Hi Leah. I just came back not long ago from the dentist with a bad report as well. My gums are receding and coming apart from the teeth, bleed, the hygenist who cleaned my teeth said I had peridontal disease and lots of cavities too. I had bought a couple of ebooks in a package together from the site below, Money by the Mouthful and Dental Self-Suffiency so I poured over them. WOW what a prize, highly recommended. Money was a good book, but was more about dentists and the harm they cause than how to stop dental disease. Self-Suffiency told you how to 100% get rid of dental disease as long as you followed the simple cleaning procedure each night and told you why which give you the motivation to want to. So I went and bought dental tape (like floss), a sonic toothbrush, and a waterpik-like device. Besides his program I have also added brushing with coconut oil, using food grade hydrogen peroxide in the waterpik, and am going to buy Dr. Schultz's Tooth and Gum formula pretty soon. My gums already look about 75% better! They were awfully red on the bottom especially. My teeth still hurt when I chew, but I am not sure if it is from the cleaning or not because they didn't hurt before she cleaned them execpt for a couple of them. I had never had them cleaned so...she was pretty rough.
I bought an Interplak by Conair at K-Mart for $20 and it had all the same attachments as waterpik, the same two year warranty, just didn't look as fancy and it works great. The waterpik brand cost $40 so it saved a lot...If you can not find a waterpik in your area I would buy the Interplak for you and ship it to you if you like. By the time you pay shipping prices it might not save you much from the waterpik price, but he'd have something to clean his teeth with really well...I have five gallons of virgin coconut oil so I could send you some of that too if you'd like for nothing. Coconut oil has really wonderful properties, it is anti-viral and anti-parisitical. Several people that belong to the coconut oil group I am a member of said it has done wonders for their mouth, the gums especially. Just let me know if I could be of help...hope this helps a bit, Caitlin Lorraine

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Stop using regular store bought tooth paste. It has all kinds of garbage in it. Don't let the dentist do flouride treatments either. I have not had my teeth cleaned by a damn dentist since 1987 and do not plan to. All it does is bust up the enamel and make cavities so they can charge you to put in their poison mercury amalgams.

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I have swollen and receding gums, they do not bleed. I would like to know what I can take internally or do to my gums so that they will stop receding. Thanks

My wife has receding gums. We have done some research and are going to try the following

1. Use herbal antibacterial mouthwash
2. 500 mg vit c internally and also applying some on gums.
3. 500 ng niacin internally
4 5mg foilic acid internally
5 Coenzyme Q10 interally and on gums (100mg)
6 Vitamin E internally and on gums.

Obviously make sure getting B complex vitamins other minerals eg Calcium ,magnesium etc

NZ

Hello folks

There is so much information about gum problems on the internet most are taking incharge of your own dental health.

Whereas organised dentistry is bringing more expensive treatment methods like Laser, surgery, bone grafting.
Please read:
Lasers char, burn, the root surfaces,
Power toothbrushes & Power scalers destroy the root surface. These vibrators/shakers cause more gum recession, more bone loss, and are used to produce more income, faster. DONOT LET PEROPLE USE ON YOU.

Tissue grafting, bone grafting, and implants are totally dependent on healthy, natural bone. The "accepted" failure rate of these procedures is comparable to the failure rate of gum surgery (40-50%, or the flip of a coin).

BOP, bleeding on probing to measure gum pockets, is only 30% accurate. Such a guess can hardly be considered a dependable diagnostic procedure, not to mention the fact that BOP, with absolute certainty, spreads infection all over the mouth.

Compliance Rate by patients after traditional periodontal surgeries is only 30%. That is, these patients do not follow the dentist's instructions 70% of the time afterwards. This leads to more tooth loss because "the patient didn't do their job." Could it be that the lack of compliance is the result of the radical procedures and treatment of the patient? We find in many cases that the major reason the patient does not lose teeth is due to their own preventive dental care and no one else, not even the dental team.

I did thorough research through medical text books and research papaer. All herbal toothpastes, hydrogen peroxide, vitamin C, CQ10 all help but the treatment method that eliminates the problem for ever is the use of calcium. There is one method CALCIUM THERAPY that works 99%.CALCIUM inhibits OSTEOCLASTS

CALCIUM Method of REPLANTATION Florida studies by Drs.Y. Pohl, A. Filippi, et al, in OS,OM,OP on replantation of teeth using calcium materials seem to reinfoce the publication of Dr. Manhart's report on Calcium Method of Replantation in the General Dentistry Journal (1983).

Just read some of the replies which were interesting as I too have serious gum disease.

Just over a week ago, my very loose lower front tooth fell out. Now I know I had a major problem with my front teeth, gums receding badly and deterioration of the bone - showed up in an x-ray. After a bad experience at the dentist I didn't go back. Tooth in question lasted another 3 years. What I found amazing was that when the tooth fell out, the gum underneath had completely healed up. The two adjacent teeth are also loose, particularly one which I estimate will only last a few months if that (well it won't because I'm having the lot extracted and going for full dentures - both my teeth and gums are past their sell-by date LOL). There is no way I would entertain gum grafts or anything like that. I don't think it is necessary and the fact that my gum was completely healed bears that out. I do think a lot of dentists prefer patients to undergo expensive (and painful) procedures. The keyword is profit for them. From my own point of view I've had 50 years of teeth that have given me nothing but problems and look ghastly. I'm actually looking forward to getting the 17 and a bit remaining teeth out and nice, even dentures in their place :)

I'm in the UK by the way.

I'm using it on my 5yo for 6 cavities, but it's for gums too.