Thread by @LazarusLong13

Plaque, Stephan's Curve (Imperative) mixed with breakfasts that you can brush immediately after.

It's actually best if you brush immediately up on waking up. This gets the overnight plaque.

It starts forming 4-6 hours after you sleep - your saliva is 20 millititers/hr

- during the day. At night? Just 3-6 ml.

Saliva washes away the bacteria, it contains bicarbonate, phosphate, and protein buffers that neutralize the acids being pooped out by the bacteria.

It also has the below ingredients. Who knew saliva was so cool?!

Or plaque?

By brushing first thing, fluoridating, and then waiting a 1/2 hour before eating, you just prepped your teeth for their Acid Trip through the day.

Like if you like salsa on your breakfast burrito like I do.

But what is a good breakfast if you have NO TIME to wait for the 60

minutes needed after eating acidic foods - and YOU DO NEED TO WAIT. You are removing microns - plural, of enamel every time you brush with your teeth acidic.

And THAT happens within 10-30 seconds of eating.

And it takes 60 minutes AFTER you remove the acid source.

But time, right? Who has the time?

Here are some meals to eat, brush, and go.

1/2 mashed up avocado + button on toast and the following....

Other immediately "brushable"
breakfasts.

Lunch?

And there you go...breakfast is set. Lunch is set.

Maybe weekends are when you have your salsa based breakfast fajita - when you have more time.

Just don't forget - Stephan's curve means that if you eat fermentable carbohydrates, your bacteria will start

producing lactic acid themselves.

Your saliva will help neutralize all of that as shown below.

But, that's not how I lived. That's probably not how you live.

mmmm, mmm, good - look at all of those Pumpkin spiced lattes below.

Below, we can see from most fermentable to least fermentable.

Which means more food for your acid-pooping bacteria to eat out your teeth, and cause you to go into the dentist and catch Covid from his Covid-huffing self.

Oof...this article:
telegraph.co.uk/news/picturega…

Stephan's Curve - genius. I have never. NEVER had a dentist teach me about this.
jamiethedentist.com/dental-caries-…

Oodles of sources on acidic foods and 60 minute wait, but just one:
he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/mden…

@_dawn_michelle_ Do 1 of 2 approaches.

1. Wake, brush, fluoridate in preparation for that coffee after 1/2 hour. (this also nips the plaque from the night before in the bud).

Eat, drink coffee. Rinse with water, waterpik, chew xylitol gum. Wait 1 hour. LIGHTLY brush with a soft

@_dawn_michelle_ bristle and fluoridate again (toothpaste with fluoride).

Or 2. wait until you eat breakfast and drink coffee....rinse, etc.

Once you drink that coffee? Your enamel is softened and the hydroxyapatite (pronounced hydroxy-appetite funnily enough), crystals that make up your

@_dawn_michelle_ enamel are just waiting to be stripped away from your teeth.

But there is a way to make coffee neutral via calcium.

calcium carbonate - more effective, 1/8 tsp per cup
amazon.com/dp/B01N8POCPA/…

But test the pH with test strips to be sure.

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@_dawn_michelle_ Some idle googling...

Brew 8 oz coffee.

Add ~1 oz milk.

Stir in 1/8 tsp food-grade CaCO₃.

Add xylitol for sweetness and oral protection.

Stir thoroughly and enjoy — enamel-safe, no need to wait before brushing.

If you want coffee (acidic, pH ~4.5–5.0) that you can brush immediately after drinking? Food grade calcium carbonate 1/8 tsp, plus milk (~6.5–6.8 pH) as needed and xylitol or PURE stevia for sweetening.

Use pH strips to test your coffee after.
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I have not done the coffee bit myself, but it's ordered and on the way.

h/t @ParentMishmash for the idea.

@_dawn_michelle_ Like everything, there can be contraindications for various medicines, so do your own googling on that.

1/8 tsp ≈ 0.5 grams

By comparison: a standard calcium supplement tablet is 500–600 mg (0.5–0.6 g), so roughly that is roughly equivalent to one low-dose calcium pill

@ParentMishmash Like everything, there can be contraindications for various medicines, so do your own googling on that.

1/8 tsp ≈ 0.5 grams

By comparison: a standard calcium supplement tablet is 500–600 mg (0.5–0.6 g), so roughly that is roughly equivalent to one low-dose calcium pill

@ParentMishmash .Or you can wait for the FDA to approve this.

Japanese scientists have created a drug that lets humans regrow lost teeth naturally.

So, 3+ years of Trump before we MIGHT get a functioning FDA.

Yeah, time to learn how to take care of your teeth.

@FollyGirlMaxine This was kind of what got me rolling...

As a masking advocate who has just researched the daylights out of, and personally debunked, every masking disinformative lie, I've gotten good at research.

And then I ran into this crazy hygeniest...and the

@FollyGirlMaxine light clicked on - I can figure out what is going wrong in my mouth.

And I had NEVER BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT THE Stephan Curve.

So intuitive!

And so I share.....

@FollyGirlMaxine And the really funny part? Since I am pretty active in Covid Aware/ Mask Advocate/ Clean Air/ Airborne Aware?

If I just keep this goodness rolling? Our little community will have fantastically great teeth.

And people will think it's BECAUSE of the masks.

(bwahahahahahaha!)

@ParentMishmash And here we go. Pick up a little milk, and come Thursday, I will be back to post my first non-acidic cup of coffee, and review

Science in action to protect my teeth - and keep me out of the dentist office with my mouth ready to have SARS2 aerosols land in it.

Nope, nope, nope.

@rehanahbhathal Cool.....

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/278688/

@RAKlotsky But doesn't talk about the 60 minute studies.

I used all the products she recommends. The closys. The toothpaste. The fluoridating.

The Zellie's.

But I didn't put it all together with the emphasis on the Stephan's Curve....I didn't learn about that from her.

But....it's

@RAKlotsky hard to find fault with her as, like most people, I picked up the basics from her videos.

Maybe her paid for course has more focus on it?

@RAKlotsky Anyway...I am still using Zellie's - but use it to kill the hour in between eating and brushing for acidic foods and drinks.

Which she does recommend.

I suspect her paid for course is more robust?

@rehanahbhathal I have about 40 pages in a Google Doc I will be publishing all of this in, but it's not ready yet.

That's the acidic food table from it.

@rehanahbhathal I know you meant to say this, but you said "high" pH.

It's pH lower than 5.5 we want to be careful about brushing too soon after. So, low pH.

(My followers, much appreciated, keep me on the straight and narrow, if I didn't point that out).

@YoffiLexi Mixing in drinking a glass of milk or even 1/2 a glass including swishing around milk around your mouth for 30 seconds BEFORE you bite into that acidic meal.

It's calcium, phosphate, casein proteins coat the enamel and form a protective layer

ada.org/resources/ada-…

@YoffiLexi But that protective layer includes lactose (sugar) which will come off when you rinse with water, then Supermouth, and finally zellie it up.

There's also Tooth Mousse - but I'm assuming your kid doesn't want gunk in their mouth, and milk is an easier sell.

Of course, a bite of

@YoffiLexi cheddar works even better than milk as a pellicle, but not as good as the Tooth Mousse.

3/4s of a tablespoon of cheddar cheese. Chew it up really well...and it will help protect even better than milk.

@YoffiLexi and then two zellies for a half hour - or as long as they want.

Brush first thing in the morning, when they first wake up, get the overnight plaque off.

Don't rinse the fluoride - leave it on unti they eat breakfast. Even if it's only 10-15 minutes, that's 80-90% fluorapartite