I asked my dental hygienist today if I still should be using flouride trays every day. She said she used to think that it should be for the rest of your life, but know she is hearing different things. So she said it was up to me. What were you told about flouride treatments post-TX, and do you still use it and how often?
Also---anyone hear of, or use, MI paste? It's a calcium phosphate paste that you leave on teeth for 3 min. then swallow.
My hygienist suggested it as an alternative to flouride.

I would like to add that for the first time ever, my dental cleaning included an oral cancer screening. Making progress!

I like you were told by my dentist to use the trays forever. I will ask him the next visit if he still is on that plan. I wouldn't care one way or the other because it's pretty much part of my nighttime routine and I take them out right before I go to sleep. I also keep them on for 30 mins.

I wish I had some teeth to try it on. LOL and then try the teeth on some good food.

Yep.. here too... lifetime

Now when I go to the dentists office they do not even offer to do a fluoride treatment, cause she already knows....

Kevin

Sorry Jim!!
Wow, David--30 mins? they told me 5. It has also become routine for me, not that big of a deal. I was just concerned about the amount of flouride I would be getting over a lifetime, and if it was dangerous in any way.

I can no longer use the stuff I got with the trays in part because the trays don't fit anymore (I had some teeth pulled right before rad and they caused other teeth in my mouth to move around quite a bit--long, frustrating story) but also because that flouride gel really feels like it burns my sensitive gums, tongue aand inner cheeks. So for a while I stopped using anything--which was bad--and then I've been looking for somehting I can use.

Right now I am using an over-the-counter moutwash that my senstive mouth can tolerate--ACT Restoring Mouthwash--twice a day instead of the recommended once a day. I think it helps do what the trays should be doing but is probably not enough. I am very careful to not swallow the mouthwash, and never swallowed the gel either, so I don't think the flouride you get should be an issue.

I'm planning on talking to my dentist more about this next time I see him. It's looking more and more like I will have this surgery this summer to release the trismus in my jaw which should help my dentist get in and see what's happening with my back teeth and maybe make me some new trays. I'm mainly having the surgery because of the need for better dental care than I can get with the limited range of motion I have in my jaw right now. But the whole thing seems neverending.

Anyway, I am curious to learn what other people may be using as flouride treatments since that would help in my conversation with the dentist.

Nelie

I was told to keep them on for a minimum of 3 mins but not to drink for 30 so I figured I would just keep them on for the whole 30. I used to do it first thing in the am but my dentist said switch to bedtime which I guess makes more since. Anyway he knows I keep them on for 30 and he hasn't said anything and I have never had any issues so I hope I'm not creating a later problem.

I was told I would need to use my flouride trays for 10 minutes a day (before bed recommended). Almost every day for a year I used them. The occasional time I did not use them, I brushed my teeth with the gel before going to bed (it was quicker). My teeth are in great shape and I lost only 1/3 of my saliva. I bet it's even less now. The oral surgeon who made the recommendation recently told me that 3 times a week was fine for the trays. He said they really are not sure how often they should be used, and I would do no harm by using them more. He tells people every night and hopes for three. Now I use them 3 times and generally brush with flouride on the other nights. I'm guessing if my mouth was dryer or my teeth in worse shape, his recommendation might have been different.

hi i hope you dont mind me jumping in but what trays????? no one has said anything to me about trays, i havent been using anything other than biotene tooth paste and mouth wash, i have an appointment with my hygenist in april should i ask?

thanks Debz