Brush teeth with bath soap instead of fluoride toothpaste

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I use baking soda

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I was going to post this. Putting soap in your mouth is retarded. First off floss floss floss, it's more important than brushing. Use baking soda, diatomaceous earth, or buy a fluoride free toothpaste.

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I tried some charcoal product. It makes your teeth look like they wearing blackface.

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Any peer reviewed studies?

Long term studies?

Not that I don't believe floriude is bad, but soap in general is not for internal use. "Soap" by itself doesn't kill bacteria or viruses. There are chemicals that can kill them, but the power of soap comes from the surfactant properties that washes everything off the skin.

What type/brand of soap? Ivory is probably the purest form. Still have to rinse your mouth several times to get the bacteria out. Just brushing would dislodge it, but not remove it. The running water is what causes the cleaning effect of soap on hands.

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I know that up until 1945 soap was used. I found a good site

https://www.shopalogoods.com/is-it-ok-to-brush-your-teeth-with-soap/

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First thought - somebody made a toothpaste that tastes like soap and just called it soap. LMAO.

You can brush your teeth with anything - or nothing. Charcoal is good - people have (still?) brushed their teeth with ashes from a fire.

Doesn't mean that any of these methods are peer reviewed compared to other methods, no?

Soap (generic lye) doesn't kill bacteria - I don't know the process by which toothpaste kills/removes bacteria, but the chemicals kill and all that foaming is pretty good (but definitely not perfect) as a transport mechanism when you spit/rinse.

As I said before - the power of soap is the surfactant properties that make it easier for dirt/gunk/bacteria/viruses to be washed away with large quantities water.

Brushing teeth with soap isn't doing any good if the bacteria just float around for a bit and then redeposit back exactly where they were just brushed from.

That's why hand sanitizers have alcohol in them - to kill bacteria, because they don't wash away bacteria. Hand sanitizer is just moving bacteria from one hand to the other, etc, and without the alcohol, they would be pointless.

The other issue with the article is that it says glycerol leaves a film and the teeth can't regrow. SOURCE??

Teeth should regrow from the inside out. What mechanism is there for adding to teeth from your mouth? that makes no sense to me.

Dentists are now sealing teeth to keep cavities from forming. If teeth grew from the outside in, there would be tons of problems by now.

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or dont eat shit food

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Both. Though the article goes into saying that fluoride is especially dangerous as it makes teeth brittle

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I use Marvis. Sure, it's a little pricey at $13 a tube, but it's much better than some Crest or whatever shit most people use. It's clean and has no fluoride, and looks classy as fuck in your bathroom, if you care about that sort of thing.

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You can buy fluoride free toothpaste...

Using soap seems stupid. Be sure you don't use Lifebuoy. ;)

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You're the top comment and it appears you are commenting on the title and didnt even read just 4 paragraphs in.

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Judd says glycerine is present in all toothpastes and it’s so sticky that it requires 27 washes to clean it off. This means that teeth remain coated with a film and cannot rebuild enamel. And if they’re not clean, adenosine diphosphatase cannot provide phosphate to enamel.

And there's even a bit more substance in there, if you read the words.