Having suffered at the hands of dentists and allowing one rather high profile dentist talk me into doing a root canal treatment. Alas, this gravely disturbed my teeth for years. Once the root canal tooth fell out, things settled down, and I was able to get very proactive re preventative treatments.
Once a dentist of Indian extraction suggested I wash my mouth out every day with a very strong salt solution. He did not specify what sort of salt. Wish I’d listened to him and avoided the Root Canal treatment. These days I quickly use a strong Himalayan Rock salt and water solution, when there looks like even a minor flare-up. This works well.
Searching the web for preventative treatment was hard, but I eventually found a guy who just used soap to clean his teeth, and since doing this he says his teeth had been fine. I now use 2 small cakes organic coconut oil soap, one with Activated charcoal and one with Bentonite Clay, plus a pure cake of Himalayan Rock salt, with my toothbrush coated with these three each night before sleeping. Best not to fully wash the mouth out leaving a little to sit on the gums and teeth. This method of cleaning my teeth is working much better than all the toothpastes and mouthwashes I have ever tried. I have also used diluted food grade Hydrogen Peroxide 6% as a mouthwash as this gets rid of the gram-positive/anaerobic bacteria or keeps them down. This will also whiten the teeth. Expecting my shipment of Emu Oil spray to arrive soon and this is supposed to be very good at healing gum disease even the deep pockets. So am guessing it will actually go in and dissolve the buildup of tartar.
It is not hard to guess why the dentists aren’t into preventative treatment; greed being a good guess and not being able to resist humans in a vulnerable position, which kind of looks rather psychopathic. Even the alternative dentists are bad enough with lack of sharing knowledge.