Gum Recession and Fruit Fixes?

I have 3 caps and 1 bonding on my front four teeth. Lately, and was pointed out by a "holistic dentist" that my gums are receding. I'm freaking out. I use tooth soap, a soft bristle floss bruch, and rinse with food grade h.p.

What do I do?!

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on April 17, 2011 at 6:50am

Oh, and when I eat citrus or very acidic fruit like pineapple, it makes everything feel very strange...like gummy and sensitive. I am afraid it is eating away at my caps and bonding or something...which is why I am totally paranoid!

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Permalink Reply by BananaBill on April 17, 2011 at 7:12am

Thanks for your post. I'm in the same boat!! I'm doing nothing about it, hoping that my intelligent body will sort it out. I'l be very interested to hear what the other peeps have to say.

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on April 17, 2011 at 9:15am

glad i am not the only one, but it makes me so paranoid! call me vain, but i'm getting married in like three months and i don't want wonky pictures. i am not sure if this has been happening over time or if bc i am putting so much attention on it and energy into it that it might be making it worse.

here's hoping someone can help us out!

p.s. i meant soft bristle brush!

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Permalink Reply by RawDad on April 17, 2011 at 9:52am

mine have done the same.... am hoping they will come back after I "normalize"...

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on April 17, 2011 at 10:14am

normalize as in maintain lfrv for an extended period of time? i've been raw for going on three years and have maintained lfrv (aside from spices) for the past year...i wonder if this is just normal?

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Permalink Reply by Claudia B on April 18, 2011 at 4:43am

I'm old, 59 in June (wonder if I'm the oldest member?)...and my teeth are old, too. I've had 6 children and remember the ancient saying "A tooth for every child" meaning that having a lot of children would cause a mother to lose a lotta teeth. I've been vegan 9 years...just experimenting with lfrv...so lfrv for less than a month. I don't have any caps or bonding. The only teeth I have missing are my wisdom teeth and 1 perfectly good tooth pulled by an orthodontist when I was 12 and had braces. My teeth are big for my mouth and, as I've aged, they've yellowed...ick...but at my last dental appointment they said things were looking good...I go back in August...so I'll have to see what they say then. I wonder if most lfrv follow a more natural regimen of tooth care, or, if any do "mainstream", i.e. something like Colgate, Listerine, and ACT rinse?

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on April 18, 2011 at 9:33pm

i've noticed the more citrus i've eaten in nyc the worse my teeth feel, but i can go to california and eat organic organges from the farmers market and drink super yummy fresh pressed (by me at the store) oj that is so sweet and not acidic and it doesn't bother my teeth at all.

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Permalink Reply by Kaz on April 18, 2011 at 10:24pm

I have almost given up with blending oranges in the UK as they are causing my gums damage too.

If it's not sweet and ripe (applies at least to oranges and pineapples) I would avoid them.

You need vitamin K2 so minerals and vit D can repair your teeth (on a constant basis as they are 'in the front line' so to speak) We make a little K2 from K1 (in leafy greens for instance) but some people supplement with either K2 MK7 (a vegetarian source) or K2 MK4 (a Manufactured copy of a natural source from animals) K2 MK4 has a function not provided by MK7.

Eat your greens and don't eat unripe fruit.

This is hard as Nothing in the supermarket is ripe nowadays. This is the latest tragedy of the supermarkets. They want produce that survives their processes.

If you actually buy bananas from them and wait until they ripen, they are often extremely damaged.

Nothing smells of fruit.

WE NEED A CAMPAIGN.

The supermarkets killed off the Greengrocers and now selling ersatz food.

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on April 19, 2011 at 12:42pm

Why eat acid fruits and complain then? Thats like me riding over broken glass and saying 'broken glass and flat tyres! what should I do!?' ;)

Thats what happens, people come over to this lifestyle with dental issues already and then they dont do it right and think its the fruits fault...

Ive NEVER seen someone 'doing it right' and having issues with their teeth. Just as Ive never seen someone get a puncture from riding on clean roads.

Ive had 2 oranges this year. Ripe citrus is super rare commercially. I didnt know what a ripe orange was until I started on this lifestyle.

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on April 19, 2011 at 12:49pm

i had caps because i fell out of bed when i was younger so those teeth issues are not really "mine" per se. and i've never really had a problem with citrus or even pineapple until now. however, i know gum recession doesn't happen overnight, obviously, but it seems to be progressing faster.

guess that's it for citrus for me from nyc though...

does gum recession have anything to do with mineral deficencies? how do i reverse it?

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Permalink Reply by GuavaGirl on April 19, 2011 at 2:20pm

Crap. Oranges are one of the fruits I find to be easiest on my belly. Plus they are one of the few things available around here during winter. I suppose I should stop eating them though because I too have receding gums (not due to eating fruit of course, I had this problem before LFRV).

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Permalink Reply by Kaz on April 19, 2011 at 7:50pm

OY! Be careful throwing the insults around. OH, you're DR; it's a way of life. :P :)

@DR

I'm not knocking the lifestyle but trying to make it work in the UK.

I didn't know that oranges weren't ripe either. So this is a warning to all of the newbies as you found the problem too (you didn't know what a ripe orange was...) you're not immune to being ill-informed.

I only did a few oranges for three days (about 5 a day) and now have a pile of them I don't know what to do with :)

I still think we need a CAMPAIGN for ripe fruit, not bowling balls.

First they threw out flavour for appearance, now they've thrown out ripeness for handling and profit. They may as well make stuff out of recycled store waste and save the diesel.

And BTW it jibes against Freelee saying acid doesn't damage your teeth. It damaged my gums which damaged my teeth.