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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.
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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My partner had this problem growing up, though I don’t think it started when he was that young. He says it came from his father’s side of the family. I, on the other hand, have strong teeth and very few cavities, and we were both formula fed. Now, granted, that was back 30, almost 40 some odd years ago and things have definitely changed…
My fourth son was breastfed for 3.5 years and had nursing caries. I was mortified. The dentist thought I was giving him bottles of juice and milk at night. Never, only nursing; we don’t consume juice and I don’t buy it. I *did* have iv abx during labor for a kidney infection that no meds would touch during my pregnancy. I have since realized that his being the fourth child combined with the diet of the previous generation or so in my family has contributed. I was beginning to eliminate grains from my own diet, but certainly not all, and did eat lots of eggs, avocados, and salmon along with butter while pg with him. I’m so glad that never believed the “fat is bad for you” hype and have kept it in my diet, along with other good fats, for almost thirty years. However, my vegetarian grain-based diet has wrecked my health and my own teeth. We are a family in transition, since my husband eschews animal flesh and fat, relying on grains and beans for approx. 80% of his diet. I have a ways to go in getting my children on a more traditional diet, but they do get good fats in their diet. I started them on CLO about a month ago, so we’ll see.
let’s see published data in a peer reviewed journal on this matter. Nothing more than a sales pitch!
You will never see “published data in a peer reviewed journal on this matter”, because there’s not an organization out there who would pay for the research. There’s no money for anyone to make by “proving” that people should ditch processed foods, eat raw dairy and grass fed and pastured meats. I worked in scientific research for 10 years, and I can assure you it’s not going to happen. This isn’t a sales pitch, it’s a mom sharing what worked to cure her young daughter’s tooth decay.
Time to throw out the peer review research and listen to your neighbor: they don’t have a corporate agenda to push. Ever wonder how we got to the place were nearly every product in the supermarket is not fit for consumption (pesticides and other toxic compounds, GMOs)?
Follow the money and you will see the agenda. I got interested in the WAPF because I could find no sales pitch or money trail, just kind people who are trying to inform. That is where you find truth, when there is little or no money involved.
I totally agree but never say never. My understanding based on accounts of insider perspectives is getting something like this to be submitted and looked at seriously will be no small feat. Too much politics exists in the system that prevents the scientific community at large from examining something like reversing tooth decay primarily though diet. Far too many people naively assume science to be some completely impartial mechanism where all ideas get equal weight and get accepted based on their merits – how idealistic and naive! These people obviously have not studied history.
I must admit longer term a self correcting mechanism does exist but I have no plans on siting around and waiting for these changes to happen. A start may be to read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. And yes it will likely take a massive paradigm shift among the dental community to inquire into this.
Do we have peer reviewed data showing that eating the trash most Americans eat keep the teeth healthy – conducive to optimal dental health? If no, then why recommend such a way of eating? First, we need to prove that eating the way most people eat diet works, right? Many dentists imply nutrition does not affect cavities, let alone reverse them – evidence please?
LOL It always cracks me up to see someone throw this type of comment in there. So should we all ignore real people sharing real results and allow ourselves to be “blinded by science”? It boggles the mind how some individuals prefer to let “scientific studies” dictate their beliefs, when there are so many factors that can effect the outcome. Just silly. It’s like saying “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” Like the old man in “The Wizzard of Ozz.”
What about kids with lip ties?
Thank you, Susan! I was just going to message you for that link.
someone suggested “return to motherhood, stop giving your kids sugar”. i was in this same boat about a year ago – my little one started having cavities (shortly after i started feeding her homemade cereals at home). she NEVER ate anything with sugar in it, no juice, no candy, no cakes/cookies… NOTHING. but the decay was very quick. thank goodness for people like weston a.price, ramiel nagel, and the healthy home economist, without whom i would still be dealing with cavities!
I’m having similar results, but in at a much slower pace. My daughter’s teeth began decaying at 2 years old and I followed the dentists advice for a year (fluoride varnish, mi paste, night weaned). At 3 years of age we got the same diagnosis as above. I immediately began researching and reading Nourishing Traditions and Cure Tooth Decay. Now, 7 months later her cavities appear to be hard and the decay has not gotten any bigger.
Loved reading cure tooth decay! Great book! 🙂
I was really amazed at how quickly the changes effect the teeth. You’d think it would be a longer process…
We have been following a Wapf diet to years. I breastfed my children – first for 4 years and then second for 2 and counting. They eat lots off good fats and nutrient dense foods. I eat well and nutrient dense. We eat no refined sugar, sourdough any grains, but don’t eat tons. Like others have said, my first has beautiful, straight, perfectly spaced teeth. Even if she doesn’t consistently brush – no cavities. I found cavities in my second before she turned two. She had five filled in the chair because i caught them so early. Even with FCLO/BO there are more white spots coming on her teeth, dentist has given us some homeopathic stuff. Some I think is due to a lip tie and tighter teeth….but still so hard to deal with. There is not a lot more we could do diet wise….we don’t eat anything processed. 🙁
white spots? fluoride -water, rinse, selants???
sounds like us, with the second child. i suspect that it was my breastfeeding during pregnancy that caused my second child’s teeth to be poorly formed (pits) that led to decay. she also has hypoplasia (sp?) on the teeth that rotted, as well as the front teeth.
I think some here are overlooking what could be a major contributing factor to their poor results, child spacing. When you don’t give your body enough time to replenish, the next child will have less nutrients to draw from during development in the womb. 3 years is the recommended spacing for this very reason. It seems that some folks here are railing against the diet theory when as one said, they have 5 children between ages 1.5 and 3.
I have four children. First two, spaced two years. Next spaced 2.5 years. Last spaced almost 3 years.
The two with bad teeth are numbers 1 and 3. Two and four are healthy. That the first child has unhealthy teeth seems to contradict it.
Of course diet plays a role. And nursing, and child spacing, and the particular genetics that child inherits. It seems that there are multiple factors, and some are more predisposed one way or the other.