We received an email testimonial that we are very honored to bring forward to you here.
Customer Anita wanted to share the progress she made using our products and support.
As you’ll see, the testimonial begins with the dentist’s findings during a new patient visit, including how many gum pockets she had and their relative depths. This first dental visit occurred on February 28, 2013.
She then went about caring for her oral health using our products and suggestions.
42 days later, on May 5th, 2013, she had a follow-up dental exam to check on the status of her oral health.
We’ll let the testimonial take it from here so you can read about her experience in her own words.
Story from Anita…
New dental patient appointment February 28, 2013:
- 4 mm perio (gum pocket depth) readings: 15
- 5 mm perio (gum pocket depth) readings: 4
- Furcations
- Periodontal condition: Stage III, periodontitis due to recession and furcations (according to hygienist)
Follow-up appointment, May 5, 2013 (I travel frequently; that is why this is a new dentist.):
- 4 mm perio (gum pocket depth) readings: 4
- 5 mm perio (gum pocket depth) readings: None
- Furcations
Additional notes:
- Started with brushing blend [aka “HealThy Mouth Blend“] in March, and Bass brushing. Began using HealThy Mouth System on 4/9/2013.
- Started using water flosser on 3/22/2013.
I’ve been using hydrogen peroxide and salt since the first visit. The hygienist does not like me using hydrogen peroxide. Also, the hygienist said the furcations need fluoride, by using a fluoride toothpaste.
I was told I could use GC MI paste with Recaldent. The paste has sodium saccharin, and a Propyl p-hydroxybenzoate, among other ingredients. I went ahead and bought the paste at the office.
The hygienist said there was pus between tooth 14 and 15, with bleeding. That was the only bleeding. I was surprised, that was one area I concentrated on.
Some background information…
I have been regularly visiting the dentist. I’m very unhappy that I was caught by surprise by the findings on 28 February. No dentist prior had said that my oral health was in jeopardy!
Also, as far as the Mouth Map and getting a good look at our oral health condition–I used to know exactly how my oral health looked by keeping an eye on it. Then I turned 40, and it became more difficult to see in there!
It is a lot of effort to get a good look now that I’m 60. I use a lighted 15x mirror with a lit dental mirror, and it’s tough to get the light and angle, etc.—all so that a good view can be had.
I think we should all have color copies of the pictures that are taken of our teeth. I have some black and white ones, the office said that I will be mailed some color copies.
I never noticed any symptoms of gingivitis, except the obvious recession, which was never explained to me as to the implications.
Progress update…
Thank you, OraWellness.
My perio charts read quite differently in 42 days because of OraWellness–the helpful information and wonderful brushing blend. I much prefer the brushing blend. I’ve been looking for a product like this for years! I’ve never liked toothpaste, and the tubes the paste is in.
From nineteen perio 4 mm and 5 mm readings to four perio 4mm readings in 42 days. I’m sure that the readings are due to OraWellness!
I couldn’t have done it on my own. Thanks for the impressive assistance, and being there for me and all of us that need informed help!
~ Anita, California
Back to OraWellness founders Will and Susan…
We feel so blessed to bring you the information and tools to navigate to greater oral health.
It’s truly amazing how quickly the body responds when we reduce the numbers of ‘thug bugs’ and use products made from ingredients that are all there to support greater health.
We invite you to browse through our customer testimonials to see some of the oral health empowerment experiences other folks have shared.
And, if you’d like tips on ‘in-the-mouth’ and ‘whole-body’ strategies you can use to help support your oral health, feel free to download our FREE eBook, “How to stop tooth decay and remineralize your teeth”.
We can’t wait to hear about your journey to greater oral health and how you benefit from our products and information!
In the meantime, feel free to holler with any questions. We’re here to help.
Thank you and Aloha,
Will, Susan, and the rest of Team WOW (We’re OraWellness 🙂 ).
Helpful, Related Resources:
- HealThy Mouth System [product solution]
- HealThy Mouth Blend [product solution]
- Why Conventional Periodontal Disease Treatment Options Are Prone to Failure (And How We Can Help Ourselves) [[expert interview video with Dr. Paul Rubin, DDS]]
- How To Brush Your Teeth To Reduce Gum Disease [[article & video tutorials]]
- The first step of dental self-empowerment [[article & free download]]
- Step One of Upgrading Your Oral Health: (Re)Defining Roles [article]
- One Test You Definitely Want to Get from Your Dentist [article]
- OraWellness Cofounder Susan’s Story of Stopping Periodontal Disease [article]
- Helpful resources to find a qualified dentist to assist you [article]
- Guide to Safe Dentistry [FREE eBook]
- How to Avoid 3 Common Sources of Gum Disease [video tutorial]
- How to Balance Your Oral Flora [article]
- What’s in the HealThy Mouth Blend? (And why is it so effective?) [article]
- Customer Testimonials [OraWellness customer feedback]
- How to Stop Tooth Decay and Remineralize Your Teeth [free eBook]
Hi I have periodontal disease and dentist wants to pull 3 more teeth. I have a bunch missing. Had Lanap and gum surgery.
Where should I begin to get back to gum health?
Aloha Lou,
We’re so sorry to hear about your dental difficulties!
We here at OraWellness aren’t medical or dental professionals, so we can’t treat, diagnose, advise, etc. Instead, what we can do is share information with you to help you become self-empowered on your journey. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s see what information we can share to help. 🙂
Periodontal (gum) disease:
It’s our understanding that for gum disease, the vicious cycle goes like this: the gum-disease-causing bacteria in our mouths slip below the gum line and start building colonies. While building their numbers, they also attach tartar to our teeth to protect themselves from us. The tartar irritates our gums, so our gums start to pull away from the tartar-coated teeth. This creates a gum pocket. The bacteria move down to the now-deeper base of the gum pocket, where they lay down more tartar, which irritates the gums and causes them to pull away more, etc.
Our HealThy Mouth System contains all the tools necessary to get down to the base of the gum pockets and kill off the bad bacteria that are wreaking havoc down there.
Brushing, although beneficial, is only able to reach 2mm down into the gum pockets. Flossing and oral irrigators reach down to 4mm. The key is to kill the bacteria at the base of the gum pockets. The Pocket Applicator in the HealThy Mouth System makes it easy to reach the base of gum pockets as deep as 12mm.
Here’s a link to Susan’s story and here’s a link to our Customer Testimonials pertaining to the HealThy Mouth System. These may help you to gain an understanding of how our system has worked for others.
Diet:
As you may already know, we’re big fans of taking a two-pronged approach to oral health by providing support both in the mouth and in the rest of the body, since our systems are all intertwined and can influence each other.
We would encourage you to sign up to receive our free video tutorial course, the 5 Steps to a Healthy Mouth. This series covers A LOT of ground regarding the importance of nutrition and how it relates to oral health.
So, address what you can ‘in the mouth’ AND address any nutritional deficiencies for ‘whole body’ support. That’s the path as we see it.
Dentists:
Remember that not all dentists are created equal. A good dentist can be hard to find, but once you find the right one, they can really be wonderful to work with. Remember that they are here to serve you, and you can choose who you are willing to work with. And in situations where we feel uncertain about a diagnosis that’s been made or a procedure or treatment that’s been recommended to us, it can be helpful to get a second (or third) professional opinion.
Here’s a link that explains how to find a dentist: Helpful Resources to Find a Qualified Dentist to Assist You
I hope that helps!
Feel free to holler with any other questions, Lou; we’re here to help. 🙂
I understand how the gum pockets can repair and the gums “re-adhere” to the teeth, however what is not clear is whether there is any hope of bone regrowing or gums tightening around loose teeth? Are loose teeth a lost cause? I see no point in keeping teeth that cannot be used for chewing, but I would be interested to hear your opinion on this.
Aloha Jo-Anne,
Thank you for reaching out to us and asking such a great question!
So, every person is different and I have to be very careful to not provide anyone false hope, but we have thousands and thousands of customers all around the world who have used our Healthy Mouth System and stopped the progression of gum disease in their own mouths. Yes, loose teeth can tighten back up in the jaw once you stop the insult in the base of any infected pockets.
In fact, Susan’s story, the fateful visit to the dentist for my wife that literally was the spark for OraWellness so many years ago, Susan had three loose teeth at that dental visit that diagnosed her periodontal disease. A year later, she had zero loose teeth. It’s not a miracle. We’ve seen it so many times.
Don’t give up Jo-Anne. There’s hope. Please consider reading some of the customer testimonials on our site for the Healthy Mouth System.
I hope this helps.
The 42 day anecdotal report above is stunning. Susan’s personal account, and other comments above recording resolution of bleeding, swelling, gum pockets, and remineralization of caries are compelling.
I add my own merely to document that even somewhat careless, off-again-on-again adherence to the OraWellness program, using their high quality products, produces shocking results. (This also a summary for my own journal and family.)
I have known for decades that the current dental practices make no sense, but did not know what else to do. After 35 years of casual, irregular brushing, and another 30 years of discouraged, disillusioned neglect, I found Orawellness as I finally searched the internet for “spontaneous recalcification dental”, which a dental hygienist student had mentioned to me 30 years ago and no dental professional could provide any further details since. I have eaten well, whole foods, fruits, and grains, grass-fed grass-finished beef, and avoided most sugars, and kept moderately active and fit over the years.
In April, 2016 I had my first comprehensive dental exam, gum pocket measuring, and gum recession measurements. Hygienist reported generalized swollen gums, bleeding in 3/4 of my gum pockets with probing. After reading the above accounts I am gratified that my gum pockets were mainly 3 and 4 mm, only eight 5 mm, and one 7 mm. There was pain with palpation and probing in several places. Gum recession of 3 mm noted on 11 teeth, 2 mm on 24 teeth, 1 mm on 10 teeth.
Using OraWellness pH strip, I started testing morning saliva acidity; usually 6.0-6.2. Not bad, but not ideal. (I have to note that these pH strips measure substantially more acidic than my garden and swimming pool pH tests.)
• I started Bass brushing 3 times a day with micro-strokes (never heard the latter before Orawellness), using their brush and HealThy Mouth oil mix.
• Made my own tooth powder with sea salt, baking soda, epsom salt, xylotol and calcium chloride.
• Occasionally pulled coconut oil (probably 15 times over the past 9 months). This twice or 3 times caused deep irritation above the 7 mm gum pocket which corresponds to a “spontaneous bone resorbtion” that xrays have shown above an old dental cap.
• Often pulled the tooth powder mix for 5-7 minutes after brushing, and have increased my water intake and worked on pulling saliva occasionally, too.
• Began GPS (Gum Pocket Syringing) with Orawellness equipment, diluted hydrogen peroxide and sea salt solution. Couple of times a week, sometimes 4 or 5 times, over the first 2 months.
July 2016: Returned for exam and consultation. Redness and swelling about 90% resolved. No pain on palpation. Had hygienist observe my GPS technique, which she judged safe and effectively getting antimicrobial to bottoms of pockets. Reviewed previous xrays. Asked hygienist and dentist about essential oils, remineralization, and semi-permeable (like enamel) dental restorative materials. No credible answers. Dentist recommended a commercial rinse for the GPS, Periodex. I researched it and decided to stay with the less toxic Orawellness recommendations.
This reexam, though brief, was positive enough to motivate me to greater efforts. I brushed more often and more thoroughly, swished/pulled weak aqueous solutions more often, and GPS’d 8-10 times per week. Also beta tested the new OraWellness tooth powder, Shine.
Had to cancel my October exam, being out of country for 2 weeks on urgent family business. Next opening was 16 December, 2016. I made the appointment, and then later made an appointment for 11 December with another office, who performed oral exam, thorough gum pocket and recession measurements, and scaled 3 teeth at my request to ascertain condition and tenacity of calculus. Hygienist’s assessment was very favorable about my gum condition, there was no swelling or bleeding or redness, and she somewhat reluctantly admitted that the calculus is less extensive than expected for a man who has not had a professional cleaning for nearly 20 years. She was rather surprised that the outer layers of calculus scraped off so easily, and she said it looked “nice” after the superficial scraping, though it did leave a thin base of tartar securely adhering to the tooth. I interpret that to mean the layers of calculus which have been most exposed to GPS antimicrobial irrigation are, as expected, weakening and tartar is in the initial stages of “flaking off” naturally. This is consistent with the theory that the flesh-eating anaerobic bacteria that construct tartar/calculus also maintain it; without their constant repairs, the fortress just falls apart. That makes sense to me; no animal in the wild and very, very few humans in the world now or down through history have ever had their teeth scraped or planed.
The second office’s 11 December assessment of gum recession showed improvement of 0.5-1 mm on 26 teeth! Even more improvement, 1.5-2.0 mm better on another 5 teeth. What a delightful surprise. However, she also found 1 mm recession in 6 teeth that were not noted in the first office, and she recorded recession 1 mm worse than previously recorded in 2 teeth.
Gum pockets were also an interesting mixed-bag: improvement on 49 probes, generally 1 mm, but deeper pockets (worse) than previously reported on 56 probes. Makes one wonder. Being an optimist, I interpreted the discrepency to mean that the second hygienist simply has consistently firmer pressure than the first.
So, I shortened the appointment on 16 December 2016 with the first hygienist, and had her repeat just a few gum pocket probes and recession measurements, and do tartar scrapings on a few teeth not previously touched. Her gum pocket probes were exactly the same as her previous April depths on the gums that the second hygienist measured deeper. However, on the Quadrant 3 (left bottom) molars, she measured gum pocket improvement from her own previous recordings at 12 spots. Wow! That seems to support my optimistic hypothesis, and suggests that many of the gum pockets are probably improving even more than the 2nd hygienist’s measurements document.
SUMMARY: with relatively minimal lifestyle changes congruent with those supported by Will and Susan’s excellent research and sharing efforts, I can see, and my dental records document dramatic improvement of what the dental profession has been convinced (and advised) are irreversible problems. I am led to confidently expect continued resolution and natural return to excellent oral wellness, which will translate into even better whole-body wellness.
Oh, and I failed to say: THANK YOU, Will and Susan Revak, for your marvelous work. You are making a difference in many lives, and leading a movement that will improve many millions more.
Hello,
After almost 20 years of dental neglect I’ve turned my dental health around for good. I had many failed root canals, tooth fragments and decayed teeth after a long period of no dental visits with daily tooth brushing as my only dental routine. I also had loads of amalgam fillings, and I was edentulous on both sides in the back. To top it all off I also had “severe periodontal disease” with many 5mm, 6mm, and 7mm pockets. Though I was wondering if it might not be too late for me, I resolved to try to turn my dental health around rather than get dentures. The mere thought of dentures horrified me.
I went to Costa Rica to get all of my amalgam fillings removed and replaced with porcelain inlays and get implants in my mandible to replace my missing molars. But none of that was going to do me a bit of good if I couldn’t do something about the periodontal disease since I would lose my remaining natural teeth in short order. My dentist in the U.S. recommended a deep cleaning, root “planing” and curettage for the bargain price of only $3200! They said that was the ONLY way I even had a chance and even the it was a better-than-even chance I would lose all my teeth anyway.
During intensive Internet research I happened upon orawellness.com and learned about the Bass brushing technique, Healthy Mouth Blend tooth oil, etc. I bought some Bass toothbrushes and some Healthy Mouth Blend, developed a protocol, and went to work. Now about 18 months later I have a new dentist in the U.S. and the hygienist was simply stunned with how clean my teeth were and she didn’t even want to believe me about the periodontal disease since it is supposedly “irreversible”. She said that my previous dentist must have been mistaken about the gum disease and that there was no evidence of my having it! In fact, she called in the dentist to show him my magnificently clean mouth and said I must be some rare exception to the rule since almost every patient my age (mid 50’s) has periodontal disease. The cleaning was the most effortless and painless I’ve ever had and took about 15 minutes including the polishing.
You guys definitely have a giving spirit and have completely changed my life in many ways. Before I had all the work done and adopted my protocol I had markers for inflammation (gone) and I was not happy with my teeth at all. The new me is happy and confident in his smile. Thanks so much.
Gingivitis – is this when the top of the tooth is eroded so a fingernail can be poked into the tooth?
Aloha Michele,
Thanks for stopping by to ask your great question. Gingivitis by definition is inflammation of the gum tissue. The main sign of gingivitis is bleeding gums when flossing or brushing. What you are referring to is gum recession, where the gum tissue withdraws from the original ‘height’ to a lower place on the tooth. This gives the feeling that you can poke a fingernail into the edge of the tooth. (at least, this is how I read your comment. Perhaps you meant something else?)
Holler back if you have other questions Michele, we’re here to help.
Aloha!
What did you do with the peroxide and salt?
Aloha Jessica,
Thank you for stopping by to ask this great question! She used the tools and education contained in our Healthy Mouth System. Here’s a link so you can learn about the Healthy Mouth System too.
Holler with any other questions Jessica, we’re here to help.
Thank you for all of your effort on this blog!
I cannot praise and thank Will and Susan enough. My long, detailed January 2017 report is below. It documents extensive improvement to gum pockets, recession, and general gum condition documented by several professional oral exams at 2 dental offices since 2016.
This note is simply to report good and bad news based on 2 more oral exams:
GOOD: Improvements are continuing over time, including natural resolution of tartar.
BAD: Becoming careless about brushing, swishing, and GPS (gum pocket syringing) leads to regression of improvements. I have not yet found the way to enjoy oral health without these interventions that are unknown in the natural world, including simpler human societies with straight, white, carie-free teeth.
At least I don’t have to floss – and I never do.
I am trying to brush gently twice a day with SHINE.
I am back to GPS and swish (estimated X2 saline concentration of water, sea salt, epsom salt, potassium bicarbonate, bentonite clay, and very dilute food grade hydrogen peroxide) each evening.
At 68, nearly all of my current dental work is repairs to old, failed dental work.
PS. I find the questions Will and Susan give us to ask our dentists VERY fruitful. I just have to discipline myself to always ask with respectful, concerned face and tones, rather than anger.
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I cannot praise and thank Will and Susan enough. My long, detailed January 2017 report is below. It documents extensive improvement to gum pockets, recession, and general gum condition documented by several professional oral exams at 2 dental offices since 2016.
This note is simply to report good and bad news based on two 2018 oral exams:
GOOD: Improvements are continuing over time, including natural resolution of tartar.
BAD: Becoming careless about brushing, swishing, and GPS (gum pocket syringing) leads to regression of improvements. I have not yet found the way to enjoy oral health without these interventions that are unknown in the natural world, including simpler human societies with straight, white, carie-free teeth.
At least I don’t have to floss – and I never do.
I am trying to brush gently twice a day with SHINE.
I am back to GPS and swish each evening, using an estimated X2 saline concentration of water, sea salt, epsom salt, potassium bicarbonate, bentonite clay, and very dilute food grade hydrogen peroxide.
At 68, nearly all of my current dental work is repairs to old, failed dental work.
PS. I find the questions Will and Susan give us to ask our dentists are VERY fruitful. I just have to discipline myself to always ask with respectful, concerned face and tones, rather than anger.
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Hi, I just purchased your $65 program. I am going to have a hip replacement surgery but I am worried about my deep pockets in my front teeth which are somewhat loose. Should I use your program before I have the surgery and for how long before? If program is used for about a month, will this start the healing so I can have the surgery or should I wait longer? Thanks for your help. Carol