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So...I will be at the half way mark with rads tomorrow and I wanted to pass anlong an idea I had that has been working great with my floride trays. Mt dentist said to lay a very small beed of floride inside the trays and it would "smush" all over my teath just right. I've found it difficult to get the right amount in there and evenly without rubbing it around the trays with my finger. Last week I asked a dental hygenist friend of mine to get me a couple if the big plastic syringes they give you to fulsh out the holes where wisdom teath used to be when you have them out (big bent plastic syringes with no neeedle). Oddly enough I had asked her for them so I could seel some grout in my new shower without getting any on the tile itself. I have since found that I can squirt some of the floride into the back of the syringe (pull plunger out) and push out a perfect beed into the trays without making a mess or using my finger. I also put a small piece ot tape over the end of the syringe so the floride doesn't dry up over night. I believe they are either very cheap or even free. I hope this can help some folks. It's made it A LOT easier for me. Will Zinn


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If you are stuck with the dentrice formulation (aka toothpaste) fluoride, this is indeed a wonderful solution. I wish I had thought of it. I don't have this problem with the gel forumlation which comes out in nice tiny bead, proably because it's the same small nozzle size of a syringe.


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It's Prevident 5000 floride dry mouth toothpaste, but it is a gell. It comes out like 1/4 as thick/wide a beed as regular gel toothpaste. But still too fat. The syringe makes like perfect little angel hair pasta bead you can even go over twice if you want a little more.


Lump in left side neck discovered Sept 2009
Misdiagnosed & FNA inconclusive
Large lymph node removed Nov. 2010 SCC and HPV16 pos
PET pointed tonsilectomy Feb. 2011
1ml tumor left side tonsil
Rads scheduled March 14th 2011. 2X36 GY's (72)
CarboTaxol once a week X 4 or 5 starting 4/5/11
No PEG
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I could not get the Prevident to work at all in my flouride trays. While the bottle does say its a Gel, that IMO is wishful thinking on their part. My prosthodontist had to write on my prescription: NO PREVIDENT.
thanks for validating my point that the "toothpaste" flouride is just too thick to work right. But I have enough hassles without needing to use a syringe and the Cypress Gel comes out in "a perfect little angel hair pasta bead" right out of the tube.


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Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

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I've been doing that trick for a year now, took me awhile to figure it out. Thanks for sharing.


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Will, sounds interesting... but doesn't some of the stuff remain in the syringe each time, therefore wasting it? I use Prevident and agree with all the posters on its thickness and difficulty. At 13 bucks a tube I'd hate to lose even a drop.

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Good point but no it's wicked easy. Just pop the plunger out of the back of the syringe and fill it like half way. Then push the paste up to the top and lay the beeds into the trays. When you're done take a piece of scotch tape and put it over the tip of the syringe making like a little triangle that it fits right into. Each day just pull the tape off and slide it back on when you're done. It won't dry up on you (or at least it hasn't done so for me) It has made this process VERY easy for me and I'm not wasting any of it. When I was spreading it on with my finger I was wasting a tom of it. Good luck and let me know how it's working for you. Will Zinn


Lump in left side neck discovered Sept 2009
Misdiagnosed & FNA inconclusive
Large lymph node removed Nov. 2010 SCC and HPV16 pos
PET pointed tonsilectomy Feb. 2011
1ml tumor left side tonsil
Rads scheduled March 14th 2011. 2X36 GY's (72)
CarboTaxol once a week X 4 or 5 starting 4/5/11
No PEG

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