Thank you, oh wise one! You're absolutely right of course, and I've found a holistic dentist I plan to call next week.
We sometimes forget that dentists and doctors have only a marginal interest in our becoming well. It's vital to them that we remain sick, otherwise they make no money. It's highly obvious that my teeth and gums look fantastic these days (and I have British teeth, they're not pretty). If my dentist said so, though, it would mean he'd be encouraging me to stay on this 'ridiculous' regime. His attitude with anything new is, "If it's not reported in the medical journals I don't believe it'. And oil-pulling never makes it into the medical journals.