Teeth So Clean Someone Else Someone Else Might Want to Kiss You

1.  Sweep Brush:   Use minimum amount of toothpaste (drop).  Perform at least 5 sweep strokes on face side overlapping strokes only.  Position toothbrush on inside surface of teeth:  downward stroke on upper teeth ; upward stroke on lower teeth

2.  FLOSS:  Using 18" of floss push floss in contact with tooth.  Scrape Tooth at lease 5 strokes each side under the gumline as far as it will go

3.  Brush Under the Gumline:   Angle toothbursh 90 degrees staight into the gumline.  3 wiggles , sweep out.  Inside and out every tooth

4.   Tongue Cleaner:  80 90% of bad breath comes from the coating on the tongue.  Go back as far as possible , scrape forward at least once a day but really as often as possible.

5.  Stain:  Reduce the quantity of brown pigments that you put in your body.  Everybody knows that things like tobacco, coffee, tea, and colas will stain the surface of the teeth.  But what most people don't know is that those brown pigments circulate in the bloodstream, and the tooth has a robust vascular supply.  The pigments are deposited in the dentin (the layer of tooth just under the enamel) the dentin will first get more yellow and layer brown.  You are staining your teeth from the inside, those colors show through the enamel.

   So.....Get that lickin ...and keep on tickin

Safer Oral Sex The Science

Probably not  the best idea to have oral sex with an open lesion in your mouth "the common cold sore".  Any open lesion in the mouth is just as susceptible to the same pathogenic invasions as a concomitant lesion in the vagina.  Separate these at your peril.  No one is talking about safe oral sex.  Be enlightened.

Abandon the illusion that because you are having oral sex you are safe.  An open lesion in the mouth is every bit as vulnerable as any breach in tissue in the vagina.  Any precaution you would take vaginally with sex should be just as important orally. 

Please keep yourselves Safe.   I am your Oral Health Coach.  A hole is a hole without the teeth the mouth is the exact same tissue as the vagina.

A Clean Tongue Is A Happy Tongue

90 % of our bad breath comes from our tongue.    Our tongue is like a sponge and there is drainage that gets lodged on it from our nose and throat.   This white coating on our tongue  is a layer of dead tissue and bacteria and it needs to be scraped off daily.   This is the primary source of the bad odor that we get in our mouths.   Purchase a tongue scraper , go back as far as you can and scrape forward.  Do this at least once a day and if your going out at night do it before you go out you will feel socially more confident.  The best time to use mouthwash is after you scrape your tongue  ..  swish for at least 30 sec to 1 min.   It's a great feeling having a happy tongue !

Decay Is Infection Too

Enamel the outer layer of the tooth above the gumline is the hardest substance known to man.  It is harder than bone.  The sugar eating bacteria live above the gumline.  They are nasty little critters.   Once they colonize they convert what we eat into sugar, ingest the sugar and produce ACID.  This acid destroys the enamel and creates enamel infection.   If left unchecked the enamel infection will progress to the pulp or nerve of the tooth .  Once the infection gets to the pulp it goes systemic.  This feeding activity of the colonized sugar eaters can be stopped by breaking up the colonies of bacteria before you eat ...   DRY BRUSH before you eat.  The areobic bacteria cannot feed and produce acid if they are not in a feeding unit ... break the colonies up with a dry toothbrush because the taste of your food will not be altered and toothpaste is unnecessary for breaking up these feeding units. 

Stop the decay by dry brushing before you eat.   Chose  health.    Keep a toothbrush handy and dry brush as frenquently as possible during the day.  It becomes a habit...a compulsion if you will and you will begin to get a healthy mouth which will also effect your body in good ways.

Irma's Fantastic Voyage

Let me take you on a journey an expedition if you will below the gumline or gingival margin.  the entrance to the cavernous dark sulcus.  As I begin my descent and the light begins to fade I turn on the headlamps of my nano (vehicle) of my submersable.   I first encounter the motile carnivorous bacterial species that inhabit this environment.  I approach the Great Wall of the cavern that is the cemental surface of the tooth and observe a frightening display they have joined in a battle group  and a feeding unit united for one purpose seek and destroy.   I turn my vehicle 180 degrees and look at the soft vulnerable epithelial barrier, the sulcular epithelium.   The only barrier that keeps them from invading and ravaging the host organism.  I watch their tactics hoping to find some measure of defense.  Once colonized and organized into a feeding unit their first wave of their attack is biochemical warfare.  They release toxins that kill the epithelial cellular soldiers.  They are quickly overcome and perish bavely in the battle but the barrier is breached they have successfully invaded the host.  I feel despair is their nothing that can stop the carnage.  BUT wait I see thin nylon cylinders attacking the colony.  a silken rope appears and adds reinforcement.  Most of the colony has abandonded their base camp, and now a sharpened wooden device eliminates the last of their battle group.  The epitheliar soldiers at the barrier gain recruits and the invasion is over for now.  but i see the colony beginning to form again, and realize this is a never ending day to day battle.

Whoa !  I must have drifted for a moment,  but I'm much better now.   I remember I'm a Hyienist in Knoxville America.  I'm teaching Comprehensive Self Care, subgingival disruption of biofilm.  Yes ! that is how you must adapt the brush for sulcular cleaning, yes that's how you must adapt the floss for the submarginal convesities and the perio Aide for submarginal concavities.  Mission accomplished.  What's that Carol.........Yes,   Next Patient !

Sulca Brushing

There is a piece of tooth under the gum tissue that needs cleaning.    Angle the bristles that are closest to the tooth 90 degrees straight into the gum tissue.  Initially if the tissue is infected it will bleed but cleaning this area daily the bleeding WILL stop within 3 days to a week.    Wiggle the bristles into the gum tissue & give 3 wiggles and then sweep forward.    Inside & outside of every tooth once a day.   Do Not put toothpaste on the brush.  Toothpaste is an abrasive and this surface that you are cleaning is the dentin of the tooth which is less dense than the enamel.   Your gum tissue will become firm like an orange peel.  Coral Pink the color of health.   Once a day , take the time.   Your health is worth the time invested.

A perfect time to sulca brush or cleaning your tongue or just dry brushing is in the shower.  You will brush longer because the water feels relaxing and automatic rinse water.

Dry Brush

Toothpaste is an abrasive and not necessary to break up the bacterial colonies that eat, sleep, and poop  in our mouths  with that said DRY BRUSH      Stick a toothbrush in your pocket and dry brush during the course of the day as often as you can.   Don't worry about making your mouth dirty with a brush from your pocket .   You could drop the brush on the floor, pick it up and put it in your mouth and make the brush dirtier from the bugs in your mouth than from having placed it on the floor.

    Your mouth is a Vat of Bacteria.  The bacteria live there harmoniously.  They do not cause problems unless they are in a bacterial colonie with that said  break the colonies up during the course of the day with a dry toothbrush.   Easy   just get a little OCD about it ;  such health and beauty benefits.   OCD =  Oral Compulsive Disorder