WEJOLYN: We talk about the biome as gut health all the time here. But people don’t link that up with eyeball fluid, nostril mucus, and realize that the entire body is a biome.

And it takes about 12 hours for a streptococcus mutans to land on your tooth, call its buddies to come and join it and start developing into this infected mass.  So you have to brush your teeth every 12 hours otherwise you are going to develop plaque but that is an ongoing process that never gets better.  --Dr. Ellie Phillips 

We talk about the biome as gut health all the time here. But people don’t link that up with eyeball fluid, nostril mucus, and realize that the entire body is a biome. Listen to the dentist explain why you don’t need to do the regular cleanings -https://t.co/oqPMxo2OUs

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00:40  Do you need a dental cleaning?  Maybe you do, maybe you don't.  Does a cleaning stop you from getting cavities?  How does that happen?  What's the science?  And when it comes to little children I get really mad because some mothers pay for every child to have a cleaning, and do they need it and is it beneficial?

01:10  If your dentist or hygenist tells you that, yes, you do need a cleaning because you have that crusty stuff they call tartar, calculus plaque in places around your mouth, then you do need to do something about that.  The hygenist could clean it off your teeth, but believe me, it's going to come back and you don't have to have that.  

PLAQUE IS A BACTERIAL INFECTION

01:35  Plaque is a bacterial infection.  Yeah, it's not a thing, it's not a substance.  It looks like a substance in your mouth but let's go down a microscope and start at the beginning.  In your saliva, in the liquid in your mouth are lots and lots of kinds of bacteria.  I think they're now saying that there are 900 different kinds of bacteria and most of them are really good and helpful.  One particular kind of bacteria is called streptococcus mutans.  What they do is travel around the mouth, say the mouth of an infant before they have teeth they can't land anywhere, because the only place where streptococcus mutans can multiply is on the hard surface of a tooth, a non-shedding hard tooth.  They love teeth.  And the strep mutans consume sugars.  So if you have sugars in your saliva from the foods and drinks you eat or drink, strep mutans will take those sugars and use it as an energy source to multiply and also to make sticky pads that glue streptococcus mutans to your tooth and to other streptococcus mutans, so they start lining up and maturing and when they're maturing, they're kind of like little columna, like little pencils under a microscope, lined up, stuck to each other and then they form these blankets.  And the next blanket comes on top, so they not only lay sideways but thicken.  And when they grow so thick, they can actually be seen, that is when you have plaque on your teeth.  So if you scrape with your fingernail and get a soft, white fluffy stuff off your teeth and you were to look at that under a microscope, it is a seething mass of all these bacteria that are all glued together with the sticky glucans from sugars that you've been eating or drinking. 

03:43  Now, yes, you can brush that stuff off your teeth, you can floss it off your teeth, but it's not going to go away because in your saliva you have more  streptococcus mutans just waiting to land on your tooth.  And it takes about 12 hours for a streptococcus mutans to land on your tooth, call its buddies to come and join it and start developing into this infected mass.  So you have to brush your teeth every 12 hours otherwise you are going to develop plaque but that is an ongoing process that never gets better.  The suggestion I would make is that you start using strategies that I recommend.  You see, we knew in 1970 that if you consume a tiny amount of xylitol, the sugar from birch trees, at the end of meals and then you don't eat or drink, over a period of 1 month the Xylitol will feed all the bacteria in your mouth, feed all the good ones, it will also feed those nasty strep mutans that are on your teeth.  The thing is strep mutans cannot use Xylitol.  It's the wrong shape.  It's a 5-carbon sugar, and it's just like the wrong cog in a wheel.  It cannot use it for energy.  And without energy, the strep mutans can no longer make their sticky pads to stick to your teeth, so they become slippery, so you can wash them away