Dentists everywhere are confirming this trend. More and more preschoolers from all income levels have 6 -10 or even more cavities. It doesn’t seem to matter if the child gets regular checkups or whether good tooth brushing habits are followed.
The decay is often so severe that the teeth are literally crumbling out of a child’s mouth and surgery is immediately recommended. Multiple fillings and root canals in a single visit necessitates general anesthesia as a child that young cannot sit still for the length of time required to fix so many severely rotting teeth. Sometimes sedation with laughing gas and a local anesthetic works, but not always.
Something is obviously very, very wrong with the diet of the vast majority of children to cause such severe tooth decay at such a young age.
Constant snacking on refined carbohydrates and juice is no doubt a big part of the problem as is the complete void of nutrient dense foods in most children’s diets.
Fortunately, more parents are discovering the power of simple dietary changes to save their children’s teeth. I’ve written before on how I healed my child’s cavity in a few weeks with dietary change alone. No filling was ever required for that tooth. This was over 5 years ago now.
How about severe and rampant decay in a preschooler’s mouth, however?
If you think that your child’s teeth are beyond help and surgery is the only option, think again. This Mom’s video below of how it only took 5 days for severe decay to stop with dietary change alone is sure to change your thinking about the possibilities for your own child.
Warning: Dentists will likely ridicule this approach as they were never taught that cavities can heal in dental school, but the fact is that tooth decay can be reversed and renowned dentist Dr. Weston A. Price wrote about it in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Just because your dentist doesn’t believe it doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
At the very least it’s worth a shot before putting your child through surgery, wouldn’t you agree?
The protocol the Mom in the video below used for reversing severe decay in her young child is outlined in detail in the book Cure Tooth Decay, by Rami Nagel. I highly recommend this book as a must read if you are having cavity problems in your child or even in yourself.
The Mother was told surgery was the only way to go for her daughter due to the severity of the decay.
The dentist was wrong.
Only simple dietary changes were required to fix this child’s severe tooth decay without any surgery required!
Tooth Decay Halted! Compelling Video
Please note that while dietary changes were responsible for healing this rampant tooth decay, a natural toothpaste that facilitates remineralization can also be of help.
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References
Rise in Preschoolers Cavities Prompts Anesthesia Use
Trends in Oral Health Status, CDC
More Information on Nutrition and Oral Health
How I Healed My Child’s Cavity
Whiten Your Teeth Without Dangerous Chemicals
Resolving Periodontal Problems with Bone Broth
Safe, Natural Alternative to Dangerous Baby Teething Gels
Coconut Oil Stops Strep Bacteria from Damaging Tooth Enamel
What is the True Cause of Crooked Teeth?
10 Signs Your Dentist is Truly Holistic
Avoiding Root Canals with Diet Alone
Could the Cause of Your Illness Be Right Under Your Nose?
Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Totally Unnecessary
Sarah Pope has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. Her work is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.
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Hi,
This is a great story. How long did you follow the protocol? Have you introduced grains back into her diet?
I have a friend whose child had early tooth decay. I know they tried a few Weston A. Price things but nothing worked. The doctor said that since they were baby teeth that it didn’t matter. Her adult teeth grew in fine. I don’t think her child had any surgery. I think they just let things be. It wasn’t pretty, but the child is fine. I’ll have to ask for more details to share.
Hi, Lori
Thanks for sharing your friend’s story. Do you know how bad the decay were? My 3 year old has ECC and the enamel on the front four are mostly chipped away with only brown nubs left. I have started the WPF diet a few months ago and I can see that things are not getting worse. So I wanted to watch and see instead of performing baby root canal and crowns on them, but they won’t fall out until he’s 6 (2 years away), so I am worry sick about the decay progressing rapidly and he’ll be in pain. Luckily, he’s not have any pain right now. Thanks for your time.
Great post! Very informative. It is heartbreaking for parents to see their kids cry because of severe toothache…Yeah, too much sugars on the food we feed them with could be a culprit and so we must be keen with our kid’s diet.
http://www.mcssl.com/app/?af=1495698
That’s awesome! And it was done without fermented cod liver oil and butter oil! Wow!
Because they weren’t breast fed but were HFCS formula fed instead.
Not true, and not fair. Maybe that contributes in some cases, but I have a kid with tooth decay (and two without) who was breastfed. Until he was 3. Furthermore, he and his siblings eat the same foods. Only he has the decay issues. It’s more than diet.
Unfortunately, this is not true.. Breast is best, but it does not override the damage of other foods in the diet. It keeps your kids from getting sick, but it does not prevent tooth decay once other foods are introduced. My son was breastfed and has severe tooth decay. Contributing factors in my case are my inlaw caregivers who meant no harm sharing foods and drinks from their decay filled mouths despite my telling them NOT to, constantly feeding him processed puffed cereals and other nutrient-lacking foods, all day sipping on sippy cups, and my son’s early development of teeth in the firsth place! He had a mouthful before age one.
That statement is not fair. Not all women can breast feed their children and have to rely on formula, myself included. I now have a 5 year old who has never had a cavity in his life.
Not so. My kids were fed formula. My daughter is 24 and has never had a cavity. My son is 22 and has had 1.
My (almost) two year old is having some decay, which is why I am googling this. His was EBF until 6 months, BLW along with breastfeeding until 14 months, and a normal diet (better than the SAD diet) along with being breastfed… still being breastfed. He has never had a drop of formula, and minimal alternative milk. So that is a rather presumptuous statement. You cant paint everyone with such a broad brush. I’m assuming grain is our #1 issue, as we don’t really eat processed and sugary foods. I will definitely be looking into this more.
Wow. So thankful to have stumbled across Nourishing Traditions and then WAPF a couple years before getting pregnant. I can’t even imagine how teeth can get that bad. My 4 year old hardly brushes his strong healthy teeth. It’s all about nutrition and diet! Thanks for sharing.
So happy to hear from another mom that her 4 year old hardly brushes his strong healthy teeth. Same here! Sometimes I feel guilty for not making him brush every day, but he eats a WAPF diet, and his teeth are beautiful!
Kristen – I can’t remember the last time my boys, 4 and 7, brushed their teeth. They have no cavities and their teeth appear strong and healthy!
And how long until the dentists come out to hound you…
Soli Zat Johnson Yes, the dentists will descend on this post within a day or so and start calling me stupid and all manner of insults as they will insist that cavities cannot and will not heal. Amusing really how blockheaded so many of them are!
If people on a mass level start to follow the WAPF protocol for reversing tooth decay, the bad oral health gravy train will start to dry up – that simple. The argument for dentists has nothing to do with science but business.
Got to supplement the colloidal phosphates and calciums according to pH, or it doesn’t work! And get some better quality veggies = brix!
Fortunately, more and more dentists are realizing that Dr. Price was right all along and cavities can indeed heal with proper nutrition!
http://www.mommypotamus.com/can-a-weston-a-price-diet-reverse-tooth-decay/
http://www.mommypotamus.com/i-kissed-toothpaste-goodbye/
Stop blaming sugar. It is not the root of all evil. And lots of ‘healthy’ families have kids with rotting teeth.
# Heather Alger Dessinger
I am not so sure on this. My two year old was and is exclusively breastfed, doesn’t drink juice or cows milk and we eat pretty whole with grass feed meats and organic veg. Her teeth crumbled, all but five of them. I was told it was the breastfeeding (of course) then was told it was a lack of enamel.
Me too. I have four kids, and two have bad teeth. I am 36 and have never had a cavity, so I was quite surprised when my oldest had many cavities diagnosed (and obvious to the eyes) at age 4. I have had times of better and worse nutrition. As a child, we were poor, and ate non-processed food, cooked from scratch, but plenty of grains and sugar.
Cure Tooth Decay method doesn’t always work because of serious mineral depletion. There is so much more to the story and it is all in RBTI. Study some RBTI and you’ll be amazed. Worked for all of us!
It’s not so much amusing as it is really sad. So many parents spend a lot of money on their children’s teeth when diet alone would cure them. I know of a couple that has put a lot of money into their young son’s teeth. Money they really don’t have. It’s dramatic for kids to have their teeth worked on. Dentists seem like used car salesmen to me at least the last dentist I saw did.
On a side note, I have a friend who had very bad gums from years of bad diet and drug use. Just changing diet alone has improved them greatly and visibly. This person just began daily cod liver oil (can’t think of a better time than winter)… Can’t wait to suggest some coconut oil pulling too!!!
I know a mother who gave her babies coca-cola in their baby bottles… I’m not kidding.
That is so very sad.
Following “Cure Tooth Decay” protocol doesn’t work for everyone. Following the GAPS Diet didn’t help either. Still use FCLO/BO Blend as well. For years. Nothing halted my 3.5 year olds tooth decay. So incredibly frustrating. 5 days to see results, I’m jealous. 2 years of struggle didn’t net me those results!
I’m right there with you. Have been doing everything (for years) and both kids still have lots of cavities and new ones all the time. Makes me feel like a horrible mom.
Brandi, Debbie, and the others here not getting the results you want in preventing and reversing tooth decay, I have found the following can help as an addition to the WAPF basic diet and Ramiel’s protocol.
(1) Try taking MinCol, made by Daily manufacturing or make your own if you don’t care for capsules. For an overview of what Mincol is and does check out:http://www.advancedideals.org/019_calcium_questions.html#Anchor-WHY-7431. In short, the person who created Mincol, “If the teeth have fillings or cavities, this is because they are deficient in the colloid phosphate form of calcium and fluoride. Women that have not been provided the proper mineral during the pregnancy will lose the mineral from their mineral ‘storehouses,’ starting with their teeth, as nature will give priority for the fetus and draw the mineral for its formation and development. This is why so many women remark their teeth went bad after they had children.” (Biological Ionization as Applied to Human Nutrition, p. 166). Mincol would be in abundant supplies in our foods if it wasn’t for soils being depleted of it and hence virtually all of our crops, organic or not. Bone meal is the next best source of the mineral colloid (MIncol).
(2) You might have a situation where the body chemistry is nitpicky. Kris Johnson touched upon this below. Within the WAPF community, so many different ways of customizing one’s diet exist. I expand upon one that I mentioned in a comment below.
In Reams Biological Theory of Ionization (RBTI) as applied to human health, several tooth decay patterns exist. Please keep in mind this is a generalization, so exceptions can exist. That said, severe tooth decay is a symptom of deficiency of foods that have calcium phosphate as their prominent calcium compound. (1) Thus, you need to add bone meal into the diet. I recommended chewing bones of pasture raised chicken and ocean fish like sardine or anchovy. If your child cannot handle these, you need to grind up bones of fish or grass fed animals or find an online source that this ready in supplement form. Generally you will need somewhere between 500 mg and 2g per meal. (2) You need to go to the USDA database and eat foods that have calcium phosphate as the dominant calcium compound and focus on the ones that have the highest calcium content: carrots, cabbage,beets, leafy greens, sweet potato, eggplant, cauliflower, celery, oatmeal, okra, barley, persimmon, bone broth, and root crops. (3) Take Mincol with every meal.
Tooth decay, when not severe, falls into the high pH pattern. This means the pH of urine and saliva or one of them exceeds 6.7 and you need to get it between 6.2 and 6.7, ideally 6.4. You need to invest in a pH meter or, as a more affordable option, a kit. Pike Agri-Lb Supplies has both. You need to emphasize foods in your diet that have dominant calcium compound of phosphate and calcium sulfate, AKA, gypsum. Thus you have to consume a significant part of your diet of the following foods that have gypsum as their dominant calcium compound: kefir, buttermilk, sour cream, raspberry, apple, blackberry, cranberry, sour blueberry, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberries, sour cherries, apple cider vinegar, oranges, grapefruit, mandarin, and sour plums. Something from this list and the calcium phosphate list needs to be consumed every meal. Also, include a food that has dominant calcium compound of calcium gluconate every meal from the following list of foods: cottage cheese, milk, goat’s milk, butter, cream. Use unbuffered vitamin C sources to move down the pH, such as rose hips, acercola berry, Indian gooseberry, etc. .5g to 2g 1-4 times a day in between meals. For more sources search for foods very high in vitamin C, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C. . You may need to take out FCLO, as it increases pH. Include a different food from each of the above calcium compounds in each meal. Another group that can be used in this pattern, though not as important, is foods containing the prominent compound of dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate): fish, molasses, papaya, coconut, mango, pear, sea grapes, sorghum, and salsify As an estimate, 70-85% of your diet will come from foods that have calcium phosphate, gluconate, sulfate and dolomite as the dominant calcium compounds. So this means you need to cut down on, but still eat daily, foods from the other two calcium groups, which are calcium carbonate and oxide. Foods that have dominant source of calcium oxide are banana, kelp, onion, potato, leeks, garlic, buckwheat, rice, wheat, rye, loquat, sweet blueberry, carob, corn, peas, beans, nuts, tomato, Jerusalem artichoke, guava and peaches. Foods that have calcium carbonate as dominant calcium compound include: meats, avocado, green beans, nectarine, broccoli, olives, olive oil, sesame oil, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, squash, cherries, sweet plum, sweet grapes, cheese, mushrooms, and millet. Go very easy on the cheese because it has lots of calcium, just not the right type for this pattern. You need to test initially 2-3 times a day 2 hours after a meal for several days and then at least twice a day 2 times a week. If you start seeing changes in the pH, you will probably need to make adjustments in the diet according the numbers you get from the pH reading. See below for resources.
If this diet is not enough, you need to try other approaches. RBTI uses supplements when foods don’t work by themselves, as the vast majority of the above foods today are calcium decent because of soil depletion. So in this case, RBTI recommends you would use calcium lactate as a temporary measure to bring down the pH and keep it down where it needs to be. It needs to be taken with meals. If the idea of supplements doesn’t sit well with you, experiment with buttermilk solids, which are what goes on the bottom of a container of buttermilk below the water part. Add the solids to meals. My source for 100% grass fed raw buttermilk is Swiss Connection – they ship anywhere. Or, try colonics, which works very well with stubbornly high pH that needs to be lowered. Or do a fast, something very effective if the above measures don’t work. If you get as far as to exploring colonics, you need to get 2 RBTI texts to do the whole program or contact me. They are Biological Theory of Ionization as Applied to Human Nutrition by Alexander Beddoe, DDS and course on RBTI by Michael Olszta.
Preserve. Keep researching and trying new approaches. And refrain from beating yourselves up! Instead, commend yourselves for sticking with a program most people don’t have the discipline or foresight to try and stick with.
Best Wishes,
Jamil Avdiyev
Hi Jamil! Burning Bush Gardens here. I second ya!
I just rub min-66 in sunflower oil (or olive oil, but I think the lighter weight oil is best) on the outside of the face proximal to any tooth problem. It always works for teething and usually works for a toothache and over a few weeks, you grow teeth back, if you are also taking the min-66 internally. It’s amazing.
I been struggling for a year and not getting anywhere. Just see her teeth getting worse. I tried so many things and spent hundreds of dollars n also spent many nights crying….Why can’t I get good results? :'( If anyone could pm and help me along the way, I’d be so thankful