gotrootdude
23rd July 2006, 06:57
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First let me state that I am not a doctor. I do not hold any degrees in any field. I primarily work as a computer tech, programmer, engineer, accountant, purchasing agent, business manager, network designer, radio tech, etc. If it's technical and needs doing, I try to do it for the companies I work for, and normally succeed in my efforts. I'm entirely self taught. (Jack of all trades)
I do not promise my results. My results have been due to using myself as a human guinea pig. Some of the information I've used for my self experimentation is either recently released, or still in clinical trials. Even though what I've done seems to be working for me, it will not work for everyone, there are many reasons for dental decay, and my experiments do not attempt to treat all of them.
I'm 37 years old and have not seen a dentist since high school. It was both due to fear, and money. My job lost it's dental care insurance, and I cancelled my wife's and my health insurance due to it's high cost and to allow us to gain some savings. I attempted to get a loan for dental work, but I was denied for "lack of credit" since I've never charged anything in my life. I have five small children, so even though I have a bit of money in the bank, it's never enough to keep from worrying about the kids having an emergency of some sort. My family always comes before myself.
Everything was going as planned up until around 5 years ago. At that time, all of a sudden, my teeth started rapidly demineralizing and falling apart. It was like something out of a horror show. I developed cavities in almost every tooth. None of my teeth were particularly painful, and there was no inflamation, but it was embarrasing to smile, and I couldn't eat without dental floss close at hand to remove the food from the gaps the cavities made. (If you have a cavity, and you notice any kind of pain, or inflamation, then please notify a dentist immediately! I do not want to be responsible for someone's lack of attention to a serious infection! People have died from ignoring dental pain!)
Researching the problem, I found that there are several reasons for cavities. There's bacteria (which everyone knows about but everyone attributes to sugar), there's alkalosis (expelling more CO2 than your body brings in, which is acidic and detrimental to your teeth, caused by various medical issues), there's lack of saliva (can be from another medical issue), there's hyperparathyroidism resulting in calcemia, unexplained calcemia, there's calcium-phosporous and or vitimin deficiency, there's unknown genetic predispositions, disease, etc, etc. I probably could go on listing reasons all day, some definately proven, some just believed, and some still being researched.
Since I've only been sick a few days out of my life, I decided my teeth problem probably wasn't due to a immune deficiency.
I decided to attack as many causes I could, in the best way I could think of.
First, I changed my eating and drinking habits by cutting out heavy starches and sugars as much as possible, drinking a bit more milk (one or two glasses a night) (Too much calcium can actually induce alkalosis and worsen the situation), and eating more vegetables. I figured this would cure any mineral deficiency.
Next, I ordered a mouth moisturizing gel, which encluded several polypeptides believed to reduce and control the streptococcus mutans bacteria (lactoperoxidase, lysozyme, glucose oxidase, and lactoferrin). I thought that this would help if I had a dry mouth problem. Now, I apply the product each night before bed.
(I'm not endorsing any product, but to save people time, the brand I bought was biotene)
Next, while exploring recent science news, I came across a mention of a bone substitute material (BSM trademarked, sold through Johnson and Johnson), which would turn into real bone over time. It was made from a chemical formulary containing bioactive glass, something discovered back in 1960, and used to aid soldiers in vietnam. Bioactive glass is a calcium phosphosilica mixture that contains sodium, it reacts with water to cause the glass to plate out of solution into hydroxy calcium apatite crystals which over time and cooperation with your body's healing processes, become synonomous to bone. I searched for further information, and found a dental toothpaste, and whitener, released recently on the market for consumers (not just dentists) containing the proper mixture of bioactive glass for aiding in rebuilding tooth enamel. Whenever it's used, it leaves a microthin layer of crystals behind that quickly can become a layer of real enamel.
I also found that this bioactive glass mixture had shown in studies a large reduction in gum disease, and blocked the tubules and small grooves in the teeth where bacteria commonly hid, and with proper hygene, resulted in a drop in bacteria. The company who sells the toothpaste, and the whitener is Oravive. The Bioactive glass ingrediet is made by Novamin. I use the toothpaste after each meal, and the whitener once daily.
Anyway, here's the good point. After several weeks of use (more than a couple of months, less than a year), I can happily report that all of my smaller cavities have completely healed, there's no longer any holes, they have completely filled in, and I can visibly tell that the two larger cavities are also very slowly getting smaller, and the surrounding dentin/enamel is no longer showing any discoloration! This was all accomplished without drilling, and without fillings! [smiley=jumping.gif]
Also, my teeth are becoming much whiter, I can smile again without embarrasment, and I can chew with my molars again without having to worry! I still need the floss after taking each bite, due to a shrinking cavity between two teeth, but I'm hoping it won't be for too long, I can handle waiting a few years for the two large ones to heal completely.
Recently, there's been news out of Canada about a group using ultrasound in the 1-2khz range to regrow teeth. I've ordered a few small tranducers, a 555 timing chip, and a few other electrical supplies to see if I can't speed the rebuilding process up any more. It will be tricky, as anything I build will be much larger than the canadian device, determining the correct focus of the transducer requires a bit of work, and determining the signal strength and dispersment to rebuild without tissue damage occuring will be tricky, but I believe I can do it.
I'm also wondering about building the device with a bit of current leak from the mouthpiece though a dielectric flouride paste to attempt to increase remineralizing ionization, yet it's going to take awhile to get it all together.
I'll report any more positive results! If I misspelled anything, I apologize, It's late, I'm tired, I'm from the south, and I wanted to get my success story out.
If the person reading this is a dentist, please take note of the products I'm using, and give them a look. I won't go as far as recommending to stop treating cavities with fillings and drilling, but this information may help save your patients from future harm. Everything I've said is true. It worked for me. But, I've done massive amounts of research, and I know it's not a cure for everyone, we're still waiting for that.
Feel free to contact me or reply. I'll try to reply back, but I'm extremely busy putting in a new phone system, a new voip exchange, a security system, doing bookkeeping, finishing a optical record storage system, etc. Wish my job was simple. :(
First let me state that I am not a doctor. I do not hold any degrees in any field. I primarily work as a computer tech, programmer, engineer, accountant, purchasing agent, business manager, network designer, radio tech, etc. If it's technical and needs doing, I try to do it for the companies I work for, and normally succeed in my efforts. I'm entirely self taught. (Jack of all trades)
I do not promise my results. My results have been due to using myself as a human guinea pig. Some of the information I've used for my self experimentation is either recently released, or still in clinical trials. Even though what I've done seems to be working for me, it will not work for everyone, there are many reasons for dental decay, and my experiments do not attempt to treat all of them.
I'm 37 years old and have not seen a dentist since high school. It was both due to fear, and money. My job lost it's dental care insurance, and I cancelled my wife's and my health insurance due to it's high cost and to allow us to gain some savings. I attempted to get a loan for dental work, but I was denied for "lack of credit" since I've never charged anything in my life. I have five small children, so even though I have a bit of money in the bank, it's never enough to keep from worrying about the kids having an emergency of some sort. My family always comes before myself.
Everything was going as planned up until around 5 years ago. At that time, all of a sudden, my teeth started rapidly demineralizing and falling apart. It was like something out of a horror show. I developed cavities in almost every tooth. None of my teeth were particularly painful, and there was no inflamation, but it was embarrasing to smile, and I couldn't eat without dental floss close at hand to remove the food from the gaps the cavities made. (If you have a cavity, and you notice any kind of pain, or inflamation, then please notify a dentist immediately! I do not want to be responsible for someone's lack of attention to a serious infection! People have died from ignoring dental pain!)
Researching the problem, I found that there are several reasons for cavities. There's bacteria (which everyone knows about but everyone attributes to sugar), there's alkalosis (expelling more CO2 than your body brings in, which is acidic and detrimental to your teeth, caused by various medical issues), there's lack of saliva (can be from another medical issue), there's hyperparathyroidism resulting in calcemia, unexplained calcemia, there's calcium-phosporous and or vitimin deficiency, there's unknown genetic predispositions, disease, etc, etc. I probably could go on listing reasons all day, some definately proven, some just believed, and some still being researched.
Since I've only been sick a few days out of my life, I decided my teeth problem probably wasn't due to a immune deficiency.
I decided to attack as many causes I could, in the best way I could think of.
First, I changed my eating and drinking habits by cutting out heavy starches and sugars as much as possible, drinking a bit more milk (one or two glasses a night) (Too much calcium can actually induce alkalosis and worsen the situation), and eating more vegetables. I figured this would cure any mineral deficiency.
Next, I ordered a mouth moisturizing gel, which encluded several polypeptides believed to reduce and control the streptococcus mutans bacteria (lactoperoxidase, lysozyme, glucose oxidase, and lactoferrin). I thought that this would help if I had a dry mouth problem. Now, I apply the product each night before bed.
(I'm not endorsing any product, but to save people time, the brand I bought was biotene)
Next, while exploring recent science news, I came across a mention of a bone substitute material (BSM trademarked, sold through Johnson and Johnson), which would turn into real bone over time. It was made from a chemical formulary containing bioactive glass, something discovered back in 1960, and used to aid soldiers in vietnam. Bioactive glass is a calcium phosphosilica mixture that contains sodium, it reacts with water to cause the glass to plate out of solution into hydroxy calcium apatite crystals which over time and cooperation with your body's healing processes, become synonomous to bone. I searched for further information, and found a dental toothpaste, and whitener, released recently on the market for consumers (not just dentists) containing the proper mixture of bioactive glass for aiding in rebuilding tooth enamel. Whenever it's used, it leaves a microthin layer of crystals behind that quickly can become a layer of real enamel.
I also found that this bioactive glass mixture had shown in studies a large reduction in gum disease, and blocked the tubules and small grooves in the teeth where bacteria commonly hid, and with proper hygene, resulted in a drop in bacteria. The company who sells the toothpaste, and the whitener is Oravive. The Bioactive glass ingrediet is made by Novamin. I use the toothpaste after each meal, and the whitener once daily.
Anyway, here's the good point. After several weeks of use (more than a couple of months, less than a year), I can happily report that all of my smaller cavities have completely healed, there's no longer any holes, they have completely filled in, and I can visibly tell that the two larger cavities are also very slowly getting smaller, and the surrounding dentin/enamel is no longer showing any discoloration! This was all accomplished without drilling, and without fillings! [smiley=jumping.gif]
Also, my teeth are becoming much whiter, I can smile again without embarrasment, and I can chew with my molars again without having to worry! I still need the floss after taking each bite, due to a shrinking cavity between two teeth, but I'm hoping it won't be for too long, I can handle waiting a few years for the two large ones to heal completely.
Recently, there's been news out of Canada about a group using ultrasound in the 1-2khz range to regrow teeth. I've ordered a few small tranducers, a 555 timing chip, and a few other electrical supplies to see if I can't speed the rebuilding process up any more. It will be tricky, as anything I build will be much larger than the canadian device, determining the correct focus of the transducer requires a bit of work, and determining the signal strength and dispersment to rebuild without tissue damage occuring will be tricky, but I believe I can do it.
I'm also wondering about building the device with a bit of current leak from the mouthpiece though a dielectric flouride paste to attempt to increase remineralizing ionization, yet it's going to take awhile to get it all together.
I'll report any more positive results! If I misspelled anything, I apologize, It's late, I'm tired, I'm from the south, and I wanted to get my success story out.
If the person reading this is a dentist, please take note of the products I'm using, and give them a look. I won't go as far as recommending to stop treating cavities with fillings and drilling, but this information may help save your patients from future harm. Everything I've said is true. It worked for me. But, I've done massive amounts of research, and I know it's not a cure for everyone, we're still waiting for that.
Feel free to contact me or reply. I'll try to reply back, but I'm extremely busy putting in a new phone system, a new voip exchange, a security system, doing bookkeeping, finishing a optical record storage system, etc. Wish my job was simple. :(