Imagine you’re in a reclining chair with dental equipment around you and that familiar hint of antiseptic. Your fingers lightly grip the arm rests as you attempt to hide your obvious tension. A buzzing drill is heading towards your open mouth. It’s usually at this point that you make a last-second promise to yourself: if the procedure is painless, you’ll definitely take better care of your teeth and gums, beginning tomorrow.
Why you CAN’T keep this promise
Keeping your teeth clean and your gums healthy is a daily requirement. Brush properly and you’ll reduce the possibility of tooth decay; brush in a hurry and you’re a likely candidate for gum surgery.The probabilities are that over the years you’ve been subjected to the dentist’s drill or even gum surgery and it’s certainly not anything to look forward to. After each procedure your dentist probably told you to floss and brush more often, yet the next time you scheduled an appointment, the condition was still there; nothing had improved.
There’s a good reason for this. No matter how well you think you’ve brushed and flossed, your mouth still remains dirty. This is because you only brushed your teeth – JUST THE ENAMEL. Your teeth, the enamel, comprise a mere 10% of your mouth! As a child were you not taught to brush the roof and floor of the mouth, the cheeks, the gums as well as the surface of the tongue? The development of damaging plaque originates from the build-up of toxic bacteria in these places. Just try to imagine what you’d might smell like if you only washed 10% of your face in the morning or 10% of your body in the shower?
Dentistry Simplified
I once thought that if I brushed my teeth a couple of times a day vigorously, flossed occasionally and ate a few bright red apples each week my dental health would be fine. So why was I the subject of the dentist’s drill so frequently over the years? That question was answered for me in 2001 by Dr. Joseph Phillips (1922- 2003).
Dr Phillips took the time to explain to me that dentistry today had lost its way and was more about repairing tooth and gum conditions than preventing them. Although there are some remarkably good dentists around the world, most dentists aren’t there to prevent these conditions from developing. Few modern dentists can make a living showing people how to stop tooth decay and prevent gum disease. .If you don’t brush and floss properly you won’t remove plaque. Instead you may just push it to a different part of the mouth, or even deep into the gumline.
Then Dr. Phillips told me the single most important factor in personal dental health:
FOCUS ON ELIMINATING THE PLAQUE
Plaque is the sticky, white substance that forms on teeth, between them and in the area between the teeth and gums, called the sulcus. Harmful toxins released by the ‘bad’ bacteria in plaque cause the plaque to thrive. This is the principle reason for dental disease and contributes to the body’s acidic state. Think about that for a moment, as well as the consequential effects – this ‘toxic ‘ plaque plays a signifificant role in heart conditions, cancer and diabetes.
But there is hope! An almost forgotten technique that does remove plaque effectively was developed by Dr. Phillips himself in the late 1960’s. Known as ‘The Blotting Technique ‘ it works with Blotting Brushes. After his death the research he’d carried out over years was mostly destroyed in a home fire but fortunately his technique and the brushes are still available today. The procedure is straightforward to carry out and for many has proven to be the key to good oral health for a lifetime.
You decide whether or not this is for you……
Born and brought up in Asia, author Graeme Dinnen was intrigued by the way in which different Asian cultures approach their health. He studied aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and together with his wife Phylipa, now runs ToothWizards, an oral health initiative to help people achieve self-sufficiency in dental health.
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