This book deals with preventing and healing dental cavities and mineralizing teeth by means of nutrition.

The author presents a method of avoiding dentists and their costly treatments.

He follows up on the work of Weston Price and explains how eating “modern devitalized food” (processed foods) causes disease.

We learn that the bacterial theory of tooth decay is false since sugar, particularly white sugar, disables bacterial growth. This is also the case as regards white flour.

“If the current theory – that bacteria cause tooth decay –were true, then considering that white sugar inhibits bacterial growth, we could hypothetically eliminate tooth decay by chewing on sugar all day long.”

We learn that teeth decay because we are not consuming enough nutrients to build new tooth enamel – and we lack “fat-soluble activators”.

As in Weston Price’s classic work, this book presents photos of the perfect teeth of those consuming a traditional diet, and the decaying teeth of those eating processed foods.

We see photos of healthy teeth belonging to people from the Outer Hebrides and Switzerland, and again people from the Outer Hebrides with rotting teeth – those who ate a modern diet of processed foods. A diet of “oatmeal and oatcake and sea foods with some limited dairy products” gave healthy teeth.

The author cites Weston Price as stating that indigenous groups with the highest immunity to tooth decay are daily from at least two of the three following principal vitamin sources.

1. Dairy products from grass-fed animals.
2. Organs and muscle meat from fish and shellfish.
3. Organs of land animals.

It is the fat-soluble vitamins D, E and K that are important, which the author claims are mostly or exclusively found in animal foods.

Since I’m a vegetarian, I certainly won’t be eating animal organs!

An important element of Dr. Price’s tooth decay curing protocol is cod liver oil, and though this would not be part of my normal diet, since I try to avoid fish owing to the present extreme pollution of our oceans, I am at present taking cod liver oil to see if this can heal a cavity I have.

I’m trying to avoid dairy products and also wheat, which is one of the food items recommended by Dr. Price; however he also recommends eating lots of green vegetables, which I do.

The author states that a high level of dietary phosphorous is characteristic of people with one hundred per cent immunity to tooth decay.

As a vegetarian, I do not endorse the author’s statement that we need animal proteins to build healthy bodies.

He does include a vegetarian tooth healing diet though he does not know of a vegan protocol that is effective in healing teeth, other than avoiding all processed and denatured foods. He himself has previously been both vegetarian and vegan and had gone over to eating large amounts of tofu until he found, as I did, that tofu is a food to be avoided.

He states that it is more difficult for vegetarians to acquire the fat-soluble vitamins and they therefore have a higher susceptibility to tooth decay.

However, as stated, a vegetarian plan is presented in the book. It includes large amounts of “raw yellow butter” and eggs. The author recommends regularly eating raw eggs, and this I am not going to do either.

I did not get through the entirety of the book for various reasons, including the fact that I was put off by all the mention of meat and particularly organ eating.

The author provides detailed information about foods that help with tooth mineralization and foods to be avoided.

There is also a section on emotions and tooth decay. Generally, the author has much understanding of the causes of tooth decay and the fallaciousness of modern views on the subject.

He has a chapter entitled “Proof that cavities can heal”.

I would recommend the book if you want to heal your teeth naturally and avoid dentists as much as possible, though it may not solve all your problems. ( )