Carrot salad as replacement for Brushing your teeth
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After having a carrot salad and rinsing my mouth, I noticed that my teeth were very clean and my breath smelled fine.
Since regular toothpaste is toxic and ones with good ingredients are expensive, maybe eating a carrot salad is a good cheap replacement for brushing your teeth.Thoughts?
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@Terminator I think so. Miswak has been used for centuries and is proven to be effective at maintaining dental health. Carrots have similar antibacterial and fibrous properties to miswak.
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What about making your own toothpaste? Xylitol, nano-hydroxyapatite/, eugenol, coconut oil, little bit of baking soda...
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Just use non-fluoride toothpaste instead. Doubt the amount of sugars we're eating with only carrot salads to protect the teeth will end that well.
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@voldtzeig Flouride doesn't seem to be a massive issue with brushing teeth as long as you're not swallowing it or using too much. Also, many of the 'natural' fluoride free toothpastes have a lot of other unsavory ingredients that often make them worse then the fluoride ones. There a good quality toothpastes with fluoride and not too many bad stuffs and same for fluoride free but if you have a good gut and rinse your mouth out with water during the day, just oil pulling and then brushing your teeth with water is likely enough to keep them clean. Cascara, unsalted butter, milk, coconut oil, are in my experience all very good for dental health
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Very balanced view. Appreciated and i agree. In some situations there is no substitute for fluoride depending on the state of your enamel. You wont need to use it forever, but if you have some quite extensive demineralisation, you wont be able to get minerals to bind to teeth without fluoride toothpaste, applications, etc. I do wonder if swishing green tea and consuming raisins would be enough though as the latter contains calcium fluoride and green tea contains many different fluoride ions. Probably better than something like stannous fluoride, although stannous fluorides ability to bind minerals from saliva to teeth is still unmatched to this day. It's incredibly toxic if swallowed, but you only need an extremely small amount to brush with for it to be effective, which is a plus if not much of a plus. 3-4 months of that and then you can switch to nano-hydroxyapatite, or brushing with bonemeal powder may work too.
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@CurmudgeonApple Would you need fluoride for hydroxyapatite to remineralize aswell or would hydroxyapatatite toothpaste work without the fluoride?
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I don't think so. You would still get plaque build-up. But you could easily mitigate this with just brushing with water and oil-pulling with coconut oil. Coconut oil is underrated for teeth/oral health imo. Come to think of it, coconut oil is underrated for everything. I love coconut oil.
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@voldtzeig said in Carrot salad as replacement for Brushing your teeth:
@CurmudgeonApple Would you need fluoride for hydroxyapatite to remineralize aswell or would hydroxyapatatite toothpaste work without the fluoride?
It would depend on the state of your enamel. apatites are just a building block of a tooth, so if your enamel is considerably demineralised, the hydroxyapatite of calcium or other mineral has nothing to bind to and in that situation, the only thing that will reverse it is a fluoride treatment, toothpaste, etc, and if it's severe to the point of almost dentin exposure, then your only recourse is probably stannous fluoride, which might even save it, and after a few months of that you can switch to hydroxyapatite or something less drastic. If you don't have any demineralisation then you don't technically need fluoride at all as the minerals from your dietary choices will deposit into saliva and bind to tooth enamel no problem
