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The compelling article written by Dr. Judene Smith DDS about minimally invasive dentistry and how it ignores strong scientific evidence about how cavities heal really brought out the drill-happy dentists in droves! It seems they are unaware of the study published in 2019 in the peer-reviewed journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology that demonstrated over a 7 year period that no drill dentistry works.
As anecdotal evidence to the emerging scientific consensus on the matter, I am presenting a series of photographs sent to me by Rami Nagel, author of the paradigm-shattering book Cure Tooth Decay.
*Another photographed case of resolving cavities is found in this article more pictures of remineralizing caries.
The photos are of an 18-month-old child from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Rikki, the boy’s mother, took these photos as her son’s cavities remineralized over a period of 8 weeks after commencing a dietary program that included supplementing with unprocessed cod liver oil and high vitamin butter oil.  It is important to note that regular cod liver oil found in health food stores will not produce the same spectacular results you see in these photos. Why? These are processed and fortified with synthetic vitamins that are not effective.
The sad truth is that when a parent brings in a child with significant tooth decay, toxic, IQ lowering fluoride treatments, drilling/filling or even crowns and root canals are recommended on baby teeth!  These treatments which can be incredibly expensive are not necessary as in a majority of cases, children’s teeth will quickly remineralize with dietary intervention. Adult teeth with cavities will heal in a similar fashion as long as they have never been drilled or compromised by dental treatments in the past.
What Did This Child Eat That Caused These Cavities?
Possibly the most shocking thing about this story is that this toddler was not eating a junk food diet when these cavities formed. Â He was still breastfeeding and eating an all-organic diet. His favorite foods consisted of graham crackers and flaxseed bread. Â He also was fond of organic granola bars which he ate regularly.
The problem with store-bought whole grain products is that they are high in antinutrients like phytic acid that block mineral absorption. These foods are not a good choice for regular consumption by growing children.
Rikki’s son also ate fruits and vegetables and organic eggs although his mother avoided butter and milk thinking they were bad for him. After reading Cure Tooth Decay, she realized that butter and milk from grass-fed cows are very healing and strengthening for teeth and bones. Grass-fed dairy also counteracts some (but not all) of the negative effects of the toxins and anti-nutrients in processed grain products from the store.
Foods That Healed this Child’s Teeth
Rikki implemented 4 major changes to her son’s diet in order to achieve the results you see below.
- She cut out grains and sugars. This reduced the mineral depletion from the commercial grains and sugar.
- She started giving him Green Pasture’s Royal Blend (a combination product of high vitamin cod liver oil and butter oil) which gave her son the needed fat-soluble vitamins to remineralize his teeth.
- Her son now gets unpasteurized dairy regularly including real raw milk cheese and fermented vegetables like pickles.
- Their family uses butter liberally, and Rikki makes homemade broth and soups from pasture-raised chicken.
Unfortunately, the earliest picture is of the teeth after 1 week on the new dietary protocol described in Cure Tooth Decay.  There wasn’t a control picture available of what the cavities looked like before any changes were made. Even still, the visual healing that takes place is compelling and should give every parent hope that cavity problems can be dealt with at home with simple dietary changes in the majority of cases.
Will these dietary interventions be easy? Most definitely not if a conventional diet is being followed. For those already eating a whole foods-based diet in their home, the changes are much easier to accomplish. Far and away the most difficult change to implement for cavity-prone children especially if they attend school is eliminating processed grain-based foods.
*These photographs were used with Mr. Nagel’s permission (source).
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Pull out even fruit sugars
I do not recommend trying to oil pull to fix anything. It is in your diet and depletion. You are either toxic and unable to absorb nutrients, eating something depleting you, or not eating anything of nutrient density. Practically everyone needs an herbal detox for 14 days or so with some fasting in there and then eating right. If youre toxic, then you wont be absorbing nutrition. I basically had it all down except I was eating fruit sugars, with a straw mind you, and still got some bad cavities. You can basically freeze and harden the damage guaranteed using these techniques. Sensitivity better and they feel better. GET YOUR DIET IN ORDER BY REMOVING THINGS AND EAT THICK NON-SUGARY OR ANY GRAINY STUFF. The sugar issue is in your blood, not a topical thing. It’s rarely read or understood that it’s not really sugar or anything on your teeth thing, it’s a blood level issue. That’s the part that I didn’t know. You won’t even have to brush if you get the diet right. Love you all
That’s not cavities… at all… that’s changing the surface of the tooth overall, not healing deep damage.
Yes you can reverse tooth decay. An ex boyfriend of mine his uncle did a study on hyperbarrics and peridontal disease. It never got published because the peridontists washed turn keep having a job instead of healing people’s mouths! Look into hyperbarics!
Can you possibly reverse tooth decay that has already begun? I have a broken tooth, that I have been oil pulling, cut out all sugars, grains. eat only veggies, fruits, lean meats, drink water or have hot tea w/o sugar or milk.
what about dealing with a old root canal that is now starting to disintegrate? it is a main top tooth..i intially had wanted the tooth just pulled entirely, and the dentist convinced me to go with a root canal..i’m now highly regretting that choice as 4 years later and I started getting pain in the root canal tooth, and then this tooth broke soon after that pain.
The pictures are a cavity forming she caught it before it turned in to a whole so every one saying this isn’t one it is
So I have some teeth with tiny cavities forming. I’m sure Quitting sugar is #1 (also very difficult since I work at a gluten free bakery!) what will happen to my teeth that have fillings now?? (wish I would have know about this before getting a bunch of fillings!! Also green pastures is a good brand of cod liver oil right? I have a tub of it mixed with butter oil but I can’t make myself or children take it!! I gag!! I’ll get pills…anyways..will my fillings come out of my teeth? Or hurt because they can’t heal over??
I have a tooth with a filling that’s now hurting and has decay around the filling. Is it to late to heal the cavity?
If a tooth has a filling in it already, you cannot heal it with diet. You must get it fixed at the dentist with new drilling/filling.
My parents have insisted we eat only food that is found on a farm.All my life I’ve never had anything processed or sugar .My greatgrandmother was the oldest living person on this diet,and she grew a complete set of teeth at age 92.Sadly we lost her a year later.But she had a great smile.I am almost 18 and have never had a cavity.I see the rest of my family going to the dentist almost monthly to have something drilled.My immediate family has never had this problem.
“she grew a complete set of teeth at age 92” Do you mean she grew a set of new adult teeth at age 92? :O please elaborate and tell us what you saw. Did your family take picture of her growing teeth?
Im glad your sons tooth GOT BETTER, but didnt Reverse a cavity like this post originally said. Look up the definition of a tooth cavity. Its a HOLE in the tooth. Your son had a lil plaugue and you were able to clean it up -_-
I would say the teeth were decaying at the base of the teeth; that happened to our first child 23 years ago… and she had to have short stubby teeth as they did root canals to save them due to me not knowing any better…
you could actually put your fingernail right into the tooth at the gum line… seemed to have got that way overnight… they said she was born without the enamel on her top teeth and her molars so as soon as she had any other food or drink than breastmilk, her teeth rapidly decayed… she has been GF since she was 6.5 years old! and all of a sudden, after about 1 year Gluten Free, no more cavities!!!
That was not plaque. The brown area is dentin, the internal material of the tooth, which lies under the enamel. The picture shows missing enamel. Later pictures show the dentin being covered by new enamel. I know this because I went to college to study teeth. What is your professional experience in this area?
Wonder if they had X-rays taken after. Sometimes decay is so subtle that it’s not visible to the naked eye but can be seen on X-rays. Just because the teeth appear different doesn’t necessarily mean the decay is gone.
Hi,
Does anyone have any ideas on what kinds of foods to give a four year old on the “no grains, no sugar” diet? To make matters more complicated, she has a dairy allergy (though we are looking into raw dairy). I’m stuck for recipes, so any help would be much appreciated!
Well, I would first look into a vegan diet. I almost died a decade ago, was losing weight so fast, no doctor could find out why, was in constant abdominal (“pain” is not a strong enough word, I guess “distress”). I wish i could remember when I figured out that it was dairy causing my pain and inability to eat. I also became completely unable to digest red meat around the same time.
In 2014, many of my symptoms came back and it was so scary. I am a baker and when looking to make non-dairy desserts, ran into a lot of yummy looking vegan recipes, so I had a lot of great info and I ate my last pain-causing meal on 14 May, 2014. The next day, I was 100% plant based.
*When you look for foods free of dairy – which human bodies do not need – if you look at recipes or pre-packaged foods that say VEGAN on them It makes things so much easier. But I am still a careful label reader.
I’m not a preachy vegan 🙂 But I have learned a lot during many years of illness, I just pray & hope all the time that some good can come out of this for others.
Gluten-free is very available at supermarkets and restaurants, so that might be a place to look also. I have been amazed and delighted what people far smarter than I can do with rice and nuts (be sure your daughter is OK with nuts, if not, stick to dairy subs that are made with rice, coconut, etc)
I eat a LOT of lentils, my go-to meal is lentils (just from a can at the regular grocery store!), whole grain rice and I buy a bag of mixed mushrooms, then mix it all up, add garlic and salt, you can be really creative with lentils and Mushrooms as they – like soy which I am allergic to but works fine for others – pick up the flavors around them.
The grain part is the trickiest, I would recommend spending a lot of time looking for recipes from vegan and gluten-free Bloggers, spend a bit of time at a Health Food store near you… I see that butter is a part of this re-mineralization, but if there is a dairy allergy, I don’t know how to make that work, unfortunately.
As for sugar, there are a lot of natural sweeteners, but try just doing no sugar for a while, it is not of course a nutrient we need 🙂 But I have friends who use so many cool things to sweeten a cup of tea (I have a cup of “Tension Tamer” tea (Celestial Seasonings) next to me, and I am a southern girl so tonight, I am trying stevia.
The cool thing about going through these things now – needing a special diet – is that we find we are NOT alone. I hate that others suffer. But when we help one another, it’s a good thing, and there are a LOT of good resources!! Oh, how did i forget this… your local library should have cook-books for “special needs”, so that is worth checking out if you have time!!
I hope that helps, I can only imagine how overwhelming this must all seem. When people say to me, “Wow, how impressive that you just stopped eating ALL of this stuff ‘cold turkey’!” But it took a while to get to that point and it helped that I was already a decade into not eating any dairy or red meat. Let me know if I can help, hopefully I can find my way back here! 🙂 Good thoughts and hope for you and your daughter!!
The vegan diet made my teeth decay. Not only that it caused 2 of molars to fraction in half. I went to a zero carb all meat diet and slowly but surely my teeth are remineralizing and turning a little whiter.
I’d suggest reading a book called “fiber menace” it’ll touch upon your abdominal pains. When I was a vegan and hung around lots of vegan people/gurus and restaurant owners they all had one thing in common. They were all compulsive liars in the sense were they had to convince themselves what they were doing was healthy even though they’re teeth were falling off, gallbladders were being removed do to low fat diet, hormones were off balance which makes them moody and angry as hell e.t.c….Not saying thats what you are at all, this is what i’ve observed being immersed in that culture for about 6 years.
Hahah Your funny I have been a vegan for 25 years! I’m not a compulsive liar and I don’t have cavities, or any health issues at all. Just because you couldn’t hang doesn’t mean you should bash others.
Most vegans don’t do it for “health” anyway its because we don’t want to harm a living animal that feels and thinks just like the average dog and cat.
I agree. I’m also a 25 year long vegan who still has her teeth and hair! lol!!! Greens are the key to health. Sprouting your grains will get rid of the phytic acid for your teeth. Avoid sugar like the plague! Give your teeth a chance to heal 🙂
You can thank your mother for your teeth. Not your diet. Most people who go vegan have tremendous problems with teeth within 5 years. If they don’t it’s because Mom was super healthy when she was pregnant with you and you ate meat and other nutrient dense animal foods as a growing child.
Raw milk may not be a problem because the raw milk will often protect against allergies. I believe it is evil for the FDA to so fiercely regulate the distribution of raw milk.