With all of this in mind, we need to shift gears and provide our patients with alternatives to brushing flossing, and nutritional counseling. If we can supersaturate the biofilm in the patient’s mouth, and keep the pH at 7 for extended lengths of time, we have a chance to compete with the “erosion invasion.” MI Paste with RECALDENT (CPP-ACP), (Casein Phosphopeptite/ Amorphous Calcium Phosphate), is the “magic paste.” It allows the mouth to maintain a neutral pH for a lengthy period of time (3 hours). It does this through the RECALDENT technology. This technology keeps the calcium, phosphate, and fluoride ions encompassed in a milk protein (CPP) that stay viable in the mouth for three hours. When the pH drops, the CCP opens, delivering the calcium, phosphate, and fluoride back into the mouth and, therefore, back in to the teeth. It is so simple that it is almost too easy.
By Dianne Testa, RDA, RDH, BS, MI Specialist, GC America
