@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👍
