This is a repost from long ago:

38 years ago when I was 17 I used to go to a dentist named Dr. Duncun down in Atlanta. He was an Emory University graduate. His dental hygienist was a lady, who like many was torturous with the scraping tools and the infamous stainless steel hook. My “gums” were in the greatest shape or “their” lives but were no match for her devilish regimen of cleaning teeth and leaving bloodied and tattered GUMS as collateral damage.

But what she did next was nothing short of a real miracle for pain relief for my ailing gums. She took a small unmarked amber bottle and would soak a Qtip with two or three drops from the bottle. She then would apply the soaked Qtip to my gum line, first the entire outside, top and bottom and then the inside, top and bottom. The liquid would sting a little upon application but strangely give a numbing but tremendous pain relief to my entire gum line. So instead of my “gums” being very sore for two or three days they would be a little sore that afternoon and night only. By the next morning there was no pain. So the only part of my regular 6 month visits to the dental hygienist was that beloved wet Qip that I knew was going to help wash my pain away.

When we moved away and got a new Dentist, I suffered the 2 to 3 day “soreness” for years, again. But after rediscovering Iodine almost 5 years ago and smelling the iodine, my mind flooded with the memory of that small brown bottle that the dental hygienist had , and I realized that the liquid inside was Iodine So now every 6 months, I get my Iodine with Qtip ready to do battle with the dental hygienist.

So I challenge anyone, who has a really aggressive dental hygienist to just apply 2% or 5% Lugols iodine to one side of their gums with a Qtip and FEEL the difference. You’ll thank me later.

t2t