Silver Tongue Oral Care

All-Natural, high quality ingredients

Including

• True Colloidal Nanosilver
• Xylitol (from birch trees)
• Grapefruit Seed Extract
• Organic Sunflower Lecithin

Plus, essential oils of

• Cinnamon
• Peppermint
• Rosemary
• Lemon
• Myrrh
• Thyme
• Clove
• Eucalyptus

Silver Tongue Oral Care is used by dentists and other health practitioners

The following video shows gum scrapings from two different patients under the microscope (pre-STO-irrigation and post-STO-irrigation). What you're seeing in the pre-irrigation footage is a variety of microbes thriving on food debris and gum tissue. The samples collected are from periodontal disease patients. The treatments were performed by Nunnally Freeman & Owens Dentistry, of Marble Falls, Texas.

Discussion

The mouth, or oral cavity, is an ideal environment and home for a host of microorganisms. It is warm, moist, nutrient-rich, riddled with tight spaces and crevasses, and consistently bathed in a relatively neutral pH, saliva. Most or these microorganisms are beneficial and, in fact, essential for oral health. They live in a symbiotic state mutually beneficial to one another and the host. While this symbiosis is usually stable, changes in microbiota balance where populations "bad" microorganisms' get out of control can lead to maladies such as halitosis (bad breath), gingivitis or periodontal disease. So having a mouth free of microorganisms is not beneficial to oral health and should not be the goal. Maintaining the “good” oral microorganisms at normal levels is. Many of oral hygiene products on the market are focused on their activity as a strong, general antimicrobial material. They are likely to contain alcohols, synthetic terpenes, synthetic polymers, synthetic sweeteners, synthetic flavors, and a myriad of other synthetic compounds. How conducive do you think this synthetic soup is a maintaining this delicate balance of oral microorganisms? We're not very optimistic about it. Having a healthy populations of “good” oral microorganisms is one of our first lines of defense against “bad” microbes from gaining a foothold.

This complex, interacting community of microorganisms in the mouth forms biofilms on many of its surfaces. These films exhibit emergent properties resulting in many positive functions and increased resistance to antimicrobial agents and other stresses. However, two of the most significant drivers that push stable, symbiotic, oral microorganism populations out of whack are pH and nutrient status. Diet is a major factors affecting both drivers. For example, diets with high levels of sugars and carbohydrates experience more acidic pH shifts in the oral cavity. This in turn leads to a significant increase in acid-tolerating bacteria and the displacement of oral-health-associated, neutral-pH-loving bacteria.

Bottom line, oral hygiene starts with what you put in your mouth and a diet low in sugars and simple carbohydrates is very helpful. Regular brushing, flossing, irrigating (e.g. using a water pik) is also very important as it removes excess nutrients from the mouth that can disrupt the balance of microorganisms in our mouth. Also, the oral care products we choose can have a very big impact on our overall oral health.

Silver Tongue Oral Care in use

Microscopy footage courtesy of Nunnally Freeman & Owens Dentistrty, of Marble Falls, Texas

Image courtesey of Elizabeth Rayne, DDS of Austin Texas