Preventing Dental Plaque Formation Forever: Simple Solution

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to tell you how to stop dental plaque formation in its tracks. Dental plaque is a biofilm of microbes. A biofilm is a calcium shell built to protect a group of microbes. Plaque is one of the primary causes of gingivitis, bad breath, and tooth decay. You can brush and floss regularly and still get plaque!

Your mouth contains the second-largest group of microbes in your body. The majority of these microbes are known as commensal, so they’re not necessarily friendly but also not unfriendly. If you kill them, you could end up with a candida infection or oral thrush.

Plaque develops when this friendly relationship turns into a pathogenic relationship. Dental plaque biofilms can develop under stress! Poor diet, sugar consumption, smoking, alcohol, and antibiotics can also contribute to dental plaque formation.

Certain chemicals can mimic antibiotics in the mouth. Ironically, chlorhexidine, the main chemical in mouthwash, mimics antibiotics in the mouth. It also increases acidity and the risk of tooth decay.

Fluoride is in the majority of toothpastes and our water supply. It’s been around for 60 years, but there have never been any randomized controlled trials on fluoride in our water.

Fluoride is not controlled by the FDA, CDC, EPA, or the American Dental Association—it's controlled by a private entity. It’s best to filter your water to remove fluoride.

You’ll want to get the good microbes back into your mouth to remove dental plaque. Consume probiotic-rich foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, and kefir.

If you chew gum, make sure to choose xylitol gum.

DATA:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

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0:00.0	I'm going to show you the absolute best way to remove dental plaque from your teeth.
0:04.5	Plack is a biofilm of microbes. What is biofilm? It's like a calcium igloo around a group of microbes, and they build this calcium shell to protect themselves.
0:16.2	But plaque is one of the primary causes of gingivitis,
0:20.8	a bad breath, as well as decay of your teeth. And it's not just because you're not
0:26.6	flossing or brushing your teeth. You could brush your teeth and floss your teeth all that long
0:31.8	and you can still get plaque and I'm going to tell you why.
0:35.2	Your mouth contains the second largest group of microbes in your entire body. You have hundreds if not thousands of
0:44.8	different types of species of microbes growing in your mouth. The majority of
0:48.4	these microbes are commensal. It's not necessarily unfriendly, it's not necessarily beneficial. The
0:57.3	derivation comes from the word which means eating at the same table. Now these
1:02.3	microbes you can call them friendly microbes.
1:04.6	They actually do give us protection because here's the problem if you kill them or try to
1:09.8	kill them all of a sudden you end up with a yeast infection or a Candida infection, even in your
1:16.1	mouth. Well, apparently those microbes are keeping the Candida in check. They keep the fungus in
1:22.0	check. So if you kill them off now you have this
1:25.1	overgrowth of fungus, it's called oral thrush. But these microbes are supposed
1:30.2	to be fairly neutral and not bother you.
1:33.0	Plack develops when this commensal friendly relationship changes to an unfriendly relationship called
1:42.2	a pathogenic relationship.
1:44.0	And I don't know if you've ever had this happen in your life,
1:46.0	where you had a friend that turned on you?
1:49.0	Well, this is the same situation.
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