-Goal of sustainable health and avoiding the need for any dental treatment.

-Teeth strength depend on what you’re doing to your teeth daily. Are tests to measure the hardness of teeth.

-Acid drinks like kombucha, lemon juice, soda will demineralize teeth. Healthy saliva at the right pH will go into the teeth and instantly repair the damage from the drink.

-Problems arise from snacking and sipping liquids, even water. These dilute the saliva.

-End the meal with a tooth protective meal. Cheese is best, also raw milk or cream, but not fermented, because lactic acid destroys teeth.

-Want to stimulate mineral rich saliva at the end of a meal. Xylitol generates the flow of alkaline saliva into the teeth. Is 5-carbon, different than 6-carbon sugar, and feeds all the bacteria in the mouth. Sugar makes teeth stickier, thicker, produces acids, and feeds the strep mutans. But strep can’t use the xylitol and with it plaque bacteria becomes slippier and easier to remove. Rnsing is more important than brushing.

-It’s not about killing, it’s about feeding the good bacteria.

-Teeth and oral health improve with Dr. Ellie’s mouth care system.

-Got started promoting xylitol with 10 employees of her husband’s restaurant business. After using xylitol, no employee had bad bacteria on OralDNA test except 1 employee had 1 bad bacteria. He was using a UV disinfectant system, which didn’t totally kill all the bacteria.

-Change toothbrushes more often. Clean them with Listerine. Use multiple toothbrushes to allow to dry 24 hours between use. Have multiple toothbrushes. Beware of cross-contamination.

-Should get 3 grams of xylitol a day. Get increasing benefits with more xylitol in a 3-10 grams window, but more than 10 grams a day won’t give any additional oral health benefits.

-Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda destroy the protein biofilm on the tooth. Patrick used them for years in his mouth care regime and had 9 bad bacteria on his OralDNA test.

-Xylitol makes teeth more slippery. Food sticks less. Xylitol gum is best – it picks up the food pieces. Don’t need to keep chewing gum – remove it after the sweetness is gone.