Dan's Experience With Dental Health Problems and The Hydro Floss

I received this email from one of my customers today  - February 18th 2013:  

Thanks again for all the personal service, Dave.

This is just to offer that I, too, have had a long, unhappy dental history - plus an unusual process of coping with it. I actually wrote about it nine years ago and am attaching what I wrote for your perusal.

I was 36 years old in 1988 when I began taking responsibility for applying better dental care. That is WAY too long to wait to begin dental care but, well, I imagine you understand how the dental industry doesn't really provide very good education, does it. At least not in those days. At that time I became aware that amalgams might have been making me sick so I began having them replaced one at a time.

In 1995 I was facing my first extraction and thought, "I'm too young for this!" It wasn't until about that time if not a little sooner when I began flossing daily with a little tool made of toothbrush-like plastic, I think manufactured by Butler, maybe you have seen it. It is not the disposable type and is unfortunately difficult to find these days but I have found it to be invaluable for my large hands/fingers to successfully navigate.

I also started using an old toothbrush - dry - sort of instead of a toothpick, before flossing. Then after flossing I brush as normal with a newer, soft toothbrush & any paste that is available in natural food groceries.

A few years later I began adding a metal instrument with a rubber tip (also made by Butler) to my regimen; outlining just under my gumline. Highly effective! Years later still I began using the rubber tip with about 1/4 tsp of baking soda in my mouth - provides powerful abrassion and doesn't really dissolve in saliva so use with care.

Then about three or four years ago I bought the Hydrofloss. I continue utilizing the other implements, often spending twenty or thirty minutes cleaning my teeth each night. After all of what I perform before hydroflossing, on rare occassions the Hydrofloss will kick loose something that was still stuck somewhere in my teeth! Not to mention whatever function the magnets perform.

I have fashioned a more durable cardboard box into which the original Hydrofloss packaging, styrofoam included, fits perfectly and I travel with it constantly.

Since loosing my first tooth in 1998, I have lost two more teeth that were already dead before 1988. Now I am considering having two implants made. Cleaning teeth properly doesn't bring back the dead so it is wise to begin early. As I imagine you well know!

Hope you enjoy my story!

Hats Off To Your Authorship!

Dan

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Thank you Dan for sending this story in.   I really believe that there are plenty of people out there searching for answers.  Perhaps reading this will help them to realize that they are not alone in the struggle to find answers. 

Sincerely,

David Snape
ToothyGrinsStore.com
1-888-586-6849

PS:  free guide:  Stopping Gum Disease

* This site speaks in general terms only.  If you have specific questions about your own unique dental health situation, be sure to direct those questions to your dentist for advice, diagnosis and treatment.

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