Dr. Ben Javid

When you're, again, systemically unhealthy, it shows up.

And if you look in the mouth and someone has no inflammation, no bleeding, no cavities, even if they don't ever floss or they don't brush their teeth that much, it's possible.

Because if they're actually, you know, have a healthy lifestyle, and if they have a balanced what we call microbiome, right, the oral microbiome, which is the bacteria in your mouth, that's like your gut microbiome, that's the second highest volume of good bacteria in your body is your mouth.

And so, you know, if you have that balance, you're fine.

Even if you have poor hygiene, you're still going to be fine.

A lot of times in the dental world, they really focus on hygiene too much.

You think so?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's important.

I'm not saying it's not important, but it's not number one on the list.

I feel that.

Yeah.

I mean, a lot of times if the cavities are, you know, really shallow, like today I was, you know, seeing a patient, I was at the office right before I came here.

So, you know, when we're diagnosing cavities, you know, if they're, you know, shallow enough, they're not that deep.

There's different ways of reversing it.

You know, there's a hydroxyapatite now.

And then there's, we use actually a really cool tool called ozone.

Ozone.

Have you heard of ozone before?

Well, you know what?