Oil pulling itself doesn’t benefit your oral health. What does is you taking a sudden interest in your oral hygiene, and rinsing very fucking thoroughly (often also brushing far more thoroughly too).

Cut sugars (even natural), cut acids (anything sour, tart, fizzy - yes even sugar free pop!), brush with as high a fluoride concentration toothpaste as you can (e.g., clinpro 5000 or neutrafluor/duraphat 5000), floss and use interdental brushes, don’t graze, manage your gastric reflux and dry mouth… Taking on board at least some of these will improve your oral health.

And for whitening, the whitening steps from crest/oral b work well if your teeth and gums are healthy and clean.

I have a friend who did it and i think she felt like it was really effective for her. I’ll ask for details and report back

I heard that snake oil works better for this instead of coconut oil.

any tips

If I wanted to whiten teeth at home – I don’t, but if I did – I’d probably use those whitening strips, which it looks like use hydrogen peroxide.

Coconut oil is what movie theaters use on popcorn and IMHO is the best use for it if you’ve got some. I used to keep a jar of it along with some Flavacol to get the movie-theater experience.

EDIT: I later switched to a mix of chili oil and olive oil for popcorn, which is not as authentic but can be misted with a mister without congealing in the mister and is also pretty good.

Although I understand the downvotes for “alternative medicine”, I wouldn’t mind an update in a few weeks, just out of curiosity.

Is there anything to this? Did you get results? Keep track of it “for science” and let us know what you think.

Curious why you would ask this here instead of just doing a web search? If you don’t like reading search results, you can just get an AI summary. It’s at least as reliable as asking a bunch of internet randos chiming in. Here you’re probably more likely to get “10W-40, twice a day” answers over serious ones.

Personally, I prefer 5W and only oil pull once a month.

If you do something that isn’t recommended do a google search for how to do it safely

Just talk to your dentist