Are Your Gums Healthy - Roger Mason

Americans have epidemic rates of gum disease, and it is estimated that 35% of us have some type of gum condition. If you are  talking about people over 40 these rates are much, much higher. In fact, one in eleven people over 45 have no teeth at all and wear full dentures. Bad gums lead to losing your teeth. This is mainly due to our bad diets, huge sugar intake, lack of minerals, and other preventable factors. 
 
What are some of the symptoms of gum problems? Receding gums and spaces between your teeth where there were no spaces before. Bleeding gums, especially when you brush your teeth. Bad breath can have several causes, but one major one is gum disease. Red and dark gums rather than nice coral pink colored ones are a major sign of problems. Loose teeth show a very advanced problem. You may not have any visible symptoms at all like these and still have serious gum problems.  
 
How can you tell? Have your dentist or dental hygienist measure the POCKETS between your teeth and gums with a metric probe. You must do this at least once a year when you have your teeth cleaned. Dentists are just allopathic tooth doctors and they are wonderful for diagnosis and repair like fillings. Do NOT let them treat you with their surgery and poisons unless absolutely necessary. Like doctors, they hate natural medicine. You have a cuff of gum tissue around each tooth  called a "sulcus". This should only be 1-3 mm deep in healthy gums. If it is more than this it becomes a POCKET and only gets worse with time. Bacteria become trapped in these pockets and breed causing deeper and deeper separation of the gum tissue from the tooth. Eventually your teeth loosen and fall out. What risk factors are here besides wearing dentures? You would think that is the only problem, but people with gum disease have more heart disease, more osteoporosis, and simply die earlier on the average. Bad gums can actually indicate an early demise! What causes these gum problems? We didn't have all these problems 50 years ago. Third world countries with their serious lack of dental care often have healthier gums and teeth than we do. That is a sad commentary on our culture. Poor people who may never see a dentist in the whole life often have fewer cavities, less gum disease, and less tooth loss. Some of the things that contribute to gum disease are: heredity, MINERAL deficiency, eating too much sugar, lack of nutrition, smoking, chewing tobacco, some prescription drugs, poor diet, low immunity, not brushing your teeth regularly, poor tooth brushing techniques, lack of flossing, diabetes, and eating red meat and poultry which sticks between the teeth and causes bad bacteria to grow and flourish. What does the dentist offer you? Your dentist is only going to offer you allopathic, symptomatic treatments that do nothing to address the CAUSE of your problem. He will probably offer you a tetracycline family mouthwash by prescription that doesn't do much good and causes your teeth to turn black. Mostly he will talk about "root planing" and "scaling". This is expensive, painful, and very ineffective. It doesn't work! Don't fall for this shuck and jive root planning pitch. Talk to people who have had it and they will tell you they were disappointed and misled. You will not meet anyone who recommends it. Lastly, your dentist will offer gum surgery which reduces the little gum tissue you have and exposes even more tooth surface.  
 
What can you do to have healthy gums naturally? Eat better foods and stop eating twice the calories you need, five times the fat you need, 160 pounds of sugar every year you don't need at all,  and refined, nutritionless foods. Start eating healthy whole natural foods to bring your immunity up. Take All Your Minerals and CoQ10. Mineral deficiency is a major cause of tooth and gum problems. Only All Your Minerals has 20 minerals in the amounts you need. Take other proven supplements like beta glucan, flax oil, vitamin D, and glucosamine. If you have a serious problem you can take 200 mg of CoQl0 the first year- 100 mg in the AM and 100 mg in the PM. After one year drop down to 100 mg maintenance doses. Read Treating Bone and Joint Conditions Naturally in our library as this applies to your teeth and gums. 
 
You can also make your own 0.5% CoQ1O toothpaste by taking a standard six ounce tube of natural toothpaste (like Tom's, Nature's Gate, Rembrandt, Jason, etc.) and adding nine 100 mg capsules of CoQI0 and stirring well. You'll get a nice beige toothpaste you can put in a small covered jar to use every day. Swish the water between your teeth at least 60 times after brushing. Currently no one on earth offers a real CoQ10 toothpaste or CoQ10 mouthwash. Use a good antibacterial mouthwash regularly. Floss regularly. 
 
By the way, you can also make your own 1% CoQ10 cream by adding six 100 mg capsules of CoQ10 to any two ounce jar of your favorite face cream and stirring well. You'll get a peach colored cream, but the color will disappear when you apply it to your face. Use this once a day. We sell this for $14.95 for 2 oz. 

Are there clinical studies to prove that coenzyme Q10 is really this effective for your gums? Yes, there are, and they have been around for over a decade now. It is very difficult and expensive to synthesize this and only recently has the price come down to about $1,000 a kilogram. This now makes it practical to take 100 mg a day, or put it in face cream, toothpaste, and mouthwash in effective amounts.  
 
WARNING: You may find supposed face creams, toothpaste, and mouthwash with CoQ1O, but the companies will never admit how much is in the product. This is proof there isn't any in there to amount to anything. Legally, when you claim an active ingredient you must state clearly on the label the exact percent contained. You'll notice on Young Again CoQ10 Cream, for example, "1%" is clearly stated on the label so you'll know this is an honest product. Now go to the drug store or health food store or Internet site and see that their labels and their claims refuse to state the amount. The CoQ10 toothpastes are really a scam.