toothpaste.... flouride, Novamin

zarak

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sensodyne-Whitening-Repair-Protect-Toothpaste/dp/B008VPSTOA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/sensodyne-repair-and-protect-toothpaste_1_177182.html

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Collins-Restore-Toothpaste-Pack/dp/B00178WRRS


Whats all this buzz about novamin(sp) in here a step up from flouride i saw somewhere.

just curious..... on the hunt for a great toothpaste. right now im using

pronamel daily use

Toothsmith

I wasn't really aware of any NovaMin 'buzz'!

Its a bit of a step up from conventional sensitive toothpastes. Bit more immediate in it's effect.

Fluoride in toothpaste does have a bit of an effect on sensitivity, but it's not really the ingredient that sensitive toothpastes relied on.

Fluoride in toothpaste is there to help prevent decay. NovaMin doesn't do that job. ( but fluoride is in these toothpastes too)

So NovaMin is hardly the 'new fluoride'.

If you have sensitive teeth, then one of these toothpastes might help. If you don't, then just a run of the mill 'total' type toothpaste is as good as you need.

There is nothing 'magic' out there at any price point, and what you do with your brush and interdental cleaners is still the most important thing in tooth cleaning.

zarak

Thanks toothsmith
I'm using sensodyne pronamel
i just wanna make sure im using 'the best' toothpaste for every day 2-3 times a day use.
and this one is sls free
does that make a huge difference at all?
sister uses colgate total

Toothsmith

That's a perfectly good toothpaste.

There probably isn't a 'best' one. There are plenty of good ones. There are a few 'bad' ones.

The 'bad' ones are generally the ones that claim completely unbelievable 'powers' and have a load of fancy marketing. Generally from airhead "Z' list celebs who wouldn't know a good toothpaste from a lump of poo!

If it makes any difference at all, I'm quite a fans of the new Oral B Pro Expert toothpaste. It has some good science behind it. I'm not paid by Oral B, but I do like a lot of their products!

Something they won't like me telling you is that in the Pro Expert range, the 'whitening' the 'total' and the 'sensitive' are all exactly the same thing!

The toothpaste is as effective as others in all those areas, and so they wanted to get it on the shelves in all those categories. So they just put the same thing ( maybe different flavour slightly) in different tubes and boxes, and put it on the shelves in all the categories!

So if you're in the supermarket and find one of them is on offer - buy that one!

zarak

Toothsmith wrote: »

That's a perfectly good toothpaste.

There probably isn't a 'best' one. There are plenty of good ones. There are a few 'bad' ones.

The 'bad' ones are generally the ones that claim completely unbelievable 'powers' and have a load of fancy marketing. Generally from airhead "Z' list celebs who wouldn't know a good toothpaste from a lump of poo!

If it makes any difference at all, I'm quite a fans of the new Oral B Pro Expert toothpaste. It has some good science behind it. I'm not paid by Oral B, but I do like a lot of their products!

Something they won't like me telling you is that in the Pro Expert range, the 'whitening' the 'total' and the 'sensitive' are all exactly the same thing!

The toothpaste is as effective as others in all those areas, and so they wanted to get it on the shelves in all those categories. So they just put the same thing ( maybe different flavour slightly) in different tubes and boxes, and put it on the shelves in all the categories!

So if you're in the supermarket and find one of them is on offer - buy that one!

I wish you were my dentist

browneyedbazzi

I've been using the Oral B pro expert toothpaste for a while now - the only downside I've found is that after using it my cheek lining seems to shed more than usual (I didn't link this to the toothpaste at first, but went away for a weekend and had a different travel toothpaste and no shedding, then it started up again when I got home and went back to the pro expert). From what I understand that isn't actually a problem but it is a bit odd!

Toothsmith

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

I've been using the Oral B pro expert toothpaste for a while now - the only downside I've found is that after using it my cheek lining seems to shed more than usual (I didn't link this to the toothpaste at first, but went away for a weekend and had a different travel toothpaste and no shedding, then it started up again when I got home and went back to the pro expert). From what I understand that isn't actually a problem but it is a bit odd!

There are a few people who seem to have that problem.

SLS in toothpaste can have this effect on some sensitive people - and increase in oral ulceration is a known side effect for some people with SLS (Whether the other horror stories you read on the internet about SLS have any basis is highly questionable, but oral ulceration is a known and proved side effect)

Pro Expert does have SLS in it - but this is probably not the ingredient producing the effect you're describing, as people who get it haven't had problems with SLS in other toothpastes.

The fluoride in pro expert in stannous (tin) fluoride rather than sodium fluoride which is in other toothpastes. This does have advantages, but a problem with stannous fluoride in the past has been making it stable enough to give products using it an anywhere-near-decent shelf life. This is the problem Oral B were able to solve.

But it could easily be the stannous fluoride you're reacting to.

It almost certainly isn't doing you any harm, but if you do find that it starts causing you discomfort, then I would go back to a toothpaste that doesn't have that effect.