Peter, I have provided Brooks' post below. At the time he posted, several people noted that they had read that hydrogen peroxide when combined with DMSO will give up an oxygen atom and convert the DMSO to MSM. That may be but it doesn't happen instantaneously. Just in case, I would mix it fresh each time. - Steve N Several times during recent years we have conducted examinations of commercial products designed to whiten teeth. We experienced very limited success. However, recently, we completed a somewhat more detailed investigation and were able to find a single product which, did, indeed, display an excellent ability to whiten teeth, quickly---and to do so without attendant pain or discomfort...at least such was our results. I feel somewhat professionally uncomfortable, even juvenile, in stating the name of the product----Celebrity Sexy Teeth. In spite of its rather sophomoric identifier, this substance did, indeed, produce whitening improvements up to 8 shades among the volunteer population----sometimes within 10 to 12 days. Some of the other products had cost prices which would equal over $600.00 for a full treatment regime. None of these highly-hyped products equaled...or even approached....the effectiveness of the Celebrity product. All of the products which exhibited any useful effect, contained varying percentages of hydrogen peroxide. However, and this is the reason for my submitting this email.....we were able for a cost of mere pennies, to produce a simple mixture that was SUBSTANTIALLY more powerful than the Celebrity product (which, by the way, was not overly expensive). Our homemade solution was produced in light of the fact that we had determined the PRINCIPAL advantage of the Celebrity product seemed to lie in its superior ability to rapidly affect the deeper regions of the enamel.....than did any of its competitors. After simple variations in strength ratios between common commercial, drugstore hydrogen peroxide, and DMSO....we arrived at an acceptable compromise between user comfort---and rapid results. Our most acceptable mixture (all parameters considered) turned out to be one of approximately 80% (by volume) of 3.5% Hydrogen Peroxide (the standard drugstore variety) and 20% DMSO (full strength parent solution). One easy way for the novice to mix is to pour about 2 tablespoons o! f H202 in a very small glass and about 1 teaspoon of DMSO. Caution: As DMSO is highly hygroscopic, one should always pour the DMSO into the parent diluent. The actual method-of-use of this solution is at the discretion of the experimenter. Some persons simply hold about a teaspoon of the solution in their mouth and brush their teeth with a toothbrush for about 20 seconds. However, many persons are intolerant of the bitterness of this percentage of DMSO and/or cannot tolerate the gag-reflex sometimes presenting. Therefore, the most acceptable method among a majority of our volunteers was to simply use a common Q-Tip swab which had been enlarged by adding enough additional cotton to about double the size....dip it into the solution and "generously paint" the front surface of the front teeth. Effectiveness was enhanced by keeping the top lip above the treated surface for about 2 minutes. It was, also, worthwhile to paint the teeth a second time about 60 seconds into ea! ch protocol. A second 2 minute application became standard procedure for the voluteers during the course of this research investigation. Some of the volunteers utilized stronger H202 solutions (up to 6%) and some employed much stronger DMSO fractions (+20%). However, the one outlined above proved to be most effective.....and was DEFINITELY SUPERIOR to the commercial Celebrity product-----which was the only one of the commercial variety to yield acceptable results during our investigations. None of the volunteers experienced any untoward side-effects, whatsoever, while using the "paint on" method just outlined. A majority of our participants enjoyed quite rapid whitening and in shorter time-spans than with the Celebrity product. Incidently....at about 1/50th the cost. I hope some of the list membership will find this information of value. Sincerely, Brooks Bradley
________________________________ From: Peter Converse [mailto:pconve...@primus.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:13 AM To: Norton, Steve; silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Dental Issues Hi Steve, This sounds great! Any idea of the proportional amounts used? Would this have to be mixed and used immediately each time? Thanks, Peter
