Preventative Dental HealthThe standard advice for preventative dental heath is to brush your teeth twice a day, floss, use a fluoride toothpaste and visit the dentist regularly for check-ups before you need more costly treatments. While most of the effort is spent trying to scrape away or clean the teeth, the best preventative advice is to take steps to protect the teeth from within by following the best diet plan. You can add sealants, polish your teeth, floss them everyday, but you will still get dental health problems if you don't have an adequate diet. A diet that promotes strong bone growth will help anyone at any stage of life - from a newborn growing their first teeth, to an older woman with osteoporosis. If changing the diet is not possible, for example in a child or teenager that is addicted to junk food, the next best thing is to use dental sealants and hope for the best. Dental sealants are very effective. The most important first step is to eliminate the sugars and grains, soda's and processed foods that cause the problem. If you can eliminate all the white flour and processed foods that you eat, it will go a long way to improving your dental health. For an article on how to optimize your diet for dental health click here Dentists will tell you that tooth decay is caused by the bacteria s. Mutans feeding off sugars in the mouth and creating acid which breaks through the enamel. Brushing and flossing will obviously help to decrease the plaque and decrease dental disease. The dietary approach concentrates on firstly removing the refined sugars and carbohydrates in the first place to prevent the bacteria from multiplying. Secondly, the dietary approach builds up the teeth and enamel, promotes bone growth and provides the gums with all the nutrients they need to fight off the bacteria. Using nutrition alone Price managed to prevent over 95% of dental cavities. Once the body was functioning properly, Price found that we can actually start to repair dental cavities. Obviously you won't be able to re-grow a tooth, but the body was able to repair tooth damage caused by dental cavities. What is the diet? 1 Eliminate all processed foods, junk foods, white bread. bagels, and all other products using white flour. Eliminate all grain products that are not spouted. Remove all sugars particularly white and brown sugar from the diet as soon as possible. This is harder to do than it sounds. You will not be eating any biscuits, cookies, muffins, sandwiches, breakfast cereals.
Eliminating these items from the diet will stop the S. Mutans from easily feeding on sucrose products or carbohydrates that will break down into sugars. The next stage is to replace these foods with food that will specifically help to nourish bone growth and tooth enamel. The steps you take are: 1 Take cod liver oil supplement, or Krill oil which is virtually proven to be free of mercury. 2 Make your own stocks from chicken, marrow, fish bones etc. the traditional way and freeze the contents so that you can have a daily broth full of calcium and gelatin that can be easily absorbed by the body for bone growth. 3 Eat fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kombucha, natto, pickled vegetables, and other foods that contain high levels of natural probiotics. 4 Drink raw unpasteurized milk or Kefir. 5 Eat foods high in Vitamin K2 such as marrow, natto, high vitamin butter, egg yolks, hard cheese, chicken liver and salami. 6. Ensure that your receiving adequate amounts of Vitamin D through natural sun exposure if possible and have your Vitamin D levels tested. A full explanation of the diet is beyond the scope of this article, but you can read more details in Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, or Ramiel Nagel's book which specifically sets out to offer detailed guidance on how to prevent dental decay through diet.. http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/SallyFallon/index.html
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