Table of Contents[Hide][Show]
How to halt severe tooth decay in a young child with dietary changes alone within a matter of days. No dental intervention or surgery required.
The CDC is reporting that preschoolers’ teeth are in really bad shape. In a startling trend reversal, the number of preschoolers with severe levels of tooth decay is rising.
Dentists everywhere are confirming this trend.
More and more preschoolers from all income levels have 6 -10 or even more cavities. (1, 2)
It doesn’t seem to matter if the child gets regular checkups or whether good tooth brushing habits are followed.
The decay is often so severe that the teeth are literally crumbling out of a child’s mouth.
The solution recommended by conventional dentistry is immediate surgery.
Multiple fillings and root canals in a single visit necessitate general anesthesia as a child that young cannot sit still for the length of time required to fix so many severely rotting teeth.
Sometimes sedation with laughing gas and a local anesthetic works, but not always.
Something is obviously very, very wrong with the diet of the vast majority of children to cause such severe tooth decay at such a young age.
Constant snacking on refined carbohydrates and juice is no doubt a big part of the problem as is the complete void of nutrient-dense foods in most children’s diets.
Conventional Dentistry Ignores Cavity Reversal
Fortunately, more parents are discovering the power of simple dietary changes to save their children’s teeth.
I’ve written before about how I healed my child’s cavity in a few weeks with dietary change alone. Â
No filling was ever required for that tooth. This was over 15 years ago!
How about severe and rampant decay in a preschooler’s mouth, however?
If you think that your child’s teeth are beyond help and surgery is the only option, there is hope!
The video below of how it only took 5 days for severe decay to stop with dietary change alone is sure to change your thinking about the possibilities for your own child.
Be aware that conventional dentists ridicule this approach. They never learned that cavities can heal in dental school.
However, the fact is that tooth decay CAN be reversed was documented and photographed by renowned dentist Dr. Weston A. Price in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Just because conventional dentists don’t believe it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
At the very least, dietary change is worth a shot before putting your child through surgery, wouldn’t you agree?
Simple Dietary Changes for Astounding Results
The protocol the Mom in the video below used for reversing severe decay in her young child is outlined in detail in the book Cure Tooth Decay by the late Rami Nagel.
I had the honor of meeting and conversing with Rami extensively about his views on oral health at a health conference in 2013.
I highly recommend his book as a must-read if you are having cavity problems in your child (or even in yourself!).
The Mom in the video below was told surgery was the ONLY way to go due to the severity of her daughter’s decay.
This conventional dentist was wrong!
Only simple dietary changes were required to fix this child’s severe tooth decay. This avoided certain surgery and likely general anesthesia.
Toddler Tooth Decay Halted
Please note that while dietary changes were responsible for healing this rampant tooth decay, a natural remineralizing toothpaste that facilitates the reparative process can also be helpful.
This brand of tooth gel and remineralizing powder is also safe and effective if you are not able to make your own.
Beware of commercial remineralizing toothpaste and treatments, including those sold at dentist’s offices.
Conventional remineralizing toothpastes contain fluoride which negatively impacts a child’s IQ, according to Harvard scientists.
Biological Dentists Recognize that Teeth Can Heal
I get many, many requests about who I recommend as a truly holistic, biological dentist.
I recommend Dr. Carlo Litano of Natural-Smiles.com in Pinellas Park, Florida (727) 300-0044. He has treated our entire family for many years.
He sees both children and adults and does phone consults for those who don’t live close enough for an office visit and may need a second opinion.
Medical tourism is a growing trend well worth considering as well.
Tell Dr. Litano that The Healthy Home Economist sent you and get 10% off your first cleaning or exam.
(1) Rise in Preschoolers Cavities Prompts Anesthesia Use
(2) Trends in Oral Health Status, CDC
More Information
Resolving Periodontal Problems with Bone Broth
Safe, Natural Alternative to Dangerous Baby Teething Gels
Coconut Oil Stops Strep Bacteria from Damaging Tooth Enamel
What is the True Cause of Crooked Teeth?
10 Signs Your Dentist is Truly Holistic
Avoiding Root Canals with Diet
Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Unnecessary
This is one of the things that makes me so sad about having my kids living in 2 disparate worlds .. one house (mine) could get them this help & the other does not. They were just taken to the dentist w/o my knowledge where they each had a cavity filled. 😛
We’re in the same boat Lisa! I wish I had a solution for dads that feed their kids lots of junk. Mine then dumps the responsibility for dealing with the resultant cavities on me – 6 at last check-up to the tune of $1500. At my place we eat grass fed meats, lots of organic vegetables and some fruit, no juice/pop/sugar, I have tried the FCLO/BO but I can’t seem to undo the negative influence at his dad’s.
We have a good diet and my daughter was ebf and her teeth had decay before solids and anything other than breastmilk was even introduced. We have done loads of research (probably much more than most of the previous commenters) and this is still a struggle for us. I wish everyone who hasn’t had to deal with tooth decay could step down from their high horse and be thankful instead of being judgemental. Show a little sympathy for goodness sake! This isn’t always diet related in the present. It could be from genetics passed down from parents and grandparents.
I haven’t read any comments from people that seem to be on a “high horse”. Perhaps genetics does play a role, but more importantly is the mother’s diet pre-conception and during pregnancy and breast feeding.
I am thankful, not judgemental, because I ate an atrocious diet during my pregnancy with my first son, yet he has beautiful teeth. I attribute it to the raw milk, grass fed and pastured meats, and organic veggies and fruits that he weaned on. I discovered Nourishing Traditions and the WAPF website when he was about 6 months old, and determined to transition our diets before he was a year old. To this day he gets very little processed food.
Best wishes to you and your daughter. I hope you find something that helps her decay.
Genetics…yes, but maybe not in the way that most of us think it is. This post was pretty eye opening to me:
http://www.mommypotamus.com/the-ghost-in-your-genes-the-free-online-documentary-every-parent-should-watch/
Diet and health connected? I thought we were trying to create jobs here! 😉
Andrea Goldman, have you tried high doses of vitamin C? It helped my sister. I think Adele Davis wrote about this.
REturn to motherhood, stop giving small children sugar
Does anyone know a healing protocol for gingivitis?? I’m already on a paleo diet, but I have Celiac. I’ve been having gum issues for my entire life.
Oil pulling for this will work very well. Coconut oil is the nicest oil. I thought I would gag with doing it, but its does not feel oily in the process.
Any word that ends in -itis means inflammation which is a symptom of a deficiency of essential fats. The body’s most powerful natural anti-inflammatory PGE1 prostaglandin is made ONLY from UNprocessed and unadulterated natural organic omega-6 linoleic acid as found in Evening Primrose oil capsules, the Flora brand of Sunflower, Safflower, and Pumpkinseed oils, and Hempseed oils, all of which are usually only sold at vitamin and health food stores. Do not use Hain sunflower or safflower, they are adulterated processed cooking oils.
Even though you’re on a Paleo diet make sure you get plenty of regular daily amounts of good fats, and do not avoid any of the good natural saturated fats like coconut oil, bacon grease or especially butter. 100 grams of good butter (a stick is usually 113 g) has 3%, 3 g, of naturally occurring omega-6 linolenic acid and 1% or 1 g of omega-3 alpha linolenic acid at an already perfectly balanced 3 to 1 ratio.
The body actually has up to 11 times more omega-6 based tissues and requirement than for omega-3, and there is no omega-3 in skin. It’s the omega-6 and omega-3 content of good butterfat that makes butter so good for us and especially for your skin.
The easiest way to get started is to get a bottle of Hempseed oil which also has an already perfectly balanced 3 to 1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. Or you can get a bottle of Evening Primrose oil capsules and a bottle of Flax seed oil capsules and take three evening Primrose caps to 1 flaxseed oil daily.
Weston A. Price was a dentist after all. Thanks healthyhomeeconomist for posting this and continuing to spread the word. None of my 3 children have ever had a single cavity or dental issue.
Anecdotal of course, but many of the women I know who have children with crumbling teeth had IV antibiotics during labor for a positive Strep B test. Seems the antibiotics prevents the child from getting seeded with any beneficial bacteria from birth which negatively impacts nutrient absorption.
Can that situayion be reversed with diet alone?
Coconut oil pulling has done wonders for my mouth and my overall health!
Do you have a favorite website to go to on how oil pulling is done? Thanks!
I think genetics plays a huge role here too, as does the mother’s diet before conception, and during pregnancy, of course. We haven’t always eaten super-healthy, although we do now, and none of my five kids have any tooth decay.