Gum Disease

brook2jack

first things first there are very good reasons why people shouldn't just try coenzyme q10 to see if it helps as ", there are some precautions for certain patients. CoQ10 may decrease blood sugar levels, decreasing the insulin requirements for diabetic patients. There are also reports of increased blood pressure and lowered liver enzymes" also coenzyme q10 interacts with some medications and shouldn't be used if taking

Medications known to interact with Coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone)

anisindione
Coumadin (warfarin)
dicumarol
Jantoven (warfarin)
Miradon (anisindione)
warfarin

This is the danger of advising medicines, food supplements etc on the internet when you have no idea of peoples individual health problems eg diabetes itself can make control of gum disease difficult.

it was not a Dutch company that prosecuted it was the Dutch association of periodontists ie gum disease experts who have no financial intenests other than as clinicians who use clinically proven treatments .

The reason people say coenzyme q10 doesn't work is that reviews of the literature in 1995 and 2010 (British Dental Journal) which looked at all the research over the last forty years stated most of it was poor quality , biased or unpublished so there was no good quality research to indicate that coenzyme q10 had any role to play in treatment of gum disease. In other words the theory has no widely accepted evidence to back it up.

This is why many dentists and gum specialists say it doesn't work because the research does not back up manufacturers claims.

Now there is years of high quality research to say stopping smoking and disruption of the biofilm (cleaning teeth) is critical to controlling gum disease.

Here are some links , just to help periodontal disease is gum disease, some full links are not available unless you subscribe to the journals.





http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v178/n6/abs/4808715a.html
http://www.rdhmag.com/index/display/article-display/1055102596/articles/rdh/volume-31/issue-7/features/periodontitis.html

positivelymummy

C_Mababejive wrote: »

The important thing with electric toothbrushes is using the right technique. Far too many people just waggle it about for 30 seconds and consider it done....the teeth i mean.

i was guilty of that once upon a time, brushing as fast as i could for only about 40 seconds!..

sadly a friend of mine has always moaned that brushing her back teeth makes her gag..i've known this friend for 25 years, at her last appointment dentist told her she will prob lose all her back teeth in next few years as pockets are 8 to 9mm:(....

i agree that time is important, its boring stood over the sink for ages working wi your teeth.....that why i spend ages flossing while watching corrie wi me feet up...much to the annoyance of the rest of the household:rotfl: