Teeth trays

Hi Ralph

I used mine for a half hour at a time, twice a day.  But that answer is a little simplified.  You should apply  the fluoride gel at a time other than when you are going to drink  or eat.  The tray is really just to help distribute the gel  over the surfaces, which probably takes five minutes or so.   So long as you aren't drinking or eating, you probably  half good gel concentration for  at least a half hour after you take the tray out.  So probably five minutes at a time on the trays is enough, or at least that's the way we figured it (my dentist did a lot of dental treatments post rads).  My second treatment of the day was generally therefore at bedtime........

Kind of a cop-out on your dentist's part, ya know:)

 

There are other answers that will pop up, but the math  works out something like the above,

Hondo said:

Hi Roar

Sorry I can’t help on the tray as I can’t get my mouth to open wide enough to fit the tray in. What I do is to use an Oral-B Sonic toothbrush to get into all the areas twice a day and hope and pray I never need another tooth pulled.

 

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toothbrush

Using a toothbrush may not be as good as the tray but I like that idea a lot as it allows you to apply it in more situations. For example, you can brush your teeth then apply some at the end of your lunch break and just not drink or eat for a bit. A lot more ackward sitting at your desk with a tray in your mouth. lol

A good topic to discuss

Hello Roar,

This is a topic that I have followed for some time. Basically Longtermsurvivor hit it on the head. Here is what I have experienced over the last 10 years.

I started with the Trays with my Cancer Dentist at the time and he instructed me to use one drop of Flouride (Perio-Check) in the tray for each tooth to be covered. Any more than that would overflow and be wasted according to him, and basically was spot on as I had flouride oozing over the trays at times. I was instructed to leave the trays in my mouth for 10 minutes, remove them and allow the flouride to remain on my teeth for a minimun of 30 minutes. After that, I was to rinse and gargle with water before eating or drinking anything.

I had the trays for 5 years before they started to become stiff and cracking. At this same time of 5 years, my Cancer Dentist moved and I went to another Dentist. At my first meeting with the new Dentist, he asked if I was using Perio-Check Flouride and my answer was "Yes". He said he could tell as my teeth were a brownish color. He started me using PreviDent 5000 Flouride. He said I could use my Oral-B tooth brush to apply the Flouride, but the same rules applied, that I needed to keep the Flouride on my teeth for no less than 30 minutes.

I do this either after eating breakfast, or just before taking a shower, and sometimes at beddtime. I just make it part of my daily routine at no special time. I had to have 2 Caps put in, but that was my own fault biting into some hard candy once, learned my lesson on that one. I had two small cavities over all this time. So, long story made short as my original Dentist told me, I will need to do the Flouride Treatments for the rest of my life, if I didn't want to do that, then I should have all my teeth removed. He also stated that Dentures could bring on their own problems down the road. I chose to do the Flouride.

I hope that this is of some help.

My Best to You and Everyone Here

MarineE5 said:

A good topic to discuss

Hello Roar,

This is a topic that I have followed for some time. Basically Longtermsurvivor hit it on the head. Here is what I have experienced over the last 10 years.

I started with the Trays with my Cancer Dentist at the time and he instructed me to use one drop of Flouride (Perio-Check) in the tray for each tooth to be covered. Any more than that would overflow and be wasted according to him, and basically was spot on as I had flouride oozing over the trays at times. I was instructed to leave the trays in my mouth for 10 minutes, remove them and allow the flouride to remain on my teeth for a minimun of 30 minutes. After that, I was to rinse and gargle with water before eating or drinking anything.

I had the trays for 5 years before they started to become stiff and cracking. At this same time of 5 years, my Cancer Dentist moved and I went to another Dentist. At my first meeting with the new Dentist, he asked if I was using Perio-Check Flouride and my answer was "Yes". He said he could tell as my teeth were a brownish color. He started me using PreviDent 5000 Flouride. He said I could use my Oral-B tooth brush to apply the Flouride, but the same rules applied, that I needed to keep the Flouride on my teeth for no less than 30 minutes.

I do this either after eating breakfast, or just before taking a shower, and sometimes at beddtime. I just make it part of my daily routine at no special time. I had to have 2 Caps put in, but that was my own fault biting into some hard candy once, learned my lesson on that one. I had two small cavities over all this time. So, long story made short as my original Dentist told me, I will need to do the Flouride Treatments for the rest of my life, if I didn't want to do that, then I should have all my teeth removed. He also stated that Dentures could bring on their own problems down the road. I chose to do the Flouride.

I hope that this is of some help.

My Best to You and Everyone Here

That was very informative.

That was very informative.  Thank you.