Yeah, I stopped going to the dentist. Everytime something was wrong with my teeth he wanted to pull a tooth. When his office said I needed to wear a mask, that was it for me. If God wants my teeth, he can have them.
Me too. I had a painful gum by a tooth last week. I rinsed it several time a day with chlorine dioxide and by the next day all sensitivity and pain was gone. Plus they want X-rays all the time. I refused the all mouth one once and he didn’t like that. Inferred I’d fall over with tooth decay if I didn’t. 🤣🤣🤣
I too used chlorine dioxide along with DMSO to almost immediately stop what I thought may have been an infection on an upper molar. It may have been a sinus infection though too, I'm not sure.
I was recently pondering the reason I hadn’t had a cavity in a decade or more and now I know why. I had stopped drinking soda pop. I did it to reduce my blood pressure. Thinking back, it coincides with the improvement in my dental health. In the last five years I have shied away from almost all sugary treats. Time now to stop that poisoning altogether. And time to start eating foods with better mineral content.
My apologizes.I misread your comment about the pop.I (mistakenly) thought you meant you had been drinking the soda pop to reduce the blood pressure..and then stopped drinking pop... :)
Many thanks. If I'd known all this decades ago I'd have fewer fillings, crowns, bridges and root canal treatments. Hopefully I can eat a healthy enough diet to stop further deterioration. As I'm only 70 it only has to hold out for 25-30 years.
The other factor at this latitude (the UK is at 50-60 degrees north) is sunshine/vitamin D. I think I ate healthily from about 2000 but didn't realise how vit.D deficient I was until 2018. I then corrected the problem.
Absolutely fascinating. I changed my diet in late 2011. Plus had an abscessed root canal removed. My constant sinus infections stopped. Looking back now it was an eating disorder (bulimia) from 1968 to 1981, anxiety and low nutrition that caused most of my dental problems up to 2011. This is now clear. I rarely eat table sugar and my diet is more healthy and balanced and I eat more food. Long time Keto just ended up a starvation diet lacking in decent nutrition. Making up for lost nutrition by lots of supplements isn’t ideal. I eat natural sugars and carbs now. Along with whole Fruit. No bread or grains (USA produced anyway). My teeth have been better since that 2011 change over and I’m not the greatest brusher and flosser either. I treat dentists like monsters and thieves. Terrible experiences with them in the past. One caught my lip in his tooth extractor and no amount of sheer pain noises and gestures distracted him. My face on that side was black and blue after the bleeding stopped for awhile. I was in my late teens. I’m using a chlorine dioxide toothpaste.
The last time I had a root canal done I swore I would never do it again. This post is perfect in what I believe about sugar (I didn’t know why though). I just ordered some chlorine dioxide tooth paste and can’t wait to try it.
I’m loving the toothpaste the 2 weeks I’ve been using it. I also got the mouthwash. I wonder if it will counter the nasty breath that drinking DMSO causes. 🤔 Anyone out there know? I see by the book I got on chlorine dioxide that the 2 can be used together. I will avoid conventional dentistry like the plague and why I’m arming myself with alternative applications.
Topical is better on the odor thing for me. But oral is another thing, even with pure dmso. My husband notices. I’d like to take it for digestive issues.
I can attest to this first-hand. I have a tooth rotting in my head that I should get removed (but I hate visits to the dentist). If I consume an even moderate amount of sugar (say, three cookies), then I'll have a bad toothache the next day. Once I cut off sugar from my diet, the toothache subsides and eventually disappears completely, never to return until my sweet tooth again gets the better of me.
A very LARGE aha! moment. I've heard (as a person that has it and studies the cause) that heart disease and tooth disease are linked... (causal or associative?). This explanation fills in my understanding. The SAME DIET CAUSES BOTH! My teeth have shown a great propensity to grow a tremendous amount of calcium since going low carb 2 years ago (I did start CPAP at the same time, not sure which is the cause). My guess is that calcium is readjusting where it goes in my body and how much it needs and/or is getting. Any thoughts on that?
I do supplement with D3 and add K2-7 which distributes calcium to bones. K2-4 is for cardiovascular health. I have thinner bones in my 70s and want my calcium to go to bones. My appetite is light. I grind my local pasture raised eggs to a powder and supplement calcium. Dairy seems a problem at times. I knock back a couple of 1/4 teaspoons of the powder washed down with water a day. I don’t like it in food.
Dental equipment looks like a tech wonderland. Two or three assistants plus an office crew. Not to mention the elaborate dental office with a huge mortgage! I’m switching to a dentist who has a small modest building.
I've a long term experience with alt dentistry so I've a few thoughts on this one. I'm very suspicious of Loma Linda experts as they are part of the Adventist church which has some quite extreme reasons for promoting a grain based diet. Their most famous expert resorted to flat out lying in his later years in order to not upset the agenda :( He was a lovely man but he caved in to pressure.
I had zero cavities, perfect teeth , but a few years of perfect Adventist diet wrecked them and my bones. Their idea that grains are not sugar is a mistake I think.
Weston Price had a more balanced view I think.
Anyway .. armed with more 'wholesome' diet advice I tried to regrow my two 'cavities'' and two bone injuries.. after 15 years of no improvement. A plant free diet mended one bone .. a fierce sterilising regime provoked the teeth to regrow and mend, and the final bone injury in my jaw I was able to heal with a meditation technique I had read good research into.
My conclusion is that diet is of course vital .. but bacteria/biome has influence also. I had a startling 'cure ' from finally dropping my nurturing approach and going full 'sterlising' mode. Maybe tipping the balance toward the preferred biome is the way it worked for me ?
I can at least attest to the fact that Weston Price was correct and the absolutely can regrow and mend ..
Can you give a bit more detail as to your sterilizing method or anything else there you want to add? My two sons have cavities and I'm really trying to figure out what to do for them.
I used to recommend a great website called healingteethnaturally . It was full of anecdotes of things people had tried and succeeded with. It seems to have vanished recently. We are all so different that I dont really like to advise on specifics. Its good to read around and experiment sensibly I think ? lots of yt videos with various protocols using bleaches like peroxide and various mineral pastes to help repair. I think it was a chemical mouthwash/bleach peroxide based that triggered my teeth to mend, but I was also doing a lot of other things’right’ long term.. its good to experiment and get to know your own body and the various things that can help .. Someone with weaker teeth may have been damaged by a bleaching agent , so it’s a case of cautious experimenting . Or finding a good biological dentist ! . Take a look at weston prices photos of teeth regrowing too .. its inspiring :)
I switched to carnivore diet, using nano hydroxy tooth paste. I have 2 slightly loose teeth on the front bottom. Did your gums grow back and tighten around your teeth ?
Understood and agreed. I learned the hard way, when my childhood dentist filled ALL my molars with mercury amalgam to "prevent" me from getting cavities in the naturally deep fissures of my teeth.
Cost my parents a small fortune, and triggered a whole host of mercury-related health issues . . . .
Agreed. For the first time, there was no gum bleeding during the dentist's check-up, and the tightness along the gum line was better than in the previous 20+ years (all the time she's been doing those types of examinations).
Well, here we are again at the crossroads of the modern stone age medical mafia and what they want us to believe. This makes perfect sense that a tooth decays from the inside out. Just like chemical toxins and poisons taking internally lead to illness and disease...not from viruses and bad germs.
So maybe the acids in coffee and tea don't really damage the teeth. It's the sugar you add to them that does.
Coffee is not good for your liver. I was a coffee drinker for years, always black no sugar, still ended up with bad teeth but only those teeth that had been drilled and filled when I was a teenager.
Ironically, the endocrine system is a primary target for mercury and the biggest source of mercury exposure in the population is amalgam fillings in the teeth.
My understanding is that over time the tooth can remineralize areas that rotted out. It’s not fast but it does happen. Particularly effective for small nascient cavities caught before they develop into gaping holes.
My old dentist was an interesting mix. Yes, he would drill and fill like all the others but in his later years he was more inclined to wait and see if a spot needed his attention. On more than one occasion a spot that seemed to be developing into a cavity would heal itself, no further intervention needed.
Needless to say, sugar / sodas / junk food have not been part of my diet for decades. I’m sure that contributed greatly to why my teeth would heal themselves of minor injuries.
If you can see a cavity , before you go to bed pack that tooth with organic turmeric mixed with black pepper. It will clear the cavity out. I promise. I did it !
I'd love to see you write up about Dr. Ellie Philips' 4 step protocal. She's a dentist that has worked on her protocol over decades. She fought to get fluoride out of the water here in Texas but failed. The toothpaste brand in her protocol, however, has fluoride in it but she has compared it to the fluoride in green tea has just as much AND you swallow it. Where as the tiny bit of fluoride in the one she recommends (due to an actual cavity fighting chemical in it) you spit out. She focuses on getting your mouth in a healthy environment which includes chewing xylitol after each meal. I can only use her brand of xylitol because others give me migraines. She does not focus on how the rest of the body helps with teeth health though. I've been using the protocol for about 2 years and have no tooth pain.
I have to add to my comment that while I truly believe Dr. Ellie's protocol that I have done consistently for 2 years has replenished my teeth, I also became a little addicted to the xylitol (sp?) gum, eating two pieces after a meal, chewing not after a meal, etc. Well how I noticed it was a problem is it was messing with my gut biom (sp?) but only after two years. I was recently experiencing very loose stools no matter what I ate. I researched and it turns out xylitol not only releases healthy saliva into your mouth but also releases water into the bowel. So I'm now three or four days without any xylitol and my stools have returned to healthy. I still do Dr. Ellie's protocol but not the xylitol part.
It is a byproduct from the chemical industry and a cheap way for them to get rid of it was to put it into water supply and products on the illusion that it was a benefit to the community, what a joke, it is so harmful.
I found Ellie Philips too... I am trying her protocol - been doing it about 2 months... seems good so far. Although having gone (mostly) low-carb I haven't had any problems with my teeth for a long time now :-)
Yeah, I stopped going to the dentist. Everytime something was wrong with my teeth he wanted to pull a tooth. When his office said I needed to wear a mask, that was it for me. If God wants my teeth, he can have them.
Me too. I had a painful gum by a tooth last week. I rinsed it several time a day with chlorine dioxide and by the next day all sensitivity and pain was gone. Plus they want X-rays all the time. I refused the all mouth one once and he didn’t like that. Inferred I’d fall over with tooth decay if I didn’t. 🤣🤣🤣
I too used chlorine dioxide along with DMSO to almost immediately stop what I thought may have been an infection on an upper molar. It may have been a sinus infection though too, I'm not sure.
When I quit going also.
I was recently pondering the reason I hadn’t had a cavity in a decade or more and now I know why. I had stopped drinking soda pop. I did it to reduce my blood pressure. Thinking back, it coincides with the improvement in my dental health. In the last five years I have shied away from almost all sugary treats. Time now to stop that poisoning altogether. And time to start eating foods with better mineral content.
What ingredient in "soda pop" enhances vasodilation..?
Did you mean vasoconstriction?
My apologizes.I misread your comment about the pop.I (mistakenly) thought you meant you had been drinking the soda pop to reduce the blood pressure..and then stopped drinking pop... :)
Many thanks. If I'd known all this decades ago I'd have fewer fillings, crowns, bridges and root canal treatments. Hopefully I can eat a healthy enough diet to stop further deterioration. As I'm only 70 it only has to hold out for 25-30 years.
The other factor at this latitude (the UK is at 50-60 degrees north) is sunshine/vitamin D. I think I ate healthily from about 2000 but didn't realise how vit.D deficient I was until 2018. I then corrected the problem.
👍 "As I'm only 70 it only has to hold out for 25-30 years."
You are optimistic!
Absolutely fascinating. I changed my diet in late 2011. Plus had an abscessed root canal removed. My constant sinus infections stopped. Looking back now it was an eating disorder (bulimia) from 1968 to 1981, anxiety and low nutrition that caused most of my dental problems up to 2011. This is now clear. I rarely eat table sugar and my diet is more healthy and balanced and I eat more food. Long time Keto just ended up a starvation diet lacking in decent nutrition. Making up for lost nutrition by lots of supplements isn’t ideal. I eat natural sugars and carbs now. Along with whole Fruit. No bread or grains (USA produced anyway). My teeth have been better since that 2011 change over and I’m not the greatest brusher and flosser either. I treat dentists like monsters and thieves. Terrible experiences with them in the past. One caught my lip in his tooth extractor and no amount of sheer pain noises and gestures distracted him. My face on that side was black and blue after the bleeding stopped for awhile. I was in my late teens. I’m using a chlorine dioxide toothpaste.
The last time I had a root canal done I swore I would never do it again. This post is perfect in what I believe about sugar (I didn’t know why though). I just ordered some chlorine dioxide tooth paste and can’t wait to try it.
I’m loving the toothpaste the 2 weeks I’ve been using it. I also got the mouthwash. I wonder if it will counter the nasty breath that drinking DMSO causes. 🤔 Anyone out there know? I see by the book I got on chlorine dioxide that the 2 can be used together. I will avoid conventional dentistry like the plague and why I’m arming myself with alternative applications.
I don’t know about the dmso odor. I’ve just used topical dmso and my husband can’t smell anything—even though I can taste it.
Topical is better on the odor thing for me. But oral is another thing, even with pure dmso. My husband notices. I’d like to take it for digestive issues.
Try drinking celery juice daily, I cured my IBS and still drink 2 cups per day, you have to work up to that amount though, start small.
Nothing, NOTHING will diminish the odor from ingesting DMSO - just ask my wife 🤣
Only reducing dosage or stopping will do it.
My granddaughter always would tell me "grandpa, you smell like olives" She liked it. My wife, not so much.
What is the name of the chlorine dioxide toothpaste please. Available on Amazon?
Dioxicare
Frontierpharm.com
Thanks - I found it mentioned Dr. Kory’s book & ordered some.
I can attest to this first-hand. I have a tooth rotting in my head that I should get removed (but I hate visits to the dentist). If I consume an even moderate amount of sugar (say, three cookies), then I'll have a bad toothache the next day. Once I cut off sugar from my diet, the toothache subsides and eventually disappears completely, never to return until my sweet tooth again gets the better of me.
A very LARGE aha! moment. I've heard (as a person that has it and studies the cause) that heart disease and tooth disease are linked... (causal or associative?). This explanation fills in my understanding. The SAME DIET CAUSES BOTH! My teeth have shown a great propensity to grow a tremendous amount of calcium since going low carb 2 years ago (I did start CPAP at the same time, not sure which is the cause). My guess is that calcium is readjusting where it goes in my body and how much it needs and/or is getting. Any thoughts on that?
I do supplement with D3 and add K2-7 which distributes calcium to bones. K2-4 is for cardiovascular health. I have thinner bones in my 70s and want my calcium to go to bones. My appetite is light. I grind my local pasture raised eggs to a powder and supplement calcium. Dairy seems a problem at times. I knock back a couple of 1/4 teaspoons of the powder washed down with water a day. I don’t like it in food.
Just wondering how many dental procedures are actually justified and how many are for bill paying.,?
I will write more about dentistry this year
Thank You.
Dentistry is a Topic that needs addressed, revealed, opened up......
I look forward to that! Thank you!!
Investigate all of the Dentistry continuing education and elective courses. Many are how to increase the revenue.
My dentist claims he doesn't make enough money. He has to pay for the facility, the insurance and a helper or two.
Yes, and all those dental x-rays! The equipment is so expensive, then they have to recoup the costs.
Dental equipment looks like a tech wonderland. Two or three assistants plus an office crew. Not to mention the elaborate dental office with a huge mortgage! I’m switching to a dentist who has a small modest building.
I've a long term experience with alt dentistry so I've a few thoughts on this one. I'm very suspicious of Loma Linda experts as they are part of the Adventist church which has some quite extreme reasons for promoting a grain based diet. Their most famous expert resorted to flat out lying in his later years in order to not upset the agenda :( He was a lovely man but he caved in to pressure.
I had zero cavities, perfect teeth , but a few years of perfect Adventist diet wrecked them and my bones. Their idea that grains are not sugar is a mistake I think.
Weston Price had a more balanced view I think.
Anyway .. armed with more 'wholesome' diet advice I tried to regrow my two 'cavities'' and two bone injuries.. after 15 years of no improvement. A plant free diet mended one bone .. a fierce sterilising regime provoked the teeth to regrow and mend, and the final bone injury in my jaw I was able to heal with a meditation technique I had read good research into.
My conclusion is that diet is of course vital .. but bacteria/biome has influence also. I had a startling 'cure ' from finally dropping my nurturing approach and going full 'sterlising' mode. Maybe tipping the balance toward the preferred biome is the way it worked for me ?
I can at least attest to the fact that Weston Price was correct and the absolutely can regrow and mend ..
Can you give a bit more detail as to your sterilizing method or anything else there you want to add? My two sons have cavities and I'm really trying to figure out what to do for them.
I used to recommend a great website called healingteethnaturally . It was full of anecdotes of things people had tried and succeeded with. It seems to have vanished recently. We are all so different that I dont really like to advise on specifics. Its good to read around and experiment sensibly I think ? lots of yt videos with various protocols using bleaches like peroxide and various mineral pastes to help repair. I think it was a chemical mouthwash/bleach peroxide based that triggered my teeth to mend, but I was also doing a lot of other things’right’ long term.. its good to experiment and get to know your own body and the various things that can help .. Someone with weaker teeth may have been damaged by a bleaching agent , so it’s a case of cautious experimenting . Or finding a good biological dentist ! . Take a look at weston prices photos of teeth regrowing too .. its inspiring :)
Try daily celery juice rinses, and drink the celery juice daily, work up to 2 cups per day although one cup for kids is enough.
Wow! Fascinating essay - thank you. I have noticed my teeth are way better having moved to low carb/keto/carnivore diet! This all makes sense 😎
Same here! For a couple of months I was on a super strict carnivore diet and the change in my gum health was fast and dramatic!
I switched to carnivore diet, using nano hydroxy tooth paste. I have 2 slightly loose teeth on the front bottom. Did your gums grow back and tighten around your teeth ?
I did not have an issue with my gums needing to "grow back", but they certainly did tighten up. B-vitamins and vitamin C also help a lot.
Thank you,dentist chair is a revolving door. I just got into alternative holistic treatments. Im wide awake. This could have been fixed years ago.
Understood and agreed. I learned the hard way, when my childhood dentist filled ALL my molars with mercury amalgam to "prevent" me from getting cavities in the naturally deep fissures of my teeth.
Cost my parents a small fortune, and triggered a whole host of mercury-related health issues . . . .
Home made bone & tendon broth is a morning staple for me. Rebuilding my dentition!
Agreed. For the first time, there was no gum bleeding during the dentist's check-up, and the tightness along the gum line was better than in the previous 20+ years (all the time she's been doing those types of examinations).
Well, here we are again at the crossroads of the modern stone age medical mafia and what they want us to believe. This makes perfect sense that a tooth decays from the inside out. Just like chemical toxins and poisons taking internally lead to illness and disease...not from viruses and bad germs.
So maybe the acids in coffee and tea don't really damage the teeth. It's the sugar you add to them that does.
Coffee is not good for your liver. I was a coffee drinker for years, always black no sugar, still ended up with bad teeth but only those teeth that had been drilled and filled when I was a teenager.
Astonishing! Excellent! Thank you.
We all should forward this to every dentist we know.
Fabulous summary! Much appreciated.
I always suspected something like this dynamic might be at play. So glad to have the rest of the story!
Ironically, the endocrine system is a primary target for mercury and the biggest source of mercury exposure in the population is amalgam fillings in the teeth.
Very informative! Another dot to connect with overall health and diet. Makes so much sense.
My question is, can a healthy diet actually “heal” a tooth once a cavity forms?
My understanding is that over time the tooth can remineralize areas that rotted out. It’s not fast but it does happen. Particularly effective for small nascient cavities caught before they develop into gaping holes.
My old dentist was an interesting mix. Yes, he would drill and fill like all the others but in his later years he was more inclined to wait and see if a spot needed his attention. On more than one occasion a spot that seemed to be developing into a cavity would heal itself, no further intervention needed.
Needless to say, sugar / sodas / junk food have not been part of my diet for decades. I’m sure that contributed greatly to why my teeth would heal themselves of minor injuries.
Celery juice helps. Rinse mouth and drink it. 1-2 cups per day.
If you can see a cavity , before you go to bed pack that tooth with organic turmeric mixed with black pepper. It will clear the cavity out. I promise. I did it !
I'd love to see you write up about Dr. Ellie Philips' 4 step protocal. She's a dentist that has worked on her protocol over decades. She fought to get fluoride out of the water here in Texas but failed. The toothpaste brand in her protocol, however, has fluoride in it but she has compared it to the fluoride in green tea has just as much AND you swallow it. Where as the tiny bit of fluoride in the one she recommends (due to an actual cavity fighting chemical in it) you spit out. She focuses on getting your mouth in a healthy environment which includes chewing xylitol after each meal. I can only use her brand of xylitol because others give me migraines. She does not focus on how the rest of the body helps with teeth health though. I've been using the protocol for about 2 years and have no tooth pain.
Fluoride is poison, simple as that, does nothing. Do not use fluoride toothpaste no matter who recommends it.
I couldn't agree more !
I have to add to my comment that while I truly believe Dr. Ellie's protocol that I have done consistently for 2 years has replenished my teeth, I also became a little addicted to the xylitol (sp?) gum, eating two pieces after a meal, chewing not after a meal, etc. Well how I noticed it was a problem is it was messing with my gut biom (sp?) but only after two years. I was recently experiencing very loose stools no matter what I ate. I researched and it turns out xylitol not only releases healthy saliva into your mouth but also releases water into the bowel. So I'm now three or four days without any xylitol and my stools have returned to healthy. I still do Dr. Ellie's protocol but not the xylitol part.
Not surprised about xylitol it is terrible for digestion. It is definately not recommended on a fodmap friendly diet for those suffering from IBS.
I so appreciate you validating this. Thanks.
It is a byproduct from the chemical industry and a cheap way for them to get rid of it was to put it into water supply and products on the illusion that it was a benefit to the community, what a joke, it is so harmful.
Im so glad you told us that
She has helped me so much!
I found Ellie Philips too... I am trying her protocol - been doing it about 2 months... seems good so far. Although having gone (mostly) low-carb I haven't had any problems with my teeth for a long time now :-)
I swear buy Boka Nano Hydroxyapatite tooth paste
This info is fascinating. I was