Home care
- brush, floss and clean tongue (minimum 2x day)
- clean teeth after all meals and snacks when possible
Limit sugar consumption & ALL carbonated drinks & Sports drinks
- beware of hidden sugars in food & drink
- 4g sugar per serving = 1 tsp sugar per serving
Use Xylitol (no more than 50-909 per day) or Stevia
- substitute for sugar in coffee or tea: bulk barn, health food stores, some grocery
- use to sweeten foods or for baking
Chew mints or gum that contain Xylitol (20g/day)
- Therapeutic: X-pur Shopper’s
- Gum 1-2 pieces (3-5x day)
- Mints 2-4 pieces (3-5x day)
- Preventative: Pur, Spry, Icebreakers, Trident Xtra care gum with Recaldent
Use Remineralizing toothpaste (1-2x day)- DO NOT RINSE
- X-pur Remin toothpaste, Ml paste dental office
- Brush on or use custom trays – leave on overnight
Home fluoride products (rinses or pastes) – DO NOT SWALLOW/RINSE
- Toothpaste: (1x day/AM) leave on 1-3 min, spit out excess, nothing orally for 1 hour
- Prevident, X-pur 1.1 % NaF gel dental office
- Rinse:
- X-pur optirinse 0.2%: (10 ml 1x/week) Shopper’s Drug Mart
Anti-microbial rinse (7 days in a row, 1 week/month)
- as prescribed by Dr, Bentley – Peridex, Periogard dental office
- Do Not use with fluoride products (use 1 hour after brushing)
- Caution: may stain teeth or affect taste over time
Office applied Fluoride Varnish
- as prescribed by Dr, Bentley
- 3-4 x year
