![]() Don’t wait, it is time to prevent any new disease. If you have had one new cavity in the last year, there’s a 60% chance of another in nine months. Then, select the proper rinse to aid you. Is it because of an increase in soda pop, juice, dry mouth, sticky candy stash, mouth breathing, new dental appliances, new medication? That’s where your dental team can help sleuth out the cause. Remineralize Teeth/Stop Cavities- You need to find out the reason there’s new decay before you can select the proper treatment. I have a list of products that may well work better for you. Instead, check out my post on Elixir fixer for your dry mouth. Hmmm, makes me wonder, and you should too…ĭry Mouth– the commercials will all tell you that’s solved with OTC rinse. Yet, 80% of the US population has some form of gum disease. Television commercials have convinced everyone that’s all you need to do. If swishing with mouthwash prevented gum disease, then there should be NO gum disease, anywhere. It’s probably time to update that experiment with the newer rinses I have listed below. Not sure what it kills but nothing on that slide was dead or even remotely slower. All day I compared the two slides on my microscope, and to me, there was no reduction in bacterial activity on the mouthwash slide. I took a plaque sample from one pocket, did a control slide with saline solution and then another with mouthwash that proclaims it kills the germs that cause bad breath. I did my own experiment to see how effective OTC mouthwash was at killing bacteria. Read my post on It’s all about the Plaque and then read my post Addressing Kissability. Minty bad breath is not, however, more pleasant. Brushing, flossing, cleaning in-between your teeth, scraping your tongue, that’s how to make your mouth cleaner, healthier and smell better. That’s never going to be touched by your daily swish. Bad breath germs live in the deep follicles on the back part of your tongue. ![]() It needs to be physically removed from your teeth, gums, and the back of your tongue. Remember, plaque is sticky, sticky, sticky. The main reason folks use mouthwash is to “freshen their breath” and to cure bad breath, or as we refer to it- halitosis, all in 30 seconds. Making you Kissable, and Cleaning your Teeth. If you have a rinse you love, call the company and ask them what the pH of their product is, if it’s below 7.0 think again. The bottom line, watch pH of everything you put in your mouth. (The acidic kind, unfortunately.) And then I see decay under their crowns, and along the gumline on the delicate root surfaces. Proudly, they tell me they use mouthwash daily, and nightly. ![]() Then I ask them what mouthwash they’re using. They promise me they aren’t eating candy, or juice and only drink water, yet, yikes, there’s a ton of tooth decay. Too often, I see senior citizens with root decay. You have an acidic environment all night, not enough saliva to return the pH to neutral. When you hit that pillow, your salivary glands say good night too. What’s the last thing you do before bed? You brush your teeth and use mouthwash. That’s called xerostomia, and there’s little or no saliva especially at night for many people. For today’s purpose just know that anything I recommend using will have a pH that is neutral i.e. Read my post: Tooth Decay, What’s pH got to do with it? for more information on pH and tooth decay. Remineralization occurs when your saliva puts these minerals back in your teeth, where they belong. It happens every time you eat or drink anything acidic. Soda pop, juice, and wine do that to your teeth. When the pH of your mouth drops below 5.5, the minerals come out of your teeth, and the tooth decay process starts. However, where I have issue is that the alcohol lowers the pH of your mouth and makes your mouth very acidic. An antiseptic agent can either kill bacteria, or at least be bactericidal and make it so the bacteria can’t make more bacteria babies. The alcohol triggers the antiseptic properties of these ingredients. By activate, I mean make them antiseptic. Many are alcohol based- pure ethanol, that’s the ingredient that activates the essential oils such as thymol, eucalyptol, menthol, and methyl salicylate. First, Why am I down on most OTC mouthwash?
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