Heal and Prevent Early Childhood Caries (Cavities) without Dental Surgery or Fluoride!

I made this site because my daughter was affected with tooth decay, and I learned how to stop it without harmful dental surgery.

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At the age of one, my daughter began suffering from severe cavities. At the same time, my teeth where also infected with up to four cavities. I know what it is like to feel stress from a child suffering from tooth decay, because I have experienced it first hand.

For my daughter, her teeth started to decay so rapidly, that one of them just disintegrated and chipped apart in a matter of about two weeks time.

Two years later, using the nutritional program I developed, my daughter has teeth that are now hard, and resilient, they no longer chip, she has abundant energy, and has remained pain and infection free.

Published Tooth Decay Research by Me

1. November 2006 Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients - Early Childhood Caries

2. Summer 2006 Natural Parenting Australia - Early Childhood Caries

Update: I have since discovered that in addition the the below dietary recommendations, that a liberal supply of bone marrow (from grassfed animals, or wild fish), say anywhere from 1 teaspoon - several tablespoons daily, helps the teeth stabilize, and also is supportive in creating a healthy child.

Tooth decay is a preventable, treatable, and usually a curable occurrence. You will learn what its cause is, how to treat it, and what you need to be aware of for your and your child's health. Included on this page, is a part of a protocol to follow, that will significantly improve the health of your child's teeth and gums, and it will very likely, slow down, the process of tooth decay. I encourage you to purchase the print edition of my book, Available by November 1st, because I put in a special 25 page section on healing children's tooth decay.

Weston Price, The World's Greatest Dentist

Dr. Price, was the first research director of the National Dental Association, this organization is now known as, the American Dental Association.

Dr. Price traveled around the world to find out why Indigenous people had healthy teeth; rather than seek to understand why modern people had unhealthy teeth!

What Dr. Price's Research Shows About Early Childhood Caries

"In a group of children whose mothers had the special nutritional reinforcement during gestation and lactation and who had been provided with the same dietary adjuncts during the winter and spring months of infancy and early childhood, not a single carious cavity has developed. A number of these children are now in public schools. Their physical development is distinctly above that of the average children of their age, as is also their efficiency in school work."

Source: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price

Proof That Your Child's Teeth Can Remineralize

"After the nutrition was improved, the tissues of the pulp built in secondary dentine thus reincasing itself in a closed chamber." - Weston A. Price, DDS

What you see above are two x-ray images of the same tooth from one individual. The two downward projections represent the roots of the tooth. In the center of each root you will see a dark streak. These streaks, the root canals, are the spaces where nerves and blood vessels connect to the jaw.

The x-ray on the left shows a large and prominent dark area at the crown of the tooth. This is a very large cavity that leaves the pulp and nerves of the tooth exposed to the mouth.

The x-ray on the right shows the tooth after some time of nutritional treatment. A temporary filling was placed to protect the pulp from the pain of pressure produced by food. The result is a progressive filling in of the dentine, the new secondary tooth layer that, in many cases, is hard and glassy. In as little as six weeks time we can begin to rebuild our tooth dentine, creating new enamel and thus healing cavities.

A special 25 page section on a sane approach for healing children’s tooth decay.

Why The Current Theory of Tooth Decay Does not Hold Water

Before we examine why teeth really decay, we need to explore the current theory of tooth decay, and see how it seems extremely suspicious under close scrutiny.

Current Theory from ADA “Tooth decay is a destruction of the tooth enamel. It occurs when foods containing carbohydrates (sugars and starches) such as milk, pop, raisins, cakes or candy are frequently left on the teeth. Bacteria that live in the mouth thrive on these foods, producing acids as a result. Over a period of time, these acids destroy tooth enamel, resulting in tooth decay.” Here's the link to the ADA site, you can read it for yourself.

1. Action of bacterial Acid does not decay teeth in death.

Image used with permission of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation http://www.price-pottenger.org/

2. Action of Bacterial acid does not cause significant decay in death, even when there is active decay prior to death

From Brian Palmer, DDS Presentation
Arrows point to areas of tooth decay, decay stops progressing at time of death.

3. Breastfeeding does not cause tooth decay, nor does night nursing. It would be an evolutionary mistake, to have the mother's milk be the cause of an unhealthy condition. A full explanation is available at Brian Palmer, DDS's web site.

4. Strep Mutans that are the supposed cause of tooth decay, act like no other bacteria on the planet Strep Mutans, would need to contain the following unique and impossible characteristics to be the cause of tooth decay.

a. They eat food that normal bacteria’s do not eat, including white sugar, white flour, and pasteurized products – these foods are specially processed by industry so bacteria will not eat them, so how can bacteria’s decide to like them inside someone’s mouth?

b. Strep Mutans do not eat food that normal bacteria’s like to eat, such as meat, fish, raw milk, fruit and vegetables.

c. Strep mutans are the only bacteria in existence that can survive off of a food with no nutrients, white sugar.

5. White Sugar, and white flour have been specially processed, and treated even with chemicals, specifically to prevent bacteria's from eating those foods. We know white sugar causes tooth decay, and yet, it kills bacteria's. Here's what the Sugar Associations own website says, "sugar incapacitates any microorganisms by its ability to attract water."

6. Even young infants who rarely or never; eat sugar, drink from bottles, drink fruit juice, or eat white flour, get tooth decay. Since the decay can not be attributed to these supposed bacteria's eating the sugar, breast milk is blamed. And yet, I if you go to Dr. Palmer's link, you will see it doesn't. In fact, the sugar in milk, Lactose " is naturally designed to be digested and broken down into its two sugars while in the lower intestine, not while it is in the mouth.  While in the breast milk, it is surrounded and protected by antibodies, lactoferrin, etc. which protects it from Strep mutans."

7. Teeth are essentially bones, they do not decay as bones do not decay, and are extremely similar in structure, in a general manner to other bones in the body. Teeth are inside the body, so just because we can see them easily, does not mean they are not a bone. When we have bone loss in the body, it is called Osteoporosis. Do we blame bacteria's for this? When we have bone loss in the mouth, we call it tooth decay, and we blame bacteria's for it. Tooth decay is really therefore, dental bone loss, or Dental-Osteoporosis, which would be then termed, ondoporosis.

8. New microscope technology shows that bacteria’s are pleo-morphic in nature, not mono-morphic. Pleo-morphic means the form changes, and mono-morphic means that the form of the bacteria does not change. In other words, when you see a dead bacteria on a microscope, it appears like a solid form (mono-morphic), when you view a live bacteria in a microscope, you see that they evolve and change their form, from simple to more complex (pleo-morphic). Thus Strep Mutans are dormant or exist in a small degree in all of our mouths. When the conditions are not healthy in our mouth, due to a lack of nutrients or dysfunctioning body chemistry, then rather than good bacteria's evolving and spreading, the Strep Mutans are concomitant to tooth decay. They exist as an affect, and in a relationship to the mouth. They are not harmful invaders, they are symbiotic.

Understanding Why Infants Teeth Decay

Some people are perplexed while one child's teeth decay, and the other child's teeth are immune to decay. The common error is to deduce from these observations, that it must be an infectious bacteria, the Strep Mutans, that caused one child's teeth decay, and the other's to not decay. What makes one child immune, and the other not immune, is nutrition.

“Daily, the calcium and phosphate of the enamel is migrating out of the teeth to the bones, heart, brain and other places where it is needed. This is called by dentists demineralization.”1 Re-enamelization (teeth growing back) of enamel requires several factors, including enough minerals such as calcium, phosphate, magnesium, and the variety of enzymes needed to regrow tooth enamel such as adenosine diphophatase.2

Tooth decay begins many generations back. “The weakness of calcium deficiency is passed from parent to child. By following the same paternal pattern of ‘poor food selection,’ each new crop of babies becomes weaker. ‘The sins of the parents are passed on to the third and fourth generation.’”4 The weakness is caused not just by a lack of calcium, but by a lack of fat soluble & water soluble vitamins. “When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the water soluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats… Many tribes required a period of premarital nutrition, and children were spaced to permit the mother to maintain her full health and strength, thus assuring subsequent offspring of physical excellence.” 5 Many primitive groups Dr. Price studied had a tooth cavity rate close to 0. Weston Price also noticed in groups following their traditional diet that decayed teeth either fell out painlessly, or they covered themselves over with a hardened layer of enamel. Weston Price treated many cases of cavities with a success rate of over 90%. At the end of this article is a copy of Dr. Price’s tooth decay controlling diet for children. Below on this page on my web site I’ve scanned an x-ray image showing how Price’s tooth decay controlling diet healed a girls teeth which had two cavities per tooth, which full dentures where recommended. 6

Not eating enough nutrients isn’t the only reason why teeth would decay. They also could decay because the body has become too toxic. We unknowingly ingest these toxins daily. The most toxic substances are drugs, white sugar, breakfast cereals, cheap vegetable oils and hydrogenated oils. There is a complete list of toxic elements below. After years of this behavior, combined with smoking cigarettes, too many medications, and lack of exercise, the liver starts to become weak. The liver is the bodies nutrient store house. The toxic accumulations from cellular metabolism, as well as ingested food products inhibit the bodies ability for normal function. It’s very likely that there are deeper health problems than simply tooth decay.

Examples of Tooth Decay from the Work of Dr. Price

Caption Page 172: “Note the magnificent dental arches and beautiful teeth of these primitives. Tooth decay was almost unknown in many districts.”

Caption page 173: “Wherever the primitive Aborigines have been placed in reservation and fed on the white man’s foods of commerce dental caries has become rampant… Note the contrast between the primitive woman in the upper right and the three modernized women.”

Source: Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Page 172, 173
Images used with permission of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation http://www.price-pottenger.org/

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Please note, these white man’s foods where the same foods that white people in Australia regularly ate at the time, and so the modernized Aborigines had a similar incidence of tooth decay and other diseases as the white population versus the disease and decay resistant Aborigines on their natural diet.

Left: [Fijians] The development of the facial bones determines the size and shape of the palate and the size of the nasal passages. Note the strength of the neck of the men above and the well-proportioned faces of the girls below. Such faces are usually associated with properly proportioned bodies. Tooth decay is rare in these mouths so long as they use an adequate selection of native foods.

Right: These natives of the Fiji Islands illustrate the effect of changing from the native food to the imported foods of commerce. Tooth decay becomes rampant and with it is lost the ability to properly masticate the food. Growing children and child bearing mothers suffer most severely from dental caries.
Source: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston Price
Image used with permission of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation http://www.price-pottenger.org/

Nutrient Deficiency

These graphs are the ones I used to show the importance that Mother's to be need to consume high nutrient foods. The statistics for Men and children are almost the same. On average, with certain vitamins, like vitamin E, 69.4% of the US population is below the USRDA, and the USRDA is sets a MINIMUM standard for life.

Table 3A.--Nutrient intakes: Percentages of individuals with diets below selected levels of the (RDAs), by sex and age, 2-day average [intakes], 1994-96

Vitamin A	Below 50% RDA	Below 75% RDA	Below 100% RDA
Women Ages 20-29	31.7%	52.8%	68.4%
Women Ages 30-39	30.5%	48.4%	61.0%

Vitamin E	Below 50% RDA	Below 75% RDA	Below 100% RDA
Women Ages 20-29	24.2%	53.6%	73.8%
Women Ages 30-39	21.6%	49.9%	71.1%

What this means is for example that on average, 73.8% of Women ages 20-29 are below meeting the level of the US RDA requirements for health. 24.2% of all Women in the US ages 20-29 do not eat meet half of the US RDA requirements for minimum nutrition related to vitamin E.

Calcium & Dental Caries

Teeth are made of calcium and phosphorus. Would it surprise you to learn, that we are far below the standard for these minerals when compared to the intake of calcium and phosphorus of our ancestors?

65.1% of Women on average are below the Standard of 1 gram of calcium per day. Only 3.7% of women are at twice the standards, which means, that going into pregnancy, approximately 96% of women are calcium deprived.

Source: Supplementary Data Tables, USDA, 1994-1996http://www.barc.usda.gov/bhnrc/foodsurvey/home.htm

Fluoride & Tooth Paste May make Tooth Decay, Worse!

Other toxic conditions to be aware of are the use of fluoride, or drinking fluoridated water, and using normal toothpaste. Fluoride changes the chemical structure of the of tooth enamel. It temporarily hardens it, but then makes it twice as prone to cavities. Fluoride can also damage the structure of your bones throughout your body. Fluoride is highly poisonous and needs to be avoided. Recently a Harvard study confirmed what we all ready know, that Fluoride use can cause or increase the risk of cancer.

Introduction to Cause and Treatments of Early Childhood Tooth Decay

For teeth to re mineralize, the surface of the tooth needs to be clean. Any toothpaste which is pasty contains glycerin. The glycerin takes about 27 washes with water to remove from the tooth’s surface. There are many alternative products such as tooth liquids, tooth powders, sea salt and baking soda, and herbs to clean and treat teeth.

The method for healing children's teeth begins as follows. Preferably your child is breastfeeding. Since the cause of tooth decay, as we now know, is a deficiency in nutrients, caused by wrong diet choices prior to conception, during pregnancy and during the lactation phase, we heal tooth decay by providing a remedy to the nutrient loss. The vehicle for these nutrients is breast milk. So breastfeeding is extremely helpful, and that includes night feeding.

If your child is not breastfeeding, then you can modify the suggestions and still produce excellent results. After the treatment protocol and some pictures, I have provided you with a list of foods you must avoid. As the toxic conditions created in the bloodstream by these foods, is a substantial factor in your child's tooth decay. In trying these Treatments you will also find many other health improvements in your child, including increased alertness, intelligence, and a more positive mood.

While it is possible that your child's teeth may still decay even on this protocol, you will find that the secondary dentine, the middle layer of the tooth, can regrow. What happens on this protocol, is that there are enough nutrients, body building substances and proper body chemistry to ensure that the tooth pulp, the inner layer of the tooth does not get exposed. When the pulp is protected, their will be no infection. No infection, means no pain. No pain, means you do not need to have a dangerous medical procedure done on your child!!!!!

My daughter's one tooth crumbled away. Now the stub of that tooth, is has hard as a diamond. The butter oil, and the special dietary protocols we are following are the cause of it.

The Bodies True Needs of Calcium and Phosphorus

Probably the main cause of tooth decay, is a deficiency in Calcium and Phosphorus in the womb time, and in the breast milk. Since the infant is growing at a rapid rate, it will exhaust the mother's supply of bone building nutrients rapidly, so the supply must be replenished quickly. From several sources, including the analysis by Weston Price of the Diets of Eskimo's, of Canadian Indians, of the Swiss in the Alpine Valley's, by analysis of dietary patterns of the Masai in Africa, and of a study done in 1910 Hoffstrom, the average, calcium need for pregnancy and lactation is 2.5 grams per day! The Average phosphorus need, is 4 grams per day.

Testimonial: "When my 4 year old daughter's teeth began to have lots of tooth decay (for her age), we visited a few dentists and all of them were blaming me that I did not brush her teeth enough. But I did... Basically, they wanted to do dental anesthesia on her and repair all her cavities at once. My husband and I talked and decided not to put her through this. After all, she had no pain at all and her teeth did not bother her.

I decided to take the matter into my own hands. I started researching about tooth decay, and stumbled upon Rami's web site. I even wrote to him, and he was very helpful. A while later, when his book was published, I bought it. I already knew about the diet from Rami's book, and I was implementing parts of it, but I guess that was not enough to protect my oldest daughter from tooth decay....

This book gave me hope for my daughter's teeth - and now I know that we are responsible for our health. I have also forgiven the dentists that kept showing me how to brush her teeth, I mean, they don't know better...When I asked one of the dentists if my daughter does not have enough nutrients in the body, and that's maybe why her teeth decay (because the body takes all the essential nutrients from the teeth first), he disregarded it and said this could not be the case because all her teeth are formed very well. I did not argue with him, because I knew he was not taught anything about diet in his medical school. I just stopped going to dentists and now I try my best to follow the diet (for my daughter and rest of family) Rami outlines in his book.

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