A man's plaque index beats his dentist's and a peer named Talmadge's. He credits a water pick, tea tree oil, and dietary changes for reversing his oral health age by over 20 years, with no gum bleeding at his last checkup.
There's been a lot of connection to oral care with the rest of the body. It's not just having clean teeth or the avoidance of cavities. It's interconnected with brain health and microbiome health. And so I do three things. I'll do a water pick for gum cleanliness, then tea tree oil. The evidence supporting this is my dentist is, I think in her late 20s and I recently saw her and my plaque index was lower than hers. It's also lower than Talmadge's. She tried very hard to get my gums to bleed and she couldn't do it. We also have been successful. We've worked on oral health and I've reversed my oral health age by over 20 years as indicated by the gum recession and the detachment. And so we've had significant repair. A lot of that had to do. I think one with diet where eating bad foods is just bad for oral health. Number two is I had bruxism for over 20 years.
