One of the most popular articles on this site is how I healed my child’s cavity using the protocol recommended by Dr. Weston A. Price DDS, a dentist who penned the incredible book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration back in the 1930s.
Granted, the cavity I healed was an early cavity .. it was a hole in one of my child’s top front incisors and it filled in within weeks to be as smooth as the teeth next to it.
But what about a tooth with a really bad cavity? Â What if the cavity has actually eaten into the pulp of the tooth and your dentist recommends a root canal?
Guess what? Â You can save these teeth too.
The protocol for healing teeth even in such a state of complete degeneration is described in the book Cure Tooth Decay by Rami Nagel. This article on saving damaged teeth without a root canal provides a compelling testimonial of this approach.
I had the privilege of talking to Rami personally at the Wise Traditions Conference last year.
I have no doubt that our conversation helped to enable me to heal my child’s cavity some months later and write about it hopefully helping thousands of people in the process do the exact same thing.
Watch this video featuring Rami Nagel which describes the diet required to avoid and heal teeth at risk for a root canal. Even teeth that are in need of an immediate root canal can be helped.
If you have teeth in such a severe state of decay and think there is no hope, think again. Proper, traditionally based nutrition can work wonders even in these types of situations where the teeth need root canals. Make sure you listen through the whole video to be sure you understand Rami’s description of all aspects of the diet required to heal root canal teeth. It’s much more involved than taking a couple of supplements. There is no quick fix.
In addition, the diet required to heal the root canal teeth needs to be continued so that the problem does not re-emerge in the future.
Avoiding a Root Canal with Dietary Intervention Alone
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Reference
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During a crown a cavity was found at my right molar’s root. It was filled however after this procedure my tooth is sensitive and had slight tingling and pain. I suspect the tooth’s pulp was bruised or damaged. It appears to be getting better but are their herbs, foods, etc that would enhance this healing process in order to possibly avoid tooth extraction?
I would rather lose my teeth than eat the heart, liver or any other body parts of a fellow Earth being.
I was wondering how far down I’d have to scroll to find what I wanted to hear. Thanks for making my day Soul Shine! I, too, would never consider the diet. I hope you have resolved your issues, if any, with your teeth. I know many of us vegans have issues with our teeth/health that wouldn’t be there if we’d stayed away from dentists and eaten the healthy vegan diet from the start. But we discover it eventually and regret not having started sooner. If you have any special methods that don’t compromise us as vegans I’d love to hear. Peace and happiness to everyone!
I feel your pain, as I had a root canal tooth removed because it was decaying at the root, and then a titanium implant in its place, but then it failed! Then I had to wait 4-5 months for the bone to regrow, (which was miserable because that was my GOOD side to chew on!!) But the blessing in disguise is that I got try again, with some more wisdom.
I wonder how your gums / pockets are? I had my 3-6mm periodontal pockets scaled and treated with Ozone. 1 month later dramatic reduction of pockets. Being in a healthier state, I then got a CeraRoot implant, which is Zirconia. And as I write this today, a few days after my 1 month x-ray / checkup which looked good, I am hopeful for a successful implant.
I share all this to hopefully help. I realize the loss of your good chewing teeth, as I did, but you MAY have also saved yourself from a serious disease a few years down the road from multilple root canals infecting your heart and other organs. I would look into Zirconia implants. Yes, it is hard to find specialists that do them, but you can start by going on CeraRoots website and searching your area. Also Strauman is coming out with Zirconia implants too, as well as others but, I don’t know much about them.
Sorry to get your hopes up, but that’s not physically possible.
Interesting angle. Thanks!
If you can find a dentist you trust, you’re very lucky, because even the holistic ones are not always trustworthy. My most recent dentist, Dr. Thomas Gent at Sola Dental, talked me out of my root-canaled molars and botched the replacements. I ended up with massive gum and bone loss and now will likely lose most of the rest of my teeth! I am suing him and he is under investigation with the state dental board. Do not spend your money and threaten your health! I was just fine with root canals. My health really went downhill after all the surgeries, antibiotics, and corrective surgeries. It’s taken two years and I am always depressed. I was disfigured for 18 months. What I wouldn’t give to still have those root canaled teeth that caused me no problems!
Did I hear the man in the video right? Did he really say that you need to eat heart and liver? If this is correct and this is what the “protocol” recommended in this book is, I have serious doubts about it.
Just study a little what meat eating does to your body…
Untrue about meat being problematice.We have spent 99.5% of our history consuming meat. We have evolved to eat it. I suggest reading website of westonaprice.org.
Hopefully the reader is not killing themselves with a vegan diet, as such sections of the indian community who do so, have the shortest life span from such practices.
Cheers
Neil
I never felt right until I started eating fatty meat, ESPECIALLY heart and liver. Look at lions, that’s the first thing they go for. And, our digestive system is much closer to a lion than to an herbivore! Those ‘vegans’ out there need more than one stomach to properly assimilate all those veggies they eat! Unless they do what rabbits do to digest their food. When I get a chance to eat raw beef, that’s the way I go, and I feel sooooooooooooo much better too! My kids are super healthy, have great eyesight and are very active, and they eat a lot of animal meats, liver and when we can get it, heart meat. And cod liver oil with high vitamin butter oil when I can afford it. I don’t see any vegan children with good health. In fact, I read about a baby born to a vegan mother with no eyes at all! That points to a severe vitamin A deficiency with the maternal diet. And, true vitamin A is only found in animal foods (citation from the Merck Manual).
It’s incredible that it has taken so long for us to realize that teeth can heal. They aren’t dead pieces of bone sitting in our mouth that need to be drilled in order to be fixed. The material of teeth isn’t exactly like the rest of our bones, but it is similar. It makes sense that a cavity can heal itself and naturally be filled in since our other bones are capable of growing more bone matter to fill in breaks and cracks. What is baffling is how adults who know better still seem to struggle with applying the principles of proper dental hygiene, myself included.
Eli | Park Dental
I agree. So obvious and yet most conventional dentists still deny it!
Hey sarah, i know this is an old post but i had a question. is it possible that some one never have teeth, from their child hood till a really young age???