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Old 03-22-2019, 12:41 PM
 
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I don't "swish" with hydrogen peroxide, I just add a tiny amount to my waterpik. I have never heard of it "hindering healing." I find that hard to believe, over using chlorine bleach....

Hydrogen peroxide is well known to hinder healing.
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Old 03-22-2019, 04:26 PM
 
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Hydrogen peroxide is well known to hinder healing.
True. Look, the concentration of either chemical is key. Hydrogen peroxide in a high enough concentration damages cell walls (retarding tissue growth; um...like in healing). Both chlorine bleach (actually sodium hypochlorite) and hydrogen peroxide can disinfect and kill microorganisms though the actual chemical reactions by which they do so differ. Too high a concentration of either one is obviously harmful, too low a concentration won't have any effect.

Go figure...municipal utilities in the US have used sodium hypochlorite to disinfect water since 1908. Campers and people living in undeveloped areas or disaster zones drink water treated with household chlorine bleach all the time. Again, the concentration of sodium hypochlorite matters. 8 drops of 6% or 6 drops of 8.25% per 1 gallon of water.

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Old 03-31-2019, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Follow up I got lazy again quit the flossing and bleach over last few years. On 3/22 ended up getting a gum graft because I missed a few cleaning appointments my tarter build up my gums pulled away in the front exposed bone. The gum graft was to cover 2 teeth with 2 in the middle they take a hunk of tissue from the roof of your mouth after cutting a flap away then cut the gum away from your teeth make a pocket whats left still there then sew in the chunk from the roof of your mouth. It was the most painful recovery of any surgery ever. Talking hurt, eating, drinking water, Cold, hot, sleeping. I was up to 800MG of Ibuprofen 4 times a day the max you can take with a Vicodin at night to sleep. Still didn't take the pain away maybe for a few hours it's been 9 days now I'm doing much better. The first 6 days was completely horror if your dentist tells you to floss have gum issues do what ever you can to make it better you don't ever want a gum graft.
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