If you put the question, "can teeth heal?", to a dentist you would, in all likelihood, get a somewhat condescending negative answer.
Yet there is a great deal of factual evidence to the contrary.
What does that mean exactly? For example, can a cavity heal itself? The answer is an emphatic yes.
The research of Dr.
Weston Price demonstrates quite conclusively that dental decay as well as physical degeneration are the results of nutritional deficiencies.
Dr.
Price was born in Canada in 1870 and began his practice in Cleveland when in his early 20's.
Frustrated by the inexplicable rise in the amount of physical and dental degeneration prevalent in those days he set out to find some answers.
His quest took him all over the world and he studied isolated people groups in many countries whose diets had not been affected by the industrialization of the food supply chain.
These groups included Aborigines of Australia, Maori of New Zealand, African people groups, Melanesians, Polynesians, Eskimos, native North Americans as well as Gaelic groups in the Outer Hebrides and isolated Swiss mountain villagers.
Dr.
Price's extensive studies as outlined in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration not only demonstrate that the root cause of dental decay is nutritional deficiencies but that the damage is reversible.
A number of his experiments with nutrition answers the question "can teeth heal?" quite conclusively.
Dr.
Price found that these people had beautiful, cavity free straight teeth, healthy bodies with fine bone structure and resistance to disease as long as they remained on their traditional diets.
When the same people came into contact with modernization and succumbed to convenience and the inherent diet, largely of processed foods, they suffered the tooth decay typical of industrialized cultures.
In his work Dr.
Price narrowed it down to a few essential nutritional lifestyles.
All of these people had diets high in vitamin A and D, which we know is necessary for good teeth and strong bones.
What many are not aware of is the need for animal fats in the diet to utilize these fat soluble vitamins.
Animal fats of some description were common in all of these peoples' diet whether it be meat, dairy or fish.
Dr, Price also discovered another mysterious factor, which he could measure but not define.
He called it the X-factor and noted that it was prevalent in butter fat from cows raised on swiftly growing grass.
This was especially notable amongst the Swiss villagers who herd their cows up to the alpine slopes in the spring where such grass is readily available.
It has since been discovered that this elusive X-factor is vitamin K2.
All of the qualities that the good Dr.
recorded relative to his X-factor correspond to those, before unknown, benefits of vitamin K2.
Previously, researchers had tended to dismiss the nutritional role of K2 since K1 in most diets is about 10 times as great.
Whereas K1 principally activates blood clotting proteins, K2 is used by our bodies to put calcium where it is needed in the bones and teeth and keep it out of soft tissues to avoid calcification.
For all the good vitamin A and D do they are to no avail if there is not sufficient K2.
Together these 3 vitamins work synergistically to accomplish what is unable to be managed by all of modern dentistry.
Thus the question "can a cavity heal itself?" has been answered positively through groundbreaking research and experimentation on needy human subjects.
And this, more than a century ago! In testing humans for K2, researchers have discovered that deficiency is almost universal.
No wonder modern dentistry is such a lucrative profession! After studying human skeletons from past periods Dr.
Price concluded there had been more dental caries in the preceding 100 years than there had been in any thousand year period previous to that.
He attributed this to Activator X, having been common in earlier diets, being deficient in our diets.
Dr.
Price was able to bring about the healing of cavities by administering regular doses of high-vitamin cod liver oil and Activator X concentrate.
In one startling case a 14 year old girl was, in a seven month period, healed of 42 cavities in some 24 teeth.
This was accomplished with a protocol of high vitamin cod liver oil and Activator X 3 time a day.
So, yes indeed, teeth can heal.
It is all a question of proper nutrition.
Yet there is a great deal of factual evidence to the contrary.
What does that mean exactly? For example, can a cavity heal itself? The answer is an emphatic yes.
The research of Dr.
Weston Price demonstrates quite conclusively that dental decay as well as physical degeneration are the results of nutritional deficiencies.
Dr.
Price was born in Canada in 1870 and began his practice in Cleveland when in his early 20's.
Frustrated by the inexplicable rise in the amount of physical and dental degeneration prevalent in those days he set out to find some answers.
His quest took him all over the world and he studied isolated people groups in many countries whose diets had not been affected by the industrialization of the food supply chain.
These groups included Aborigines of Australia, Maori of New Zealand, African people groups, Melanesians, Polynesians, Eskimos, native North Americans as well as Gaelic groups in the Outer Hebrides and isolated Swiss mountain villagers.
Dr.
Price's extensive studies as outlined in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration not only demonstrate that the root cause of dental decay is nutritional deficiencies but that the damage is reversible.
A number of his experiments with nutrition answers the question "can teeth heal?" quite conclusively.
Dr.
Price found that these people had beautiful, cavity free straight teeth, healthy bodies with fine bone structure and resistance to disease as long as they remained on their traditional diets.
When the same people came into contact with modernization and succumbed to convenience and the inherent diet, largely of processed foods, they suffered the tooth decay typical of industrialized cultures.
In his work Dr.
Price narrowed it down to a few essential nutritional lifestyles.
All of these people had diets high in vitamin A and D, which we know is necessary for good teeth and strong bones.
What many are not aware of is the need for animal fats in the diet to utilize these fat soluble vitamins.
Animal fats of some description were common in all of these peoples' diet whether it be meat, dairy or fish.
Dr, Price also discovered another mysterious factor, which he could measure but not define.
He called it the X-factor and noted that it was prevalent in butter fat from cows raised on swiftly growing grass.
This was especially notable amongst the Swiss villagers who herd their cows up to the alpine slopes in the spring where such grass is readily available.
It has since been discovered that this elusive X-factor is vitamin K2.
All of the qualities that the good Dr.
recorded relative to his X-factor correspond to those, before unknown, benefits of vitamin K2.
Previously, researchers had tended to dismiss the nutritional role of K2 since K1 in most diets is about 10 times as great.
Whereas K1 principally activates blood clotting proteins, K2 is used by our bodies to put calcium where it is needed in the bones and teeth and keep it out of soft tissues to avoid calcification.
For all the good vitamin A and D do they are to no avail if there is not sufficient K2.
Together these 3 vitamins work synergistically to accomplish what is unable to be managed by all of modern dentistry.
Thus the question "can a cavity heal itself?" has been answered positively through groundbreaking research and experimentation on needy human subjects.
And this, more than a century ago! In testing humans for K2, researchers have discovered that deficiency is almost universal.
No wonder modern dentistry is such a lucrative profession! After studying human skeletons from past periods Dr.
Price concluded there had been more dental caries in the preceding 100 years than there had been in any thousand year period previous to that.
He attributed this to Activator X, having been common in earlier diets, being deficient in our diets.
Dr.
Price was able to bring about the healing of cavities by administering regular doses of high-vitamin cod liver oil and Activator X concentrate.
In one startling case a 14 year old girl was, in a seven month period, healed of 42 cavities in some 24 teeth.
This was accomplished with a protocol of high vitamin cod liver oil and Activator X 3 time a day.
So, yes indeed, teeth can heal.
It is all a question of proper nutrition.