Why you
You’re ahead. This is how you stay there.
Maintenance isn’t the lesser kit — it’s what you give someone who doesn’t need a reset, because running an antibacterial reset on a stable mouth clears bacteria you had no problem with. None of these say you’re finished; they say the work now is holding the position rather than taking it.
No cavities recently, or none that keep recurring
Gums that are healthy, or bleed only occasionally
No dry mouth, and no medications driving it
Mostly water between meals
A dental visit within the last year or so
A routine you actually keep to most days
How it works
How to prevent cavities once you’re already ahead.
Prevention gets treated as the boring option, which is why most people do it badly. The bacteria don’t stop arriving because your last check-up went well — they arrive every day, and every day the routine is what keeps them from settling in. Staying low-risk is an active thing you do, not a state you reached.
Keeps the pH out of the danger zone
25% xylitol at an elevated pH, alcohol-free, one capful in the evening.
Xylitol is a sugar the decay bacteria can’t metabolize. They take it up, get nothing from it, and lose ground.
Rebuilds daily, at the margin
Gel 1100 — the same 1,100 ppm fluoride and nano-hydroxyapatite as the Treatment protocol.
The gel doesn’t change between kits. Low risk still means daily acid exposure, and enamel still needs the minerals back.
Stops the drift back
A consistent nightly routine, checked in the app.
Risk isn’t a fixed trait. It moves with medication, stress, a job that has you sipping coffee all day — which is why it gets re-measured rather than assumed.
What happens next
Nothing here expires — but it does get checked.
There’s no end date to defend against: you keep the routine, the kit keeps arriving, and the only thing that changes is what the reassessment finds. A provider can move you up if your answers move, which is the point of measuring rather than assuming.
Ongoing
Maintenance Rinse in the evening, Gel 1100 morning and night.
Every 90 days
A fresh kit, and a reassessment when one is due.
If risk rises
A provider can escalate you to Treatment — the rinse changes, the rest doesn’t.
If your risk had come back higher
You’d be on the Treatment protocol — a 90-day antibacterial reset aimed at clearing a bacterial load that’s already causing damage.
Read why Treatment →Which protocol you’re on is decided by the quiz, and re-decided at every reassessment. See the daily routine · Take the quiz