Comments on: Healing Tooth Decay

By: Filippa

Filippa — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:27:36 +0000

Marie, Weston Price Foundation should have a lot of information for you. Try this link: Weston A Price Foundation
The key to your son’s health is diet and not brushing. Price was a dentist who travelled the world studying traditional societies. All the societies he studied that were living on their traditional diets had almost no tooth decay. They were breastfed during the night and they didn’t brush their teeth. The key is fat soluble vitamins found in nutrient dense foods - particularly grass fed animals. You can also get some information from this article on Nourished: Forgotten Tooth Decay Cure

From your description of your son’s cavities and broken bones, it sounds as though he almost certainly has severe mineral deficiency. Have you tried him with raw milk? Many children are allergic to pasteurised milk but not raw. Also, the calcium in raw milk is far more absorbable than in pasteurised. If dairy is totally out then follow Joanne’s guidelines above with bone broths and large amounts of high vitamin Cod Liver Oil. Dr Price was able to reverse tooth decay in malnourished children by giving large doses of CLO.

Good luck and please let us know of your progress!!

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:26:41 +0000

Hi. I was just reading through this thread to get some advice but I’m still a bit confused. I couldn’t figure out what the original thread was, so maybe someone can help me? My son is 3-1/2, and has allergies to milk, eggs, nuts, dogs and cats. So far none of those allergies have been life threatening. Initially a red rash would creep up his face from chin to nose, and then he’d get hives. With the eggs he just had a clear runny nose after eating them. The allergies have been confirmed by an allergist, but it seems as though his body may be tolerating some of those items lately (like butter or whey in margarine, and cooked eggs or milk).
I took him to the dentist for his 3 year check-up, first time, and he’s got 3 cavities that they noticed without ex-rays. A month later (looking for a pediatric dentist in/out of network, and waiting for the appointment), he’s got 2 more cavities. Since the first dentist appointment, I have definately tried harder to clean his teeth more often, and be a bit more careful of how much juice or other things he ingests. I will admit that I’ve been more lax with him than my other children simply because he cannot have all of the foods that they can, but I still can’t believe that led to five cavities - especially that two of them are in the front, one between the two front teeth and one on the bicuspid which honestly, if the child nor the parent brushes well enough anyway, that’s probably the one spot that would get brushed more than any other of the teeth! The other cavities are in his back molars, and are pitted as well (holes on the outside of the tooth).
One of the posts on this board mentioned about drinking soy milk. Of course since he cannot have cows’ milk, he drinks soy milk. Incidentally, and I’ve mentioned this to the two dentists I’ve seen so far, he has broken his humerus and ulna at 15months old (his older brother, 5, fell on him as he was crawling past), and his femur at 33 months (slipped or fell out of his twin bed which was not very high off of the floor). I’ve wondered if there is some kind of calcium-deficiency thing happening here, but can’t seem to get any confirmation on that from the pediatrician or bone doctors.
Can anyone offer any thoughts on this for me? Maybe some supplements that I could give to help him? Anything is greatly appreciated, thanks!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:15:35 +0000

Natalie, what a huge bill for baby teeth! You say that you can’t see any decay, but that there were two holes. A question - did the dentist show you the X-Ray and explain the indications of the “severe decay” that it displays? If not, I’d at the very least book an appointment with her so you could gain an appreciation of the extent of the problem. If the dentist refuses to show you the X-Rays that you have paid for, I would get a new dentist if I were you.

Before you have any treatment done or make any payment on it, as you appear uncertain about your Dentist’s advice it might also be a good idea to politely delay Dentist number 1 while you quiently find a completely separate Dentist number 2 to get a second opinion. It might cost another couple of appointments, but they would be a lot cheaper than $4300. If the second opinion confirms the first, at least you have peace of mind the diagnosis is likely to be valid.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:10:25 +0000

Natalie, get a second opinion, preferably from a dentist who practices wholistically. A number of consumer investigative groups have shown that a range of dentists will give a wide range of diagnoses on the SAME person. Quotes on dental work also vary.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:45:14 +0000

Reading this article has only confused me more about tooth decay (but towards a positive note). I recently got a daunting response from a paedeatric dentist who issued me with a $4300 bill to fix my 4 year olds teeth… (concerned about two holes). She informed me that there was severe decay between the rear molars on all sides (you can’t even see it) but the xray stated it was there. The dentist listed all known causes of which foods and drinks my daughter DIDN’T consume. yes she breast fed for 6 months but I thought that was supposed to be good for her. I don’t understand why her alleged decay is so bad. Your article indicates healing tooth decay but my dentist said this is impossible. What can I do! My daughter is on the waiting list to get her teeth repaired but is it necessary.

By: Rami

Rami — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:21:28 +0000

Good work to the mother’s taking care of their children. The secret is balanced blood chemistry.

So eliminating allergen foods, or foods that deplete the body of nutrients, like soy milk or rice milk, is an important factor to healing tooth decay.

Vitamin D from the sunlight is good for overall health, but if you look at Nutrition and Physical Degeneration you will see that in the 1930’s modern Swiss they tried to use sunlight to heal tooth decay but it did not work.

Rami
http://www.curetoothdecay.com

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:22:11 +0000

I recently went to talk about Vit D and sunlight, given by a reseracher from Sydney who’s worked in Vit D for 30 years. If you live in northern Austrlia eg Cairns, you’ll be able to get Vit D from sun all year round. Recommended amount of time is about 10 minutes a day around 10-11 am (depending on whether daylight saving is in force).

in Southern Aust (south of about Sydney), you need about 6-8 minutes at 10-11 am in midsummer. In midwinter, you need at about 30minutes at noon - assuming the sun is out at all.

All the exposures need at least 15% skin exposure - so hard to do on a cold winter’s day!

Interestingly the speaker said a significant fraction of office workers had low blood levels of Vit D. Going to work at 8am, going home at 6pm and eating lunch in front of the computer doesn’t do much for your Vit D levels. Ironically smokers have better Vit D status because they are forced to go outside for a smoke!

Also seafood is a good source of fat soluble vitamins too.

By: KerryAnn Foster

KerryAnn Foster — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:53:56 +0000

Despite a Traditional Foods diet during pregnancy and nursing, both of my children’s teeth erupted with cavities and discoloration. I also developed several cavities myself. We later found out that all three of us had celiac disease, and other food intolerances had developed due to the gut damage from the celiac. If you are following a Traditional Foods diet and still having dental problems, check into malabsorption and gut damage from food allergies, celiac, or other causes as the source of your dental problems.

Once we eliminated our allergens from our diet even in trace amounts and began taking steps towards healing our guts, we were able to get the cavities to heal. After 6 months of supplementation with CLO, high amounts of trace minerals from Concentrace and sea salt, and switching to tooth soap, the cavities healed. We did not use butter oil because we all three react to it due to dairy allergy, even though it claims to be casein free. We all went through particularly strong periods of salt cravings while it was healing.

KerryAnn Foster
http://www.cookingTF.com

By: Edward Hutchinson

Edward Hutchinson — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:21:10 +0000

While Sally Fallon is right to suggest the maximum amount of UVB is present at midday and thus this is the best time for SHORT sessions of sunlight exposure, in fact providing the erythemal index is at least 3 you will be able to get UVB, hence vitamin d, whenever your shadow is shorter than your height.
If you live above latitude 37 then during the Winter the time available will become progressively shorter until it simply isn’t available at all.

Food sources of Vitamin D3 are mainly oily fish. The supplement Cholecalciferol Vitamin D3 is the one that should always be used “The Case Against Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) as a Vitamin Supplement. Lisa A Houghton and Reinhold Vieth explains why D2 should never be used or prescribed.

To absorb the maximum amount of Calcium from food/supplements you need a Vitamin D3 status above 80nmol/L. However the level associated with optimal health and lowest breast cancer incidence is 125nmol/L.
Each 400iu D3 capsule daily will raise status by 7-12nmol/L. The lower your status the easier it is to raise it the nearer optimal you are the lower the rise. Most UK readers will currently be between 50-75nmol/L so will require around 2000iu/daily/D3 to approach optimal Vitamin d Status.

By: Joanne Hay

Joanne Hay — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:16:13 +0000

Miriam, you all ate raw milk, did you not?