What’s The Best Toothpaste?
UPDATE: We have written a new article about the best toothpastes, including a document with detailed analysis of a ton of “alternative” toothpastes. That article can be found here: What’s The Best Toothpaste? – Part 2
What is the best toothpaste?
We’ve been using the product since we first started brushing but why is there the desire to find the “right one” or best one?
If you go to the store you’ll see that up to 2 aisle could be dedicated to just toothpastes, toothbrushes, and mouthwashes. How do you pick the right one… especially if you are one to look at labels. It could take you 30 minutes to find the right one. And even if you do come home with one, it may taste bad or just doesn’t leave that “clean” feeling.
The best toothpaste is…
There are none. That’s right.
While most people think that toothpaste is the key to better oral hygiene, then you’re not listening to the hygienist or dentist during your checkups.
It is all about technique. Technique people!
Toothpastes just leave you that bubbly feeling (those ingredients that make those bubbles are indeed harmful!) and mask or conceals odors with stronger flavors like mint.
What about teeth whitening toothpastes?
This again is a gimmick. Every toothpaste has some form of abrasive to help remove stains. Because of this nature, ALL TOOTHPASTES qualify as teeth whitening toothpastes.
Other ingredients such as fillers, fluorides, sweeteners, and other unnecessary (and harmful) ingredients just add to the confusion.
My advice is…. don’t be confused. If you’re used to using toothpaste and like spending money on that “necessity,” go right ahead but buy a natural toothpaste if you do.
Instead of spending your hard earned money, why don’t you buy floss and actually start using it. It’s cheaper than toothpaste and gives you 100 times more benefits.
Stay away from these ingredients, fluoride, sodium lauryl sulphate, and any sweeteners. If you can’t tell by reading the label, then don’t buy it.
Again… you don’t need toothpaste. Use your toothbrush with water and brush away the easily removal plaque (tartar or calculus is a different story. Go get your teeth cleaned professionally).
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Fluorideuser – Our government won’t fund studies to look for what you are asking. However, the CDC reports that almost half of all adolescents are fluoride poisoned which is reflected by their discolored teeth (dental fluorosis). All agree that too much fluoride also damages bones. In fact, that’s why the EPA regulates fluoride in water as a contaminant to prevent fluoride caused bone damage (skeletal fluorosis). It would be logical to study these children with fluoride tooth damage to see if they also have fluoride caused bone damage. But that logical study has never been done. Our governments are too invested in fluoridation now to admit what they don’t know and risk getting massively sued since they have forced fluoride into our bodies for decades without doing any studies which show fluoride is safe for every body part in every human.
They have already backtracked and now advise that infant formula should not be mixed with fluoridated water because it puts babies at unnecessary risk of developing dental fluorosis.
The CDC tells us that ingesting fluoride does not reduce tooth decay, that it hardens enamel topically. However, studies show that while the outer enamel is harder, it doesn’t prevent tooth decay; but hides it. Dentists complain about “fluoride bombs” which means when they probe a tooth that looks solid and decay free, it explodes open to reveal the decay that’s beneath the surface.
Fluoride from toothpaste gets ingested from involuntary swallowing and from absorption into the bloodstream
Fluoride’s adverse health effects can be found here http://www.FluorideAction.Net/health
Fluoride in toothpaste is regulated as a drug. Like all drugs, fluoride has side effects.
Although I agree with you that toothpaste is not necessary, I have a hard time with the approach that dentistry takes with coming into the office for regular cleanings.
Isn’t that still a disease centered approach?
What if we as professionals put the control of HEALTH back into the patients hands by giving them the tools and knowledge necessary for them to control the disease process themselves? Wouldn’t that be the healthiest approach possible?
I agree. At The Center for Natural Dentistry we always put the control in the hands of the patient. Cleanings should be scheduled “as-needed” — not everyone is the same, so forcing everyone to come in every six months doesn’t make much sense. If you can take care of your oral health at home, professional cleanings aren’t needed as frequently. Annual exams and oral cancer screenings can help determine the frequency professional cleanings are needed, but ultimately the responsibility and control rests in the hands of each person.
Well Said Dr. Marvin. There’s a reason I follow your page and posts!
I have said it once and I will say it again. WHY ARE WE NOT DYING? This week, I followed the mypyramid suggestion for water. I drank 11 glasses of water every day, and I am still here arguing with you, (and rather articulately if I do say so myself) and you are sitting there carefully tiptoeing around the elephant in the room.
Flourideuser, enjoy your toxins! It is proven toxic on every label of toothpaste, “If more than used for brushing (Pea Sized Amount) is accidentally swallowed, get Medical help or contact poison control center right away.”
Hmm that sounds pretty safe to me! lol You are a sucker to believe the ADA who has board of directors in bed with toothpaste, fluoride manufactures (by products of fertilizer and aluminum industry – Do your homework). We have been mislead for decades on this topic and many others! Its time for the money to stop influencing the truth! We have had enough of the lies and deception! With Cancer on the rise, environmental factors proven the cause and your sir need to wake up and stop drinking the BS cool aid corporations have been feeding us! Diet is the main cause of cavities, prehistoric man had full sets of teeth with no cavities because he/she did not eat all the sugar and starch we have in out diet today! Fluoride has proven to make many corporations and businesses lots of money and that’s all its proven!
YOU do your homework good sir. The man who proved Fluoride’s effectiveness in 1931 originally set out to prove its toxicity. Now, show me an honest, good study showing lethal and harmful effects of fluoride and I will shake your hand and happily prance over to your side. I have said it twice now, and I want my question answered. I am sitting here sipping my icy cold glass of poison and thinking, “Why am I here? Why are we here? Fluoride can kill us? But small amounts have been effective for 60 YEARS! ANY POISON THAT TAKES 60 YEARS TO TAKE EFFECT IN A LARGER GROUP THAN THAT THAT WOULD ALSO EAT PAINT IS A POISON I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT! AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU! 60 YEARS!” I do not care if a frikkin 3 year old dies from fluoride. That is a parental responsiblility. Remember that that medicine cabinet may also contain ethyl alcohol and iodine and acetone, equally yummy to a toddler and 10 times as toxic. If you do not answer every single qualm here, I will LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH because you health hippies think you can prove something you do not understand.
Great blog seriously I especially liked the point ” If you’re used to using toothpaste and like spending money on that “necessity,” go right ahead but buy a natural toothpaste if you do.” Many toothpaste companies use all the chemical names just to impress people. As it is mentioned here in this blog it is enough to use only brush and water to clean the teeth. It is also good to floss the teeth after brushing the teeth.