baking soda toothpaste

Baking soda is VERY high in sodium, and it tastes really bad, so I'd say not. She's on Z/D, right? Any way she could have a bone of whatever the protein is????

the protein is hydrolyzed ... so I can't give her any other type of protein.

Don't use baking soda -- far far far too much salt (and see they swallow everything).  Just wet the brush with water -- that will work as well as anything and it's far better than something that could, in short order, cause some major kidney problem.  I suggested this once to my holistic vet and she about had kittens right on the spot (in other words, it's a thot I had myself, but got 'set straight' on it by MY vet *grin*).

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Calcium ascorbate (it's buffered Vitamin C) -- she says only maybe 1 in 1000 dogs are allergic to it.  Take a gauze pad and unfold it and wrap around your finger.  Dip your finger in a bit of water and tap some powder onto your finger.
 
Then use your finger like a 'brush' and massage the outside of the teeth with it --
 
This particularly helps bleeding gums (if you know any humans with that problem) -- While you do your elmination diet it should be pretty easy to watch for a few days and see if this reacts.
 
She said otherwise simply dip your gauze wrapped finger in water and do it with just the gauze -- that will work fine for your short-term purposes!!
 
Then she said you can find toothpaste at a heatlh store that is pumice based and that should be dog-safe and not full of chemicals for when she comes off the elmiination diet as an alternate for the calcium ascorbate.