When I started hosting the show eight years ago,
I'm an ER doctor never really thought about how oral health
affects overall health.
And we found out all these massive connections
between oral health, diabetes, heart health.
And then also I started to learn very quickly
that my love affair with coffee and beer,
all these things so acidic,
this is really damaging my enamel.
So talk about that
'cause I never thought about this big issue until probably
two years into hosting the show.
Well most people don't, I men people drinking
acidic drinks, it's juices, diet sodas, sports drinks,
they have no idea how acidic these drinks are.
And what they're doing is the acid
is just pulling the calcium out of the teeth
and eroding the teeth slowly.
If you look at that chart, look at the bottom,
battery acid is a one pH.
you start losing enamel at 5.5.
So anything below that marker, you can see is affecting
your teeth in a negative way.
The one that worries me, number one,
the beer and wine at 4.0, that's below 5.5,
but I've gotten into, I don't know about all you,
I talk about a great alternative to soda is sparkling water.
(laughing)
It's 3.9, do I need to be worried about that?
It depends on what you do after you drink.
Well, I sometimes drink it right before I go to bed
and brush my teeth, I'm I doing a bad thing?
Well, you wanna wait at least an hour
after you've had some acidic meal
or an acidic drink to brush your teeth
because that acid is softening the enamel structure.
And then when you brush immediately after,
you're brushing away and you're not brushing it a ton,
but over time it has a massive effect.
So people look at this chart
and look at everything below 5.5,
if you're using or drinking that,
or eating that,
do not brush your teeth for at least an hour after now.
There are things you can do, though.
Let's say you do have one of these beverages,
let's say I rock a mineral water, sparkling mineral water,
and I don't wanna stay up for an hour,
what can I do?
For 10 seconds, take a glass of water
and just swish it around.
That's gonna help neutralize it.
Who here has ever had their tooth pulled.
people even trying to said, ooh.
(laughing)
Not something most of us look forward to,
but now there's a brand new tool
that claims to revolutionize this process.
And luckily we have cosmetic dentist, Dr. Joe Willardsen
in our audience to explain what this new method is
and how it's different.
When you see the video, you might be a little squeamish,
but this first part, that's pretty typical.
That's what we always do when we take out a tooth,
but this is where it gets interesting.
So we're putting an anchor inside the tooth
and then attaching that anchor to a pulley system.
And what's happening is rather going side to side,
it's actually gonna pull it straight out of the socket.
So I know this looks bad,
but it's actually a lot less invasive
than the old traditional way of pliers
and all the regular dental tools that we're afraid of.
So the point you're making is by that side to side motion,
you're leaving more of that, that socket or root.
Yeah, you're preserving that socket.
So now when we go in and do a bone graft
or put an implant in all the ginger is intact.
Everything looks good.
It's usually for broken teeth or broken roots
or something that's really been broken down.
But if it's a cosmetic thing that we're trying to fix
while we're taking a tooth out and putting an implant in
this is by far what I see as being a better alternatives.
I've been grinding my teeth now for about 10 years.
I've gone to the dentist with symptoms of needing a crown
or a root canal,
but the dentist informs me that I'm wearing away the enamel
on my teeth simply by grinding them at night.
Is there a way to stop grinding
or to at least lessen the grinding?
Longterm grinding is no good.
So we reached out to dentist,
Dr. Chris Strandburg for some tips to help stop the grind.
I heard you wanna know a little bit about teeth grinding.
(grinding)
You can have bad consequences from grinding your teeth.
You can break your teeth, you can get morning headaches,
it can cause permanent jaw joint pain.
But I've got some tips for you
that I think will really help.
Tip number one, botox.
Believe it or not putting botox in your jaw muscles
can really help you.
That shrinks the size of your jaw muscles
so that they don't develop as much pressure
and less pressure grinding
means less chance you're gonna break a tooth.
Number two medications,
anti-anxiety medications in a lot of people
cause tooth grinding at night.
There're all good alternatives.
Check with your doctor.
You might be able to find a medication that helps you
with your anxiety and won't make you grind your teeth.
Number three, you've got to reduce your stress.
Having a relaxation period an hour before bed
where you wind down is really helpful.
Also you've got to avoid extra caffeine and alcohol
'cause both of those can cause you to grind your teeth
throughout the night.
So if you relax a little bit,
I think they'll sleep really well
without grinding your teeth.
If you're talking many times about crazy trends
on the show,
but this next one may just take the cake.
The internet is flooded with videos
claiming to be able to teach people
how to get a perfect smile using homemade braces.
These online tutorials give step by step instructions
on how to allegedly straighten your teeth using dental floss
or rubber band.
What'd you do is tie the dental floss around your teeth.
It sure seems like a great deal for a glowing gap
for your smile
but could this DIY trend ruin your smile for good?
And joining us is cosmetic dentist, Dr. Kourosh Maddahi.
He's gonna talk with us about some of these dangers,
because this does not seem like a good idea.
Not at all, not at all.
You know, Travis, what's interesting is moving teeth
is not very difficult.
So you can push with your tongue on the back of your teeth
and overtime you can move your teeth outward.
You know, that's a good and a bad thing
because the good thing is, in the right hands,
you can slowly move teeth to get them in position.
But the problem is, if you're doing a DIY,
you can legitimately move your teeth
into the wrong places, right?
That's right.
So when you're moving teeth,
there is a jaw and then teeth come together.
So your bite can be damaged as a result of it.
And if the bite is off hitting one tooth
or the other tooth too much,
you gonna have gum recession or bone loss.
Teeth become loose, and over time you may lose those teeth.
And the other part of it is that
when you go to an orthodontist
or a dentist and whatever appliances they're using
to move your teeth, none of it goes below your gum.
Because as you move the teeth, gums get inflamed,
they start to overgrow and whatever is near it
is gonna get disappear.
And what you saw in that picture was that rubber band
disappeared underneath the gum,
and now you have to open up the gum
to retrieve that rubber band.
That is no good.
You don't want that.
And the good news is this,
there are more and more options for getting your teeth
into the right place.
It doesn't always have to be braces,
like you said, there are all these new techniques.
So please, in this case, do not do it yourself,
seek a professional's help.
Thank you Dr. Maddahi, we appreciate it.
(audience clapping)
You know whites of your teeth make you frown.
We'll turn that frown upside down
because today's, doctor's prescription
a couple of surprising, natural ways
you can remove surface stains on your teeth,
may even make your teeth appear whiter.
Docs, I'm gonna have you help me out with this prescription
because prescription the foods you can eat pineapple,
oops and papaya.
Give me some of that papaya, please.
Oh he would like papaya.
Give that to Jusy.
Food for thought, thank you.
Two enzymes in here,
Bromelain and propane found in these fruits
may help do the trick docs enjoy,
make your pearly whites wider.
In a double blind study,
researchers brushed their teeth
with bromelain and propane extracts,
which of course are in these fruits
to see if there were lightening effects.
The substance that contained the enzymes
helped remove surface stains on the teeth.
More significantly than a substance
without some research even suggests bromelain
can break down plaque.
Obviously we're not sitting here saying
that if you just eat pineapple all day
but what a great fruit, natural sugars, fiber.
And every time I eat pineapple,
I feel like I'm on a vacation.
