How to REGROW Receding Gums at Home — Transcript

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1. 0:00So this video is about receding gums and  what you can do to fix them most people
2. 0:06end up with recession problems somewhere  in their mid to late 40s and as they get
3. 0:13older they usually get worse gum recession is  damage it is a physical damage of some kind
4. 0:22usually if you can take away the  offending problem recession then
5. 0:28can heal very quickly your gums will get  healthier and then your gums will begin to
6. 0:35regrow if you keep doing the wrong things  it will simply get worse or it won't get
7. 0:41better so this video is about receding gums  and what you can do to fix them now you may be
8. 0:52thinking that you don't have receding gums maybe  you've never been told about your gum health if
9. 0:58you are 30 years old be aware you may already  have problems starting particularly if you've
10. 1:06done anything like whitening your teeth using  baking soda or peroxide or if at some point your
11. 1:12gums were bleeding so hang with me here and let  me explain how receding gums occur and how you can
12. 1:21prevent that from happening to you and becoming  a real problem and also if you have receded gums
13. 1:28what are your options what can you do well you  can ignore it again if you don't know you have
14. 1:35gum recession you can just turn off this video  or listen and realize that prevention is adopting
15. 1:42the plan for reversing the problem before it  starts that's basically what prevention is
16. 1:51taking the steps that keep your gums healthy  and if you already have recession then using
17. 1:57these steps that I'm going to give you to try  to reverse the problems if you do nothing most
18. 2:05people end up with recession problems somewhere in  their mid to late 40s and as they get older they
19. 2:14usually get worse and the result of leaving  it is that your teeth will feel sensitive
20. 2:20they'll be more prone to decay around the edges of  them and this is where you end up needing either a
21. 2:28crown or something that's bigger than a filling  or a very difficult filling or worse yet that
22. 2:36you need to have a root canal or have the tooth  extracted so recession isn't something you can
23. 2:41really just ignore the treatment offered today  for recession is sort of a kind of Botox which
24. 2:50puffs up your gums and makes it look better but it  really doesn't deal with the underlying causes you
25. 2:57can have grafting which is kind of like plastic  surgery again if you still got the problem in
26. 3:04your mouth why would you do this you go through  all the pain and suffering of grafting maybe skin
27. 3:11from the roof of your mouth to go over the sides  of your front teeth but the problem is if you
28. 3:17don't figure out why you have recession which is  what I'm going to talk about it's simply going to
29. 3:23come back you'll pay your money it's usually quite  expensive you'll go through the pain and suffering
30. 3:30can be quite nasty too and then 5 10 15 years  later you will definitely be readressing the same
31. 3:39problem and after you've done grafting or this  kind of pinhole as they call it or puffing up the
32. 3:46gums surgery usually you'll be in a worse state  15 years from now so I recommend that everybody
33. 3:57considers how you can work to reverse recession  whether or not you've even been told you have
34. 4:06recession so were you told you couldn't reverse  your gum recession many people are told this and
35. 4:14I'm going to try and explain to you why you can  reverse gum recession with the right strategies i
36. 4:22suggest like I always suggest with everything why  don't you use the interval between this moment and
37. 4:30your next dental appointment to see what you can  do just give this a try maybe it's only a month or
38. 4:38two months or three months but I want to tell you  one thing if you find your mouth health is going
39. 4:43in a new direction that your teeth feel smoother  your gums feel better just keep going and you will
40. 4:50see improvements many people have been told they  caused the gum recession with poor toothbrushing
41. 4:58or they brush the enamel of their teeth too hard  first of all healthy tooth enamel doesn't wear
42. 5:06away healthy tooth enamel is harder than steel  it has a MO pH hardness of five you can look that
43. 5:16up you can Google search and steel you will find  metal has a MO hardness number of 4.5 if you have
44. 5:25a toothbrush it's not going to wear your teeth  away if your enamel is hard is healthy is how it's
45. 5:33supposed to be i'm not saying I'm not calling your  dentist a liar i'm just saying that most dentists
46. 5:40see patients whose enamel is not healthy and that  is because most patients do not know they need to
47. 5:48mouth rest after eating they don't use xylitol  and they don't use my complete mouth care system
48. 5:57or the products that I recommend that bring your  enamel into its peak hardness when your enamel is
49. 6:04hard you will be able to brush your teeth and  your gums which we're going to talk about in a
50. 6:09minute with enthusiasm with vigor and effectively  and do gum massage and everything in your mouth
51. 6:17that will help your gums to recover and regrow  but you have to get your enamel healthy first
52. 6:24and in order to do that you have to understand  that acidity always softens your teeth so if
53. 6:32you're sipping and snacking all day whether it's  on sparkling water soda coffee tea particularly
54. 6:42anything that has a citrus factor if it's got  a little bit of lemon you're going to soften
55. 6:47your teeth you're literally pulling the minerals  out of your teeth and leaving them vulnerable to
56. 6:53being worn away so yes your dentist is right in  one respect if you have unhealthy enamel you have
57. 7:01the potential to wear it away by brushing he will  then recommend to you or she will recommend to you
58. 7:07a soft toothbrush when you have a soft toothbrush  you're not going to be able to do gum massage and
59. 7:15if you can't do gum massage and massage your gums  get the circulation the lymphatic drainage the
60. 7:22movement we need in your gums you're going to get  gum recession that isn't going to be reversible
61. 7:30you must get your enamel healthy by mouth resting  and by using good products and the products I
62. 7:38recommend in my complete mouth care system would  be my recommendation once you have looked after
63. 7:43your tooth enamel you are going to be able to use  a better toothbrush and I recommend a flossing
64. 7:51toothbrush that is quite resilient and I do this  because you're going to need to massage your gums
65. 7:57with it so taking that aside we have now opened  the door to the possibility of you being able to
66. 8:06do gum massage correct mouth care mouth resting  which is when you eat and drink and then have a
67. 8:14period of time after your meal where you do not  eat or drink and you're using xylitol especially
68. 8:22after meals before this mouth resting period so  that your saliva is full of minerals and immune
69. 8:33cells and xylitol feeds the good bacteria in your  mouth so that it helps your gums to regrow all
70. 8:41right so that is an is one strategy that you have  to get your head around that is different from
71. 8:49what you've been told the second part of this if  you're trying to reverse gum recession is that it
72. 8:58all depends on the health of the gums between your  teeth and for this I'm going to show you a little
73. 9:05analogy if you have a necklace and you want to  raise it up at its lowest level you can't push it
74. 9:15up and your gums are the same i have people trying  to massage their gums up it's not going to work
75. 9:24you get your bottom curvature of your gums  the part that's receded too low to come up by
76. 9:34actually pulling on the sides raising the side up  will bring your gum level up so I hope that helps
77. 9:45you understand that it is the gum tissue between  the teeth that is so important and so vulnerable
78. 9:53and so valuable vulnerable and valuable for  regrowth of the receded part that's at the
79. 10:03bottom of the curve so we're looking at massaging  the gums between the teeth and all around and that
80. 10:11does go actually below the curvature part and  on it everywhere i want you to be able to brush
81. 10:18everywhere one of the reasons I tell you this is  that if you are an avid flosser and you're jamming
82. 10:25the floss in and out between your teeth you will  be beating down this tissue between your teeth
83. 10:32and a lot of women end up with gum recession they  don't understand it they do more flossing and the
84. 10:39gum recession will simply keep getting worse  i tell those women men too if they're they're
85. 10:46they're doing it but it's usually the women who  are so compliant stop flossing let's use liquids
86. 10:55if you're using my complete mouth care system the  liquids are going to be swished in and out between
87. 11:00your teeth and that will do the flossing without  any risk of causing these high points between your
88. 11:08teeth to get beaten down so if your gums bleed  I if you're worried and you're flossing because
89. 11:15you've been told that your gums bleed and you need  to floss more I am still going to tell you in my
90. 11:22opinion you will have more success by retiring the  floss and I'll tell you here I haven't flossed a
91. 11:30day in my life i use flossing toothbrush bristles  to remove food to clean around and mostly to do
92. 11:40this gum massage that is so important for the  health of your gums if your gums are bleeding
93. 11:47you need to stimulate a healing response inside  the gum tissue imagine you grazed your knee you
94. 11:57don't run for a length of string to rub over your  knee you your body actually calls for stem cells
95. 12:06and blood vessels to grow and heal the wound and  regrow the skin and that's what the gum massage
96. 12:14does it stimulates a healing response in the gum  tissues it actually calls for new blood vessels to
97. 12:23grow to that area that you're vibrating with  the toothbrush and new blood vessels and new
98. 12:30cells will come there now some people are scared  to brush because they've been told they wore their
99. 12:36gums away i would say to those people give me one  other place on your body where you brush it or rub
100. 12:46it a little more and it becomes thinner as far  as I know when I do gardening things and I rub
101. 12:54my hands more it develops calluses when I write  and my pen rubs against my finger I don't see the
102. 13:01bone through my finger i see a fatter piece of  skin the bottom of your feet we rub on them all
103. 13:07day long what do they do they get thicker so this  idea that because you brush your gums get thinner
104. 13:16in my opinion is completely flawed and I pay no  attention to it i teach gum massage and people
105. 13:24have seen spectacular results i know you've been  told to floss because if your gums bleed you need
106. 13:32to toughen them up i would suggest that the PFAS  chemicals in floss the trauma simply by beating
107. 13:41your gums with it does not help water flossing  i prefer to use rinses because you have so much
108. 13:49more control and it's going to go everywhere  in your mouth in in a better way without the
109. 13:55pressures and the pressure points that sometimes  water flossers put in the wrong place our goal
110. 14:02is to grow this tissue back up between the teeth  and one of the ways that helps is again I'm going
111. 14:12to go back to the idea of xylitol because xylitol  in addition to all the other great things it does
112. 14:19like stimulating a flow of saliva and feeding  good bacteria it actually also makes plaque
113. 14:27less adhesive so you don't get it stuck by your  gums and the other reason gums bleed usually if
114. 14:36it's not because they're not healing well enough  it's because they got plaques stuck on them and
115. 14:41if you're using the adequate amount of xylitol  that plaque will go away you don't need floss
116. 14:48to make it go away it will be eliminated i have  zero plaque forming bacteria in my mouth so you
117. 14:56can get there too it requires a little bit of  xylitol at the end of every eating and drinking
118. 15:02period followed by mouth resting and if you can  do that four or five times a day you will end
119. 15:11up with no plaque very quickly your gums will get  healthier and then your gums will begin to regrow
120. 15:20now that said I also have to warn you that you  need to find out like any forensic investigation
121. 15:29why do you have gum recession so possibly the  most important thing for anyone with gum recession
122. 15:37who's been told they've got gum recession or  thinks they've got gum recession is to figure out
123. 15:43why you have to do a forensic look at why this has  occurred you either had a very acidic mouth or you
124. 15:55over flossed and beat the call the tissue between  your teeth down and that caused your gums to go
125. 16:03down it can be chemical maybe you're whitening  your teeth with peroxide or baking soda is another
126. 16:11thing that strips your teeth of its protection and  can leave your gums in danger so if you have been
127. 16:19using a baking soda toothpaste peroxide whitening  if you have been using a lot of acidity in your
128. 16:26mouth for some reason some people rinse with  cider vinegar they're told that's healthy it It
129. 16:32can cause dreadful gum recession i mean really  bad aggressive gum recession heavy deposits of
130. 16:40plaque because you were a snacker a sipper you  never rested your mouth all day long these are
131. 16:47all reasons for gum recession and they're easy  because all of those things can be changed you
132. 16:54can stop doing them right now if you've been  going for dental cleanings every two or three
133. 17:00months thinking it was a healthy thing to do too  many cleanings good for the dentist's pocketbook
134. 17:08but I believe it strips away the healthy bofilm  and there are much gentler safer ways to keep
135. 17:16your teeth clean and healthy with the right kind  of mouth care routines i would suggest you look
136. 17:23into my complete mouth care system so now this  brings us to the really tricky place what if none
137. 17:30of those things ring a bell maybe you're using  my complete mouth care system maybe you mouth
138. 17:35rest very well every day your nutrition is good  your health is good but you have this recession
139. 17:42and maybe you're young maybe you're old it doesn't  matter why is it happening the next place I look
140. 17:48is your nasal health do you have sinus problems  do you have allergies are you taking medications
141. 17:54medications for the allergies or the sinus because  if it's drying up your mouth if it's drying up
142. 18:01your saliva you're not getting those salivary  benefits so look into that saliva also dries up
143. 18:08if you've been started to take blood pressure  pills sometimes it's something like that or
144. 18:14anti-depressants so try and see when this started  try and see if you could identify a medication you
145. 18:22began at that time or as I say a sinus issue or an  accident where your nose was broken or there are
146. 18:32usually some indications of why you can correct  that in any way talk to your doctor about the
147. 18:38medications that are drying your mouth see what  else you can do use more xylitol those would be
148. 18:44ways around it now dry mouth can occur you may  not even be aware if you move to an arid dry
149. 18:51climate maybe you're living in the desert now and  you used to live in Seattle Washington that can
150. 18:57cause a change in your mouth health you may need  to have some sort of humidifier in your room at
151. 19:03night especially if you breathe through your mouth  if you if you sleep with your mouth open or that
152. 19:08time of night where your saliva is at its worst  so those are things to think about straight away
153. 19:14breathing through your mouth doesn't necessarily  create a problem if you're using my complete mouth
154. 19:20care system it's usually adequate to give your  mouth enough protection if you're not if you're
155. 19:29using some fancy $25 toothpaste that's good for  teeth and not for gums be careful because there
156. 19:36are ingredients in some of these toothpaste  that are good for teeth and bad for your gums
157. 19:43arginine is one in particular that I think you  should be very careful of along with baking soda
158. 19:48and anything with peroxide so that said just I  recommend a complete mouth care system that I'm
159. 19:55comfortable with if you live in a country without  the complete mouth care system my next best choice
160. 20:00would be a miswax stick i love them i think  they're great we're at a point now where we've
161. 20:06gone through a lot of things and it still doesn't  ring a bell with you my next question to you would
162. 20:11be did you have orthodontics done in the past do  you wear a retainer are you using a night guard
163. 20:20did you start Invisalign in other words did you  recently mess with your occlusion and I think we
164. 20:28can add into that now because the materials they  that people are using for implants and crowns are
165. 20:37so hard today they are rock hard and if you have  a new implant it could have affected your bite
166. 20:48and if you've had orthodontic work done it may  have affected the way your teeth bite together
167. 20:54and it is that crunching on a tooth that can cause  the damage you see a really important thing to
168. 21:03remember if you remember nothing else remember  this gum recession is not a disease cavities are
169. 21:11a disease periodontal disease gingivitis they are  diseases bacteria they can be cured by getting rid
170. 21:20of the disease gum recession is damage it is a  physical damage of some kind and this damage has
171. 21:30been done by chemicals it can be damaged from  chemicals produced by bacteria but it is damage
172. 21:39and this damage can be caused by a bad bite and I  would encourage you if you've explored all these
173. 21:46other options that we've looked at today to go  and try and find a dentist who knows something
174. 21:53about biting it's called occlusion and one of  the most respected dentists in dentistry did
175. 22:01a podcast this week lamenting the fact that today  dentists don't understand occlusion and the vital
176. 22:11importance of how your teeth bite together so try  and find a dentist who's experienced try and find
177. 22:18an orthodontist who has years of experience ask  them uh protothodontists are dentists who have
178. 22:27particular expertise in occlusion usually they  know about this so if you are able to get to a
179. 22:35hospital a teaching hospital a dental hospital  that has a prostadontic department that might
180. 22:42be a way to go there and ask them if they see  anything about your occlusion that could be
181. 22:48causing the recession of course you would expect  that your gum specialists your periodontists would
182. 22:58be the people to go to but I'm not sure how much  acclusal knowledge is being taught to perodontists
183. 23:06i hope it is but I want you at least to know that  there are these different specialties in dentistry
184. 23:14and learn the difference and if you're getting gum  recession that's not getting cured not reversing
185. 23:22before you have surgeries or lose teeth or just  give up see somebody who knows about how your
186. 23:32teeth bite together and I'm hoping that in the  future this will be perhaps a specialty of its own
187. 23:38and finally if you find you grind your teeth or  you find yourself biting on a particular tooth
188. 23:44at night it could be something to do with your  airway so see a sleep specialist or an airway
189. 23:52specialist and just make sure that you don't have  a restricted airway because sometimes grinding
190. 24:00your teeth is a signal that you actually have  airway obstruction and your body is basically
191. 24:06trying to wake you up to do something about it so  that's another avenue to explore uh along with all
192. 24:14these others but usually if you can take away the  offending problem whether it's flossing bleaching
193. 24:24snacking and sipping bad mouth care products or  something wrong with your occlusion and and and
194. 24:32I by taking it away I don't mean get a night  guard i mean figure out what is the problem
195. 24:39maybe it's taking out the night guard and letting  your teeth just find their way back to where they
196. 24:44want to bite but recession then can heal so  I'm sure there are some of you out there with
197. 24:51questions it's a very worrisome topic especially  if you're in the middle of it and you're fighting
198. 24:57with it and if you're young i had a gentleman  the other day 39 years old and his back teeth
199. 25:02don't bite together and he's been working to  try and get his gums to regrow but they won't
200. 25:07regrow if his teeth don't bite properly so if  you have questions please leave them below um
201. 25:15ask for help so I will do whatever I can to try  in video form or answering your questions below
202. 25:23to help you figure this out and figure out for  yourself how you can reverse the problems but
203. 25:29don't forget it may be quicker and easier  for you to go and have somebody look at the
204. 25:36way your teeth bite together if you suspect  that you had a tooth taken out or you had
205. 25:42things done when you were younger that this  is the reason go see an orthodontist go and
206. 25:48get an evaluation there's an academy called the  Dorson Academy and they specialize in occlusion
207. 25:56you may want to try and find a Dorson Academy  graduate as a dentist who has studied occlusion
208. 26:04to look at your mouth these are some of the  best suggestions I have right now beyond maybe
209. 26:10finding an airway specialist a dentist who is an  airway specialist that would be another way to go
210. 26:16because they could also look at your occlusion  so if you're ready to start to get rid of these
211. 26:22problems and change your mouth health get started  today that very simple three very simple things
212. 26:29will help you a lot and you'll find them all  in the next video on biohacking dental problems