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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Natural Remedies / How to Resolve Tooth Decay in Toddlers

How to Resolve Tooth Decay in Toddlers

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Conventional Dentistry Ignores Cavity Reversal
  • Simple Dietary Changes for Astounding Results
  • Toddler Tooth Decay Halted

How to halt severe tooth decay in a young child with dietary changes alone within a matter of days. No dental intervention or surgery required.

The CDC is reporting that preschoolers’ teeth are in really bad shape. In a startling trend reversal, the number of preschoolers with severe levels of tooth decay is rising.

Dentists everywhere are confirming this trend.

More and more preschoolers from all income levels have 6 -10 or even more cavities. (1, 2)

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.

The solution recommended by conventional dentistry is immediate surgery.

Multiple fillings and root canals in a single visit necessitate 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.

Conventional Dentistry Ignores Cavity Reversal

Fortunately, more parents are discovering the power of simple dietary changes to save their children’s teeth.

I’ve written before about 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 15 years ago!

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, there is hope!

The 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.

Be aware that conventional dentists ridicule this approach. They never learned that cavities can heal in dental school.

However, the fact is that tooth decay CAN be reversed was documented and photographed by renowned dentist Dr. Weston A. Price in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Just because conventional dentists don’t believe it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

At the very least, dietary change is worth a shot before putting your child through surgery, wouldn’t you agree?

Simple Dietary Changes for Astounding Results

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 the late Rami Nagel.

I had the honor of meeting and conversing with Rami extensively about his views on oral health at a health conference in 2013.

I highly recommend his book as a must-read if you are having cavity problems in your child (or even in yourself!).

The Mom in the video below was told surgery was the ONLY way to go due to the severity of her daughter’s decay.

This conventional dentist was wrong!

Only simple dietary changes were required to fix this child’s severe tooth decay. This avoided certain surgery and likely general anesthesia.

Toddler Tooth Decay Halted

Please note that while dietary changes were responsible for healing this rampant tooth decay, a natural remineralizing toothpaste that facilitates the reparative process can also be helpful.

This brand of tooth gel and remineralizing powder is also safe and effective if you are not able to make your own.

Beware of commercial remineralizing toothpaste and treatments, including those sold at dentist’s offices.

Conventional remineralizing toothpastes contain fluoride which negatively impacts a child’s IQ, according to Harvard scientists.

Biological Dentists Recognize that Teeth Can Heal

I get many, many requests about who I recommend as a truly holistic, biological dentist.

I recommend Dr. Carlo Litano of Natural-Smiles.com in Pinellas Park, Florida (727) 300-0044. He has treated our entire family for many years.

He sees both children and adults and does phone consults for those who don’t live close enough for an office visit and may need a second opinion.

Medical tourism is a growing trend well worth considering as well.

Tell Dr. Litano that The Healthy Home Economist sent you and get 10% off your first cleaning or exam.

References

(1) Rise in Preschoolers Cavities Prompts Anesthesia Use
(2) Trends in Oral Health Status, CDC

More Information

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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
Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Unnecessary

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Category: Natural Remedies, Oral Health
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission 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.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Jennifer Conn via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    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

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  2. Brandi Freed via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    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!

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    • Debbie

      Dec 19, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      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.

    • High Brix Nutrient Dense Foods

      Dec 24, 2012 at 9:51 pm

      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

    • NIcole

      Apr 24, 2014 at 10:22 pm

      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.

  3. Tori Rogers Klein via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    I know a mother who gave her babies coca-cola in their baby bottles… I’m not kidding.

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    • Jen

      Dec 10, 2012 at 2:09 am

      That is so very sad.

  4. Kristen Darling via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    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!!!

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  5. Denver Tina via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    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.

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  6. Shawnda Hicks via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    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.

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    • Joy

      Dec 10, 2012 at 2:53 pm

      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.

    • NIcole

      Apr 24, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      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!

  7. James Allison via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    # Heather Alger Dessinger

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  8. Janelle Hoxie via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Stop blaming sugar. It is not the root of all evil. And lots of ‘healthy’ families have kids with rotting teeth.

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  9. James Allison via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    http://www.mommypotamus.com/i-kissed-toothpaste-goodbye/

    Reply
  10. James Allison via Facebook

    Dec 9, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    http://www.mommypotamus.com/can-a-weston-a-price-diet-reverse-tooth-decay/

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