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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by delbel on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:17PM (#17097036)
testosterone levels can elongate jaw development later in life. On another note, I got rid of fluoride based toothpaste because the scientific evidence is bad, and switched to just coconut oil and eat pro-biotics. If my teeth hurt, I assume my body is robbing the calcium to neutralize something and I take calcium and try to eat better.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by skj on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:14PM (#17097499)
Is your policy based on good scientific evidence?
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by rsynnott on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:08AM (#17100441)
The coconut oil thing is quackery.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by Dolores12 on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:48AM (#17099217)
People are using coconut oil pulling for ages with positive effect on gums.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by adrianN on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:48AM (#17100065)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_pulling#Effectiveness

There is no good evidence that it does anything.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by Dolores12 on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:11AM (#17100186)
I've tried it myself, it helped to fix my bleeding gums problem.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by adrianN on Friday May 18, 2018 @09:09AM (#17101122)
And there are lots of homeopathy success stories...
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by Dolores12 on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:07AM (#17101566)
I don't mind placebo if it works for me. A guy said 'there is no good evidence' while i witnessed it with my own eyes. So who should i trust more, random Joe from internets or my own eyes? Cheers.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by delbel on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:41AM (#17098744)
coconut oil was in one of my tissue culture protocols (sorry forgot which plant) so I thought, what the hell I'll try it as tooth paste. It has a known mild anti-bacteria effect and oil is hydrophobic. It coats your teeth well and stays there. There were other people from a google search that use it, it just worked for me. If its good enough for a petri dish then its good enough for me.

hell, here's a crackpot theory website linking to a study saying its the best possible toothpaste known so far... https://www.davidwolfe.com/coconut-oil-is-better-than-toothp...

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by justasitsounds on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:17AM (#17099103)
If David 'Avocado' Wolfe said that water is wet I would reflexively have to check the faucets.

'Chocolate is an octave of sun energy. In fact it's the energy of the center of the sun. It's a male energy that comes down off the sun and it.. actually, of all the plants, the cacao is right on line target the center of the sun, which we call in our body, the heart, and actually cacao is right up with the center of the sun, which is the center of the heart, which is called the sacred heart.'

- David Wolfe, new-age huckster and scam artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80O4gezNSnY

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by delbel on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:53AM (#17099231)
they say a broken clock is right twice a day if David Wolfe said Pi = 3.14, would you disagree? see your ad hominem argument is flawed. Plus, if the guy is just being enlighten and not hurting anybody, linking to a few articles and research papers and writing what he thinks, who are you to judge? If I asked you just to try coconut oil on your tooth brush, would you specifically go out of your way not to try it just in spite?
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by spookthesunset on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:36PM (#17097643)
Probably not.....
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by brandonmenc on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:43PM (#17098271)
> I got rid of fluoride based toothpaste because the scientific evidence is bad

Literally every single dentist I know would disagree with this.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by rsynnott on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:10AM (#17100448)
That's because they're all part of an evil conspiracy, obviously ;)

People are weird about dentists. Almost no-one is claiming, say, that penicillin doesn't do anything, or that doctors only tell you to stop smoking to hurt you. But when it comes to dental standard advice, people go nuts.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by devmunchies on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:39AM (#17098978)
Literally every dentist would be out of a job if everyone had perfect teeth.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by Tomminn on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:48AM (#17099005)
Sure, if everyone knew they had perfect teeth. But most people rely on their dentist for that kind of information. Which makes you wonder if your assertion would actually turn out to be true.

Many naturopaths make a decent living.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by sjwright on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:30AM (#17099957)
What an absurd straw-man argument. Nobody ever claimed fluoride solves all dental problems. Or even half of them.
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by delbel on Friday May 18, 2018 @04:25AM (#17099613)
Yeah so there's a vaccine that kills the bacteria that causes tooth decay, but you don't hear much about it That would definitely cause disruption in the dentist field if someone were to make it readily available
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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by DiabloD3 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:21PM (#17098429)
Yes, and you have to ask yourself why literally every single dentist you know has out of date education.
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