Hydroxyapatite

And we have an alternative.

Remember what the tooth is made of? Hydroxyapatite.

A cavity is simply when minerals or hydroxyapatite is pulled out of the tooth and a hole is left behind.

That's how a cavity forms.

Because remember, fluoride just changes the chemical structure of the tooth.

It doesn't actually rebuild anything.

Hydroxyapatite does.

It's just putting back what was lost.

That's why people love fluoride.

I prefer hydroxyapatite.

Hydroxyapatite is the same exact mineral that your tooth is made from, and it integrates itself back into the teeth, whereas fluoride is kind of a foreign agent.

You, you can never have a fluoride deficiency.

We don't use it.

I'm hoping I will get there someday, but there's basically two, we'll say there's two kinds of hydroxyapatite.

Regular, which is macro, big particles, and then you have nanohydroxyapatite.

Nanohydroxyapatite is the stuff that works.

Well, there's needle and then there's rod-shaped.

You don't want needle, okay? So rod-shaped hydroxyapatite.