518: If Your Mouth Could Talk with Dr Kami Hoss
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Periodontal disease is correlated with just about every type of illness and disease. Sometimes it’s a canary in the coal mine for something wrong, but sometimes, it can even be the source of the problem. While many people dismiss dental care as only an aesthetic concern, straight, healthy teeth and a broad palate help with breathing, sleep and even digestion. My guest on this week’s podcast shares his academic and clinical experiences helping people improve their smiles as a means to improving their health.
Listen and learn:
- Why fluoride can be great for teeth, but should not be ingested
- The benefits of hydroxyapatite as an alternative to fluoride
- How the billions of microbes in your mouth play a crucial role in digestion
- The benefits of xylitol in dental care products
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr Kami Hoss is on the board of counselors at UCLA School of Dentistry, and he is the Chairman of the Board, at Howard Healthcare Academy. He has appeared on NBC, ABC, FOX, NPR, and CBS. His book is called, If Your Mouth Could Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was 11 years old, I lived in a small farming and manufacturing town in Western |
| 0:07.6 | Illinois called Freeport and they called my entire elementary sport into the auditorium |
| 0:13.4 | once a year and we had a dentist come in and the dentist would lecture about the importance |
| 0:17.9 | of brushing and flossing and dental hygiene and would show us models of teeth and jaws |
| 0:25.2 | and they'd give us these little tablets that we chew and they'd make any plaque that might |
| 0:29.2 | have been on our teeth turned pink. They'd give us toothbrushes and then we had to go |
| 0:33.0 | brush off the pink stuff. They filled up dixie cups with fluoride and we would all collectively |
| 0:38.4 | in an auditorium, swish it around for a minute and then spit it all out. It was what I thought a |
| 0:43.6 | totally normal experience. Come to find out. I've now lived half my life abroad. This is a very |
| 0:49.1 | unique experience that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world, at least not that I have |
| 0:53.1 | heard of. In fact, many people in other parts of the world have never flost in their life. |
| 0:57.7 | I think there's a lot of great things about oral hygiene. Perhaps the US goes a little bit |
| 1:01.6 | overboard but as I started to dive into the natural health world, there's a lot of outright |
| 1:07.6 | rejection of oral care products, specifically fluoride and dentistry in general and the |
| 1:15.5 | they excuse people usually give is that it's reckless, it's mostly cosmetic and it doesn't |
| 1:19.8 | really help with your health and that's a half truth at best. Oral hygiene is super important |
| 1:24.9 | and my guest on this week's show will help you understand why. If you're new here, it's the Lucas |
| 1:29.6 | Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I have three |
| 1:33.8 | international kids but at the end of the day, I'm a student. I like to learn things so I got into |
| 1:37.2 | the world and find people who are dentists and authors and experts and medical doctors trying to |
| 1:42.3 | bring their best research here to hopefully help us live more informed and inspired lives. |
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