use xylitol: the bacteria love it, prefer it and cannot process it so you get rid of it. Xylitol is a natural sugar, available in x-pur (Oral Science), Spry, Xyla brands and probably a whole lot more.
If you eat like monkeys, you have just yellow teeth but perfectly healthy. If you eat like humans besides yellow you will have also cavities. This is because of all the c**p that wee eat. The most dangerous food in producing cavities are four based products (bread, biscuits, cakes ...) mixed with sugar - this is like heaven for bacteria. The flour remains on the teeth and bacteria eats it producing the back acids & spots.
SO there is no way out, no matter how hard you wash your teeth but if you keep eating what you eat you will have what you have.
Cheers
I have these black stains on my teeth, and I just started to use 3% hydrogen peroxide to get rid of the stains. I used hydrogen peroxide once yesterday and twice today, and I've already got new cavities that I didn't have yesterday. Hydrogen peroxide is a mild acid, so it caused acid wear on my already thin enamel. Please don't use hydrogen peroxide if you have thin enamel.
Hi, i also have the stains on my teeth, my dentist tells me it's nothing, and that it must be because of my saliva, but they appeared suddenly and i don't think it's good for my teeth to make a dental cleaning in the dentist very often. I'm desperate no one knows anything and no one gives me a solution. I'm thinking about trying with augmentin; has anyone else succeed by taking this medication?
thanks
this has happened to me recently too, I had a toncilectomy about a month ago and ever seince i have had these awful stains on the back of my lower front teeth, I brush floss and rinse 2 times a day so i am so fustrated hopefully the dentist will tell me something tomorrow when i see him, but does this black line come with the taste of metal in your mouth because i have had the taste of metal in my mouth ever seince my toncillectomy too.
What I found to have worked for me was the antibiotic Augmentin as I wrote a few months ago. I think it has been a couple of years so far and the black lines have not come back. Note that I took Augmentin right after a dental cleaning. So, my teeth were already pretty clean of the black lines. You will likely have to get the black lines scraped off immediately before or sometime after a dental cleaning. But, I have not had the black lines come back. Good luck, and please write additional posts to let everyone know if the Augmentin worked or not since I have no clue if that was actually the cure for me. My dentist also told me that there is nothing that would get rid of the lines. I also brushed and flossed obsessively to get rid of it. None of that helped me and probably made me even more frustrated. Anyway, good luck!
I do not know whether the bacterial action is activated or inactivated by magnetic field or not but exposure to high intensity of magnetic field have several negative health effects. Research articles published on Scientific journals conforms these health effects like cancer.
I have that stain on my teeth, too. It started about ten years ago when I first started whitening my teeth with a tray from the dentist. My teeth are really white from that, but now that stain is on them. I have always been an oral hygiene maniac, but when the stain started showing up I went into over-drive...I brush immediately after all meals and snacks! I rinse with Crest enamal building rinse morning and night and in the middle of the night, when I have to wake up anyway sometimes, I rinse with Listerine. Finally my dental hygienist had a really inspired thought: she said I am probably killing off all some good bacteria that balances out the flora in the mouth by all the rinses and that I should make a test by cutting it all out--i.e. going back to the way I used to take care of my mouth before it happened. I should only use normal toothpaste--not the new kind with all the bells and whistles. She said the normal paste is hard to find these days. Anyway, I am embarking on the experiment and will report back how it works out(or doesn't). If it doesn't, then maybe the menopause theory could have some legitimacy. Good luck to all of us getting rid of this gunk!
I have been treating a girl in my dental hygiene clinic for the stain: she is 8 years old and her teeth were quite black when she first came. I did a thorough dental hygiene treatment (scaling, polish, topical fluoride), showed her how to brush effectively and sent her home with a 600 pc tub of Spry xylitol gum and a letter to her teacher recommending the girl be allowed to chew the therapeutic xylital gum several times during the day. I saw her back on a one month dental hygiene recall: some stain had returned in the nooks and crannies of her teeth so we continued with monthly dental hygiene recalls and regular xylital gum use. The returning stain became less and less: currently the is on a 2 month recall and things are going well. Soon it will all be gone.
The organism causing the stain is a tough bacterium which typically prefers to live with people who have good oral hygiene habits. Perhaps it prefers to have less competition. For the next appointment I am going to recommend we now add GUM Perio Balance: a nightly tablet dissolved in the mouth over 10 minutes (after brushing and flossing) that repopulates the oral cavity with the good kind of bacteria.
I will report the effect later.
get a cleaning and then use only Crest Cavity Protection toothpaste to clean your teeth for two weeks after the cleaning - no rinses - nothing else!! Protect your teeth with Zellies xylitol products to control mouth acidity after meals and drinks. This combination should re-grow a protein layer called Pellicle on your teeth and protect you from this annoying stain.
try lactoferrin containig toothpastes.
try lactoferrin containig toothpastes.
My 8 year old son has this black staining problem and it is driving me nuts. I noticed it starting when he was around 5 years old. My 11 year old daughter does not have this problem. No dentist we've been to can tell me what it is, why he has it and how to stop it from coming back. I learned about the bacteria from my own research. I was hoping that once he lost his baby teeth the staining would stop, but it is appearing even on his permanent front teeth. He has the black line all across his gum line as well as spots of black on and around his teeth. He is such a happy boy who smiles and laughs all the time. It's heartbreaking to see all the discoloration - plus, I worry that others may notice and think I am not taking good care of his teeth/him. I need to take my son in for a cleaning every 3 months. After the cleaning, his teeth gleam. However, it is costing me so much money and is becoming a burden financially. My son does not eat candy or junk food, except on rare occasions, drinks only water, not juice and has an overall healthy diet. Despite being 8 and capable of brushing his own teeth, I still brush for him morning and night to ensure that his teeth are being brushed well and no area is missed. We use an adult toothpaste with whitening ingredients with an electric toothbrush, I floss his teeth and he uses Act mouthwash. Despite all of this, his teeth still develop stains. It is so frustrating. I wanted to also add that fortunately, my son is healthy and has not needed to be on antibiotics for many years, however, a couple months ago he developed a terrible cold and was prescribed antibiotics, Augmentin (sp?), for 10 days. His staining did not lessen or go away after taking the antibiotic. I am so frustrated and although he is not bothered because he does not care what he looks like yet, I worry for when he is older and how this is going to cause him to be self conscience. One dentist said that by the tome he reaches 10 or 11 the staining should stop. I don't really believe this since many of you adults on here have this issue, too. I do hope it stops soon, though.
I am a dentist who writes extensively about oral staining and the different kinds of mouth bacteria.
I am familiar with this story and I will link you to a post that may be helpful to read.
I'd ensure that you son's toothbrush is disinfected daily and allowed to dry between uses. You may want to buy a different style brush ( a Spin or sonicare brush) for one time a day - esp. the morning. Two brushes give you different access to the mouth.
Use only the toothpaste that I recommend in the attached link - get off whitening paste and ask your dentist at the cleanings if they can please avoid using baking soda. I feel stripping the teeth with baking soda may be part of the issue and almost all dental polishing paste is baking soda these days.
Consider oral probiotics for your son.
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