How To Strengthen Teeth And Gums
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Time to read 6 min
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Time to read 6 min
Here is a straight fact; you will never feel truly healthy and well with a sick mouth.
Your oral health is more than just a great smile and fresh breath. Consider this, your mouth is the gateway to your body and you need to make sure it is a healthy gate.
Your mouth plays a critical role in not only providing the nutrition that your body needs to run well and have energy but it is also an important player in your immune system. When your oral cavity weakens and fails, then all kinds of bad guys can slip through the gates and cause some serious problems.
To truly achieve great health and lasting energy, it is important to bring your oral health up to the next level as well.
Poor oral health has been linked to serious health conditions, such as:
And of course, problems in your mouth, such as:
Dental health is often overlooked because we fail to understand its importance. Everyone has bacteria in their mouths. Most bacteria are normal and safe. But a few types of bacteria can generate plaque, a sticky and invisible film on the teeth.
If you don’t clean your teeth thoroughly, the bacteria and plaque can cause mouth infections where your teeth meet your gums. That is gingivitis.
Gingivitis, also known as periodontal disease, is a mild form of early gum disease. Gingivitis happens when bacteria infect the gums. As a result, the gums can become swollen and reddened, as well as bleed quickly.
Untreated gingivitis will progress and become periodontitis, a much more severe form of gum disease —toothaches. Bleeding gums and bad teeth are all signs of poor oral health, which can be dangerous to your overall health. But gingivitis and tooth infection can kill you ? While you won’t die from the pain caused by an abscessed tooth, a tooth infection can spread to other areas of the body and lead to many deadly diseases.
Yes, oral bacteria and bad dental hygiene can cause tooth infections that spread quickly to other tissues and cause stomach problems. In addition, the body's immune system responds to oral bacteria, which causes stomach weakness. These two types of attacks contribute to a weakening stomach and an increased risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
The main cause and source of poor oral health lies with bacterial imbalances and overgrowth.
Bacteria is an essential part of life and our lives as human beings could not even exist without our bacterial teammates. Understand this point well and you can change the course of not only your oral health, but your entire physical (and even mental) health as well.
RULE: A healthy and productive balance of bacteria within our bodies form the foundation of living and this is an integral part of our functioning existence.
It all starts when certain bacteria grow out of control. Then, the healthy bacteria in your mouth are overwhelmed (or even disappear all together). Now, the healthy balance in your mouth is upset and problems begin.
Our bodies evolved on simple and basic diets. We ate little, if any, sugars and certainly did not eat 3 meals a day! Our carbohydrate consumption was quite minimal and without question the foods were organic, wholesome, fiber packed and free of all chemicals and preservatives.
But realistically, no one is returning to a true hunter and gatherer diet. Not only would that diet be very hard to follow, it would actually be impossible to follow as those ancient food sources are not even there anymore.
Bottom line, there have been enormous changes in our diets, caloric consumption and environment making bacteria imbalances and overgrowth a fact of daily life.
But, thankfully, one can restore a healthy bacterial environment and create a healthy mouth.
Quite often the solution to the bacteria “problem” is to just kill them all.
For example, this approach is used i common products such as mouthwashes that advertise "kills 99.9% of all bacteria" or harsh oral rinses loaded with chemical bleaches. Except for critical circumstances, such as a severe infection or wound, this is a very poor solution. When you kill everything off, you kill the good with the bad. This approach is not good for the bacterial balance. The usual result is that the bad grow back stronger, dominate your mouth and now it becomes a dwindling spiral of poor health.
The solution is not to kill off all bacteria with harsh chemicals and bleaches. The effective solution is to restore a healthy bacterial balance in your mouth and then let nature do its part and heal your mouth naturally!
Isolating the basic source of poor oral health led to a solution that harnesses the natural healing power existing in your mouth. This is our Great Oral Health System.
Effective bad breath remedies include:
Gentle and regular scraping of the tongue
Regular oral care practices such as daily brushing and flossing
Professional deep cleanings and plaque removal
The ongoing use of oral probiotics.
One, the probiotics compete with the existing bad bacteria and reduce their presence by “crowding them out”
Two, the probiotics produce BLIS or “bacteriocin-like-inhibitory-substances” which is a technical way of stating that one probiotic strain (bacteria) can produce a substance that inhibits or kills off other bacteria. Three, by working to control gingivitis, gum disease and tooth decay these probiotics reduce the very sources of bacteria-generated odors in the mouth.
Studies have shown a clear reduction in plaque levels and gingivitis symptoms when oral probiotics were administered to patients with moderate to severe gingivitis.
