Why Your Root Canal Is Making You Sick

86% higher stroke risk, 36% higher heart attack risk, 3 times the Alzheimer's risk, and it's all connected to what's happening inside our mouths. Today's guest is the world's leading biological dentist, and he's about to change the way you think of your teeth and your health. Okay, before we get into this, I want to hit you with some numbers and why you want to listen in today. So people with gum disease and cavities have 86% higher risk of stroke. We all have had those cavities, and some of us have been told about the gum disease. 36% higher risk of heart attack. And if you have tooth loss conditions, your Alzheimer's risk triples. That is not me making this up. This is the American Academy of Neurology and major cardiology research. And yet nobody, not your dentist, not your main doctor, is connecting the dots between what's happening in our mouth and what's happening in our body. When I went down this rabbit hole, this made me angry. I have a personal story here too. I recently had a root canal removed and I'm getting a ceramic implant. I shared this on social. Many of you chimed in. And I have another one I still want to remove. And this journey is what led me to today's Dr. Dom. He is the world's leading biological dentist. He has placed over 5,000 ceramic implants. He wrote the book It's All in Your Mouth, and he believes the mouth is where chronic disease begins. He's about to change the way you think about your teeth, your old fillings, your crowns, and your health. Dr. Dom, welcome to Midlife Conversations.

Thank you ever so much for having me. Appreciate it. Let's dive in.

In traditional dentistry, We know the mouth is typically treated as separate from the rest of the body. And you explain that that is the biggest mistake in modern medicine. Can you speak more into that?

Oh yeah, exactly. For whatever reason, the part from here to here was excluded in the medical world and was reserved for dentists to repair it. And right now we're living in an epidemic of chronic health issues. And the entrance to the body, the entrance to the gut, actually the gut is the mouth. So we have to now think about, okay, what could be holding us back in optimizing our journey? And something no one ever talks about is previous dental repair. So luckily for, let's say, the last 1.5 to 2 years, bigger names such as Huberman are already finally talking about oral health, right? As a pillar of foundation of health. However, they only touch the surface. By that I mean, "what kind of toothpaste would you recommend?" Or fluoride-free and all these toxin-free, but they never go below surface. So by previous dental repair, I mean, have you guys been to the dentist? And whatever conference I'm on, if it's a longevity conference for medical doctors, a dental conference, or a health optimization summit, I'm gonna ask the audience 3 questions. So we'll do this for your audience too. So guys, if you had any, have any metal in your mouth, from amalgam filling to gold crown to titanium implant? Please stand up, remain standing, right? Second question that you already asked before is, does any one of you guys have a root canal? Stand up, remain standing. And the third question usually I'm asking is, did they remove your wisdom teeth? And usually by this question, the complete audience stands up, 90%, 95%, especially on health optimization events such as the Health Optimization Summit or Eudaimonia or all these different things because no one looks there. So if you guys had an answer to all these 3 questions and yes, I know there's room for optimization because what if previous dental repair is secretly hijacking overall health and no one's looking there because it doesn't hurt and medical doctors, longevity is growing, right? Health optimization, biohacking, they're all looking for foundations of health and how to optimize it. But what if upstream of every valuable you're tracking and trying to optimize, this area is completely blocking everything and no one's talking about it? Because the dentist doesn't know, because for biting it works. But the medical doctor doesn't know because he was never trained to look there, and the dentist won't tell him because they don't know. So you see, it's kind of like a bridge that I'm building in between, hey, medical world and dental world, we have to speak so we become health experts and Doctors of the mouth or the entrance to the body, but also at the same time making all you guys out there aware of, hey, you're already optimizing your foundations of health. What is missing here? And I'm assuming with your conversation that you have with your audience and in the alternative world, you're almost likely going to talk about the foundations of health, right? Which is sleep, sleep optimization, nutrition, supplementation, movement, exercise, nature, sunlight, grounding. Let's say stress management, community building, brain health, mental health, gut health. Yeah. And also oral health is now one of these pillars. Yeah. This is the foundation. Everyone should start there. But on your journey to optimal health, the second station needs to be, hey, have you had anything in your mouth done? Metals, root canals, remove wisdom teeth, and then cavitations would be the follow, right? If that is the case, these things are foundational and they will feed into your basics. So if that's not optimized, maybe your sleep doesn't work, maybe your skin is not healthy, maybe you're always bloated, maybe you have hormonal imbalances, you know it, you name it. So, but mostly what happens is because no one talks about this area, jump and do crazier things such as hyperbaric, hormonal optimization, peptides, all the sexy things, right? So, Richie.

Yeah, we jump to all that. And, you know, I think about, I teach women how to be a health detective and I was completely missing this part. This is like, it's wild to me. And my own personal story, my audience is watching. Me, they watched me breast implants, they watched me clean up my gut, they watched me do all kinds of things trying to get to the root, root, root. And I was completely missing this part, which is wild.

And this is why I'm always saying it's the missing link, and it is the missing link. And literally it takes ages. For me, it's still pioneer's work, even though I'm doing this for 20 years. But it is, as you know, look at the anatomical chart of the mouth. All the teeth are little tiny organs, not just hard biting instruments that are sitting on a brain nerve called trigeminus. And the trigeminus nerve has like 3 branches, right? You know that. And it starts in your brainstem, which is right here. And it's connected to the vagal nerve and all the other nerves. So you could see this nerve kind of like a bridge between all the internal organs to the brain and vice versa. And if you had any repair on this extension of the brain, this will directly feed back into your brain, your nervous system, your hormonal system, your immune system. Literally everything, insert bracket, that you could think of.

That's wild. So I'm going to start with that big one. Okay, so root canals, over 15 million are done every year in the US.

How many?

15 million are done in the US, I read, which is just— I don't know if I have that wrong, but that's what I found digging. That's— it's a lot.

15 million.

People think of that— 15 million. Yeah. And to think that that is the standard of care when you have something wrong with your tooth, when it's a pain. Can you walk us through what actually happens with a root canal? And do you ever believe in them, even for temporary?

Yes, that's a good question because root canals seem to be a massive pain point. And I see on social media that it's a little bit black and white. It's either root canals are gonna kill you or they're totally fine. And I think we need to bring a little bit of nuance. So yes, root canal is a fine art in dentistry and it requires some skill. It's very specific. And there is a time and a place for root canal. It's a tool. For example, if you have massive pain, acute pain from your tooth goes directly in your brain, it's kind of like migraine. The dentist will need to help you here. And the fix is a root canal treatment. This is actually in Germany where I'm from, insurance covered and standard of care. Second one is, let's assume there's a kid that smashes his teeth on a bike, 12 years old. And the front teeth break off. Of course you're gonna need a solution for this kid traumatically. The ideal situation is not pulling a tooth for 12-year-old. The ideal situation is keep that tooth because the tooth is needed to grow the jaw structure at least until this kid is 21 years old. So this is also when you would do a root canal. However, where is no one even talking about is over time a root canal, essentially, if you look at this And there's amazing, there's actually amazing AI videos these days out there, how you can see root canals. So root canal treatment is what we're talking about. Root canal is just the abbreviation. So in a tooth, you have a root canal or up to 3 to 4 root canals depending on which tooth you're talking about, right? And in the root canal, you have a blood supply, a lymph supply, the nervous system where it's all actually connected and then a live vital organ. So once you have a cavity until there, or the trauma, and the nerve is exposed because it's painful, the dentist will just remove the insides of the root. Yeah, they take out the blood, the life, the vital parts— blood, lymph, nervous system— and then they clean it, usually with ozone or any peroxides, and they fill it with some sort of plastics to keep the dead body part, the shell, for biting. And this works, just talked about it, it works for acute stuff. And it works for trauma. However, once you did the root canal treatment, this tooth, this organ is essentially a dead body part. And in medical world, it's not allowed to leave something dead on the body. Think about it. If you had like a gangrenous foot from a diabetic foot or anything, medical world will say this is going to spread. The bacteria is going to spread throughout the body within a minute. So you have to kind of cut it off. However, for whatever reason, dentist or the mouth is not part of the body and we're allowed to put function over health, right? And this is, this is something that needs to change. So when we're talking about optimal health or ongoing chronic health issues, this root canal actually over time can become a chronic silent inflammation. And for this, we can also revisit the anatomy of the tooth. So you do not have just these big roots, You have to understand, per root, you have about, let's just call it 30,000 to 75,000 square millimeters of little tiny tubules, kind of like the Venice Channel of tooth.

Yeah.

And these are called dentin tubules, and they are the perfect hiding spot for anaerobic bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, oral microbiome stuff that anyways lives with you, but it can then go in there and live in a cave, kind of like without the immune system being present because the tooth is dead. So what happens is if you have a natural good immune system, your body will produce, because there's bacteria in there, it's gonna become an infection, usually a chronic silent infection, and your body will produce a little inflammation because that's the job of the immune system. So the macrophages will just go there and, for example, build a little tiny periapical inflammation or a little cyst or even produce a little bit of harder bone. That's just the solution. And because it's chronic and it's silent, it's usually unfortunately pain-free, but it can go on for years, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years, constantly adding up to the burden of toxicity, a dying organ. So it's decomposing chronic infection. And this will add on to the burden of the immune system, detoxification system, being part of the topic of immunofatigue that people are talking about. Is the root canal the silent killer number one and the beginning of everything? Of course not. But we know when it comes to chronic health issues, we have a bucket, like, or like a backpack. If you load it up and load it up, at one point it spills over. So maybe—

Totally.

Yeah, so we have to peel onion layers back to get you back to original health. So for acute trauma—

A lot of my listeners, it's so funny 'cause a lot of listeners can relate to this where you'll hear somebody or maybe them, themself listening, They were dealing with mold, they were dealing heavy metal. It seemed like there's a whole list of things they've been dealing with— hives, all these things. And what you just said is really important. It's the toxic load. So maybe you had a root canal and that's the only thing you've ever been exposed to, and you're living in the middle of, you know, the woods, not getting anything else in you. Maybe it's not as affecting you as much. But if you have that and it's the culprit, and now you on top of it have all these other things affecting your life, it's— you're going to have that bucket spill over and you are going to have inflammation and get sick. That's what— how I'm understanding.

Oh yeah, perfect explanation. Yeah, your body can compensate so much, but then it can't. And then you have to reverse engineer. And the thing is, for complex chronic illness, if you want to call it that way, I see functional medicine doctors doing amazing jobs. But oftentimes, if they don't get to the root cause, they oftentimes just throw everything at you and they're missing this blind spot because no one's talking to each other. And the dentist doesn't even know, unfortunately. Even biological dentists don't always have the same language where we can go into. So if you have any sort of chronic health issues, whatever it is right now, and you're trying to optimize it on every foundation, then it would be time to find a certified real biodentist to give you a roadmap. Hey, what is holding you back? And it might be actually the root canal. Yes? Does this make sense?

Yeah. You know, there was a video years ago, I don't know if you remember seeing this, I'm gonna probably mess it up, but there was this, it was a video of a guy, he has a nail in his head and he goes to every doctor saying, "My head hurts." Do you remember? You know what I'm talking about? For those of you that don't, he was like, My head hurts, my head hurts. And he's going to all these doctors, like giving him medicine, doing all these things. But in the end, it was just, we just have to remove the nail. If we just remove the nail, your headache goes away. And that reminds me of medicine now. Like we miss these obvious things that are like, it's just right there.

Yeah, yeah. But it's—

And we're trying to treat everything else.

It's right there. The problem is, again, it's first of all that dentists are not there yet. So what I'm doing is science fiction in dental world. So 99.9% of all dentists wouldn't even know what I'm talking about. And medicine would love to know this, but they're also not taught. So it's a little bit of a communication issue and just an upgrade that is missing. But it is complete science and first principle thinking, like the nail you just had. Yes, there is a nail, but we're gonna do hyperbaric first and we're gonna do blood filtering in Mexico first. But yeah.

Give you a pain pill. Yeah, yeah. The mouth pain.

Let's talk about the nail, which is right there. In this case, sometimes the nail, which is for example, a root canal or removed tooth, a cavitation, is not as visible. So you have to be pointed towards the nail. But yeah, it could be this splinter holding you back from superhuman health and no one's talking about it. So we have to change this and bring it to the masses.

So, okay, for those listening that have a root canal right now, these are the questions I used to have. So I had two root canals 30 years ago, and for years I had asked my regular dentist, should I remove them? And I always had the same answer. No, it's not infected. We don't see anything on an X-ray. Just leave it alone. That's what I kept being told. But what I learned is over time, you likely are going to have a problem, likely, especially 30 years later. Oh yeah. And the first sign of mine that I completely ignored was an oral biome test and a pocket. So when you, when you go and you have your charting, you having your teeth cleaned, they're reading numbers and those numbers are how much your gum has receded. So you'll hear things like 2 millimeter. Well, mine went up to a 4 millimeter. It jumped from a 3 to a 4 on that tooth. So that was another sign I missed. Like, okay, that's a sign right there. So what tipped it over for me was a blood marker called MPO. Have you done much with myeloperoxidase? Do you know much about that blood marker, Dr. Dom? Have you heard that with your patients?

I know the blood marker for sure, but we don't use it standard.

Okay.

I will tell you later why, but—

Okay. Yeah, that was good to know. For me, it was an inflammation marker.

The inflammation marker was high. Yeah. Chronic inflammation.

And then, so I had what was called a cone beam scan. Can you talk about that? Because I think so many dentists don't do that or know what that is.

Yes, I do not have the exact data on it, but as far as I'm informed, it's only 10 to maximum 15% of dental clinics having a cone beam scan. And a cone beam scan is just a 3-dimensional X-ray, and you cannot diagnose a chronic inflammation or infection on a root canal on a 2-dimensional X-ray. It's just not possible. But if you use a 3-dimensional one and you literally look around 3-dimensionally around the tip of the root, in 90, 90+ percent of all cases, you see something chronically. Is it always gonna be super bad? Is it painful? Most likely not because chronic things don't hurt. That's an acute sign of, it's an acute sign for inflammation, not chronic. And this is standard of care for us. We have to make a diagnosis on a root canal, on a 3-dimensional X-ray. But also, obviously, you have to have a long-term solution. So a good short-term solution, maybe you can compensate, like you said, you have zero burden, you live in the woods somewhere and you only have a root canal, might be not affecting you at all. However, if you live in a city with EMFs bombarding you with toxic load and mold in the house and everything, it's definitely gonna be a big issue. So that's the discrepancy. So I would at least have a strategy for the long term. And I know how we got connected because I saw this viral video of you, right? Where you're talking about a root canal that you extracted and did you get an immediate implant, ceramic implant? And you're like, no, you just pull the tooth. And I'm like, no, why did you do that? So, but of course I understand.

Well, I want to talk about that and what my dentist said. So let's talk about that. So that's what everybody said. Are you going to fill the tooth? Is an implant worse? So for me, it was, mine was a second molar. So for me, I just wanted it out, 'cause especially 'cause there was an infection. Now what my dentist said, which I think you'll disagree with, but that's okay. She said, I wanna extract, this is what we used to do when I worked in implants too. We're gonna extract it, let's let the bone heal, let's let it regenerate. We'll come back 3, 4 months later, put a ceramic implant in. That's what she wanted to do. Now you have a very different method, which I love, where you extract, clean it out, and place the same day, which is super cool. So I wanna ask you about, all of that and why most dentists don't think they can replace same day. Because obviously there's a front tooth. I would've been flying to Germany to have that done. The back tooth, I didn't mind waiting.

Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. So I think it all comes down to experience. As you know, you worked in dental implantology. The standard of care is taking out a tooth, let it heal, wait for 3 months, do a cone beam scan, and then decide what you're going to do. And in 99% of all cases, 99, Still, titanium implant is the gold standard. So even a ceramic implant, a late ceramic implant already shows me that your biological dentist is a good one because a lot of them don't even know about ceramic implant.

Oh, yeah. She doesn't do titanium. She won't do titanium.

Luckily. So I'm doing this for almost 15 years now, and I just have a lot of reps, especially in immediate ceramic implants, because if you look at it just rationally, you have to take out a tooth, right? So you have a hole. It's called a socket. And in dentistry, and you will know that from implantology, there is something called socket preservation. So usually you just fill something in the socket so it doesn't collapse. Because if you do nothing, the hole would just collapse. It's called alveolar atrophy. It's just normal. However, what if I have this hole, I clean everything, of course, perfectly. We use ozone, PRF, everything. But then I put the ceramic implant straight away in there. So I have zero surgery, zero pain, scalless surgery. and the implant acts as part of the socket preservation, kind of like a tent pole to hold my bone height and width. Is this always necessary in a second molar? Most definitely not. I would do it, of course, because I want to save future real surgeries and lost bone. But is it— imagine you have literally, if you had the front tooth like you just said, do you want to run around with a gap there?

No.

And then maybe a flipper?

No, I would've flown to Germany immediately. Exactly.

And I mean, the aesthetic zone is something where you need a ton of experience and appreciate that I'm always forgetting that I had so many reps under my belt. And if one of the biological dentists listening and they're not there yet for experience, I feel it's better to tell your patients, no, I cannot do it. It's better to do a late implant for sure. But if you can do it, if you have the skill under your belt, it is the best thing. I just actually had 2 minutes before our call. I came from surgery and I did about 7 immediate ceramic implants today and 3 of them in the front. I love those. They're the highest skill because you, of course, the aesthetic zone. But if you have that skill down, it's the most predictable one. I would say in average for all, let's say we do immediate implants for all teeth from front tooth to molar. I would say it's 90+ percent that it works straight away. But for front teeth, I would say it's 99% success, which is amazing. Imagine.

Do you have to take it out of occlusion at all initially? Because I would imagine if you're putting it in, it's not fully stable. So are you putting a temporary on? Are you putting What are you doing there?

We would use a one-piece implant. So goal number one is cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. The root canal is an infected tooth. So the bone needs to be cleaned. The tissue needs to be removed. We use ozone, piezosurgery, everything for that. That is clear, right? So once the socket is clean, we put the one-piece implant in there so it sticks out. It has an abutment already on it, PRF around it. And yes, we're going to give you a temporary on top. The temporary is going to be looking like your normal tooth. It will be bonded to your adjacent teeth and it will be out of occlusion, of course. So it's more like, let's say it's more like a cast for the next 3 to 4 months. And of course for aesthetics. But once you come back—

So you're still careful around them. You're not going to be biting an apple with them. No, no, no.

That would be stupid. It's like when you have a broken arm, you have a cast. You cannot really do much with it. Right. But imagine instead of having just a gap and a flipper falling out and losing all the bone because it's going to be lost. You have already the implant done and you never had a surgery. It's pain-free. I mean, think about it. It's just a no-brainer. The only people that sometimes have a hard time in understanding this are actually my colleagues. But as I'm doing this for such a long time and I was heavily criticized when I wrote the book that you mentioned, shitstorms all over the place. I was just too early. But now since 2023, because of our clinical work, ceramic implants are medical guideline, highest guideline in Germany. It flipped the script completely.

It's amazing.

So it's the future for any dental repair we still have to do because right now we have to face it. We have to repair previous repair. See it as remodeling your house. After 20 years, you usually would remodel your house. You wouldn't expect that everything lasts for a lifetime, right? So 20 years ago or 30 years ago, you might have had materials in your mouth installed that are obsolete now and we just have better solutions. So now we have to remodel your house again. But my idea is to do this in two phases. And then I never see you again in my whole life as a dental patient because you're fixed forever. However, if there would be—

So here's my—

Yeah, yeah, ask me a question. Yeah, please.

Well, what about the person listening? Because this is what happened when I did the post.

Oh yeah, please.

A lot of people were very intrigued and got it. They were super— they were like, I want to understand more. This is amazing. But there was definitely a group of people that were very concerned about the process and the pricing. So can I— if somebody, let's just say somebody, and I have somebody specifically in mind, theirs literally hurts. They have an old root canal. It literally hurts them. They have a lot of health challenges right now. They have high inflammation markers. Like, I know that's what's going on with her, but it's very expensive. She's like, well, I don't— I have to get it extracted and then cleaned out and then an implant and all these things. So in my mind, my logical mind, number one step is get the tooth out. Like, number one, get the tooth out. And if you cannot do an implant right away, at least do a partial or something else if you need to fill the hole. What's your opinion on that?

It all depends. So what we would do is For us, surgery doesn't start at the day of surgery. So, we would even prepare this person most likely for at least a month, maybe even 2 months with everything health optimization. So, no one comes in, we don't have an open policy. You have to apply to become a patient. And, we only choose a handful per month. But, for them, we have the whole journey mapped out. So, it's complete nutritional changes, complete supplementation, everything. So, once you come in with us, let's say to the surgical week, it's a whole week. Of health optimization because we do it all in one, like the complete mouth. They already boosted and very much prepared. So that's a huge difference. So I would never just yank out a tooth without any long-term strategy. It would hurt my soul because I know—

So even somebody that's listening that's got an infection, they might have an infection, they're thinking they don't have a long-term strategy yet. You do not advise they go pull the tooth out. Not yet.

I would work on— So if it's an acute inflammation, maybe you have to go and take it out. But if it's literally just chronic and it's bothering you now, especially now after listening to this, don't just go and yank it out. I think it's better to think about the long-term strategy, like for the next 50, 60 years, what do you want to have? How do you want to remodel it? What is the investment going to look like? And maybe you can do the investment over phases, but once you've pulled the tooth, I mean, for a second molar, again, I agree, maybe not important, but let's say all the other teeth. Once you've pulled the tooth, this comes with like multiple extra steps, opportunity costs you wouldn't even think of, such as, hey, I have to choose out, okay, But maybe in 3 months time, my doctor will tell me, hey, I lost so much bone, we need a bone graft. So this will add another 6 months and maybe some material you don't want to have, a real another surgery. Then maybe you need the implant a step later. Maybe by just going fast, you're actually going way slower and you have way more time off your work and everything. So what we designed was how can we do this in 1 week? So it's 2 phases. Phase 1 is Getting out— I use an analogy for remodeling a house. So we have to remove a couple of moldy walls, right? We have a little bit of asbestos here, you have a few old pipes and stuff. So phase 1, getting all the metals out safely, all the root canals out safely, place immediate implants where needed, and get rid of the cavitations, clean that all out. In that whole week, we have everything on site for health optimization. You learn how to heal for the next 4 to 6 months. And once you come back, for phase 2, which is what you see, the aesthetic side of things, the health, the function, the aesthetics. After that, you never need to see a dentist in your whole life versus—

wow—

going to a dentist twice a year for potential repair.

Oh yeah.

Like, think about, just calculate how many days you're off work, how much hassle it is to go to the dentist, waiting in traffic, sitting in a waiting room, getting an injection versus you do it once and for all in 2 phases.

Yeah, you're like actually saving, it sounds like. You're actually saving money.

I am 100% sure that you would save a lot of money. I do have a lot of high-performance entrepreneurs, people where it's not— I don't have only patients that can afford everything, right? I have all patients.

Sure.

But even for the ones where money doesn't play a role, for them something else plays a role, like time. So they always say, okay, if I would have known upfront that this week will save me so much time and hassle, I would've paid 3 times the amount because it's just worth it. But you have to obviously see and tell, and it's almost impossible to imagine. But within, I could send you a nice video that we're working on right now so we can actually make sure that people, the visibility is actually there what we're doing in the clinic.

That's amazing.

It's science fiction. But I would always think of, okay, if someone is extremely chronically sick, is 70+ years old, maybe the fastest way is get the root canals out and let it heal and maybe go with the flipper. But most people I'm seeing are in between 35 and 65. Not a good strategy. You want to remodel your house and have a long-term strategy and think of it as a health investment.

Yeah, that makes sense.

And a very solid plan. And yeah, it works beautifully. It's quite charming.

So I'm a really big believer of the mind-body connection to like what we think about and what we believe affects us too. Like in my case, I will share, and if you're listening and you're like me with this, once I knew it was infected and I already knew my blood markers were high and I also had very high cortisol, I had a lot of things linking. I was like, I needed it out. If I did not get it pulled out like that week, it was going to manifest in my brain and become something bigger. So if you're that person, I feel like, like, no, I am doing the long-term plan though. I'm getting an implant for sure. I'm going to restore it. And I was prepared for bone graft and all of that. But I think if you know you have an infection or you know something's bothering you, like, we have to treat it with urgency or we will manifest more with our, from our brain. I think.

No, I agree totally. I agree 100% with you what you said. Otherwise it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would agree. I would agree. But now on this journey, we met each other and because you believed in this and now you have for the other part, you have a different solution. And like I said, for over a decade, most of our patients fly in from all over the world. It's very, very rare that I see someone local and probably because it's so charming and you haven't done it.

It's rare. Yeah. There's also a big link I didn't mention at the beginning, but I've heard there's a big link between breast cancer and upper molar root canals. Have you heard that?

Yes. One of my, actually, colleagues from Switzerland, Dr. Rao is his name, Paracelsus Clinic. He had done a, let's call it epidemiology. So he would just look at the tooth-body connection. That is a meridian chart. It's the autonomic nervous system. So every single tooth is connected to an organ. And specifically the breast is on the meridian system for the stomach, stomach, spleen, thyroid, which goes directly over your breast. And the tooth connected to this is the upper molars and the lower premolars. So, and he found in 94 or 95% of all his breast cancer patients, they had a root canal on exactly this meridian. So I would say for everyone that doesn't really understand meridians and this stuff, so the body's electric. See as the root canal kind of like the circuit breaker there for the complete circuit. So once you pull that out, the circuit breaker is is gone and everything, let's say the electricity works again this way.

But also I was pretty instant. Like I could feel a difference. Like it was out and like 2 days later I was calmer. It was like a big connection.

So literally our patients feel this during surgery. This is why we don't do sedation or anything because we guide our patients to this and every single person will feel their body while we're working on the mouth because we're working on root causes, not on symptoms. So I'm taking charge. We are taking charge of the mouth and they feel everything. And yes, every single person feels something because essentially we're taking out a chronic stressor. So we're switching from fight and flight sympathetic nervous system to parasympathetic straight away. And then the healing begins. So I'm not the healer. I'm empowering your body to become the healer that it is. But we have to maybe take out the circuit break, right?

So I'll have to show you my Oura Ring. I wear an Oura Ring and I'll have to show you. I'll have to send you after this thing. I'll put screenshots in here. So my Oura Ring had showed daytime stress for months, like high levels of daytime stress. This entire week after, it, not one day, it was all said light, moderate. Like that is an instant change. That is crazy. Like that's just my Oura Ring.

That's an instant trackable change. Like literally something that you can measure versus the other things that oftentimes maybe just your feelings and your innate sensitivity that changes. Every single patient has some sort of health benefit. This is insane. This is why this gives me goosebumps every single time. And for me, all the few patients we see per month, it's designed to be a Museum of Life event for them and me and to build relationships. And in that relationship, it's a fine dining menu of health optimization where we have everything on site, right? The steak in the menu might be the dental intervention where we do hyperbaric, IVs, red light, everything you can imagine. There. But literally, when someone tells me, hey, after seeing you, I'm 52 years old now and for the past 32 years I had chronic migraines. After seeing you, it's all gone. This gives me goosebumps. And this is, I think, what the next level of our profession is because we're becoming real doctors and not just a dentist. And literally in Germany, you graduate as a Zahnarzt. Zahnarzt is a German word for tooth doctor. This is how we graduate, but we're all just dentists. So literally we're changing our profession from the technician to the health expert. And in this phase, because I'm trailblazing the word biological dentistry, I have to make sure it means something because I cannot just refer you to a biological dentist because it could be an amazing Biodentistry 3.0 experience or a biological dentist playing, doing a biological root canal and playing a singing bowl. This is the problem. So it's the wild, wild west. And this is why I'm creating a a certification and a true standardization. I call it the BGS, the Biodentistry Global Standard. And the community is called—

Brilliant, because it's not regulated here.

No, no.

Yeah, that's brilliant. It's not regulated here. And I think you're right, people could just say they're a holistic biological dentist because they have like one little certification and it doesn't really mean anything. They can be playing soundboards.

It's the same problem as in longevity. Everyone calls themselves a longevity specialist these days. And that's why, I mean, like the real biodentist training they do all this. And even there, I create levels. So it takes time. It's a whole process to get to the reps for just the technique work, but also to the software update in your mind to understand what overall health even means, because that's not something you know as a dentist straight away. So, and they are globally, they're called Real Biodentists. This is gonna be a, this is a huge movement.

I have a bunch of, so, okay, we talked a lot about root canals. What we didn't talk about yet is all these other things that are concerning. So I want to— there's— and I'm just going to list them out, and then you can help me with whatever order we want to go in. But I want to understand what cavitations are and why, why so many general dentists say it's not a thing. Like, what is— what's a cavitation? And then I want to talk about just general, um, two things, like cracked crowns or old crowns or like onlays. Do we have to be worried about those? And then I even want to talk about amalgam and fluoride. Like, it's a whole bunch of things I just rambled out, but help me with like kind of the order.

But I want to go with cavitations first, then go briefly about metals, and then go into oral hygiene.

Okay.

I think then we have it all mapped out from nitty-gritty detail to a bit more surface level. I think it's a good strategy. So remember, guys, when I asked you, have you had your wisdom teeth pulled? Why am I asking this question? Because once when you did this, you were not prepared for your body to heal. And a surgeon as myself, we're trained to remove wisdom teeth in speed, huge traumatic surgery, most likely in your teens or early 20s. You look like Mike Tyson hit you 20 rounds and 2 weeks of liquid diet only. So what happens is this surgical site, this construction site never, never really grew bone because your body was not prepared and in shock. So what happens over time is that the body is able to produce gum over it and a little bit of cortical bone, but inside it leaves dead bone. And in layman's terms, this is called a cavitation. This is something you do not learn yet in university. However, since the last 2 to 3 years, one of my friends, Professor Shahram Ganati, University of Frankfurt, Germany, has put his life's work to researching it more and more. And he has peer-reviewed paper right now that after every tooth extraction, these cavitations form, and he will call them CSR, which stands for covered socket residue. So it's clear now that they're existing. Problem is 99% of all dentists out there don't just know. That's why it's always boo-boo quackery. It's not. It's a chronic silent inflammation from a previous removed tooth directly sitting here affecting your whole nervous system, immune system, hormonal system, skin eczema, thyroid health, hormonal issues, sleep disturbances, you name it, could be caused traced back to your wisdom tooth removal, right? So it's another burden. It's an infection site. We find viruses, parasites, fungi, anaerobic bacteria, Lyme, spirochetes, mold. For you guys in America, mold is a big thing. Mold spores hide in cavitations and root canals. Cavitations often always also form around root canals. That's why taking out a root canal and cleaning the bone is so important. So essentially what we have to do is open this up again, restart the construction site, clean it, use ozone, use PRF, everything, but only if your body this time is prepared for systemic healing. This is why we have our patients that the surgery doesn't start on day of surgery, but way in advance. And we will design the nutrition, the supplementation, everything so your body is the bone builder itself. That's called systemic bone healing. And this is what I'm teaching for over a decade called the Bone Healing Protocol, the food design concept. It's all part of the teaching. But essentially think of, oh shit, I had my wisdom teeth removed. I most likely have a chronic silent inflammation in my jawbone that my dentist won't know about. I need a cone beam scan for this and a certified real bio dentist to diagnose it. And then someone who also can help me with the surgery, that is quite rare. So it's a bit difficult, but it's existing. And I personally had nothing dental repair but wisdom teeth removed. And only when I was 30 years old, I found out I had cavitations and what my problems were.

Wow.

I was high cortisol, hyper nervous, skin eczema, like even shaking hands. I thought I'm getting Parkinson's or something. And then we found cavitations on a 3-dimensional X-ray, cleaned those out, and my nervousness was gone the day after surgery. And my skin health only got better after the second surgery, but within 2 weeks. And ever since then, no eczema, nothing anymore. My back pain, my gut health issues, all resolved. So ever since I did this, and this is almost 15 years ago, I was maybe patient one, but I got the moral obligation to tell you guys that this is existing and you might miss it. So cavitations, layman's term for fatty degenerative osteoporotic jawbone, mushy bone, and CSR in the future. So just know.

So when my, when my bio dentist did the cone beam scan and she looked for cavitations, what I liked that she said, and it sounds like you're so thorough with this, so you get it, is she actually said so many dentists miss these cavitations even with a cone beam scan. That she even has a radiologist double-check with her just to make sure she's not missing anything. And so I hear a lot that dentists, they don't know how to read the cone beam scans and actually see a cavitation. Is that true in your experience?

Exactly. Because the problem is if only 10 to 15% of all dentists have a cone beam scan and most of them are surgeons and most of them don't know about cavitations, how can they read it on a cone beam scan? They don't even know it's existing. So if you don't know that it existing, you will never find it. So that's just first principle thinking. But also I'm teaching globally real biodentists and we kind of have to create them and I help them grow into the surgeon. And what I see often is they also do not have the experience to read those yet and also don't have the surgical skills, the reps to do this. And this is what's all in the training for me because it's not about me at all. It's literally I'm the PR agent to grow this movement, to help as many people as possible. But that's not possible by me myself. This is why I started giving all my knowledge away more than a decade ago, because I realized I can maybe do 30,000 surgeries in my lifetime. But if I train 1,000 or more dentists to do the same, it's going to be 30 million, 300 million people who can literally affect people like on a big scale. That's what I'm doing. It's a whole mission, a movement.

Yeah, I love your whole vision. Talk to me about the crowns and like, if you, Like, my, my question here too, when you talk about old crowns with— we know with porcelain fused to metal, obviously we're gonna— you're gonna talk about metal, but even old ceramic crowns, like if they're chipped or like, did they have— can that still start collecting bacteria? Do we need to be aware of that? Like, there's many people that, like, like my generation, we all had amalgam fillings. We learned to remove them and then we replaced them with ceramic onlays or whatever it is. But then those, even 20 years later, those are going to have issues, I'm assuming. So how do we be up to speed with those things, or maybe they don't. I don't know.

I mean, if you have a ceramic inlay, ceramic filling, ceramic partial crown, ceramic crown, I think you're quite good. There is the potential that they break at one time, and usually every good normal dentist, cosmetic dentist will be able to spot a broken crown. However, what many people don't know is they oftentimes have ceramic-looking crowns, but they're actually ceramic-fused metal crowns. So that is a metal. So metal will be the third question, right? And just for you, for quick summary, metals can be metal crowns, even if you don't see them. Metals can be most of the time the dental implant is a titanium metal implant. You know, you work for the company. We do have these nasty amalgam fillings that are now banned in Europe since last year. They contain mercury. So there's a lot of metal involved. Even the wiring that you sometimes have after orthodontic treatments. All of this is metal. All metals have a couple of challenges. Number one, your immune system can become allergic, right? This is very individual. Second, they could be very toxic. For example, that mercury. Mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive element known to man. It's just super toxic and it should not be in your body and it's gassing out of your amalgam filling every single day.

Will it kill you?

No, of course not. But it's again, adding on top of the toxic burden. And then number 3 is we are living in an EMF, electromagnetic, in an electric world. The world is loaded with EMFs, 3G, 4G, 5G, and every single metal in your body will become a receiver or an antenna. And because your body is electric, this might cause electrohypersensitivity or various other symptoms. But also you can have just a battery, for example, if you have a titanium implant and on top you have a gold crown, you can measure up to 3.5 volts. But we want to have our innate body electric healthy. So we don't want to have any disturbance because this in itself can cause lots of problems. So that's metals in a nutshell. And I think metals are something outdated. And luckily cosmetic dentists most likely don't use metals besides the implants because again, 99% of all dentists out there do titanium implants because it takes so long. As you know, it takes so long to change systems. And most likely when people adopt ceramic implants, there's already something better, I'm sure. And then they will criticize—

Can you remove a titanium implant if it's already integrated in place?

So when we plan a full—

And is it complicated?

Oh yeah. When we plan a full case, we, in my bubble, patients seek us out for this. They had exhausted all the options, right? They want to have the 10 out of 10 treatment. For us, it's a skill. That we remove every single titanium implant without hurting anything. Every single root canal will be cleaned and every cavitation on the proper diagnosis, on the proper science behind it, on the proper nutritional support, on the proper healing modalities. We don't just do this by walking in. It's a complete plan. It's a whole architecture. It's experience. And I know I say this lightly, But I don't know if there's more than 10, 20 people in the world that constantly remove titanium implants and know how to do this without causing trauma. Because if you go to a normal dentist and will ask, can you remove my titanium implant? They will tell you no. And if they tell you yes, they will tell you it's going to be a massive, um, bone defect. No, if you know how to do it, it's no defect because we're able to remove it like a root. You can yank out a tooth and create a huge bone defect, or you take it out like we do. And I'm specifically saying taking out, not yanking. I wiggle the tooth out and I'm not going to even touch your gingiva and your gums and your bones because that's a goal. This is gold. This is where the healing comes from. We cannot touch it. That's incredible. But it's all skills and experience. And obviously those you need to know and have to have the training for. And there's not many in the world.

Yeah, we don't want a dentist that's like And if a dentist is telling you no or talking you out of it or they're nervous, that's not the one you want doing it anyway. Like, you don't want somebody doing it that's nervous.

100% not. And especially this is something I get a lot in comments. If a dentist tells you ceramic implants break and they have no research behind it, et cetera, then run. Because it just means this person has never done a ceramic implant, has not looked into literature the last 20 years because it is medical guideline. It sits above titanium in Germany. So it's just completely wrong. And they're not up to speed. The thing is, in this day and age where information doubles every day and you cannot keep up with speed, if you miss the train here, even as a dentist, I mean, I was heavily criticized, right? Which is okay, which because I changed a lot, but it's always the same way. First you get ridiculed, then they fight you, then they use your protocols. Right now they use your protocol. They start using my protocols. Which is great for you guys out there, but it will still take time. It's still, we're still at 0.0001% of all dentists understanding what I'm saying. It's science fiction, but it's a huge movement. I'm working on getting 1,000 real biodentists as fast as possible and more because it's literally, if you have any skeptical, open-minded dentist out there that is highly skilled with their hands, speaking with me for 5 minutes, they're like, oh yeah, I wanna do this because it's not woo-woo. It's not just holistic. I understand that holistic and biological has a bad rep, This is what we're changing. This is a new category in dentistry from the technician to the health expert, Biodentistry 3.0, melting it all. And then it's beautiful. And then it's about relationships with the patients. We only see 1, maximum 2 a day, maximum 20, 30 per month. But we have one-on-one time, no stress environment. It's just amazing. You can follow on Instagram. We put a lot of things out. It's all there. I'm sharing everything.

It's pretty epic. So, you know, and you're gonna become one too, you said, right?

You're gonna fly.

Yeah, I, I think I'm gonna want to come out there and do the rest of my stuff. Yeah, because as I'm listening, I'm like, I have— I still have a titanium implant. I'm sure I probably have cavitations, and I have a, um, I have another tooth that I want to extract and implant. So we're going to talk about that.

Let's talk about this. Yeah, but maybe you have to go into oral health care now, right?

Exactly. So my— okay, so I've got some questions here, and then we'll kind of get into the other parts that we need to be aware of in our mouth. When I posted that video So there was definitely like some prosthodontists and cosmetic dentists that were super triggered and arguing with me. It was funny. I like was really getting into it, which I usually stay out of my comments, but I would— I, they don't know that I have this background in dentistry and I'm like, a prosthodontist's goal is literally to make you look— it's like a super cosmetic dentist. They care about the aesthetics of what it looks like and they can tell you they care about the function and the health, but they are still operating as your teeth are a totally different unit from your body. So they can challenge me all they want, but I've seen this firsthand. They'll drill more of your tooth structure. They don't, they're caring about the cosmetic. They're an artist. They are the creative artists. So I want people to hear this because you have to look at the dentist that you're going to and what they're saying and what their background is because people get into dentistry for different reasons. And there's that creative side. There's, so what Dr. Dom is saying is this holistic health side, which is where, what I wanted to have him on for, 'cause you can still make it look good, But you, this is like the big root cause conversation that has been missing. And there's a documentary, I'm sure you've seen it, it's old now, it's on YouTube still, about root cause. And it's really good. I mean, it's really, it was one of the first really going into this problematic area that doctors are not, and dentists are not talking about. And people were up in arms about that one. In fact, it's just on YouTube now 'cause it was taken off the main channels or whatever. Do you remember when that came out? Yeah.

It came out actually when my book came out, same time roughly where the shitstorm was here. And I was promoting this Root Cause because I thought it's amazing movie and it made total sense. But then it was on Netflix and I think 200,000 endodontologists— that, those are the specialists for root canal treatments— they petitioned against it. So they took it down from Netflix. And I know almost everyone in this video. So like I said before, the one with the root canal connection to the breast cancer, that's Thomas Rouse. He's speaking in that conference. In that documentary. I just, 2 weeks ago, just met with David Minkoff. He's also in there. Those are great integrative doctors. So they're not quacks, not at all. But that's the way how they put it.

No.

And like you said it quite nice.

And if endodontists would think business-wise, like I don't, if I was an endodontist, what I would be thinking is an opportunity. I would say you could still be an endodontist for temporary pain removal or the urgent, like a holding place root canal, but then you learn implants and you, that way you're like a cut above. So you could do that. Like there is a place for endodontic treatment for emergency or whatever. So it's interesting that they go to this anger. It's just like people angry with AI, like they're not gonna stop AI. It's still, it's gonna happen. You either learn it and learn how to use it or, but it's the same thing. You could fight biological dentistry, but that's, this is the direction we're going.

You cannot imagine how much hate and fight you get from your colleagues. But yeah, you are right. That's their problem. They are triggered. They literally have to put themselves on their nose and realize what you just said at the beginning. I think you said, oh, this is what you learned in dental implantology, that root canal is just a space holder for a future implant, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. From a business perspective, maybe you could see it this way actually. But I think it's narrow-minded scarcity, fixed mindset versus open-minded. Because my goal was after university, I was already doing this, right? So my goal was to show this to every skeptical dentist dentist, because I understood holistic is a bad word. Instantly every good dentist, repair dentist, cosmetic dentist, whatever, would say, not gonna even listen, they're gonna be shit with their handwork, right? So my goal was, okay, how can I get the skeptical medical doctors and dentists understand that this is science and tell them, hey, we do the highest tech craftsmanship, but you also can help patients get healthy overall. And over the time, all of my friends from university became Real Bite and the specialists in ceramic implantology, cosmetic dentistry, because it's not contrary. It's the dental evolution. It's the next level. It's the melting of it all. And it's standard for us that we are digital smile designers, standard digital. It's all standard, but we have more to evolve. And if they will understand, this is, I think this is where actually the holistic and biological bubble where I'm in too is sometimes shooting themselves in their foot themselves because they're too dogmatic. They're saying all these dogmatic things. And then in the world of social media, no one has time to go into nuance, right? Or listen to a full speech of mine or go to a real conference. So they get just triggered. So what I'm gonna do is, this is more about inclusion. I wanna grow this to get as many eyeballs of patients and dentists to this movement and understand, hey, there is a pathway and it's not just holistic. It is obviously maximum holistic, but it's integrative, it's high-tech skill, but it's also a fulfilling part that you're not the dentist anymore that everyone hates, but you're a real doctor and a very, very important one in the future when it comes to chronic health issues. But you have to upgrade your game and understand how whole body health works. This is what I'm teaching with the BGS Institute, for example.

It makes total sense. So, okay, what about dental actual care? So like when I started digging into oral biome and stuff, and I did that like swab test and I actually, there's a specific bacteria is linked to heart disease and that's what really red flagged me like, okay, I want that out. So I started using, and I'm not sponsored by these products or anything and I genuinely want your opinion. I started using dental side end products to kind of kill that bacteria and then I started using that O3 line because I wanted the ozone. Can you, is that like a long-term solution? Is there something else you recommend? Like help us understand that.

The germ you're usually referring to is called PG. Porphyromonas gingivalis, that's directly linked to heart, to joint, to brain issues. See this as not a bad bug. The problem is if it gets into your system. Why does it get into your system? Most likely bleeding gums, pockets, the stuff you talked about previous dental repair where it's hiding. So if you have to fix this, but let's just talk about the standard conventional oral healthcare strategies. It's all about disinfecting. We do not want to kill your microbiome. Your mouth It's the entrance to the body. Your mouth is your gut, right? Starts here, ends at the back door. And the microbiome in your mouth is actually the second largest to the gut, most diversified. So the gut microbiome cannot never heal without the oral microbiome because you swallow about 140 billion bugs per day. 50% of your gut microbiome is the mouth. So what if you disinfect it on a daily basis? Because everything you find on the oral healthcare aisles is the Colgates, the Sensodynes, the Listerine. And I make fun out of it. Like, I go to every continent, everywhere we're traveling, I check out the line and see what's there. It's just copy-paste. And I always watch people and I always have this urge in me when I see they grab the Listerine. I was like, ah, should I say something? Should I not? Because they do something bad for their health. I never do it because I think it's not my business. But it shows me that almost everyone probably listening has something like this at home on their shelf. And what these things are designed for let's just go with the blue stuff. They're designed to clean floors. Look it up on Google. I don't know how they were able to market it to clean your mouth, but your mouth has a microbiome that feeds the whole system. You do not want to kill your good bugs every single day. You want to make them flourish. You need organic gardening in your mouth. You need to immune modulate and balance it out, but not kill. Litchi, they're designed to give you fresh breath. But because you're killing your microbiome with those, you're actually getting the baddest breath over time because there's no more microbiome left. They're highly acidic, they're alcohol-based even. They also, when they're acidic, actually cause more tooth decay in the long run. So not a good strategy. So also when it comes to conventional toothpaste, they're fluoride-containing, they're all the same copy-paste. Fluoride is essentially just a band-aid for a bigger problem. So why are we getting tooth decay, right? That's the question we should ask. Is it— apply first principle thinking. Why are we getting tooth decay? Is it A, a fluoride deficiency, or B, a deficiency in key nutrients that build teeth from within and from the outside? What do you think?

I would imagine— well, we are told it's from lack of fluoride and just too much sugar. But I think the sugar is definitely a part of it, but I think it's the nutrients and the building structure. And like what, like when I was a kid, they would do fluoride treatments, which I now know made things worse.

No, they still do it. That's what I mean. You're so brainwashed. Even us in university as dentists, fluoride is so drilled into us. No one's actually even thinking about it. But because I was thinking about why am I learning this, even during university, I was already questioning it for my own health. And I was like, okay, fluoride is a known neurotoxin. There's better alternatives. Why would I put something toxic in my mouth? Makes no sense because you eat it, you absorb it through your mucosa. So, whatever you put into your mouth, think about it logically, you should be able to eat and swallow because it's going to be absorbed through the gums. So, you're optimizing your nutrition, your sleep, your supplementation, everything, but twice a day you're putting something in your mouth that's super toxic. That makes no sense, right? And look at, like, if you look at conventional toothpaste, whatever brand it is, on the backside, go into a supermarket, it says, if you accidentally swallow it, call poison control. What?

Wow.

Why would you put this on a label of a toothpaste? And then the big part comes again. So if you look into every advertisement of toothpaste, you use the full swirl on the bristle, right? But it also says only use a pea size, which is about this amount.

Yeah.

So we're marketed to use a full bristle, which is 4 times the amount. Then we do it twice a day. And if you swallow too much, you should call poison control. Did you think about it in the first place?

It doesn't make any sense.

So guys, I can tell you in nature, our body is immune against tooth decay. Our teeth are hard as stone. They're actually hard as granite. So why did they get soft in the first place? That is a lifestyle issue. So all the oral healthcare that we're designed to do these days are based on a Band-Aid solution for the poor lifestyle that leads to nutritional imbalances.

So what do you use? What do you use? And what about those products I recommended? Like I was told to use dental side to help with that bacteria. Bacteria. Is that— do you like that or you don't like that?

I mean, it depends if you have like—

because it's often—

if you literally have like a bad dysbiosis and medically you would need a Cydon or anything antimicrobial for 2 weeks, like an antibiotic, okay.

Oh, so temporary.

Very temporary, maybe 2 weeks. But usually you don't need it.

Usually.

But again, what you asked me what to do, right?

So yeah, first of all, and what do you recommend to brush your teeth with?

Exactly. So first of all, I'm still a believer of brushing your teeth.

Okay.

I actually, in nature, there is no toothbrushes. So in nature, the strong teeth come from what you're eating. So if you eat real food and you're outside in sun and getting enough sunlight, vitamin D3, K2, and all the minerals and key protein and building blocks, your teeth will be hard. However, let's face it, most people do not eat real food and eat ultra-processed food at least once a day, which are stripped of nutrients, which cause imbalances, feed the wrong microbiome, and then will lead to tooth decay over the long run. So I cannot just tell you use a non-fluoridated toothpaste because that will be bad. Just going fluoride-free. Why? Because fluoride actually is at least has some protection. It will make your teeth harder, but also more brittle. And it comes with a lot of side effects. So what if I told you that there is an alternative that is healthy and completely natural? Again, we're using first principles. So what is the tooth structure actually made of? So the outside of the tooth is called enamel, and the enamel is made of hydroxyapatite, which is calcium and phosphorus bond together. So more and more natural toothpaste emerging containing hydroxyapatite. So why not use hydroxyapatite again as a band-aid? Because in nature, if everything would be perfect, you wouldn't even need to brush your teeth, right? But I cannot tell this to anyone. But for brushing your teeth, find a toothpaste that is containing hydroxyapatite as active ingredient. And as clean as a base as possible. Think of, would I consume this and swallow it? If it's a no, then don't do it.

And literally, makes sense.

The most asked question that I had the last 5 years was, Dr. Domme, what toothpaste do you recommend? And usually it was none. But this is why 2 years ago I started to create my own, right? Because it was just a mess, mandatory. And about a year and a half ago. It launched in Europe. It's called More Than a Toothpaste, and I designed it. So, I have 4 kids. I designed it for me and my kids because let's face it, kids eat the stuff. So, they can eat it, I can eat it, and it's designed so you can— you do not need to rinse it. You actually let it sit on your tooth. It has a probiotic, specific probiotic in there. There's, of course, hydroxyapatite, xylitol, coconut oil base, lactoferrin for the gums, So it's literally a supplement that you can use twice a day. And if you eat it, it's fine too. And I'm very proud to say that it's actually going to launch soon in America, I think on May 4th.

I was going to say, so we can't get it yet.

You can't. In Europe you can, but in America, maybe once this launches, you can. More than a toothpaste. May 4th, 2026.

Sounds great.

For America.

What about— is this a scare tactic or is this true? Like, I've seen some stuff on social media about electric toothbrushes, being bad, even though we're told they're good because of EMFs? Or what do you think about electric toothbrush versus regular?

I mean, you know how social media is used. It's all fear-based, trigger-based. And actually, to be fair, in real life, there is no solutions. There's only trade-offs. Are you okay with just a simple, normal toothbrush if you know how to brush, use a soft brush? Yes, it's totally fine. Do I have an electric toothbrush? Yes. Do I like it?

Yes.

Yes. Do I know how to use it? Yes. So it's good. It's a good strategy. Is it necessary? No. Does it kill you? No. Is it an EMF problem? No, not at all. I even have one with red light in it, with photobiomodulation. Is this necessary? No. It's a cherry on top. Do I use it? Yes. Why not? Just for fun. Do you need it? Definitely not. Just brush your teeth twice, but find something that is clean. And that's the main important thing. And then when we come to what can you do instead of mouthwashes, right? That was the second question.

Yeah. And then floss too.

Mouthwash is second. Mouthwash would be ditch the Listerines and stuff into toilet, clean the toilet and the floor with it. That's it.

Okay.

The simple strategy you could adopt is oil pulling, specifically coconut oil or MCT oil pulling.

Yeah.

Because it's an ayurvedic strategy and it's soothing to your gums. It's very good for your microbiome. And what you do, the only thing is you have to do it. It takes 5 to 15 minutes a day. So you have to create a habit out of it. I just do it every single day when I cook my breakfast. Just a teaspoon of extra virgin coconut oil or MCT oil, switch it around. You can even use olive oil, switch it around and then spit it in the bin, not the sink. This will balance everything and get rid of bacteria and fat-soluble toxins and at the same time helps the microbiome. And it's especially good in wintertime for your immune system. Simple strategy, costs you almost nothing.

I bought a coconut oil one from O3 that has ozone.

Oh, I love ozone.

So I oil pull.

We use ozone.

So it's coconut oil and ozone.

We use ozone for almost every treatment to disinfect sockets, cavitations, even rectally. Ozone in tooth— in mouthwash, great. We use ozonated water every single day in the clinic. Perfect. Ozone, always great. Great add-on.

What about floss or water pick?

So flossing, it all depends. If let's say it's two human beings, one that never had previous dental repair, no fillings, no crowns. I'm an unaltered human being. My teeth are quite tight together. I have gums in between. I don't really have stuff that sticks in between, so I don't literally need to use flosses. However, the other human being, such as you, had previous dental repair, most likely have some gaps in between, some fillings. You must use floss or something else interdentally. Could be floss, depends on your skills. Could be a small interdental brush, could be a Waterpik. Just make sure you clean it once or twice a day. That's enough. Same for brushing, actually. Don't start brushing after you eating 15 times a day. Do it twice a day, in the morning, in the evening. Wait 30 minutes after eating for the saliva to catch up.

Why?

Oh, You do not—

Yeah, tell us about that, why we wait.

So never brush your teeth straight after eating. Why is that? Because once you eat whatever or drink something, it's most likely a little bit more acidic. So once it's a bit more acidic, the outer part of the tooth, the enamel, gets a little bit softer. So when you brush straight away, you might even brush away your enamel. So wait for 30 minutes until the saliva, which is there to remineralize your teeth, catches up and the pH is normal again, and then brush your teeth. Or if you want to make it very simple, wake up and do it straight away before you even eat.

Oh, so good. It's very simple. Yeah, I had mentioned that about brushing right after, and a bunch of people told me that, and I was like, I'd never heard that. So that's good. That explains it about the pH.

Yeah, yeah, super simple. There's one more thing I might add to the oral healthcare routine is tongue scraping, because that is also great against bad breath. I don't know if you already do it. You most likely know about tongue scraping, right?

I do.

So tongue scraping.

I do that.

Again, you just need a tongue scraper. Buy a copper tongue scraper, maybe $5 to $10 investment. You most likely have it for a lifetime because copper is antibacterial. And then just literally 10 seconds in the morning, first thing, scrape your tongue from the ground out. And this will remove overnight debris, food debris, bacteria, toxins that are lurking in there and will help massively against bad breath and for balancing the oral microbiome. Super simple strategy. Again, it's all in the consistency. Just do it. Make it a habit.

This is so informative. I want to— there's a couple things I want to just circle back to and make sure I cover because I know what people are thinking. So people that are— that have root canals right now, they've got root canals in their mouth, they're not bothering them, they've thought to leave them alone, they have health challenges. I just want to kind of recap. Is that the priority thing you want people to look at, or is something else first?

Priority, in my opinion, is— this is also how we start the journey to optimal health— is optimize everything you can do straight away. Sleep, nutrition, supplements for the deficiencies, outside sunlight, mental health, etc., right? Community building. Do this first. If you have this kind of nailed and all of these foundations are not perfect yet and you're still struggling, then I would say next step should be seeing one of us who knows how to give you a solid architecture for the investment you should take next. It's a big step on your journey to optimal health and most likely will save you ages and tons of different things. As you have seen, or as you have heard, during the phase of doing this, we anyways include hyperbaric, IVs, red light peptides, anything you could imagine. But we'll guide you when to use what so you don't waste time on expensive stuff while still having the sauce in the mouth. So removing the sauce first is first principle thinking. That means just have for now, have in your mind, hey, this might be one of the biggest investments before I do anything crazy besides, because I see patients buying hyperbaric chambers, investing thousands and hundreds and thousands of money in various different treatments and never get to the root cause. So that's just what I'm saying. So does it make sense?

And then how do people, Yeah, no, it makes total sense. If people are listening and want to go to your clinic, you said you work with people all the time that travel in. How do— what's the process? Where do they need to go first, or how do they find somebody certified by you?

So with certification, is the thing is it's a level process. So there are not many yet on the level. This is why I also decided to create clinics worldwide with BGS approach, like the Blueprint in my hometown in Tübingen, Germany. But they're growing, they're growing in numbers, and there's a directory you could just DM the word biodentist and usually we send you the directory. But just to understand, they're not all on the same level yet. And then for dentists is the BGS Institute. And then for working with us, I would say 95% of our patients travel. So that's why it's all remote. So what we need, just go to my Instagram, just click the link in the bio, for example, you will most likely see how to become a patient. We will ask for a couple of prerequisites. For example, we need a current two-dimensional panoramic x-ray. Not a cone beam scan yet, just a two-dimensional one. Yeah, almost every single dentist should be able to get you this, ideally digitally. We will ask you for this and a couple of questions, and then usually if we accept your case, you straight away go into a call with one of my amazing team members and they talk you through what's possible. We always— to make sure that you understand— we always plan the full case. In two phases. Phase 1, getting rid of the sources, let it heal for 4 to 6 months. And then Phase 2, the health, the aesthetics, the prosthodontics, the function, the bite, right? So, but there's obviously the option of phasing out Phase 1 in multiple steps if it's not in the budget, whatever. Like, this is all possible. We just plan always everything, the full house remodeling. But if you say, I only want to do the bathroom right now, that's possible too.

So good. And I'll link all that up in the show notes.

Oh yeah, please. So, it's the anesthetics in Germany, but yeah, Instagram is at— my handle is @drdome1. So it's D-R-D-O-M-E number 1. And again, it's Dom in English and Dome in Germany. It's not dome. I know you spell it dome, but just Dom.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much.