Hydrofloss and NattoKinase

Dr. Brooksby I have been plagued with continued tartar build up for years. I have tried the Sonic Care toothbrush, a Rotary tooth brush, a water pik and flossing, but still need frequent professional cleanings. Is there something else I could try that might work better?

What is the HydroFloss and how does it work?

Years ago I was introduced to a device called the Hydrofloss. It looks like a water pik, but has a hydromagnetic supercharger incorporated into the unit. It essentially lines the pluses and minuses of the water molecules up in the same direction. This is not a normal state for the water. When it then hits the teeth is releases all of the pent up energy onto the teeth disrupting the bacterial plaque and the tartar buildup.

It is like a room full of kindergardeners being told to line up and remain perfectly still just before recess. Once the kids are told they are released for recess what kind of energy is released?

When I was introduced to the Hydrofloss I wanted to know what studies had been done to justify their claims of superiority. The provided studies done at one of the periodontal training programs at a dental school. The head of that program figured it was just another water pik type of device that would not work. He designed a study in which he trained the dentists to evaluate the patients. He then provide the patients with a device, one had a fully functioning Hydromagnetic supercharger and the other one was disabled. Neither the dentists nor the patients knew which units were which. When the head of the program tallied his results he found that the supercharger group had a 60% reduction in tartar build up. He figured that something had gone wrong so he recalibrated his dentists and then redid the study. The second time he only had a 49% reduction in tartar build up.

In my opinion, flossing is only about 5% effective. With a 49-60% reduction in tartar buildup this is one of the most effective devices I have ever found. This together with some of the techniques that we teach our patients has been very effective at reducing tartar build up in a large number of our patients.

The Hydrofloss is available at Hydrofloss.com for about $130 plus shipping and handling. We buy them in bulk and pass the savings on to the patient by selling them in our office for $110. Plus if you buy a hydrofloss from a dental office you get a three year extended warranty.

NattoKinase the alternative to blood thinners

Dr. Brooksby I need to have some teeth extracted, but am on Coumadin and Plavix. My dentist talked to the clinic where I am being treated and they refuse to take me off of the drugs. The dentist is afraid that with those drugs I may not stop bleading after the extraction. What can be done?

Years ago I began investigating alternatives to conventional medicine. It seemed that a lot of the treatments provide to patients involved medications with side effect that sometimes were worse than the disease they were treating. Many of the recommendation were made by a Dr. David Williams, a medical doctor in Texas that travels the world evaluating various forms of treatment and interviewing the doctors throughout the world on what they have found to be effective. He then reports on what he has found.

The history of NattoKinase

One of the doctors he visited with was a Japanese doctor at one of the medical schools in Japan. In the early 1980's this doctor had noted that the incidence of strokes, high blood pressure and heart attacks was lower in the Japanese people. He began studying their diet by placing their food on plates full of blood clots. He found that a japanese drink called Natto, a fermented soy drink, completely dissolved the clot within a day. He isolated the substance that dissolved the clot and named it Nattokinase. Natto for the source and Kinase which means it is an enzyme that eats things. They began with animal studies and eventually human studies. They found that the Nattokinase taken twice a day dissolved developing clots and lowered blood pressure by 10 percent without affecting the normal clotting that might occur during and injury. They decided to keep Nattokinase as a supplement instead of releasing it through a drug company to keep the costs of the Nattokinase affordable.

I asked one of the medical doctors why they do not recommend this in the place of Coumadin, plavix and aspirin and he said that since it was not FDA approved, if they recommended it and the patient had a complication they could sued. He did not want the risk.

In my opinion, and after watching patients including my dad use nattokinase for over 8 years with no adverse effects and with a substantial improvement in heart function, that this is a supplement that may be worth looking at. You can not take nattokinase with the other drugs because there interaction would not be good.

Why would a dentist be talking about alternatives to blood thinners?

If you needed to have a tooth extracted and did not want to be at risk for clotting this would be my treatment of choice if the doctor refused to stop the drug for a few days.