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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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Every root canal I’ve ever had has been a failure. What a mistake, which I’d known then what I know now. Have you ever heard of “oil pulling” ? I swear that saved at least two of my fractured molars. I also use non-fluoride toothpaste with Xylitol which arrests decay and promotes recalcification of tooth enamel…AND I add a bit of grapefruitseed extract too. Changing my diet to one that is organic and has lots of live, whole foods helped as well.
I tagged a dentist friend when I shared this. He seemed to readily accept that teeth can heal. He stopped way short of endorsing your cause/effect premise but didn’t seem you find you a complete whack job either 😉
Wow! I had my doubts but enough testimonies from folks has made me into a believer!!!
Thank you for sharing! A remaining bridge from an “emergency” root canal is the only remaining unnatural thing in my body – wish I would have known then what I know now. It was actually my body’s reaction to an IUD I had placed after having my second child. There is also a great book out there about remineralizing cavities and repairing your teeth naturally with good food: http://tinyurl.com/65fxd7j
Hi Anita, I did take my son to the dentist and had him examined and there were no cavities at all. I didn’t do xrays (I don’t do them unless there is an obvious need – I don’t buy doing them every 6 months or a year as most dentists want you to do) as the examination by the dentist did not show any hole in the tooth as was there before the tooth healed up. The tooth was also hard with no soft or sticky parts to it.
There’s a nice discussion on another site too, Weston Price wasn’t the only one doing research on healing (and thus preventing) caries… http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search?q=dental
Tanya, thank you for this comment. it helped me find the answer to my question about gum disease. Looks like I will be making sure to take the butter oil and Fermented Cod Liver Oil on a more consistent basis. As soon as I get the butter oil anyway. 🙂
Hi Kati, the black does not necessarily go away according to Rami Nagel, author of Cure Tooth Decay
I’m still finishing both articles. But amazing! This has happened to me before. I’ve had a cavity, set up the appointment to get it filled and when I get there it’s gone. I’ve never deliberately tried to heal my tooth, but it HAS happened.
I still don’t understand why you were so ridiculed for your first post on your son’s cavity. You made an appt with the dentist, but MEANWHILE worked on nutrition. And that was irresponsible? Or wrong? I JUST DON’T GET IT!!!!!
I just wanted to point out that there are root canals for different reasons. The kind this woman talks about are the easiest to heal and sometime can heal spontaneously. This is very different from a root canal needed for an abscessed tooth or a decayed pulp. Pulpal injury from trauma is not the same thing as pulpal injury from decay…
just fyi, a root canal for trauma is a very different situation from a root canal for an abscessed tooth. The traumatic injury is much more likely to heal on its own. It would be a mistake to see them as the same thing…
I have had dentists tell me that small cavities will heal themselves, but the ones caught that are large won’t. your article was the first I’m hearing of this.
Hasn’t anyone ever noticed how a toothache can come and go? Ever notice it’s related to your DIET? Since reading your original post, Sarah, it’s become so obvious to me; refuting it seems absolutely silly!
Ah ridicule & anger – the result of fear of the unknown… (IMHO). Anyone read The Tooth Truth (Jermone). Root canals are nasty.
About the connection between root canals and cancer: http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Articles/RootCanals.html
“”Dr. Thomas Rau, who runs the Paracelsus Clinic (cancer clinic since 1958) in Switzerland recently checked the records of the last 150 breast cancer patients treated in his clinic. He found that 147 of them (98%) had one or more root canal teeth on the same meridian as the original breast cancer tumor. “
as always sarah, we’ve got your back!! so amazing the people who believe the answer to proper nutrition and good health is achieved through cans, pills, supplements, vaccinations and lets not forget the cholesterol and fat free diet!! were left with weird colorless drones filling our society whose only satisfaction comes from association with other weird colorless drones joining to point and laugh at the dietary errors of the healthy happy colorful people..it brings to my mind an old saying…how many people have to jump off of the cliff in front of you before you decide to step out of line?? keep up the fight, sarah!!
-jason and lisa-
what I find amusing is the reaction to this story. I do not have enough information about this case to determine if this tooth really needed a RCT (Root Canal Treatment). It is true that the dentin can repair and rebuild itself to an extent. It is true that the outter hard enamel shell also can remineralize and repair itself. It is NOT TRUE that a cavity completely trough the enamel can or will repair. If a cavity is just in the enamel it is called an incipient caries and it can repair if it is less than halfway through. The small cavities that break through the enamel are the worst because once the bacteria breaks through the hard enamel the bacteria are protected from the saliva and from the re-mineralization process and a filling is necessary. As far as this tooth not needing a RCT, call me in a couple of years when there is an infection in the bone. These teeth are usually asymmptomatic for a while then they hurt and swell. I see this all the time. If the nerve re-attaches then the tooth may be fine. We can now get the nerve to grow back in teeth that have had RCT. However, if you were foolish enough to not have a RCT and have a tooth extracted because you follow some silly suggestions on these boards then you are screwed. Remember that when you choose to extract an infected tooth that needs an RCT, you are compromising all your other teeth. This foolishness was suggested over 100 years ago. Dentist suggested that any infected or tooth with a cavity be extracted because it infects your whole body. How would you like dentures at 25? Ask your grandmother
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Hahahahaha. 🙂
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so why did my root canaled tooth broke off and now i need to extract it? my dentist said that the root canal was improperly done or something, and there is infection there now. she said the best way to get rid of the infection is too extract the tooth now, clean the root canal, and put it an artifical tooth.
I doubt this will get read by Lynn but what the heck. I had a molar pulled when I was 15yo. I’m 43yo and other than some shifting of teeth all is well.
or a crown?
@ Linda: Whoa.