Tooth Sensitivity and Vitamin K2 - edited

[HeronNS]

Here is a nice little explanation of how Vitamin K2 helps your teeth so they become less sensitive.

wellesleydentalgroup.com/bl...

And here is a much longer article with more information:

metropolitandentalcarenyc.c...

[Bcol]

Thanks Heron, interesting read.

[123-go]

Thank you, Heron.😁

[SheffieldJane]

Wow! I had allowed myself to run out of vit K2 and my teeth are very sensitive. Grateful for the post!

[Sharitone]

thank you. Will try it

[TheMoaningViolet]

Thanks for this. I assume that reference to vitamin K3 in the last sentence is a typo?

[HeronNS in reply to TheMoaningViolet]

Yes it must be. It's just what some dental office posted. It seemed the best of what I looked at, trying to find something sensible. There was some sort of incomprehensible research paper, and then a bunch of this sort of thing. Thought it would be more authentic than just my anecdotal experience.

They do say K1 is "less toxic" than K2. As I have never seen anywhere mention that K2 is toxic, far from it, that also should be corrected. Vitamin K3 is toxic, therefore irrelevant to us.

I will look for a better article.

[HeronNS]

I have added another, longer, article to this post.

[Karenjaninaz]

I have been on vitamin K2 for years for my bones. But I still got tooth sensitivity in a couple of areas. So in my case it didn’t seem to make any difference. What does work for me are the toothpastes for tooth sensitivity. I just start brushing in that area loading the toothpaste on the sensitive part and that seems to work.

[HeronNS in reply to Karenjaninaz]

I use a colgate toothpaste for sensitive teeth and before I was taking K2 I even went to the pharmacy to see if there was a way to get the active ingredient separately! I do not need to apply toothpaste to my teeth any more, at least no more than the usual brushing time.

[JGBH]

Thank you Jean. Most interesting.