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If something that's almost entirely preventable is the most prevalent disease on the planet among adults and kids, maybe we should reconsider what we've been telling people.

Millions of people brush their teeth still and you know, floss their teeth and they still get cavities with fluoride.

By the way, that's a pleasure to meet you.

So thanks so much for always been such a wonderful job.

I am curious, just for yourself personally, what is your oral healthcare routine like in the morning before breakfast, not after.

I start with a very safe and effective mouthwash.

So it's before breakfast BB and before bedtime.

Because every time you eat or drink the PH of the saliva drops and mouth becomes very acidic.

And if you brush your teeth within the first 30 to 60 minutes after meals, your teeth are very vulnerable to damage.

And that's why you want to avoid brushing your teeth at least for an hour after you eat or drink anything.

So in the mornings before breakfast, you want to get up, use a very safe and healthy mouthwash that doesn't have artificial colors, it's not acidic, it doesn't have antimicrobial agent that kills 99% of your germs.

So it alkalizes your mouth, it loosens the plaque, it freshens the mouth and it gets you ready for the next or care products.

The next thing after that is either you can floss in the morning or in the evening.

And if you gonna take away, one thing from this is to remember to clean your tongue because people, I think a lot of people are used to cleaning their teeth, but

they leave all these microbes that lead to bad breath and change in taste.

And you know, your mouth is just a source of a ton of microbes in the mouth.

And so you wanna clean your tongue with a tongue cleaner.

Now there are three ways you can clean yourself with a tongue with a toothbrush, which is very, very minimal cleaning, it really doesn't do anything.

Or you can use these U shaped tongue cleaners, they're like metal ones.

Which is the next better version or the third one, which is my favorite, is a specialized tongue cleaner that has a tongue brush on one side, these longer brushes that go into the deep crevices of the tongue and the scooper on the other side that you can get out the microbes, the debris and the sulfur that causes bad breath.

So mouthwash, tongue cleaner, toothbrush with toothpaste, then you enjoy your breakfast and that's Your morning routine in the evening, before bedtime, you do everything you did in the morning, but

kind of backwards, you do the flossing first if you haven't done in the morning.

I know that's the one area that almost everybody lies about to their dentist about how much they've lost.

But truly, we actually get most of the cavities between the teeth.

It causes bad breath if you don't, and all sorts of things.

So use a good floss, you know, and wrap around your finger.

If you can't do that, because that's the best way, then use a water flosser.

And the next thing is the floss, those little floss picks.

But the best thing is actually a floss, because you can get the cleaner part of the floss in between the teeth.

And the flosses I like to use actually have the toothpaste ingredients.

Because, as I always say, you don't brush without toothpaste.

Because that's actually where we get most of the cavities.

So you want to floss first, then you want to brush your teeth with a really, again, safe brush and toothpaste.

And then the last thing you do at night is use the mouthwash and swish it around really vigorously and spit it out.

So the mouthwash protects your teeth overnight.

How do you sort of determine the evidence that makes this the right routine?

So the model of brush your teeth with fluoride floss and see the dentist twice a year, this is the model that we've been following for 30 years.

The number one disease is dental disease, cavities and gum disease.

And so that model, we know it doesn't work.

When I was in dental school, like 30 years ago, the only discussion was fluoride versus non fluoride.

As if this one ingredient, it's either going to save the world or is going to cause havoc.

It would be as if in medicine, the only thing we Talked about for 30 years was the benefits of broccoli.

So by just putting fluoride in a toothbrush and brushing our teeth, it's just such a simple solution to a complex Problem.

I wanted to take a minute to explain how fluoride works.

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that can help prevent tooth decay.

When we eat foods, in particular sugary foods or highly refined carbohydrates, the.

The bacteria living in our mouth that are already there, get to work breaking down that food.

And in doing so, when the bacteria start doing their work, they are releasing acid.

And that acid is what then corrodes the minerals that make up the outer layers of our teeth.

That process is called demineralization, and that is the very start of tooth decay.

Now, fluoride, if it's already on your teeth, can help prevent this loss and even restore some of the minerals broken down by the acid released by those bacteria.

You got food, you got bacteria, it releases these acids.

Fluoride can help protect your teeth from those impacts and even restore some of the minerals.

Okay, so keep this in mind during the next part of this conversation.

I realize that we've probably been pretty reductionist about this sort of thing, but.

You know, we'll just stay on fluoride for a second.

This idea that when you take in fluoride, when you ingest it through fluoridated water, for example, it's getting into your system.

It's doing things to your teeth and to your bones.

There's been this movement recently to try and reduce, if not eliminate, fluoride in the water or stop adding it at least.

Obviously, some of it occurs naturally in water.

What do you think of that, based on the data?

If you look at the CDC's website, they say this is one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.

And then there's other people who say, look, hey, it's associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and other things.

So fluoride, like you said, it's a natural ingredient, natural mineral.

It's present in water, in seafood, in tea.

We know that fluoride makes the teeth more acidic resistant.

It does have one benefit and one downside.

The one benefit is it makes the teeth stronger, especially against acidic erosion.

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