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post #46 of 60
7/2/08 at 4:03am
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I've tried to find another toothpaste that doesn't have SLS (foamy nasty soap ingredient in almost all of them) yet works and tastes good etc., but until then I still use Biotene "dry mouth" kind. It costs too much but oh well, I'm not risking canker sore resurgence.

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i want to try the Nature's Gate stuff...

Nature's gate Advanced Care Whitening Toothpastes naturally freshen, clean and whiten your teeth. Formulated with fluoride for the utmost in oral protection, these toothpastes represent a new-age in oral care.

* Paraben-free, colorant-free, sulfate-free
* Contains certified organic botanicals of Green Tea, Licorice Root and Fig for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties
* With Bamboo and Silica for their whitening benefits

sounds good to me!
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post #47 of 60
7/2/08 at 11:17am
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Originally Posted by j View Post
I've tried to find another toothpaste that doesn't have SLS (foamy nasty soap ingredient in almost all of them) yet works and tastes good etc., but until then I still use Biotene "dry mouth" kind. It costs too much but oh well, I'm not risking canker sore resurgence.

I used to get canker sores until my dentist told me to use Rembrandt toothpaste, and I haven't had one since (~ 2 years). Also, it is a premium whitening paste and tastes okay too... I usually go for the Mint flavour. It's a little extra $, but certainly worth it IMHO.
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post #48 of 60
7/2/08 at 7:45pm
I usually use Crest Natural Expression in Green Tea Mint of something like that, but I bought a little tube of Rembrandt whitening toothpaste with peroxide for my 2 week trip to China. I came back home and looked in my mirror, and my teeth look less off-white and more grayish and I have a few dark spots, as if my teeth were rotting or something. Maybe it had something to do with those goddamn Chinese people and serving soda at every meal. I tried drinking as much tea instead of soda as possible because I rarely ever drink anything other than water at home. So yeah, I don't think I'm going back to using any of those special whitening toothpastes. Cheapo Colgate toothpastes taste better anyway and actually keep my teeth looking somewhat decent.
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post #49 of 60
7/4/08 at 11:28am
what we eat probably has more impact on our teeth than the toothpaste we use. Is anyone aware of the actual science behind toothpaste? is it like soap where it is mainly a lubricant and friction is actually doing all the cleaning (yes soap is basically useless, think mechanic's soap, full of little rubber beads to shed off your skin faster) I guess flavor and all come into play but there is a difference between clean teeth and tooth color no?
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post #50 of 60
7/15/08 at 2:16am
Sensodyne tooth paste.
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post #51 of 60
7/15/08 at 2:53am
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Originally Posted by DocHolliday View Post
Lee, this is one of the better compliments I've gotten on SF. And yeah, Big Lots gets a lot of junk, but there's some gold in there too. Good for weird foods, usually of the extremely unhealthy sort.
Reminds me of a market in Berkeley where I used to shop in Berkeley, which specialized in cheap groceries that were discontinued or overstocked, and dented cans. Made a nice supplement to the super-sized boxes of cornflakes my housemate would bring back after visiting his dad, who managed a Safeway. LOL, we were so friggin' poor. Thank god for the happy hour eats at the Emeryville Charley Brown's! The Entemann's outlet store, which carried seriously marked-down stuff nearing the expiration date was a life-saver as well.
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post #52 of 60
7/15/08 at 4:52am
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Sensodyne tooth paste.

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post #53 of 60
10/6/08 at 2:56am
If cost isn't a factor, I believe Supersmile (~ $15 a tube) to be the most effective toothpaste available. Abrasivity is very low, and whitening and plaque removal are superior to anything I'm aware. It's also one of the few non "natural" products to avoid using SLS as a surfactant, which denatures proteins and can produce canker sores in sensitive individuals. However, it does contain the near-ubiquitous Sodium monofluorophosphate. In short, trace amounts of Calcium fluoride--as occurring naturally in water--is likely beneficial to human health, whereas the industrial by-products Sodium fluoride and Hexafluorosilicic acid (lethal dose some 25 times below CaF2) have documented less-than-desirable effects on human and animal physiology. But, unless one makes a point of avoiding all exposure (to them), incidental ingestion from toothpaste is probably not something to fret excessively over. R.B.
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post #54 of 60
10/6/08 at 3:02am
I use some weird stuff prescribed by my dentist because I have unusually poor enamel (or so they say) that is supposed to help in tooth strength. Who knows. Fluoride is the active ingredient.
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post #55 of 60
10/6/08 at 3:46am
Fluorine compounds will donate anions to create Fluorapatite, a component of tooth enamel. Both Sodium and Calcium Fluoride can accomplish this, but CaF2 is a more biocompatible medium.

R.B.
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post #56 of 60
10/7/08 at 11:34am
I use Euthymol. It doesn't taste minty, like a lot of toothpastes; rather more like antispetic. It's also fluoride free and the packaging is pretty funky as well.
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post #57 of 60
10/7/08 at 10:51pm
Colgate Total
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post #58 of 60
10/8/08 at 12:48am
As far as the taste is concerned, one of the Marvis mint flavors does it for me.
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post #59 of 60
10/8/08 at 1:03am
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Originally Posted by Rand B View Post
If cost isn't a factor, I believe Supersmile (~ $15 a tube) to be the most effective toothpaste available. Abrasivity is very low, and whitening and plaque removal are superior to anything I'm aware. It's also one of the few non "natural" products to avoid using SLS as a surfactant, which denatures proteins and can produce canker sores in sensitive individuals.


However, it does contain the near-ubiquitous Sodium monofluorophosphate. In short, trace amounts of Calcium fluoride--as occurring naturally in water--is likely beneficial to human health, whereas the industrial by-products Sodium fluoride and Hexafluorosilicic acid (lethal dose some 25 times below CaF2) have documented less-than-desirable effects on human and animal physiology. But, unless one makes a point of avoiding all exposure (to them), incidental ingestion from toothpaste is probably not something to fret excessively over.


R.B.


Good post.
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post #60 of 60
10/8/08 at 1:10am
Marvis Aquatic Mint. Tastes good.

I get it at Anthropologie.
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