliest and most effective things I tried was the Hydro Floss oral irrigator.
My results were so good with this instrument that the next time I visited the dentist they actually told me that I no longer needed that root scaling and planing treatment and that there was no longer any tartar build up under the gum line. To me, that was exceptional. I could also tell by the look on the their faces that they were a bit surprised too.
After a lot of follow up investigation, I realized that sometimes the professionals don’t always know best. For example, when I initially told my dentist that I wanted to get a hydro floss, she said that they were too expensive and that I should buy another, less expensive, oral irrigator instead.
I didn’t listen and I bought a Hydro Floss anyway. I’m glad I did. I would buy another one tomorrow if something happened to mine. It’s sturdy and rugged and really holds up. I’ve not had a single problem with it. I don’t know if other brands of irrigators could hold up as well.
It constantly amazes me when seemingly uninformed dentists attack the way the Hydro Floss is alleged to work. The theory involves something called ‘hydromagnetics’. I’ve heard and read about dentists who say this is all bunk and there is absolutely nothing to hydromagnetics and that it provides no additional benefit over regular irrigation.
I guess those dentists don’t read their profession’s literature very much. A study was published in the The Journal of Clinical Periodontology in May 1993. The study indicates that oral irrigators that use hydromagnetics do a superior job of tartar reduction over non-hydromagnetic irrigators. The differences noted were significant. There is only one oral irrigator that I have found that utilizes hydromagnetics and that is the Hydro Floss.
If you have or think you might have gum disease or any other oral health problem, visit your periodontist or dentist for advice, diagnosis and treatment. This article is for information purposes only.
David Snape is an avid user of the Hydro Floss. You can read more about this wonderful tool at https://oralirrigatordiscount.com . Dave is also the author of What You Should Know about Gum Disease available at his web site on gingivitis and gum disease.