Any suggestions to get the bone back between the teeth or any suggestions on proper care would be appreciated… Angelia in MO

Answer: How long ago were you 26? Periodontal disease is caused by specific situations or conditions and it may be the pregnancies, not the children. The alveolar bone around the necks of the teeth does recede with age, beyond 20, and will not return. Baking soda can be used weekly or so but not every day. It will damage the necks of the teeth.

Needing the teeth cleaned every 4 months is overkill and an admission that someone is not solving the cause of the problem, and I do not mean the patient. Some real causes are listed on our web site: excessive dental care, measuring gum pockets, floss, harsh dental materials, the traumatic bite on fillings and crowns, missing teeth, lifestyle stress, AND Diastemic spacing and deviations.

Check out the web site – especially the article on Osseo-Endo-Cystic Therapy. You might send your x-ray of #8-9 like in that article. Have you had orthodontic braces? When I was a kid out of school, St. Louis used to be the home of the finest dental school in the world at Washington University, esp in Orthodontics.

Regards, Mark DDS

Diastemic Space

My head spun about. I had never considered that. Certainly, sucking on a pacifier, introducing to the mouth bacteria from who-knows-where to who-knows-what. Merely the constant sucking can initiate the cells in the bone to grow, dumping toxins into the mouth.

The last time this happened I was lecturing in France when a fellow, an engineer, added to the list of causes, “Thumbsucking.”

Mark Manhart DDS

“Oh, they’re right here,” she said, like that’s no problem. She flipped out her iPod, touched it twice, and there they were as clear as could be.

Of course, I pretended to be a hot, high-tech social media junkie and pointed out several aspects of her condition. Her iPod x-ray was taken at the wrong angle to see the cyst while the old-fashioned one I just took was perfect, of course. It felt great. We solved the problem.

The very next patient, a brilliant woman deep into the Baseball College World Series, needed to have a crown adjusted and just had to show me her smart phone.

“It tells jokes, ‘Tell me a joke,’” she quipped into it.

A droid voice answered, “Two men go into a bar, take out their smart phones and…I don’t remember the rest.”

We all had a good laugh and knew the rest of the day that we are a hot, high-tech social media junkie dental office. But my kids still nag me to get into the 20th century.

Mark Manhart DDS

Using toothpicks are good, especially the plastic kind that you can reuse. Just do not keep it in the mouth and chew on it. If floss has to be used on rare occasion, do it carefully only where it is needed.

Mark Manhart DDS

Thank you for your time - Janet in WY

We can see you … The cause of all the trouble in the lower front is coming from the infection draining on it from the upper front. We tested those two teeth and they were hardly alive. I’d like to figure out which is the most dead and do a root canal, and then see if the others, upper and lower, can recover over the next several months.

Yes, then it would help to have the lowers splinted together. This is treating only the result. Treating the upper and doing the root canal is treating the CAUSES. The exfoliating (eruption) of the lower tooth means it is likely dead, but maybe we can wait and see what the results of doing the upper root canal and calcium treatments on the infection between the upper centrals. The lower may calm down and need no more.

Kind regards,
Mark Manhart DDS

• dentist in my area doing calcium therapy?
• what do you advocate as far as flossing is concerned?

-Jane in CA

Thanks for your comments about our calcium materials. No dentists in San Francisco area seems interested in Calcium Therapy training, even online. For 50 years students have not been allowed to learn these methods, and as adults they seem terrified by specialists who do not want it taught. Organized dentistry will be the last to use it, so we go to the public.

Floss is nice. Avoid it. Flossing packs food a lot and constantly breaks tooth contacts. Use it carefully, No popping it and out. An engineer would never had designed it. Don’t chew it. A plastic toothpick is better.

Keep at the calcium materials and let us know of any concerns.

Kind regards,
Mark Manhart DDS

Also, here is some information and studies on high serum calcium levels and prostate cancer. Do you know anything in this area as far as using your calcim protocol and whether it will increase serum calcium levels?

Answer: Sorry you find yourself in such an untenable situation. Yes, we have long known, and research has confirmed, that using calcium with implants does help raise their success rate. This is not to say we encourage implants very often. Their success rate is so low, 70-75%, so we do not consider them a great health choice. Their success rate is not even calculated until the implant has been successful for 6 to 10 months. In other words, if they succeed, they are counted. There is nothing so biased in dental practice as this “success” rate. Like the misleading comment of implant result, “not osseointegrated,” really means it failed.

Also, they are virtually cost-prohibitive to the average person. If people who do implants were really interested in a 90% + success rate, like everything else in dentistry, they would have long ago looked into our Calcium Therapies. This seems to compare with the fact that our periodontists have failed miserably with surgical perio therapy and its miserable success rate, only to turn to a similar arena, implants.

This is like returning the 1940s when it was acceptable to not fill, crown, bridge, not do partials or root canals. Just take out all the teeth and make dentures. Today we are headed down the same black hole with implants as a costly intermediary to dentures. That’s not good dental science.

Yes, we teach patients to use the calcium chips at home. It is a little tedious, and very effective and are figuring out easier ways to do this. You can learn to do the calcium treatment a couple times a week at little cost and without us. Since you are from the highest ranked school in NE since I can remember, don’t worry, this is a piece of cake.

About the question of your low serum calcium levels, yes, we did research about 30 years ago. It had to be done rather surreptitiously without the dental school’s permission, which stopped our work three times. The results were superb and revealed things that led to breakthroughs in serum calcium levels. These findings are still proprietary.

No one would publish our papers after our classic ones on nonsurgical calcium root canal therapy in ’82 and on re-implantation using calcium materials shortly after that. Our paper on serum analysis is intimately related to our three papers online now, Diastemic therapy, Fusobacteria, and next week, Clostridium Difficle. These and our developments in skin care with calcium materials place dentistry right in the middle of medical care.

Please read our articles on our web site and let us know what you think, or of any other concerns.
Kind regards, Mark J. Manhart DDS

Many people take cinnamon for blood sugar balancing…please don’t blame the real herb when it is the artificial chemical disguised as cinnamon that causes the radical inflammation in some people. It even caused my taste buds to turn into spike cone shape and HURT a lot !!! So it’s serious, but not real cinnamon. -EM in PA

I gave my neighbor a bottle of the Calotion and Voila after a week or so Molly’s condition improved and is now completely healed!! ~ Jen in Philly ]]> http://www.calciumtherapy.com/skin-treatment/alligator-hair-conditioning/feed/ 0 http://www.calciumtherapy.com/common-concerns/negative-mouth-impact-gums-with-cinnamon-or-sorbitol-in-them/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=negative-mouth-impact-gums-with-cinnamon-or-sorbitol-in-them http://www.calciumtherapy.com/common-concerns/negative-mouth-impact-gums-with-cinnamon-or-sorbitol-in-them/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:22:35 +0000 ctiadminXL http://www.calciumtherapy.com/?p=888 I’ve been using your Calcium Therapy Mouthwash [Oral-Cal] for a good while now. I kept having my mouth break out in ulcers (on inside surface of both cheeks) and also sores on the sides of my tongue. The worst case was when my tongue swelled so badly that I was biting the sides of my swollen cheeks when I spoke. My mouth was very inflamed and your mouthwash [Oral-Cal] cleared it all up.

I then found why my mouth became inflamed to begin with. I had not chewed the [Ed. note: fire gum with cinnamon - brand name removed] for several weeks and I happened to chew about 3 pieces in one day. I suspected the gum originally but I thought it not possible for gum to do this horrible & painful thing. My mouth swelled up immediately after I chewed the gum. It quickly produced ulcers and sores quickly and it all became clear to me (finally. I was relieved to now see that it was the chewing gum all alone that had inflamed my mouth.

I went on line and found that [those big fire gums with cinnamon or sorbitol in them] are doing a lot of people’s mouths this way. I think you could very well advertize this mouthwash [Oral-Cal] as a good cure for this allegic condition because I found it works over night to clear it up. I hold a mouthful in my mouth for 30 minutes (or even longer if feasible) and it soothes immediately, takes the swelling out and next day it’s all clear again. I don’t know if its the cinnamon I’m allergic to in it or the sorbitol, but I at least am relieved to know what had my mouth inflamed.

Hope this info will be helpful to your other clients. And, by the way, it does indeed whiten the teeth. We use both the mouthwash and the lotion. [Calotion] Both products are good for so many uses. Thanks for the fine products you make. -Janet in FL