Re: OP for 2 days now.

Hi Cheryl,

Welcome to the club; you're going to be pleasantly surprised with the results!

I don't measure out the amount of oil; basically, I take a swig from a small bottle of olive oil I have. Basically, it glugs twice and I feel like it's enough oil. When the bottle gets low, I refill it from a much larger bottle that we have.

"Protocol"
When swishing, I basically "pull" it front/back/front/back and it moves through and around all of my teeth simultaneously. By "front" I mean between teeth and lips and by "back" I mean the front half of my mouth. I do not move the oil to the back part of my mouth.

How do I delineate between front and back of mouth?
I arch my tongue up so that the "middle" of it touches the top of my mouth. That's my delineation point and I don't move oil beyond that point, because it could move back to my throat which might cause gagging or swallowing.

Back to "Protocol"
I also "tuck" it under my tongue a few times. All the while I "chew" my teeth (open and close jaw) in a liesurely manner.

After the first week, I got a but fancier and began moving it right/left/right/left and up between my upper teeth and upper lip and then my lower teeth and lower lip....but that took a lot more dexterity for me!

The first few days it was really difficult for me to keep the oil in for more than a few minutes, but I used 20 minutes as my target and got there by day 5.

You can see my results by looking at my Week One Update and Week Two Update. I've just started week three OPing and am (pleasantly) stunned at how well this works!

Hope this is helpful,
Jennifer Tweet