DrJ002th🦷🦷
@myfirstooth
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Pediatric Dentist DMD MPH
West Palm Beach, FL
Joined October 2022
Stop brushing so damn hard. Ok? Longer duration of more gentle circles people.
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This is the most important sea change of understanding that the dental profession faces. We can’t cut the problem away cause it just comes back. We can’t clean the problem off cause it just comes back. Why does it come back? Cause it’s evolved to be there. Cause it’s evolved to
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If a fluoride treatment is out of pocket expense, parents say no. If the insurer/employer is paying then parents accept the treatment. People have no value system anymore due to insurance, they have been totally confused and corrupted by this idea that someone else is paying…
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As a patient it behooves you to understand this so you can be on a level playing field. Adults should rarely get cavities as the enamel gets harder throughout life making cavities harder to develop. Adults who have their teeth drilled keep needing those repairs repaired. Don’t
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It amazes me how the American public believes that as long as they brush once or twice a day they are absolved of their poor oral health behaviors🤣🤣🤣
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Thousands and thousands of children had their enamel polished with chemicals today to support a dental insurance jobs program… thank you for your attention to this. Zero prevention benefit beyond preventing the end of useless procedures in dentistry.
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I will post some @grok prompts to check the replies if it aligns with the modern evidence. This was decent answer. I wonder how many practice this way?
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I’m starting to see young adult patients that left the nest only to return because the new dentist says there are cavities… Same bs. Creative diagnosis out there peeps. Be careful.
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There is more than one way ie. the drill and fill method to getting a child with cavities in their primary teeth to their adult dentition. Nature figured it out long before us…
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Decay takes around three years to reach the pulp in an adult tooth if no hygiene is ever applied and the decay is in an area that isn’t accessible to saliva or a toothbrush. How many “cavities” are diagnosed on the spot and appointed for next week? No money in watching… dentists
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Few realize how many teeth hav been surgically treated, possibly in their own mouth, for a problem that is on the surface of the tooth like a stain and either can be watched for six months or determined that it doesn’t need to be drilled out and the evidence removed from further
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What is a self cleansing cavity? That’s the ADA term for a cavity that can be cleansed easily with a toothbrush and toothpaste. Over time a self cleansing cavity should harden if you don’t abuse nature. The dentin will turn darker, and exhibit its potential for enamel like
jada.ada.org
A high level of scientific evidence supports several nonrestorative strategies for the control of caries, with the goal of reducing progression of mineral loss and arresting existing lesions. The...
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More versions of the technique to treat tooth decay in primary or children’s teeth without a drill and just using the science of indirect pulp capping. https://t.co/h8NEBsssYT
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Let’s discuss what you might think you know about cavities, teeth, sensitivity. This is a Tom’s product. Micro openings? Like holes in my teeth all over the place? How’d they get there? I thought there is all this pathological bacteria in my mouth? Wait what….
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Something 1.5mm isn’t very large right? So how does 1.5mm of enamel never decay away? Ahhh that’s natures secret sauce that I’m on to… you won’t hear this type of info anywhere else on the planet. Not yet at least. These people are closest I’ve seen and when I spoke to the lead
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Dentifrice makers have filled the heads of society with information that is now outdated and it’s taking a toll on this profession and the oral health of patients…
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