It is very disturbing that most conventional dentists still insist that a cavity cannot heal on its own when proper nutritional support is provided and detrimental foods to oral health removed from the diet.
The very textbooks in dental school indicate that this is possible! Here is an excerpt:
“It has been shown experimentally and clinically that incipient caries [small cavities] of enamel can remineralize.” – Sturdevant’s Art & Science of Operative Dentistry 4th Edition, 2002.
Of course, Dr. Weston A. Price DDS, a prominent, well-respected dentist early in the last century who used to be President of the National Dental Association (1914-1928), the forerunner of the American Dental Association, wrote about cavities healing with diet on numerous occasions in his nutritional classic Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Why has this information been so completely buried and vilified in recent decades?
Perhaps it is the profit motive that keeps most dentists from acknowledging this truism of oral health. Why dentists might be concerned about their business evaporating if this information became widely acknowledged is short-sighted, however. I mean, even if dentists promoted to their patients that cavities heal and assisted them with the appropriate dietary intervention when necessary, there still would be plenty of drill and fill business for them from caries that did not resolve from diet alone due to food intolerances or genetic issues known to impact enamel formation.
Dentists that choose to insist that diet only impacts the formation of cavities, but not whether they heal are doing their clients a huge disservice.
The reason?
Cavities that have remineralized are actually more resistant to subsequent decay kind of like a callous on your hand. Again, a direct excerpt from dental textbooks on this very subject:
“These discolored, remineralized, arrested caries [cavities] areas are in-tact and are more resistant to subsequent caries [cavity] attack than the adjacent unaffected enamel. They should not be restored unless they are esthetically objectionable.” – Sturdevant’s Art & Science of Operative Dentistry 4th Edition, 2002.
Photographs of the Cavity Healing Process
From a consumer perspective, more and more parents are realizing the power of diet to arrest and heal cavities, and they are starting to photograph it to prove their case.
Kristin S., a mother in New York then consented to the use of her own series of photographs of her child’s cavities healing over a period of six weeks.
The discoloration and holes in the teeth were identified as actual cavities by the child’s own dentist prior to the healing diet being commenced.
The photos are taken at week 1, week 3, and week 6. This article overviews the specific dietary changes and the recipe for the natural toothpaste that Kristin used with her 3-year-old son.
As you can see below, the discoloration in these cavities remarkably disappears over a six week period and the holes in the enamel begin to fill in.
These results are impressive and very encouraging for those parents who keep their children’s teeth meticulously clean only to still experience tremendous problems with cavities.
Do you have a series of photographs of your child’s cavities healing? If so, please email them to me at [email protected]
Let’s keep the heat on the conventional dental establishment by sharing with each other our successes as parents in resolving our children’s cavities!
Need the whole story about diet healing cavities?
This book by Rami Nagel is a must-read on the subject: Cure Tooth Decay
Need a Dentist Who Understands Tooth Remineralization?
I get many requests about who I recommend as a truly holistic, biological dentist. If you are looking for one, I recommend Dr. Carlo Litano of Natural-Smiles.com – (727) 300-0044. He sees young children as well as adults and does phone consults for those who don’t liver close enough for an office visit. Be sure to tell Dr. Litano that Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist sent you and get 10% off your first visit!
References
The Disturbing Trend of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
How I Healed My Child’s Cavity
Toddler’s Severe Tooth Decay Halted in 5 Days
Resolving Periodontal Problems with Bone Broth
Coconut Oil Stops Strep Bacteria from Damaging Tooth Enamel
Avoiding Root Canals with Diet Alone
Could the Cause of Your Illness Be Right Under Your Nose?
I’m going to have a go at oil pulling. I’ve just read too many good things about it.
I have had spots on my teeth for years now even when I was vegan and vegetarian. Now I am a WAPF believer and would never not go without eating or believing this way. Yes I have high cholesterol at 241. Yes I eat lots of saturated fat and cholesterol. No I don’t believe its bad now. I have been taking FCLO but just today bought the blend and am excited to see how I do with taking this and to see if my cavities heal themselves. I have Cure Tooth Decay as well but…. I and unsure of what exactly you can eat and what you cannot eat. I am pretty sure he lays it out perfectly in that book but for some reason I am unable to understand.
My bottom front teeth had visible cracks and they were all gone after a few months of oil pulling with coconut oil and eating butter oil
Does it always turn back to white? My son’s have turned hard with no holes but are discolored. He has a lot that are discolored, but no holes, are the cavities not completely healed?
We are healing one right now in our house! I was skeptical but looked at the before picture yesterday and sure enough it is shrinking!
How do you heal them???
I always suspected this and once a tooth is drilled it has a shelf life…and now the silver filings are harmful….who can check a dentists work?
Is the treatment of FCLO and butter oil effective to heal other issues within your teeth? Specifically I have a tooth that I had a root canal on 3 years ago and now my gum is swelled up underneath it. My dentist said its not infected but that there is a pocket around my root, and he wants me to see the endodontist again. He said the root may be split. Don’t know what that means. I would like to heal naturally instead of having more dental work that obviously doesn’t work. Any help?
Yes, that’s part of it and helps considerably and is even enough for some people, but removal of offending foods must be done too in the majority of cases. The book listed above details exactly what to do.
Coming from someone who is actually licensed in the field of dentistry, please get your information from the professionals. You are trusting the research of someone who has no clue what they are talking about.
Agree 100% Heather!!!
If there is swelling in the gum around a root canal and are only a few options and I can PROMISE you oil pulling and the like will not cure them.
Option 1 ~ the root canal has become contaminated and is infected inside the root of the tooth and the infection and swelling shows up near the tip of the root.
Option 2 ~ there is a vertical fracture of the root. There is no way to fix this, even the dentist can not fix this. The tooth must be extracted.
Option 3 ~ there is periodontal disease around the tooth (gum disease) and it is a periodontal abcess. This is caused when bacteria and/or food particles get trapped far beneath the gum line and basically rot in there, causing infection.
I am an endodontist. You need to be evaluated by the endodontist to determine the problem. Left untreated…. the problems will get worse, not better.
If you have swelling and infection there are only several options. Oil pulling and the like are NOT going to help them.
Option 1- the rootcanal is contaminated and infected, the swelling and infection usually shows up near the tip of the root.
Option 2 – there is a vertical fracture in the root. This can not be healed or fixed in any way, even by a dentist. The tooth has to be extracted. Leaving it there will cause bone loss and further damage.
Option 3 – there is periodontal disease present. (gum disease) This means the infection is in the gum, due to bone loss caused by the gum disease.
All 3 need to be evaluated by a dentist. Please go back to the endodontist to be evaluated.
I have just found out that I have 9 cavities! I really want/need to heal these on my own. I have so many questions for you! Could you email me?
I hope whoever took the pictures has taken the time to properly note all the changes so that the scientific community can use the information to further their knowledge. This is a powerful small sample experiment. Yes, it is not a “proper double blind study”, but it does go far in credibly stating what works nutritionally.
Well said!