Many years ago Dr. E. Cheraskin, Chairman of the Department of Oral Medicine at the University of Alabama, conducted an interesting experiment. He punctured the gum or a volunteer dental student with a dental probe. He wanted to see if vitamin C would speed wound healing. This student showed no evidence of vitamin C deficiency. In two studies he first photographed healing without additional vitamin C. After the first would was healed he punctured the gum on the other side of the mouth and supplemented the student with 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C by mouth in four equally divided dosages. The conclusion of the study in his own words is as follows: "In brief, within the limits of this study, wound healing can be significantly accelerated approximately 40 percent with vitamin C supplementation."
I was fortunate enough to meet Dr. Cheraskin and hear him share this work. He conducted the study because "the dentist regularly damages the patient and then discharges him or her with absolutely no knowledge of the individual's capacity to heal." Many dental procedures from a simple cleaning of he teeth to extractions are accompanied by damage to tissues and bleeding. In his lecture Cheraskin joked that as he increased the amount of vitamin C given after sticking the probe in the gum he had to cease the experiment at higher intakes of vitamin C because "I was afraid the probe would get stuck in the gum and I would not be able to remove it!
Vitamin C at higher doses tends to have a half-life of only 30 minutes. This is why NeoLife Super-C boosts benefit of the vitamin by releasing it gradually over a period of hours. This is done by locking the vitamin in a protein matrix which gradually releases the vitamin as the protein is digested.
Reference:
The Diet Dilemma in Dentistry, American Society for Preventive Dentistry, San Francisco, CA, July 10, 1973.
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