 Good afternoon everybody let's talk about choosing the right toothpaste for you when you go to the store you go down the aisle and you must get very overwhelmed even I get overwhelmed and I'm a dental professional. What toothpaste should you choose depending on your teeth, your mouth. So a simple rule of thumb anytime I see my patients is I do ask them some very simple questions. I say do any of your teeth hurt. Are there any discomfort. Are there any cold sensitive teeth anywhere hot or cold sensitive teeth. And then I kind of start there so for example, if I have a patient who's not uncomfortable there's no discomfort with any of their teeth. They're not cold sensitive than that's a great sign. They do not need a toothpaste that is geared towards teeth that are cold sensitive because most people do have cold sensitive teeth. No tooth likes the cold but if you find you're avoiding certain foods certain beverages because it's too cold well that's not necessarily normal either. So there are toothpaste out there that can help you. There are certain types that are like a sensitive type of toothpaste I don't like to name any companies I'm not being sponsored but this is just my own video so why not right. So sensitive toothpaste is the best over the counter toothpaste out there for cold sensitive teeth. Now you want to get the original sense of dying or the or the sense of dying that is called rapid relief I can leave the link for you guys down below. There's a bunch of different sense of dimes but if sense of dying adds any other things to it like if it says sense of dying plus whitening, you do not want that one because that's going to be a more course for your teeth, and is more for whitening, not for cold sensitivity. It's marketing you guys they want to appeal to everybody, but if cold sensitivity is your problem you want a sense of dying toothpaste I do prefer sense of dying rapid relief again you guys I'll leave the link for you down below. Now let's say you don't have any cold sensitive teeth but I look inside your mouth, and you have cavities, or you have watch areas where they're not cavities yet but I can tell they could become a cavity, because when I check with my instruments it's a little bit sticky there. So there are toothpaste for cavity prone people toothpaste where they seem to get a cavity or two, every time they go to see their dental hygienist. So over the counter the basics of that is you want a toothpaste with sodium fluoride there's different types but you but you want the one that says sodium fluoride. What that does is that will actually help to make the enamel stronger and help to kind of heal up those areas that have either a tiny cavity or a cavity, or a watch area. They're not perfect so if you have a big cavity it's not going to make the big cavity smaller, but if you have a small cavity it could help enough where that cavity never gets bigger so that is something to look for. If you're very cavity prone, then I will also suggest a mouthwash as well. So use a toothpaste and a mouthwash with sodium fluoride. There can be purchased over the counter but there's also other toothpaste that you can only get from your dental professional that has more of all of that in there which could be better for you if you try the toothpaste mouthwash, and you're still getting cavities then you need something that we would actually give you at the dental office that you can only purchase at the dental office because there's more stuff in there basically that you can't purchase over the counter because it could be harmful I guess we have to be so careful these days. But what if you have another problem what if cavities are not your problem, your teeth aren't cold sensitive, but every time you see your dental hygienist we tell you, you have gingivitis you have periodontal disease. If you're bleeding everywhere it doesn't look good. There's actually different toothpaste for that. So remember how in the previous point I talked about sodium fluoride. For the gums, there's actually a different type of ingredient that I want you guys to look for, and that is called stannous, stannous fluoride. I know you're probably confused. That actually helps to get underneath the gums a little bit when you're using the toothbrush to really help to heal up the gums. So if you have gingivitis periodontal disease. The gums are just looking horrible that toothpaste will help more than any of the other ones so this is kind of a recap. If you guys have any questions or need to know specific for you, please talk to your dental professional and they will help you because they will look inside your mouth and know exactly what you need. If you have cold sensitive teeth, you have cavities and you have problems inside the mouth. There are toothpaste for all of that too but when in doubt you guys, the very best thing you can do is brush twice a day. You can help wash and use a water pick. I love water picks to clean in between the teeth. People like it so much more than using the string and trying to get in there, so I can leave the link for you guys for that to down below. Comment if you have any questions, thank you guys for watching. Like the video if you don't mind that does help me in my channel. Thank you guys have a great day.