Anyone doing oil pulling with coconut oil?

(Bob M) #1

I have searched for this here, and there are some references to oil pulling, but there’s no real discussion of oil pulling, only a few posts buried in other threads.

I am one of those folks who for some reason produce a lot of plaque. It went away largely for a while, and I was using non-fluoridated toothpaste at the time. I believe I started the (what is probably a bad) habit of having chocolate chips with yogurt or possibly fake pudding (with fake sugar, where I’m using allulose now). I can’t find chocolate chips I like with fake sugar: either they taste bad or the fake sugar they use affects me.

I switched drugs and I started using this toothpaste:

The Nano Hydroxyapatite supposedly helps your teeth to remineralize without the possible side effects of fluoride.

My dentist started complaining about the deposits on my teeth. Plaque is bad. Could be the drugs, the chocolate, the toothpaste, some combination. I am trying to quit my chocolate chip habit, but it’s my only vice now: a small amount of chips on yogurt or a pudding with fake sugar (allulose).

So, I decided I’d try oil pulling with coconut oil.

What I’m doing now: swishing coconut oil in my mouth for as long as I can stand it (10-15 minutes), then spitting it out, and swishing some water around and spitting it out. I’m not brushing, though am flossing.

I’m testing whether the toothpaste could actually be causing or at least not helping. I do have non-fluoride and non-Hydroxyapatite I could use, though. (The same stuff I used before I went to the Hydroxyapatite toothpaste.)

I see tons of different ways of doing oil pulling. If you’re doing oil pulling, how are you doing it? Are you still brushing? If so, when (before or after oil pulling)?

(KM) #2

I tried making my own hydroxyapatite paste with baking soda And coconut oil and a drop of mint extract. I’d first floss, then brush with it and then spit it out (with some relief). Rinse and then swish a bit more in my mouth and spit out without rinsing. it was a short lived experiment; the baking soda worked fine as a polish that keeps plaque under control, but I’m not sure if the coconut oil or the apatite had much effect.

(Bonnie Bruno) #3

I swish coconut oil in my mouth and make sure I am “forcing” it through my teeth.

I floss at night and get much better results with Dr. TUNGS floss; I actually double up the floss rather than using it single strand and I brush with nonflouride tooth paste 2x a day.

I eat HU dark chocolate with salt (regular sugar).

I also use Oral B and a Philip Sonic electric tooth brushes, I alternate every few days.

I have better than average dental hygiene appts that are less time and less scraping.

Hope this helps…

(Bob M) #4

@kib1 That’s interesting that you can make your own. I started using this toothpaste when a dentist I follow suggested it. He also suggested “mouth taping”, which I did too, but that didn’t help.

@Bonnie_Bruno Thank you. I’ve never heard of HU dark chocolate. I’ll have to look at that.

Do you do the oil pulling first then brush? Or the other way around?

(Ethan) #5

I think flouride in water is a bad thing but flouride is toothpastes and mouthwash is a good thing. Flouride really does protect teeth. There is flouride in soil and trace amounts in many of the vegetables and fruits we eat and our bodies do use small amounts in our bones and teeth. IMO, its not something to avoid in dental care.

A game changer for teeth is a mouthwash called Clorsys which contains stabilized Chlorine Dioxide. There is a flouridated and non-flouridated version. I use the flouridated and it totally changed my dental check outcomes once I started using it.

(Bonnie Bruno) #6

Oil first for about 10ish minutes 1x a day then I brush.