Periodontal disease is caused by both regular sized bacteria and ultramicrobacteria
Treatment is a two pronged solution because plaque and periodontal disease are caused by both normal bacteria and plaque bacteria. Normal bacteria grow in a pH under 7.4 and plaque bacteria grow in a ph over 7.4. The solution to this dilemma is to stop normal bacteria when they do the most damage and stop plaque bacteria when they do the most damage. Normal bacteria do the most damage in the sleeping hours. Plaque bacteria do the most damage during the day hours, mainly after beverages or meals. The maintenance process can be called integrative therapy. During sleep, there is very little saliva to grow plaque. There is very little saliva to keep bacteria from growing. As a result, large concentrations of bacteria enter the mouth during the night. When the body awakes, the mouth has a foul odor and there is a film of bacteria on the surfaces of the teeth. Current oral hygiene products are able to address the nightime infiltration of bacteria. The problem that oral hygiene products can not and does not address is the formation of dental plaque during the day. Oral hygiene products can not kill plaque bacteria. In fact, they initiate growth of plaque due to plaque bacteria.
Plaque prevention
Review of the conditions that form dental plaque are increase pH, magnetic field that attracts calcium and water that contains calcium and plaque bacteria. Prevention of plaque is to change the conditions to lower the pH, change the polarity of the magnetic field and change the ions in water. Changing the pH to under 7.4 can be accomplished by using safe concentration of acids. Acids are solutions that contain extra protons. The extra protons buffer or neutralize the excess amount of electrons that are found in an alkaline solution. Changing the magnetic field to repel calcium can also be done by introducing safe acids into the environment. Plaque is formed when the magnetic field is pointing to the earth's magnetic south pole. This condition is the same as a north pole magnet that makes saliva and blood alkaline. The solution is to change the magnetic field to one that is attracted to the north pole by making the saliva and blood neutral or acidic. Water can be changed by using magnets to change the alkaline water to acid water. Treatment for pH is the same as for magnetic fields, which is the same as for water. Three separate problems are interlinked to have the same solution. Treatment for dental plaque prevents calcium formation but also initiates bacteria growth. The ultimate solution is to prevent pathogenic bacteria from growing while preventing plaque. The goal of Biotechnology is to accomplish both without use of antibacterial agents. Biotech products can be used as supplements to help prevent periodontal disease.
Supplemental enzymes and antioxidants
Enzymes are needed to digest food particles after meals. Without food particles, bacteria can not form toxins. Without toxins, gingivitis that initiates plaque formation can not occur. Enzymes are necessary in today's world because foods purchased at the Supermarket lack enzymes to digest them. Processed food adds preservatives, food coloring, and other agents to make the food presentable to the public. Processing food destroys many of the necessary enzymes needed for digestion. Fresh foods need to be cooked to destroy bacteria. Cooking destroys enzymes necessary to digest foods. Supplemental enzymes, vitamins and minerals are a booming market because food lack natural enzymes and coenzymes to digest today's foods. Supplements are introduced into the gut where they bypass the oral cavity. Enzymes and coenzymes (vitamins and minerals) should be introduced into the oral cavity first to provide proper digestion. Enzymes and coenzymes should be introduced into an oral rinse or in toothpaste. Plant enzymes are needed to digest plant foods and proteolytic enzymes are needed to digest meat and milk products. Vitamins and minerals are necessary to promote proper enzyme action. Enzymes are proteins that grab onto substrates of food particles and breaks down the large particles into smaller particles. This uncoupling action makes the smaller particles easy to digest. Without enzymes, food particles remain to be attacked by pathogenic bacteria to turn into toxins. The toxins are the beginning of gingivitis and periodontal disease.
Dental Plaque and periodontal disease is the result of oxidation in the oral cavity. Oxidation is due to oxidants that make the body fluids in the oral cavity alkaline. Oxidation of food particles cause decay that are attacked by pathogenic bacteria. The solution to oxidants is antioxidants. Antioxidants are protein enzymes that tie up the unpaired electron that is the cause of oxidation. The immune system produces antioxidants to combat oxidants called free radicals in the blood and lymph fluid. When the immune system becomes weak, as in older people, supplements of antioxidants are needed. Yet, antioxidants are taken in pill forms that bypass the oral cavity. The oral cavity needs help by supplemental antioxidants just as the inner body needs antioxidants.
Probiotics
Probiotics may be the best natural supplement to prevent periodontal disease. Probiotics is nature's way of controlling pathogenic bacteria. The law of nature is that all species should live in harmony in their enviroment. To keep one specie from overpopulating the environment, nature has created competition among species. The competition is called competitive exclusion. Competitive exclusion is where two similar species fight for the same limited resources. The one that is most comfortable in the environment will eliminate the other specie. This battle is a selective process because nature did not intend for different specie to fight against each other. In humans, plants and animals, pathogenic bacteria compete against beneficial bacteria. They are called beneficial bacteria because they benefit the host by promoting cell growth. They are called pathogenic because they harm the host by destroying cell growth. When the beneficial bacteria and pathogenic bacteria are of equal population, neither specie dominates. It is when the pathogenic bacteria dominate and control the environment that there is disease. Pathogenic bacteria influence the other bacteria to become pathogens so that the population is overpopulated with pathogenic bacteria. This condition is called dysbiosis, which means an imbalance of pathogenic bacteria to beneficial bacteria. In the oral cavity, dysbiosis results in pathogenic bacteria causing gingivitis, the precurser to periodontal disease. By introducing high concentrations of beneficial bacteria back into the oral cavity, the balance is restored and the pathogens are not able to cause gingivitis. Beneficial bacteria control pathogens by another way, which is enzyme war between the two specie. Similar bacteria posess the same kind of enzymes to block cell breathing of their foe. Beneficial bacteria release enzymes that block energy transfer to stop the proton pump needed for cell breathing. The pathogen suffocates and dies from lack of energy. The beneficial bacteria can then influence the other bacteria to become beneficial bacteria. The balance of dysbiosis switches and the disease is reversed. Once the beneficial bacteria take over the environment, they can starve the pathogens by hoarding the natural resources that the pathogens need. Probiotics not only control pathogenic bacteria but they keep plaque bacteria from forming calcium crystals. Calcium crystals can be formed only in an alkaline environment that has a pH above 7.6. Probiotic bacteria are fermentation bacteria that produce acids to lower the pH to being acidic. In an acid environment, plaque bacteria return back to spores. Calcium carbonate crystals are changed to calcium bicarbonate that is water soluble and does not form crystals. Probiotics is the one Biotech product that is able to prevent plaque formation and control pathogenic bacteria at the same time. By using probiotics, there is no need for enzyme supplements and antioxidant supplements. Beneficial bacteria have the enzymes to digest all three food substances of protein, fat and carbohydrates. Beneficial bacteria produce antioxidants to prevent oxidation in saliva, blood and lymph fluids in the oral cavity. When it comes to treating dental plaque and periodontal disease, probiotics is the complete supplement. As a bonus, probiotics is a water purifier. It comes as no surprise that probiotics can do all these things because beneficial bacteria have been used to fight pathogens that cause disease in plants and animals. Beneficial bacteria are used to clean wastewater. Beneficial bacteria are used to provide the nutrients in contaminated soil. Beneficial bacteria are used to breakdown odor in the animal and poultry industry. Beneficial bacteria are nature's solution to preventing dental disease.
Supplemental water
Treatment for dental plaque and periodontal disease has to include water. Water is the transport that brings plaque bacteria into the oral cavity and is the media that creates the magnetic field of plaque bacteria in saliva, blood and lymph fluid. Tap water is alkaline and a potential for plaque. Tap water carries calcium that can be turned into plaque. The solution to tap water is to change the ionization. Alkaline water has a high concentration of electrons. South pole magnets can be used to neutralize the excess electrons and make the water have a higher concentration of protons. The change in ionization will make the magnetic field of plaque bacteria repel calcium. Magnets are being used to prevent scale buildup in wastewater lines. Dental plaque can be thought of as scale because scale are also calcium deposits. Scale may be caused by plaque bacteria. Robert Folk believes that all mineral deposits may be caused by plaque bacteria. Another way to look at dental plaque is that it is rust and corrosion in the oral cavity. Rust is oxidation of metals in water. Prevention of rust is to use ionized water.
Other supplements
The human body uses magnesium to replace calcium. Minerals replace other minerals. For example, sodium replaces potassium and magnesium replaces calcium. Magnesium supplements are used in heart conditions because arteriosclerosis is caused by calcium deposits that block the coronary arteries. Magnesium replaces the calcium and does not form plaque crystals. The one physical property of magnesium is that it does not readily crystallize. Magnesium supplements may be used in the oral cavity to displace calcium.
Calcium deposits do not form in blood because there are blood inhibitors. Osteocalcin and osteopontin are two key inhibitors of calcium formation in blood. The way that they repel calcium is due to their amino acid configuration. The sequence of arginine glycine and aspartine is called RGD. This sequence makes the protein blood inhibitors prevent plaque formation. By using FBS (Fetal Bovine Serum) in the oral cavity, there should be prevention of plaque formation. Kajander found that in vitro, he could not form plaque when the media contained bovine or human blood serum.
Certain foods and beverages prevent plaque formation. They are called fermentation foods. These foods have been treated with probiotic bacteria to age to be bring out the nutrients. This aging process lowers the pH to prevent plaque formation. Yogurt, pickle juice, apple cider, venegar, buttermilk and even fine wine will lower the pH to prevent plaque. It is important to remember that most products that lower the pH, make the environment favorable for adult bacteria growth. It is for this reason that probiotics may be the best supplement to prevent plaque and periodontal disease.
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Plaque bacteria have been discovered only during the last decade but the existence of resistant spores that cause diseases have been taught for over one hundred and fifty years. The theory is called pleomorphism.
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