Heal and Prevent Early Childhood Caries (Cavities/ Baby Bottle Tooth Decay) without Dental Surgery or Fluoride!
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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.
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
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/
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.
If you are discouraged and don't know what to do, get this book. I was very worried and upset about my daughter's teeth at first, but now I am actually very calm because I know I am doing the right thing." - Marina, Ontario, Canada
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Making Corrections to the Breast Feeding Mother's Diet
0. Purchase the cookbook based on the work of Dr. Weston Price, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
1. Increase Calcium and Phosphorous Intake - For example, 4 cups or raw grass fed milk, and 5 ounces of a high quality hard cheese, will provide about 2.5 grams of calcium per day. Phosphorus can be added in the form of whole grains, soaked and sprouted, or meats and organ meats. Milk must be from grass fed raw milk, and cheese or yogurt preferably from grass fed organic sources. 4 cups or raw milk, gives about 1.2 grams of calcium. 1 cups of yogurt is .3 grams of calcium. 3.5 ounces of high quality hard cheese is 1 gram of calcium. Goat's milk products are fine. If you have problems with milk, consider yogurt and kefir, which are fermented. Vegetable sources of calcium are Dark Leafy Greens and Broccoli, about 6 cups of chops greens gives you 1 gram of calcium. 3.75 ounces of sardines gives you .3 grams of calcium.
2.Take Butter Oil mixed with High Vitamin Cod Liver Oil. There are several sources for cod liver oil, that will be listed below, and several methods for taking and making butter oil which will be listed below. Mother can take anywhere from 1/2 teaspoon to 2 teaspoons of the special cod liver oil daily, taken in small doses throughout the day with the butter oil. Do not buy just regular cod liver oil from the store, it has synthetic vitamins and is likely toxic. The amount of butter oil is anywhere from 1/2 teaspoon of the "X-Factor Gold" Butter oil. To 2-6 tablespoons of clarified high vitamin butter.
(caution: it is possible to overdose on cod liver oil, trust your instincts with the amount, or consult your health care provider)
3. Other high nutrient foods for mother.
- Organ meats & Bone Marrow from Pasture Fed Animals like Liver, kidney’s, and heart
- Farm Raised Eggs, especially the yolks
- Oily fish or Lard daily, like salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel and anchovies
- Fish eggs; High quality fish liver oils, Fish Organs; Shellfish, and wild Crab (Crab is my wife’s favorite.)
Additional foods that replenish nutrients are:
Lacto-Fermented Foods and Beverages to enhance digestion and assimilation, Bone broths such as fish or chicken soup broth, Fresh or cooked fruits, Soaked, and sprouted nuts finely ground, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Really Raw Honey (child must be over 1 year), Sprouted/ fermented grains, freshly ground at home, especially Quinoa(for Mother’s only as young children do not absorb grains well), and Herbs including Horsetail, lemon grass, red raspberry leaf, nettle’s, lemon balm, rose hips, and cinnamon.
4. Mother Needs to Eat a High Fat Diet
If you think you need to avoid saturated fat, your wrong. You only need to avoid fat from unhealthy animal sources, such as non-organic products, and from low quality vegetable oils, and pasteurized/homogenized products. Learn about fat, at the Cholesterol Myth's Page.
Making Corrections to the Young Child's Diet for Cavities
1. High Quality Raw grassfed milk, as much as they like, as well as cheese, yogurt and kefir.
2. Butter Oil and Cod liver oil. 1/4 teaspoon of x-Factor Gold, and 1/4 teaspoon High Vitamin Cod liver oil, taken in small amounts throughout the day. If you have regular clarified butter, than more butter can and should be eaten, yum.
(Caution: it is possible to overdose on cod liver oil, trust your instincts on the amount, or consult your health care provider)
3. Consumption of dark leafy green vegetables, and carrots, cooked, along with bone broths made from beef, chicken or fish stock.
4. Oily fish, or shellfish if appropriate.
(Limiting bananas and other sweet fruits will help)
Some of these mothering forums could be helpful.
How to Get the Butter Oil & Cod Liver Oil
Butter Oil, is a key ingredient to re-enameling teeth because it contains certain fats and activating substances that help bond the nutrients in the body to the bones. The butter must be from cows or goats eating rapidly growing green grasses.
1. X-Factor Gold, pre-made product is purchasable Online , Let them know you heard about their product from my web site.
2. Purity Farms Ghee (this method is untested right now, but it may work) it must be from dates that say 06 XX XX, 07 XX XX, or 08 XX XX
3. Use high quality yellow butter and eat lots of it.
To find Anchor Butter, contact New Zealand Milk (america) 1-888-869-6455
Another high quality butter is the brand Kerrygold from Ireland, another Jana Valley from New Zealand is okay sometimes.
When local butter is from cows that have been grazing on freshly growing green grass, it will have a yellow color. Buy loads of this butter and freeze it, eat lots of it throughout the year.
Cod Liver Oil
Almost every brand of cod liver oil has synthetic vitamins added. Their benefit is questionable, and their toxic burdens likely high. In the stores you can find the Garden of Life Icelandic Cod Liver oil, which contains no toxic additives.
Online you can order from these three companies a high quality cod liver oil, with the natural vitamins added back.
The Best kinds are fermented liver oils.
Fermented Skate Liver Oil
Fermented Cod Liver Oil
Grassfed Liver and Bone Marrow Sources:
Grassfed bone marrow, liver and other organs can be obtained from U.S. Wellness Meats, and I have a special discount code when you use my link, get 25% off of your order with code HEALTH15 for first time purchasers. You can also find a local grass fed supplier at Eat Wild
X-Rays of Cavities in Teeth Healing, from Dr. Price
Below is are pieces of a large photograph from one girls case. Dr. Price writes, for fig 137 "Case of a girl who had forty-two cavities in twenty-four teeth. With the diet reinforced with Activator X, the pulp chambers built secondary dentin and all the teeth where saved. Full dentures had been recommended." In other words, they where going to remove all of this girl's teeth.
Note: Some teeth on the right have restorations in them. The special thing of note here is that this girl got to keep her teeth, otherwise she would have had all of them removed.
Two other Examples, Remember, the gray part breaching into the tooth is a cavities, the white part is tooth enamel.
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Source: Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Page 289
Images used with permission of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation http://www.price-pottenger.org/
Preventing Tooth Decay
Ideally we would prevent tooth decay before it started. How do we do this?
Tooth decay begins from an inherited weakness. The primary weakness is not usually genetic heritage, but from nutritional heritage. A lack of nutrients and body building substances during pregnancy, from a mother who is nutrient deficient, is the main origin of tooth decay in young children.
Ideally, mother's could follow the nutritional protocols listed on this web site, during pregnancy, to help prevent tooth decay. Of particular importance during pregnancy is the consumption of the butter and cod liver oil mixture.
I have a web site dedicated to pre-conception health.
Toxic Foods To Avoid!
Sugar – White Sugar, Brown Sugar, Organic Sugar, Evaporated Cane Juice, Corn Syrup, Commercial Jams
Flour & Grain Products – White Flour, Wheat Flour, Organic Flour, any unsoaked grain products. Examples: bread, crackers, cookies, doughnuts, breakfast cereals, muffins, pastries, tortillas, bagels, and sandwiches (most store bought flour products even from the health food store need to be avoided).
Hydrogenated Oils - like Margarine and Low quality vegetable oils, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Oil, Crisco, Canola, and Safflower
Any type of junk, convenience food, or modern fast foods
Coffee, Soft Drinks, Nutrasweet, and anything with artificial flavors, artificial colors, or artificial ingredients
Soymilk, Protein Powder, and Excess Tofu
Pasteurized Milk, even if it is organic.
Non-grass-fed meat and eggs, and farm raised fish.
Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Drugs (including most prescription drugs & vaccines)
Links to Natural Dentists:
http://www.talkinternational.com/directories/dentists-usa.html
http://www.holisticdental.org/
Also this doctor talks about putting sealants on the teeth rather than caps.
http://www.saveteeth.org/health/sealants.htm
Cure Tooth Decay - Heal Cavities, Prevent Root Canals.
Take responsibility for your health. And know that, by following the Dietary protocols explained by Dr. Price, many people have stopped or remineralized their tooth decay. The secondary dentin can turn hard and glassy and thus can hypothetically cover the tooth's surface.
You must also see my foods to avoid list, and avoid the foods mentioned because they can deplete the body of nutrients.
good luck,
Rami
Foods that remove minerals from body and cause tooth decay and general depletion.
- Almost every kind of sugar, even organic, especially fruit juices
- Bread, wheat, cookies, crackers, cereals, grains, nuts, seeds, pasta’s
- Peanut Butter
- Any processed baby food
- Soy or soy formula
- Pasteurized milk
- Dried Fruit
- Iodized salt – cheap processed salt.
- Non-organic animal products such as eggs, meat, chicken ect.
Foods that can heal teeth by revitalizing your Blood
- Eat blended greens or softly cooked vegetables regularly
- Key Vegetables for soup:
- Kales (and lots of dark greens), Zucchini, Celery, Green Beans, Potatoes
- Add copious amounts of seaweed when the broth is done and the soup is cooler.
- Never discard the vegetable liquid, it contains numerous vitamins.
- Raw Grass Fed Butter
- Organic and raw yogurt, and kefir
- Raw Grass fed Goat and Cow Milk.
- Cod Liver Oil (must be taken with the raw butter)
- Lacto-Fermented Foods and Beverages to enhance digestion and assimilation
- Finely mashed up proteins from - Eggs, Fish, Organ Meets, or other meets (grass fed only please!)
- Bone broth such as fish or chicken soup broth
- Fresh or cooked fruits
- Soaked, and sprouted nuts finely ground
- Really Raw Honey (may be okay)
- Sprouted/ fermented grains,
- There are many herbs that can be cautiously used to provide minerals to the teeth,
- These include Horsetail, lemon grass, red raspberry leaf, nettle’s, lemon balm.
Cure Tooth Decay includes a special 29 page section explaining children's cavities in detail plus how I mineralized my daughters severe baby bottle decay using special foods and thus we have avoided dental surgery.
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Footnoes On Healing Children's Teeth
1 Judd, Gerard Good Teeth Birth to Death. Glendale: Research Publications, 1997. Page 18
2 Ibid. Referenced from page 19
3 Price, Weston. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1939. Page 436
4 Christopher. John Herbal Home Health Care. Springville: Christopher Publications, 1976. Page 113
5 http://www.westonaprice.org/nutritiongreats/price.html
6 http://www.yourreturn.org/Treatments/Teeth/index.htm
7 Fallon, Sally. Nourishing Traditions. Washington, DC: New Trends, 1999. Page 23,24
8 Ibid. page 24
9 Price, Weston. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Los Angeles: Keats Publishing, 1939. Page 493
10 Fallon, Sally. Nourishing Traditions. Washington, DC: New Trends, 1999. summarized from pages 13 and14
11 Ibid., summarized from page 15
12 Ibid., summarized from page 48
13 Ibid., summarized pages 34 and 35
14 Nourishing Traditions, summarized from page 62
15 Nourishing traditions, summarized from page 25
16 Nourishing Traditions, summarized from page 41
17 Ibid. page 24
18 Christopher. John Herbal Home Health Care. Springville: Christopher Publications, 1976. Page 114
21 Judd, Gerard Good Teeth Birth to Death. Glendale: Research Publications, 1997. Page, 39
22 Price, Weston. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Los Angeles: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, 1939. Page 429
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About the Author
Ramiel Nagel
I made this site because my daughter was affected with tooth decay, and I learned how to stop it without harmful dental surgery.About Weston Price
Tooth decay was prevented with nutrition in a high degree of cases, from 90-95% in the thirties and forties by an esteemed, and highly respected dentist, Weston Price, DDS.
Many of Dr. Price's articles were published in the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Testimonial
"Ramiel, You (along with Weston Price) saved my teeth. Was supposed to get a root canal (which I had no money to afford). Tooth was in pain. After three weeks on the diet I can feel a big difference, tooth doesn't hurt now and feels like it's healing. Thanks so much. Unbelievable!" Leroy, Utah
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