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When I wrote the post about how to heal a cavity, I had no idea that the post would end up being circulated around dental forums where it became the target of ridicule and even anger from a number disbelieving dentists. The fact is that teeth can and do heal, even those in need of a root canal.
Whether or not conventional dentists choose to acknowledge it does not really matter. Holistic dentists know the truth! For example, Dr. Weston A. Price DDS documented many cases of cavities resolving when nutritional deficiencies were corrected in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
While I received many negative emails and comments from dentists (I also received a few positive emails from dentists, I might add), I was also delighted and amazed by stories from Moms just like me who had experiences very similar to my own…tooth problems resolving with nutrition or natural medicine alone!
One of the most interesting emails I received was from a homeopath named Kay, who lives in Australia, coincidentally right near where my husband was raised! Kay wrote me the following story which I thought so fascinating that it absolutely needed to be a guest post:
Homeopathy Instead of a Root Canal
Dear Sarah,
My sister who lives in Hong Kong sent me the link to your site after you wrote an article about butter oil and how it reversed tooth decay when taken along with cod liver oil.
I am a homeopath and teach workshops to parents on how to use natural medicine to raise healthy children, so I was fascinated by this piece of information and it prompted me to share another tooth story with you and your readers about how my son was saved from a root canal at the age of 14 years old by using natural medicine.
Jack had been playing golf with his brother over the school holidays and while hot tired and emotional ( a normal state of affairs for my son at the time), his golf club got stuck in the bag. So, with sheer brute force, he ripped it out of the bag straight into his mouth and broke off the bottom of his front tooth!
We went straight to the dentist who did tests and declared the root was dying and that he needed to do a root canal before the tooth discolored. I told him to remove his drill from my son’s mouth and said I would try and save the tooth with homeopathy. A not very happy dentist told me there was a time and place for homeopathy and this wasn’t it and if there was any remote chance I could save this tooth he would send me all his clients.
I took Jack home and gave him homeopathic Arnica for shock, trauma and bruising. Then, I used homeopathic hypericum, a great remedy every parent should know about as it repairs nerve damage. I gave it to Jack every few hours and then reduced it to 2 x day for the next week. In America I believe you can buy homeopathics in health food stores quite easily, so always have arnica and hypericum in your cupboard for “teeth” accidents.
Today Jack still has his original front tooth with a little cosmetic dentistry to build up the bottom half and the dentist still has not sent me one client!
Thanks for letting me share this story Sarah. Just knowing these small pieces of information can create such better health outcomes for our children and families.
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I love these posts on taking care of our teeth. I have so many mercury fillings in my mouth it is unreal. Thankfully I did manage to avoid root canals. I am in the process of getting rid of all the mercury, but it takes a lot of money and time. I just had 2 crowns put on yesterday to replace 2 fillings.
My question is I have a receded gum line that is very low (close to the bone. My dentist wants me to have surgery to have the gum graphed and replaced. Because i am a diabetic they are suggesting I have the new piece come from a cadaver (?). Is there a way for me to get my gum to heal itself. I am eating a full GAPS diet at the moment and will be doing the intro to GAPS in September. I really do not want to have surgery because that is such a big expense and I do not like something from someone else being entered into my mouth. I am currently only taking the FCLO, but my husband and I both are going to start on the Butter Oil FCLO combination Capsules as soon as we are finished with the FCLO. I am looking for any advice that will heal my gums.
Thank you for all your hard work and posts. They have been so helpful to me.
Pray for help from Yahshua and Things ToTry= hyperbaric treatments as given to diabetics. Next try Dr Schuessler’s cellular Salts the Bio Plasm ones. They are or were made in ST Louis Mi. Also get a Sonafon it creates sound vibrations and massage your gums head and whole body. Massage your gums the direction you want new growth many times gently. Faith to see your gums capillaries grow to cover the empty place takes persistance and faith and it could fail of you dont love enough to do it consistantly with observation and tender regard for the Gums. The advice I give you is free and Im not responsible for your desisions and final outcome. You must not go so far as to hurt yourself but you must have faith to win this promise of divine health. Remember Yahshua loves you !~ I;ll be praying for you. Rick
There is another surgery you can do. It’s called pin hole surgery. They basically pull your gums down over the tooth. Way less invasive.
Great article. Does anyone object to my suggesting that people who post negatively charged comments might have some kind of profit motive? My friend who was born in the 20’s had a dentist who made the (honest) remark: “Cavities? They come and they go.” In the 1970’s, another friend had a dentist say that he had a cavity because his prober found a “sticky place” on the tooth. The next time, he said the boy had no cavities. So the boy reminded him, “last time you said I had a cavity and now I don’t. Does that mean cavities can heal themselves?” The dentist replied, “cavities never heal themselves!” ” “Well, if cavities don’t heal, where did my “sticky place” go, that you were going to drill and fill?” The dentist replied, “I don’t have time for such ridiculous questions, now please go away you’re crazy! “
Around 10 years ago (this was before I began our holistic lifestyle), my daughter had a cavity. I took her to the dentist and the dentist DID NOT fill the cavity. My daughter (a teenager) said that the dentist told her that it looked like the tooth was “recalcifying” itself, and that there was no need. Go figure, a real dentist said that.
I wish I had heard all of this before having 5 root canals. Now I have to live with that, but I know staying healthy through a WAP diet will hopefully keep me from having any serious issues.
I have also found a dentist in town who believes in WAP and tries to do anything to prevent root canals. I just wish I had met him 5 years ago because there really doesn’t seem to be anything to do with a tooth that already has a root canal.
I think it’s great that you are giving out this information. Keep up the good work! (Isn’t it cool that your posts are so popular that they are circulating around dentist forums!!!)
Next question then is: Can tooth enamel be built back up with proper diet? I asked my dentist and did research on the web and found that all reported that once enamel is gone, it will never come back. But after two years of regularly taking fermented cod liver oil with butter oil, eating a much healthier diet, and using pascalite clay to brush my teeth, I could swear my teeth look stronger and more “enameled”! And they are also whiter naturally. I won’t use commercial whitener. Since I have no way of proving it, I sometimes think it might be my imagination. Either way, I am happy with my teeth!
Does anyone know if enamel can truly be built back up with proper nutrition?
I am with you. I also make my own tooth paste with clay, sea salt, olive oil, and high quality therapeutic grade essential oils.
I also got a mouth retainer from my holistic dentist to re-align my teeth and to prevent grinding them at night. I got one for my son too fix his overbite and open up his nasal cavity..
Dentists love root canals, and why wouldn’t they? Root canals are triple money-makers in my book. First you go in for an appointment and he assesses the “damage”. Then another appointment for the actual root canal. Then a few years down the road, another appointment to have the dead tooth pulled because it’s falling out or whatever, because root canals almost always cause other issues, apart from the obvious risk of insidious infections which can affect your way of life years later. I’ve seen this happen with friends and their children I can’t tell you how many times. It’s very sad, but people are hard to convince about natural medicines and they REALLY don’t believe foods can do anything. I am starting to believe the majority of people see food only as a means to filling their stomachs and they don’t understand it has anything at all to do with health. How strange! Such disconnect in our world today.
great post, i will certaintly have these two homeopathic remedies in my cupboard! my daughter fell 2 summers ago and her front baby tooth started dying, so they removed it after a while. hopefully her new one growns in perfect! 🙂
also, i was wondering what you Sarah or other readers hear think about bridges? i am getting my molar tooth extracted soon, because it was root canaled (before I knew about natural medicine!!) but now it broke off. my dentist wants to put in a bridge with new artifical tooth after the extraction, but i just got an estimate and our insurance will only cover half of the enormous amount for the bridge. so i am at loss here…are bridges really nesessary? can i just have the tooth extracted and leave it at that? is there cheaper alternatives? any help will be appreciated! thank you!
Marina,
My bridge experience was terrible. I lost a lower molar when I was in my twenties. 10 years later a dentist told me he wanted to put in a bridge because having a missing tooth would make my other teeth loose, and possibly fall out. (Never mind that 10 years had passed, and my other teeth were fine.) Getting that bridge is something I definitely regret. The bridge was fitted over the two teeth on either side of the missing one, so now I have three fake teeth instead of one. Those two teeth were almost completely sawed/ drilled away, leaving only two little nubs — so that the bridge could fit onto them. Those teeth were perfect before the procedure. Also, the bridge is a bit too big for my mouth, and it has pushed my lower front teeth out of place. Now they are crooked. (After all those years wearing braces.)
Scroll down to see a reply from Frances who had a good experience with her bridge. My experience, however, is one of the few things in my life that I wish I could undo!
I had to have a molar removed from a baaaaaaad filling I got as a child. It came apart, and eventually the pain was just unbearable. Since it is in the back, and not visible, I chose not to replace it. The only problem I have had is that occasionally a sharp piece of food will poke me, and it isn’t particularly comfortable. It has been five years and two pregnancies (my teeth tend to shift while pregnant) and I have had no other difficulties.
Do not get a bridge. They need to destroy the two teeth next to it so that it can be hooked on. I didn’t know that. I was focused on getting my mercury out so didn’t investigate it. D4entistry is in the dark ages. If you need a new bridge in th future, be prepared to pay $2000.+ The dentist made a lot of money from this destruction. Dentists can’t be trusted.
I read through all the comments on the posts you are referring too (left one myself about a mysterious pain in my molar disappearing with a real food diet), and was shocked at how people pretty much insinuated you were lying. I mean, honestly, it doesn’t take a dental degree to know you’ve seen a hole in a tooth one day and another day it’s gone. I recently read “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and there was a quote that has stuck with me since then: “But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.” These dentists can open their mouths and cry “foul” all they want with their “science” but the fact is that the hole in your son’s tooth is gone, and the pain in my molar that my dentist couldn’t identify after multiple exams is gone. If I get flamed from dentists for this comment, then so be it. Facts are facts.
I am 85 and evidently need a root canal, the filling came out of my molar. can the remaining sides of the tooth be ground and just sealed?
Love, love, love hearing stories like this!! Thank you!
Wow, what a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it.
I think the dentist business should be regulated how much they can charge!
This would hopefully attract more people that sincerely had the interest in helping people.
All the times I had to go to a dentist not once did they say anything about prevention.
Thanks to the internet and the information from others things are getting more transparent,and hopefully better decisions will be made. Stem cells and growing new teeth should be priority.
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l had a trauma in one of my front teeth years back and now the teeth is slightly discolored without any form of painful symptom.
what will l do to make it bright again like d neighboring tooth without RCT or bleaching?
MCHC calcium is form of calcium phosphate.Combine 5 parts of MCHC with 2 parts baking soda and then whatever else you want. Look on the internet for recipes.
Enamel demineralization takes place at pH below 5.5. Calcium and phosphate ions are dissolved out of the tooth and eventually cause decay with the help of Streptococcus mutans and lactobacillus bacteria. Calcium, phosphate, and fluoride remineralize the tooth under the right conditions. Saliva contains calcium, phosphate, and bicarbonate. Healthy saliva has a pH of 6.8 to 7.4.
Remineralization takes place at a higher pH of 7.5 to 8.5 in the presence of calcium and phosphate. In simple terms, there is a balance of minerals going in and out of our teeth.
Lastly it needs Vitamin K complex. The vitamin K2 MK4 is the active X ingredient for your teeth.