Thank you for participating in the HealThy Mouth World Summit! It has been a fascinating and fulfilling journey for us to gather this information from around the world to assist each of you in having the knowledge and information to create positive change in your own oral health.
Below you’ll find a checklist of gems we have gleaned from the expert presenters highlighted here at the Summit. We offer this so you can look through and make sure you gathered the information you hoped to gain from this event.
If after reviewing this checklist you find that you missed some of the materials, remember that you can upgrade for less than the cost of one dental visit. Knowledge is power!
On fluoride:
~ Steps you can take to reduce your exposure to fluoride
~ How to water a garden to make sure the plants don’t uptake fluoride
from the municipal fluoridated water.
~ Which bottled waters don’t contain fluoride
~ Why eating processed foods may contain significant fluoride in them
~ What popular drink is LOADED with fluoride
(most people consider it healthy!)
~ What you can do to lower the damage that fluoride does in the body
~ What to use in place of toothpaste!
On mercury:
~ What options you have if you are pregnant or nursing and have mercury fillings
~ What products and foods help to detox mercury from the body
~ How to determine if a dental office is really mercury safe!
~ The top 10 ways to detox mercury from the body
On diet to heal tooth decay:
~ The 2 main foods to eat to reduce our risk of decay by 40%
~ The powerful feedback tool to determine if a food we eat is irritating our immune system or is compatible with our body.
~ The two foods that increase our risk of tooth decay and ill health
~ The formula for how to raise cavity free kids
~ How to analyze a daily diet to determine what we’re missing
~ What foods to make sure we’re eating if we are told we have a cavity
On oral hygiene:
~ What to put on a child’s teeth if they have baby tooth decay to substantially lower the risk of decay (ps, it’s not fluoride!)
~ Why flossing may be causing more harm than good and what to do about it
~ How brushing the teeth helps but is secondary to other more important ways to stop tooth decay!
On holistic oral health:
~ Whether oil pulling will help with oral health issues.
~ What 3 pieces must be in place to live a life free of tooth decay (food is only one!)
~ What minerals may be too high and be causing problems in your mouth
~ How to know if you are detoxing too fast
~ What the color of the tongue says about internal health
~ Why what’s going on in the mouth directly impacts whole body health
~ The simple yet powerful technique to determine if a product will help or harm us
On existing dental procedures:
~ What are ALL your options if you have a root canal
~ What to do if you are told you need a root canal
~ What options exist if you have crowns with metal in them
~ What questions to ask a dentist to make sure they are actually able to help
On nontoxic, whole being dentistry:
~ New dental protocols that can help remineralize teeth
~ How to find a dentist that goes for the drill as a last resort!
~ The various methods how we can determine whether a dental filling material is compatible with our unique body chemistry.
~ The role of dental metals in cancer and other diseases (and what to do about it!)
~ Why the sequence we have fillings changed in can have drastic health consequences
If you find that you missed some of these answers, consider upgrading. Click here to see what the HealThy Mouth World Summit upgrade package includes!
Hi – I wasn’t sure where to post this question. I listen to many podcasts/summits – but have never really heard this addressed. Would love to hear your ideas. Thank you, Debbie (I also posted on the homemade toothpaste discussion thread at Everyday Paleo).
Thanks for this fantastic discussion/information. Anyone have any ideas about excessive tarter build up on bottom front teeth? I eat almost no carbs except veg (i.e. no sweets unless with Stevia), follow a pale diet (hi fat, lots of minerals from CLO, seaweed, liver, etc) , yet have this ‘imbalance.’ With heavy build up by 6 month cleaning. I’ve heard Dave Asprey say it is excess dietary toxins or a mineral imbalance. I sure hope I don’t have excess calcium settling out elsewhere (my dietary calcium intake is actually a bit on the lowish side, which is in line with Professor Cordain’s research but is likely OK due to lack of anti-nutrients (and well into my 50s I’m doing very well on the DEXA scans) with my general bone strength.
Any ideas of what to try? I will copy and ask OraWellness directly at their website as well. Thanks in advance!
Aloha Deb,
We find that excess build up on the inside of the front bottom teeth is very, very common. I believe the cause is lack of vitamin K2 in the diet. Given that you are eating a paleo style diet, I would highly encourage you to check the amount of quality animal liver, quality egg yolk and butter (if you eat butter) as these foods are highest in K2.
Research shows that when we have sufficient K2 in the diet, plaque production decreases by up to 95%! This has been my finding when I make sure to have sufficient K2 in my diet. When I do, I ‘grow’ very little if any plaque on my teeth.
We hope this helps!
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I was wondering if seeds (sunflower seeds) are also considered to be acidic?
Looks so interesting! I’m just now learning about holistic denistry. I’ve got a filling leaking mercury and am so leary of just anyone taking it out.
It has been an amazing week listening to the experts. I did not get to listen to all the speakers so purchased the upgrade as I did not want to piece a single gem. Midweek I took three of my grandsons for dental appointments and requested that they not be given fluoride at the end of the appointment. The dentist tried to explain to me the benefits of fluoride and how the stats show that children living in areas without fluoridated water have many more cavities. As I learned this week knowledge is power so I did not buy the party line.
I also feel very blessed to have access to a water treatment that uses food grade hydrogen peroxide. I had commented on this during the week. The SanEcoTec system hooks up to your water source so you not only drink it and brush your teeth with it but you get to shower in it, too. We were just at a workshop on it on Friday and there will be lots of dental applications, too.
I thank you for this wonderful week!!!!
Thank you so much for all the information we have received this week at the Healthy Mouth Summit. We appreciated the expertise of all the presenters and will be following up on their books, web sites, and other resources for a long time to come. Thank you to the folks at Ora Wellness for all their hard work at putting this week together, we really apreciate you folks! 🙂 We learned so much about oral heath this week and about dentistry in general. The hard part will be finding dentists that put these principles into practise here in Canada.
Thank you so much for creating HealThy Mouth for us and making it available to stream for free! Im looking farwrard to owning them. So many questions I’ve had for so long were answered clearly, however, there’s so much info I missed!
I cracked a tooth/amalmom filling right before my 2 month journey through South East Asia of which i just retured from to find this gift of healThy mouth!! Timing!!!! This problem resulted in really bad tooth decay as I was not able to eat my normal traditional diet while traveling. My question; Could you tell me the 2 best foods to prevent tooth decay? Or which expert mentions it! I’m just trying to stop this tooth from getting past the of no return!
Josh
Thanks so much!
Aloha Josh,
I hope you have figured this out by now (I’m just getting to these comments! 🙁 )
If I had to suggest two diet related actions to take to stop decay, they would be:
Eliminate sugar from your diet (or at least 6 days a week and allow yourself to have a treat once a week)
Eat moderate amounts of animal protein at each meal. These two steps will take you farther than any others we know.
Thanks for asking!
Aloha,
Will