Getting to the Root Cause of Cavities—Dr. Kim Kush—CariFree

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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"The average patient doesn't understand what causes cavities, and quite frankly, the average dentist doesn't understand it well enough, although that's changing," says Dr. Kim Kush, who's been a practicing dentist in his hometown for 40 years now. It wasn't until about 20 years ago that he started realizing that if everything he was taught in dental school were all there is to it, then his patients wouldn't continue to get cavities, year after year. Rather than focusing on how to repair the damage of cavities once it's already occurred, Dr. Kush wanted to focus on identifying and targeting the factors that cause cavities in the first place. So, what are the causes? Why can some people go their whole life without a single cavity—and without particularly good oral hygiene—while others will have new cavities every time they see the dentist—despite flossing and brushing every day?

Dr. Kim Kush has identified four main risk factors in his practice, the first of which has been validated in large clinical trials with over 12,000 people: dry mouth, diet, biofilm, and genetics. He discusses how and why each risk factor contributes to the development of cavities, and along the way provides surprising facts about bottled water, mouthwash, prescription medications, the importance of when you brush your teeth, and how almost everything having to do with dental health boils down the pH in your mouth.

Dr. Kush offers a fascinating and informative conversation on today's podcast, so tune in and visit https://carifree.com/ to learn more.

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1:08.5	podcast and I have Dr Kim Kuch of Carrie Free C-A-R-I-F-R-E-E-E-D-K-T-O-E-T-O-E, which is a dentist parlance for a cavity, you know, regular folks probably call them cavities, but for some reason,
1:24.2	dentists call them carries, which actually would probably be my first question, but
1:27.6	Dr. Cush, thanks for coming. How you doing?
1:30.1	I'm doing great, Rich. It's great to be here with you today. Yeah, why do they call cavities carries? What does that come from? Well, it's actually a Latin word. If you think of carry on, you know, which is rotting, you know, flesh like on roadkill. So
1:44.4	carries is that, you know, basically is a term for rot. So basically it was
1:49.4	kind of a Latin description of a tooth rot and, you know, we use Latin a lot in medicine and dentistry and so you know it's just something that carried over but most people don't you know
2:00.4	dentists talk about dental carries but most people talk about cavities
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