Dental Health Update
Published: Sat, 07/13/24
Updated: Sat, 07/13/24
I believe that this Dental Health Update is going to be a real treat for many of you.
I used to floss my teeth every single day. I was adamant about it, and I even taught that if you didn’t floss your teeth, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you would lose them in the long run..
However, as time went on. I noticed that my Mom didn’t floss her teeth much, and she has zero dental issues. My dad on the other hand, flossed his teeth every single day, and he lost them all.
When I got sick, I just lost the idea of flossing my teeth and I stopped.
I was then recently watching a video with a health expert talking about the importance of flossing your teeth.
All of a sudden, the concern about flossing grew in me once again. It made me think about how Angela and the girls have been using a water flosser in order to floss their teeth. I knew nothing about how it worked or anything.
Angela told me that a dentist told her that if everyone used a water flosser that nobody would end up with dental issues.
I immediately bought one just to try it out. It’s way faster, more pleasant to use, and easier than flossing with a string.
You just spray your teeth with a stream of water, and all of the built up food simply washes away.
I noticed how there was food on one tooth by my gum line, and I spayed away. The food immediately left, and there was a hole in my tooth right where the food was.
I kind of freaked out a little bit there.
Luckily, I was just renewing my Medical Insurance at the time, and they give you dental as an option. I got the Dental option for like $8 a month. I wanted them to check out this hole in my tooth, and to see what else was going on. If I had one hole there, I was concerned there was a lot of more problems.
I made my appointment, and they wanted me to take all of these X-Rays.
I’ve got to stop giving doctors problems, but I questioned them about the X-Rays for like 20 minutes.
I just took the X-Rays, because I had to figure out what was going on with my mouth. I was concerned that my entire mouth was messed up, because of that one hole.
When I went to sit down to meet the Dentist, they asked me when was the last time that I saw a Dentist. I told them probably 30 years ago, lol.
The dentist looked at his assistant, and was certain that he was going to find a hot mess in my mouth.
However, he said that I had zero problems. He told me that my only problem was that I grind my teeth. He said he could patch up the hole, but it would be pointless. It didn’t make sense to me, but he told me the hole was from grinding my teeth.
I then realized that the reason I didn’t have any other dental problems, was because I ate the Raw Food Diet for 23 years, and I only ate Whole Foods after that.
I remember when I was living in Ecuador, I would wake up in the middle of the night, and it felt like I was going to break my teeth from grinding them so hard while I slept. It was so scary.
However, that hasn’t happened in like 10 years, and I told the Dentist that I wasn’t grinding my teeth anymore. However, he told me that I was still grinding them. He could see by how much enamel has been removed from my teeth. I guess I was still grinding them at night, but just not on such an extreme scale. It was like I caught it just in time.
He suggested that I get a Mouth Guard, in order to protect my teeth from grinding, and all should be ok. He said that he could make me one that would custom fit my teeth for like $600. Otherwise, I could go buy a cheap one on Amazon.
I bought some mouth guards on Amazon, and I immediately cancelled my Dental Insurance lol. Only one mouth guard worked for me though, and I’ll share that with you further below.
So now I use a water flosser every night. Oh my gosh it’s a life saver. It’s so easy to do. However, I am very clumsy. Most people wouldn’t have this problem, but I shot the water flosser directly into my eye once, lol. That hurt for about two weeks.
I’ve also went too far past my teeth into the sensitive gum area on the side of my mouth a couple of times. Talk about the most excruciating pain. You just sit there waiting for the pain to stop after you do that. If your gums by your teeth bleed from using the Water Flosser, just stick with it, and the bleeding will stop over time as your gums become cleaner, stronger, and heal.
My teeth became so clean every single night from using the water flosser. I also bought these disposable mouth guards that you wear to sleep so I don’t grind my teeth anymore.
I went on Facebook to ask if anyone knew what the best mouth guard was to buy, and 90% of the people said that they just had their dentist make them one that custom fits. They stated that it was the best thing they ever did. No way I was going to do that.
Lo and behold, then one person commented, gave me a link, and said I believe this is the one that Nadine Artemis recommends. I bought it and a few others. All of the other ones didn’t work, but this Nadine Artemis recommended one is the absolute best. It’s a disposable pack of 16 guards. You are supposed to use one for three days, and then get a fresh one. You are also supposed to wash them in between nights.
However, I sometimes use one guard for an entire month, and I never wash it once, lol. I haven’t had a single problem yet.
So, between getting these disposable night guards, and discovering a water flosser, I saved my teeth before I ran into a problem. I was on the edge with the grinding there and I didn’t even know it.
Unfortunately, Amazon took away my Amazon affiliate link for something I did on Facebook with it.
I just wanted to let you know, that I am not making anything on this. I’m just sharing this information from the bottom of my heart.
Please understand that if you buy a product from Amazon, and if you have an issue or question, you have to deal with their customer service and not mine. I won’t be handling any customer service on these products.
Anyhow, for the disposable mouth guards that Nadine Artemis supposedly recommended, you would want to go to this link here:
https://a.co/d/0fWJqDOz
For a water flosser, just go to Amazon and type in Water Flosser. A million different brands will pop up. I don’t know which brand I got, and the brand that I got keeps breaking for Angela anyhow. I haven’t had any problems with it.
All right, I hope that helps everybody. It sure helped me.
Thanks everyone for your support!
Sincerely,
Matt