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Could you elaborate on how you fixed your tooth?

• RobertRoberts 8y ago
  Sure, I simply kept the large hole in the side of my tooth clean. Used a tooth pick and peroxide. And consistently and regularly swished spit around in my mouth over the tooth. Also, I don't eat any processed white sugar (including corn syrups and their ilk) and I suspect this helped.
  • sanderjd 8y ago
    But how did that fix it? It sounds like what you are doing is managing a cavity, not fixing it.
    • RobertRoberts 8y ago
      >But how did that fix it? The tooth filled in on it's own. I just kept it cleaned out. I think the term I ran into recently that seems to describe my experience is "re-mineralization". Today is the first time I thought to look this term up on wikipedia. [0] >Saliva, being the watery substance that constantly circulates the oral cavity, is capable of impacting both the remineralisation and demineralisation processes. This quote from the Wikipedia article is sourced from a paper in The Journal of the American Dental Association. [1] >Remineralization occurs on a daily basis after an acidogenic challenge through the presence of saliva. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remineralisation_of_teeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remineralisation_of_teeth [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002817714638794 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000281771...
      • sanderjd 8y ago
        Ah, thanks for expanding - that wasn't clear to me from your original comment.