Dentistry, just like general “Medicine,” has been full of myths. Mercury is poisonous and never leaves the body.
Dentists believe that fluoride is good for dental health. It is tragicomical that fluoride does produce a few-micron “protective” layer on the teeth that, of course doesn’t protect much. When I told the water company that water fluoridation uses industrial waste and is poisonous, I got nowhere. (In their antediluvian pipes, they are also using chloramines instead of chloride for disinfecting the water, which are a 100 times more toxic, cannot be removed by boiling or by letting the water sit around; only carbon filtration can do the job.)
While I am at it, toothpastes are unnecessary and contain lots of unpredictably nasty stuff, and also mess with digestion, if done shortly after eating... Flossing and brushing can work, but are insufficient alone.
Tooth health has a lot to do with one’s diet, but also the environment, because certain variables obviously deplete the body from minerals and affect hormone production and hormonal balance. I’m pretty certain that my lifetime preference for melted cheese has something to do with it, but good rock salt and good fats are also imperative, while the pseudo-medical establishment wants you to consume fat-free and low-salt products (for that matter, most cheap fats are indeed bad for you, industrially-produced salt in processed food happens to be quite bad as well), while both salt and fats are indispensable for survival. In those, who follow “medical advice” in this case, the resulting inflammation of the blood vessels produces higher levels of cholesterol, which the butchers love to lower back with their toxic “medications” whose list of very-intentional “side effects” would be alone enough to justify their use in the sick-care industry, but they seem to cause harm even with the function they are promised to fulfill.
Sweets do harm teeth. Some six-year-olds don’t have a single good tooth left, because they grow up on sweets (that contain generous amounts of corn syrup from GMO corn and mess up metabolism) juices and soda. Artificial sweeteners are worse than cane sugar, because they mess up the body big time. Once metabolism is pushed off-balance, it is usually quite difficult to get it back to normal.
Brushing? Not for me. I’ve settled for Waterpick, because it works for me. No, this is not an advertisement.
I have sooo much fun, as you can imagine, because as an ex-DDS who escaped the identity politics of covidians. I held to my Hippocratic Oath and even added a clause to it( thinking it was already there). That is, with right hand held up” i solemnly swear that i will not suffer a lie on behalf of my patient, where health is concerned. Nor anything else, for that matter..”
So to keep the peace as, over the years, fashion trends in health info would crap on modalities of prevention and treatment, i would just ask them to provide the mechanism of action by which fluoride or mercury alloys for eg, were toxic,and never would get a response. But it showed 2 things: i’m not married to a profession not to dogma not ideology. It’s pick your poison, folks and that dietary disease that precedes diabetes makes teeth a canary in a coalmine. I would say “ forget teeth, ask your pancreas what it thinks... u only have one of those, you know..” Laughter. Point made. Teachable moments. Dr means Teacher. Look it up. One size does not fit all. It’s custom care. Kid without decay? Great! Teach about gums and bone. Many ways to control plaque( very nasty biofilm) so choose a method that works, make the 21-day habit and shame folks into it if need be: “ a chicken with a brain the size of your thumbnail sits on that egg for 3 measily weeks. See if you can do it 3 weeks. You’ll never look back”.
Everything has its place including the 4-year recare visit vs the 4-month visit needed by some with poor dexterity etc. In any business, its effectiveness that speaks, not a reach for $ etc.
Generalizations are dangerous and untrue much of the time.
Remember, you never know who’s sitting at the table at a gathering. Foam at the mouth all they like about teeth( of which many are such experts) and hope i’m not there, waiting for the chance to use humour to embarrass the bejesus out of you!
One thing that needs to be mentioned is if you decide to remove your amalgam fillings, use a dentist (possibly a biodentist ) that follows safe removal of the IAOMT protocol. DO NOT just trust they’ll do it right. Alternate source of oxygen is very important. You can watch a video on the IAOMT website so you know what is necessary. You will be exposed to lots of mercury vapor even with the best dentist. My dentist of 40 yrs fired all of his unvaxxed patients once the shots became available. I hope he’s enjoying his never ending boosters 🤣