How To Stop Mouth Ulcers Dead In Their Tracks & Why You Should Not Use Commercially Available Toothpaste
| Since I began using this mouth-paste, I no longer get mouth ulcers. At first I didn’t really know why this was but I have recently discovered the following: Nearly all commercially-available toothpastes contain an ingredient that has been proven to cause mouth ulcers. It’s called Sodium Laurel Sulphate (or SLS), a detergent that is added to create foaming in the mouth. This foaming action does nothing to benefit your teeth but is added to fool you into believing that the foaming is related to some kind of cleansing action. SLS is a very harsh chemical that has been proven to damage oral epithelial cells (skin cells lining the inside of your mouth) at a microscopic level. This, along with other trauma (such as over-zealous brushing), and the reaction of the immune system to that damage, can lead to painful mouth ulcers. In a study at the Institute of Clinical Dentistry in the University of Oslo in Norway, Professor Pal Barkvoll, and his colleagues, have shown a massive 70% reduction in the number of mouth ulcers in patients who used SLS-free toothpaste during a 3-month test period.Another unpleasant, though minor, side-effect of SLS is the infamous ‘orange-juice effect’: if you’ve ever tasted orange-juice just after brushing your teeth, and found it to be very bitter, then you’ve experienced this effect. The SLS detergent molecules bind themselves to the ‘phospholid layer’ on your taste buds and block your sweet-taste receptors. They also interfere with your bitter-taste receptors too but, instead of blocking them like they do with your sweet-taste receptors, they cause them to become sensitive to sour-foods instead. The net effect of this is that, for about an hour, the sweet and sour taste of orange-juice just tastes bitter instead. |