Wash Your Mouth Out with Soap

Everyone hates dentists. Except for dentists. It’s so invasive to have someone look into your mouth to tell you how bad you are at brushing your teeth, how much you suck at life, and then put you through incredible pain as a form of punishment. Alright, it may be your own fault, and yes, you may actually suck at life. But your teeth are actually important enough to take good care of them. I used to have severe stage two gingivitis. At the same time, I had to have my first filling performed on one of my wisdom teeth, with another filling to follow eight months later on another wisdom tooth. Here are the basics of what I have learned about dental care that have kept me (and apparently many other holistic weirdos) out of the dentist’s chair for long.

1. Your mouth is your body’s entrance to the world. If you really think about it, almost 100% of the time someone gets sick (Generically sick, not severe death horrible pain sick), it’s because they exposed their mouths to something they shouldn’t have. Your mouth needs to be kept clean all the time to keep bacteria and foul shit out of there.

2. Your diet plays as important a part in your oral health as does your hygiene routine. Sugars, sodas, and frequent snacking, as well as tobacco, beer, booze, and other stuff that’s generically bad for you, should be cut out as much as possible. Yeah, it sucks, but so does shit breath, black teeth, and a fat ass, so whatever…pick your poison.

3. Brush your teeth after every meal with a soft, clean toothbrush, floss everyday, mouthwash with sugar free and alcohol free mouthwash (studies find alcohol based mouthwash can aggrevate oral cancer).

Alright, enough with the obvious stuff.. time for some out of the box, good stuff you might not know..

1. Brushing your teeth with soap is as good, if not better than brushing with regular toothpaste. I know, it has no fluoride. Fluoride is a poisonous gas that kills on contact. It was originally put into the water supply of Native Americans, and they instantly began to suffer from gum disease and other horrible diseases. It is said that fluoride can actually kill the soft tissue in the mouth, and perhaps lead to oral cancer. If the ADA was really interested in saving people’s teeth, why not add a little hydroxyapatite or vitamin D to the water supply.. anyway.. I AM NOT A DENTIST and I am not saying to grab a bar of Dial and scrub your teeth away. However, there are several brands of tooth soap (yeah, I said it), that disinfect your mouth, clean your teeth, taste like shit, but leave your mouth feeling dentist clean. I use Rose of Sharon Acres tooth soap. It has awesome ingredients, and no artificial anything. My teeth feel squeaky clean after using it, and it doesn’t leave a horrible tasting film or aftertaste. No minty breath.. no any-kind-of-sugary-breath.. just air smelling breath. If you don’t feel like spending 10 bucks on a half year supply of tooth soap, grab a bar of cheap saponified oil based soap that is fragarance free (or made with essential oils for fragarance) that has NO ADDED GLYCERINE (more on this in a second) from a natural food store, and use that. Just put some on your toothbrush and use as normal. The idea behind this is based on the studies conducted by Edgar Cayce (look up his research on google and read about it.. pretty interesting). Toothpaste is loaded with glycerine, which coats teeth. If the teeth are coated, they cannot remineralize (try to undo the damage your sorry ass does to them all day). If you think soap would coat them more… rub some soap in your sink and wash it out.. now do the same with toothpaste.. which washes clean easier? `Nuff said.

2. Tooth powders can also be used in moderation for a more extreme clean. Using them too much rubs off enamel, but a good tooth powder can be made with two parts baking soda, one part salt, and enough peppermint oil or clove oil or oregano oil to give a good flavor. Baking soda will alkalize the mouth, helping to stop the acid-wear process on teeth.

3. The last thing to be done before bed should somehow involve brushing and flossing, along with a nice glass of water. Dry mouth means decay. Dirty mouth at bed definitely means decay. I’m surprised how many people eat candy and drink soda while they’re laying in bed… it sickens me (sorry, probably 99% of normal people who aren’t utterly obsessed with their mouth).

4. As far as I can tell, some fluoride might actually do some good, since it can penetrate enamel due to its tiny molecular size and increase the density of enamel….tea is an excellent drink because it has some naturally occurring fluoride – yes it might stain your teeth a little bit, but that is easily removed with the aforementioned tooth powder. Your water probably also has fluoride in it (unfortunately).

Here’s my routine:

Morning: Tooth Soap after coffee/breakfast, followed by water all day.
Afternoon: Tooth soap after lunch.. more water and tea all day
Dinner: Regular tooth paste after dinner (for some fluoride just in case), followed by flossing. Nothing else eaten or drank for the remainder of the day except water.
Bed: Mouthwash, water
Twice a week: tooth powder just before bed. Clove based tooth powder from Rose of Sharon Acres. This is left in the mouth after brushing.

Extra help:

I have tried everything in the book. For severe sensitivity, the only thing that has worked, period, is toothpaste containing Novamin, which can be found on the internet only (as far as I know). This stuff is really good, and literally works after one use, and remineralizes your teeth without fluoride.

Cavities can be healed with hydroxyapatite and a laser- the japanese have apparently accomplished this. Europeans have accomplished healing cavities with ozone gas. Americans continue the 300 year old tradition of making holes in teeth bigger, then filling the holes with metal or gummy resin. Cavities cannot be healed at home with any BS diet change or magic pill. However, if someone accomplishes healing a cavity with a hydroxyapatite vitamin they broke down and used some kind of homemade heat source, I would LOVE to hear about your success.