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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
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Joselyn Hoffman Schutz how long were your children on GAPS? Did you consult with a GAPS practicioner about your lack of results?
i had to limit fruit (the only sugar we used) we did ozone, and GAPS for three months and the decay stopped!
No healthy families would have kids with rotting teeth. Over consumption of sugar feeds bacteria and bacteria releases acid waste, equals rotting teeth. Over consumption of sugar also robs the body of nutrients, depletes your immune system, feeds gut bad bacteria. Ages you. Sadly children are constantly supplied junk today.
This is not true. We are an extremely healthy family and my daughter’s teeth began decaying at 2 years of age. She rarely drank juice or had any sweets prior to her decay.
Amanda, we are in the same boat as Christina. Very healthy Weston Price diet with lots of organ meats, no refined sugar, juice, or white flour at all. one child with teeth so rotten at age 3 they had to be removed. nobody else in our family of 5 has ever had a cavity.
There are a lot of healthy families on here that are going to disagree with you Amanda.
There is obviously an hereditary influence when only one child in family has a problem, but it could be that child has an unusually high need for some nutrient – vitamin D for getting calcium into the body, or vitamin K2 for assuring the calcium goes where it’s supposed to go – into teeth and bones. Since our foods are mostly grown on depleted soils these day, he could be missing a crucial trace mineral that is needed to overcome the problem. Is he getting plenty of probiotics (fermented foods) to assure a healthy gut that will absorb the nutrients. Did this child get mixed up with some toxin that is messing up his system? A visit to a naturopath or chiropractor who does nutritional testing might identify the problem and appropriate corrective measures.
She never says what her diet was like before she switched? I am curious because we have been on a Weston Price diet for 4 years now, and my 3 year old had two teeth removed already. I have read Ramiel’s book, and the only place for us to go from here is to give up grains, which we have mostly done except for quinoa and buckwheat, and an occasional loaf of traditional sourdough bread. I am having a hard time swallowing Ramiel’s take on white flour. It really goes contrary to everything else I have ever read about traditional grain preparation, and he basically says most of what is in Nourishing Traditions on grains/nuts/beans/seeds is wrong. Weston Price foundation also has an article about lectins that says they shouldnt be a problem for a normal person to digest? I suspect GAPS plays a role in this somehow? It just seems like a healthy person without GAPS should be able to eat a Weston Price diet without worrying about tooth decay?
WAPF diet will not assure complete absence of tooth decay. Such a claim as getting perfect teeth contradicts the basic finding of Dr Price. That said, 100% immunity is possible, as he documented in his book in several instances. Without looking at my books for the page numbers, Ramiel has seen 90% success rate and so did Weston Price, give or take some margin of error. Obviously other factors account for the remaining 10% or so. Ramiel covers some of these in his book and this list does include digestion issue that has to do with malabsorption of food. Interestingly enough, Chinese Medicine has a pattern for this called deficiency of spleen chi and cavities are one sign of it. One that I don’t recall in the book but know can be a cause is stress. Another one is crops grown in depleted soils lacking calcium and something called electrochemical compound colloids. A third is body chemistry that needs a lot more attention in specifics than a basic Weston Price diet or even GAPS diet, for that matter. I am referring to RBTI. For more information on this see .
Thus, no magic bullet for perfect teeth exists but anyone who seriously wants to stop the bleeding and cultivate good dental health ought to try Ramiel’s protocol or the basic WAPF diet.
While there are many factors to be considered, like the child’s diet, breastfeeding and brushing habits, I believe that the mother’s diet pre-pregnancy has a great deal to do with it. I have five sons and have breastfed all of them until 1.5 to 3 yrs. While my 1st son has never had a cavity, my others have had progressively worse issues with decay. My 3rd son had a partially enameled baby molar which, of course, ended up with decay. My 4th son had several cavities early on and my 5th son ended up with early severe decay and removal of his front four teeth. I changed to whole foods when I was pregnant with my 3rd son, but didn’t know about the possiblity of my own vitamin D deficiency until the issues with my youngest son’s teeth.
It worked for me … diet has already saved me many hundreds of dollars at the dentist. Glad I didn’t wait for “the science”. Waiting for “the science” is a risky and expensive proposition indeed and just keeps your dentist in a big house driving fancy cars.
Pat Keeley Calia sales pitch for what? Diet change? That’s free and what have you got to lose to try it? If you’re waiting for a peer reviewed study, you’ll be dead before that comes out as it won’t ever be studied as it won’t make anyone any money doing it so no one will ever fund it.
How about if we spent all that money spent fighting for the rights of people to consume and provide raw milk and used it for some scientific studies????
We have struggled for years using this diet to help with my sons tooth decay. For it to work we have to be incredibly strict. No Sugar period. No fruit no nothing. As he gets older I am finding it harder and harder to always be on top of what he eats and it doesn’t work well if we are not super strict…..
Jessica Morse check this out!
I had no antibiotics during labor for any of them.
My four children had constant cavities till we chucked the processed food and dramatically upped the natural animal fats. There have been no cavities since the day we switched. They were 8, 5, 3, & 1. It’s been nearly 5 years. Zero cavities.