How People Have Regrown Teeth:
This post is in answer to Amalhator’s comment on one of my recent posts about how to grow new teeth, entitled Regrow Teeth.
Thankyou for your comment Amalhator.
There are some dental experts who specialize in growing new enamel on teeth. This is done with specially prepared natural formulas of minerals and vitamins which aid the reparation of the natural tooth enamel.
It is recommended that you see a health professional about your teeth if you wish to regrow tooth enamel. A dental expert should help you. This post is intended for information only, and so you might like to discuss these methods with your health professional before giving any of these methods a go, of course, with your dentist’s approval.
Tooth enamel and new hair can be regrown through diet and detoxification methods. Whether you succeed in growing new teeth using the same method as Dr Gerson and Jacqui Davison will depend on how strictly you follow their methods, and how long you follow their diet and detoxification methods.
If you are youngish, then your ability to regrow new tooth enamel will be stronger than if you are old with a weakened vitality. However, it must be stressed that success in growing new teeth naturally does require a huge commitment: following any type of alternative method as recommended by Dr Gerson, Walter Last, Dr Anne Wigmore, Dr Eva Hill is not easy by any means.
Cases of people who have regrown their teeth and their hair can be found, going back 50 years or so, in some of Dr Max Gerson’s cancer patients who overcame the disease.
From written reports on his successes, and the book by Jacqui Davison who cured her own melanoma through following much of the Gerson treatment, we can deduce that these natural methods for treating cancer actually work to regrow tooth enamel and to regrow hair, as well as being effective in curing cancer: Many of those who recovered from cancer reported miraculous changes to the state of their teeth.
The recovery of the teeth occurred because the diet contained optimum amounts of all the necessary vitamins and minerals to cure cancer, and for the maintaining of excellent health. These minerals and vitamins nourished the blood which fed the nerves of the teeth, and so the teeth regrew.
Those teeth which had the nerve removed, or which were ‘capped’, did not regrow, because there was no nerve left to feed the tooth. The nerve of the tooth must be intact for a tooth to regrow.
Hard Work To Grow New Tooth Enamel: These cancer patients had very specific diets which excluded cooked food, dairy, wheat, sugar and flesh foods for very long periods. That means NO dairy foods, NO meat, NO Wheat, NO cooked food, but raw salads with almost every meal, and fresh organic vegetable juices on the hour every hour. After several weeks, two raw egg yolks a day were included in the diet to supply protein, fats and vitamins.
The diet also had specific vitamin and mineral supplements which aided recovery. However, many people have recovered from cancer using similar methods to Dr Gerson’s without the addition of nutritional supplements.
Dr Eva Hill, who worked in New Zealand about the same time as Dr Gerson worked in Americal and Mexico, cured many people of serious disease by raw food alone. Walter Last, and Dr Anne Wigmore are two other doctors who have cured people of life threatening disease by using diet and detoxification methods. These people have all written books on their successes which detail their use of diet, and detoxification.
Oatmeal Porridge: In the main, the only cooked food which was eaten at the beginning of the Gerson therapy was oatmeal porridge, which was eaten with a grated raw apple every morning.
The oatmeal porridge must have had a bearing on the recovery of the health and the hair, as oatmeal is very high in silica, which helps bone, hair and teeth to grow. Silica, and calcium, are both necessary to combat cancer.
Iodine is another essential for treating cancer and for improving the health of the hair teeth and nails: liquid iodine can be used for iodine intake. Just several dabs onto the skin twice a week should be sufficient for most healthy people.
Calves’ Liver Broth for Enzymes and Iron: Walter Last used calves’ liver broth in his cancer treatments: This supplies important nutrients and enzymes to the body, a teaspoon or two at a time, several times a day, without having to eat the meat. See my post on how to make calf liver broth. Eating the meat itself is avoided in treating cancer, as meat putrifies in the bowel, which must be avoided at all costs if you have cancer. The idea is to keep the bowels as clean as they can be in treating cancer, and this must apply also if you are attempting to grow new teeth.
Castor Oil for Detoxification and Healing: The special diet recommended by Dr Gerson was used in combination with intense detoxification methods. The integral parts of the detoxifaction process included the use of castor oil and enemas.
Castor Oil is a very powerful healer, as well as a detoxifying agent. Castor oil has the ability to draw out poisons from the body tissues. It also helps to transfer valuable healing vitamins and minerals over all parts of the body. I believe that castor oil was an integral part of the recovery of these cancer patients, including the regrowth of hair and newly grown tooth enamel.
Enemas are important in the Gerson therapy, and in Walter Last’s treatments. However, you really need the advice of a professional in using these along with any alternative cancer therapy.
One Case of Cured Gum Disease: Years ago, I had one amazing success of curing a person with a gum disease which threatened the life of my friend’s teeth. She had been tole by a dentist that each tooth must be removed, scraped, treated, and then reinserted back into her gums. Each tooth was to be treated individually, one at a time, and these operations were going to take place over a period of about six months at a cost of around $5,000 per tooth, which, twelve years ago or so, was a large amount of money.
Basically, she could not afford to keep her teeth, and she came to me to see if I could help her.
Tooth Cavity Repaired Through Diet: Now I had seen tooth enamel regrow while my family and myself were on a totally dairy free, and wheat-free, and sugar-free diet. It was not a total raw foods diet, as we ate cooked vegetables and also had meat, chicken, fish, and eggs, and rice, and other gluten free grains – but for years we did not touch dairy, wheat, or foods sweetened with white sugar.
One day, I noticed that my son, who was about 10 years old, had developed a cavity in one of his lovely front white teeth. I did not take him immediately to see the dentist, because the cavity was quite small – I resisted getting such a small cavity drilled out, as that would make the cavity even bigger, and I had a mouth full of teeth which were mainly fillings because of this kind of dentistry.
We kept on with the diet which was necessary because my son had chronic allergy to wheat, milk and sugar at that stage. After around six months, when rechecking the mouth, I found that the cavity had simply disappeared. The hole had completely repaired itself without us having to see a dentist.
This was entirely coincidental, as I had been treating eczema with diet, not holes in teeth.
I had had earlier success myself with this kind of diet in curing a breast lump. Anyway – I published a couple of little books on the subject, and so my friend came to see me about the gum disease and the costly treatment which her dentist proposed for her.
Now not many people are really that keen to do the alternative cancer treatment seriously. Many people, even those with cancer, will do a little of it, but not the works, which includes enemas and castor oil.
But my friend, to my surprise, did everything to the letter. Three months later, the gum disease was totally cured and she looked about twenty years younger, full of vitality.
She went back to see the dentist to show him how healthy her teeth and gums were, and to say that she would not need this operation after all. The dentist told her that he must have been wrong in his diagnosis. he said he had made a mistake, because she couldn’t have had this gum disease after all, if she had ‘cured’ herself naturally, as she said she had. He said the disease was incurable.
But before she ‘cured’ herself, he was more than happy to go along with his undisputed diagnosis, remove all her teeth, and charge her around $50,000 to $100,000 for what he said was a necessary and urgent operation.
Very interesting theme thanks for the info but i would like to know about more about this diet because i have a lot of dental problems not extreme but i some of my teeth have enamel erosion. Please help me! I would apreciate it for ever if you can send my more info to my mail Alan_k13@hotmail.com
Hi Alan. Thanks for your comment regarding regrowing tooth enamel. Do see a professional for advice on your teeth. However, I will put up a new post for you tomorrow, for information purposes only. It takes a long time for the teeth to repair themselves, but it can be done. The people who have regrown tooth enamel, and subsequently written about the phenomenon, have actually been treating themselves for degenerative disease, and they have therefore taken the diet very seriously. They have followed a specified diet almost to the letter for about two years: Improvement in the teeth was noted after about a year.
However, I will give you the diet which myself and my family were on which helped my son to repair tooth enamel on a front tooth. We followed a diet which was very Walter Last inspired, with some additional tips from the Max Gerson diet. This is pretty much the same diet as the one I gave to my friend for a gum disease: She cured her gum disease in three months, but it takes about nine months to a year of following a specific diet for the teeth to begin to repair themselves.
I will work on this post for you tonight. Cheers, Merrilyn
I never personally met people who actually regrew enamel. I read that it is possible to only remineralize and demineralize but not possible to replace lost structure. There should be more studies done on this. I believe it’s possible to regrow teeth but the probability is very low and if it does, it will take a long time and you would be pretty old.
If everyone can regrow teeth within a reasonable time, they can easily avoid metals and other toxic or allergenic dental materials. I read Dr. Hal Huggin’s book It’s All in Your Head and many people had tremendous healing after amalgam removal.
Last week, my mercury fillings were removed. Is it possible that mercury causes teeth grinding. Mercury can travel through dentin and would that be possible to cause irritation of surrounding tissues? It also depletes magnesium. Some sites claim that mercury destroys intestinal flora, allowing parasites and yeasts to inhabitate. Parasites may cause teeth grinding.
There were cultures according to Weston A price that rarely develop cavities and dental problems even without oral hygiene. They often (including Inuits) emphasized organic organs, meat, raw milk, and sea food which are high in fat soluble vitamins. They carefully prepared grains to degrade the phytic acid content.
Thankyou for your comments amalhator. Good information here. I, too, have read about tooth enamel being regrown, but I have also observed the effects on tooth enamel when specific foods were eaten and others left out.
Like methods to heal cancer, I am sure that there are several different methods that will work. It is just a matter of perseverance, and of sustaining the chosen diet over a long period, which is important. I am putting up a post today for another reader who wants to know what we did. Regards Merrilyn.
Thanks Merrilyn. So this method also works for gum diseases like peridonditis? You think is also posible to heal gums and regrow them?
Yes – In a way, gum disease is easier to treat than regrowing tooth enamel, because the gums heal quite quickly when the right things are done. Whereas it takes some time for tooth enamel to grow – You need to allow about a year, really, on a very high maintenance diet. There are a few dentists about who treat teeth cavities with nutrients, rather than drilling the teeth and filling them. it might be worth investigation this option. However, at the same time, the high maintenance diet which I suggest can only do good, I believe, both for your general health and for the health of your teeth. Cheers, Merrilyn.
Hi Merrilyn,
Please send me more info on the diet, links, etc. I have been losing tooth enamel now for a few years and am beginning to panic. I am not interested in veneers or gimmicky products. I do have a thyroid issue and am on Synthroid…am wondering if that’s what is causing this. My dentist hasn’t been very helpful (just patches the spots where the enamel has disappeared completely w/composite that chips out or stains), and I’m not sure what my next step should be. I’m 41. Thanks!! R
Hi R.,
Thankyou for your question. I really have no personal experience with thyroid issues and using this diet which has helped people to recover their teeth. Dr Max Gerson claimed that it didn’t matter what disease you had, you could recover if you followed his methods without fail. However, if you are taking medication of any kind, then you really need to discuss the matter with your doctor. I would then get a second opinion from an alternative therapist who has experience in helping people with degenerative disease such as cancer – It is important to have someone who knows your condition and the medications you are on, and also to talk to someone with experience in the field of alternative medicine so that an assessment can be made to suit your needs.
If you were going to treat the programme as seriously as if you had cancer, then you might succeed in regrowing your teeth, but given your health issues, one needs professional guidance to assess your needs and monitor your progress as you go.
Kind Regards, Merrilyn.
Hi
I had about 70 – 80 % of the enamel removed from my front upper teeths by a destist in a venner procedure even after i told him that i didnt want that to happen . Now i want to regrow enamel , i have seen that cientists are close to regrown enamel , but i want to know about a diet that can help me regrow the enamel , i use venners because my real teeth look awful , anybody now about a diet to regrown enamel or anything that is being developed for this ?
by the way i take alot of calcium , vitamin d and silica suplements , i hope that is helping .
contact me luis.rapozo@hotmail.com
Hi silvio, The best tips for home treatment are in my article ‘Diet To Help regrow Tooth Enamel’. However, if you have the money, it might be good to seek out a professional naturopathic dentist near you. Excluding wheat, sugar and dairy products are a good idea, and this procedure has helped many people. Eat plenty of protein – nuts, sesame, sunflower seeds, almonds, fish, and free range meats if they suit. Eat also large salads with each meal. Finish each meal with raw carrot or celery is very helpful. Supplementing those vitamins you have is also beneficial – you could also use calcium ascorbate powder each day. 1000 mg dose can be taken, once or twice a day. Avoid alcohol and caffeine.
Take vegetable juices in between meals as often as you can. Castor oil once or twice a week is also therapeutic for the healing of tooth enamel. Take 2 tablespoons in the morning, followed by a cup of black brewed coffee, or a cup of chamomile or peppermint tea.
Perseverance furthers. It takes a long time to restore the teeth, but it can be done with a lot of effort.
All the best. Regards,
merrilyn
Hi merrilyn
I have seeing the article about the diet to regrow tooth enamel and will start this tomorrow
do you think that its possible to completely restore enamel in teeths that had 70 % of the enamel damaged ?
i use venners on the damaged teeths is that a problem to regrown the enamel ?
Do you use somekind of instant messager system like MSN or Skype ?
Thank you for your help . Silvio Luis
my teeth are my only let down in regards to aging- i would consider myself perfect otherwise. however my molors are half amalgam now and i got appointments to refill (some are chipping) and one of them has completely shattered- imagine a broken light bulb- all pulp and dentin gone, a black stubb that is dead, but solid in the gums. i fear to remove it due to bone re-absorbtion and i guess most of my filled teeth may be dead too. is there any chance in hell i might grow new teath if i get rid of my damaged ones? if i remove amalgam now- i will essensially have open cup shaped teath with little to no pulp- i see no chance to heal such damage so its sad the human species might neglect to cater for such a scinario- i read massaging gums might stimulate roots but if no root preasent, would it at least halt the bone from receeding?
I had my teeth grind to be used as support for fixed partial removable denture. Can i rgrow my the enamel again and how?
just one more question ? How tooth enamel can regrown if they say that enamel is dead (amenoblast cells ) ?
Hello again. Tooth enamel is not dead. It is only made dead if the nerve centre is taken out, or in other words, if you have ‘capped’ teeth which are filled all the way to the gum with filling. Tooth enamel continues to grow itself through out life. That is why, if you have a good diet, or put yourself on an intensive therapeutic diet, you can regrow tooth enamel. Best to find a naturopathic dentist to help you with things.
Teeth will not grow,, unfortunately, if you have had your teeth extracted, or if the nerve has been interfered with. It is the nerve which feeds the tooth nutrients. Your saliva, too, helps to feed nutrients to the teeth. An acidic diet is bad for the teeth, but an alkaline one helps enormously in keeping the saliva nice and clean. Note- It is VERY hard work to grow new tooth enamel, but if conditions are right, then it can be done, as Jacqui Davison has proved. She has written an account of how her teeth regrew whilst she was on a special diet to cure her cancer. Her teeth all grew back again – the ones where the nerve was left.
I would like to know the name of the books you’ve used that have helped you and your family. I recently notice that my teeth have lost its smooth porcelain texture and am terrified about damaging my teeth any further. I brush twice a day and floss, but i have recently cahnged my mouth rinse and notice that two days later after eating a fruit salad with a bit of lemon my teeth had a chalky texture to them. Thats when i decided to look for a natural remedy and saw your helpful website. Thanks
Hello reader – Thankyou for your comment and question regarding books. The very best book to read is the book by Jacqui Davison – will get the details for you. She recovered from melanoma after a year or more on the castor oil regime as recommended by dr Max Gerson -
No wonder,i couldnt find the book,its Jaquie Davison not Jacqui Davison,and the book is called Cancer Winner.
Hello,
I am from holland btw and I am also interested in this diet to be honest. But I doubt about it if it will works. Because i did have a root canal therapy for one teeth. I dont know what he has done but I think he removed a nerve. The tooth didnt change in colour. He said that the tooth is ‘dead’. I also think even after the therapy my tooth still has a feeling. The teeth has thin enamel but this was before I needed a root canal therapy and has not changed since then. Is there any change my teeth that did have a rooth canal therapy will benefit from this diet and that the nerve maybe will regrow? And after that my teeth enamel ofcourse will regrow.
I hope somebody responds.
Thx for answering.
Hi Jan – Thanks for your Question. You are right – it IS difficult to actually regrow enamel. People who have done it have sustained very strict and nutritious, and alkaline diets, for around a year or more. But eating a good diet with lots of alkaline foods does help the teeth. There is no doubt about it – diet affects the teeth. So, even if you do not have the wonderful benefit of restoring all those teeth which have their own nerves intact, you will be preventing further damage, and nourishing the teeth by following a diet rich in raw foods, protein, and avoiding wheat, sugar, much of the time.
Where the nerve is removed, you cannot grow new tooth enamel, however, a good alkaline diet, where you make an effort to eat that celery or raw carrot after each meal, will help to stop this tooth from decaying. It really is worth making the effort anyway, whether or not you manage to restore all the tooth enamel.
Hope this helps. Kind Regards, merrilyn.
How did Jaqui Davison lose her teeth in the first place?
Hi Merrilyn,did you regrow your teeth using diet,did you experience it for yourself?
Merrilyn Replies: PLEASE READ THE COMMENT FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE, 21 fEBRUARY 2011, TO MAHESH KUMAR.
You have to read my posts about this. I have explained fully there. Read ‘toxic dentures’ as well.
Jacqui Davison did NOT lose here teeth in the first place.
Hello reader – This is not the book which I have read. When I find the book, I will let you know the publishing details.
Merrilyn,you said that Jacqui grew a new set of teeth,thats i asked when did she lose the teeth.
Also,this type of healing on tooth enamel maybe only works on women,because of the genetics,who knows.
Merrilyn Replies: Jacqui grew new tooth enamel on the teeth which still had the original root. Where she had had root canal fillings done, the enamel did not regrow. Where teeth had been removed, the tooth did not regrow. Where I have said she ‘grew a new set of teeth’, this means that the holes in her teeth healed up.
Her story is an example of how diet DOES affect the growth of tooth enamel. However, Jacqui was not on a diet to fix her teeth. She had been told that she would die of cancer within a few weeks. So she decided to give the alternative treatment a try. It worked, and the bonus for her was new hair growth, and new tooth growth. But for most people whose life is not threatened with cancer death, they would not be persevering as hard as what she was.
Hope this helps. Regards, Merrilyn
Hi Filipe – I replied beneath your comment – did you see it? Hope that answers your question. Had a run of comments which weren’t serious, so I apologise if I seemed rather off-hand. Kind Regards Merrilyn
Hi Merrilyn,thanks for clearing that up.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Merrilyn,
I have written to you before but I had no answer. This is very important to me. My daughter (11 years) broke a part of her two upper teeth and the dentist used composite bonding. They stain quickly and look unnatural. I have read about the diet that helps with the regrowth of teeth enamel. I started this with my daughter about 3 weeks ago, but I still have questions. My daughter drinks green juice and apple/carrot juice every day app. 3 cups. But she actually doesn’t eat the vegetables. So is it important to chew on them, or merely drinking them would do the job? Of course I’ll make her more juice once there is time after school is over. I also stopped all wheat, sugar and dairy products. She only eats nuts, potatoes,rice(not brown, white) as we don’t have it in Egypt. I wanted to ask why is dairy harmful? I also give her a grinded organic eggshell everyday. And switched to tooth soap instead of regular toothpaste. She also takes a vitamin 3D supplement. Please tell me if there is anything else I could do? And if this would suffice to make a difference? Would the composite hinder the enamel regrowth or would it push it off? I am going to get a cod liver and butter oil supplement too. Is there any other food that she could eat without being harmful? Thank you in advance. Please send me your advice. If you need my email :
soheir.sabbah@live.co.uk
Hi Sue, Thankyou for your letter and your questions. I must stress though, that I am not a dental health practitioner – I am simply the messenger. Apart from the one experience in my household, and that of an adult who restored the health of her teeth and gums on this diet, all my stories come from books on alternative cancer therapies. Many people who have treated life threatening diseases such as cancer have ended up with the bonus of having good teeth again, when they least expected it. I would advise you to read the book of Jaqui Davison and also Edie May, to get some more insights into how the diet works. Of course, with a child, you would not use the same stringent measures which these adults used to get rid of their cancers.
My son did recover tooth enamel after 9 months of being on a wheat free, dairy free and sugar free diet which included lots of good quality protein. Plenty of raw celery and carrots and nuts and boiled eggs in the school lunch box to replace that bread. Apples and bananas too. We also ate quite a bit of chicken and fish, as well as almonds, sunflower seeds and nuts.
Some alternative cancer therapies use milk. Milk is used a lot in Ayurvedic medicine, especially in the form of yoghurt. Unless you have an allergy to milk, or your milk is pasteurized, homogenized, or somewhat polluted with chemicals as ours was in New Zealand in the 1970,s and 1980,s, then milk should be OK for you to use. I think many people were made allergic to dairy milk in NZ because of the many herbicides and pesticides which were used in agriculture. Milk is best if it comes straight from the cow, unheated, unpasteurized or homogenized. Goat’s milk is best as it is very much like human milk. I remember now, that I supplemented breast milk with organic goat’s milk for my youngest child, so my other children would have occasionally also have had a little goat’s milk. We used mostly soy milk, except for the baby food.
About the discolouration in your daughter’s front teeth – I cannot guarantee that you will have the same success as we did with my eldest son: He had not had any dentistry done on the small hole in the front tooth, and so, since it was a small hole, it was relatively easy to mend through diet. (Although I had no idea at the time that his tooth would mend. We were simply avoiding all foods which gave him eczema, and eating plenty of the other healthy foods which didn’t give him eczema.)
It is possible that the nerve fibre has been impaired through the filling. Jaqui Davison and Edie May talk about the old fillings falling out and new enamel growing – but they persevered with a radical diet, with cleansing foods and juices taken at regular intervals during the day. They also used enemas.
We found success with our simple diet, but my son did not have cancer, did not have any fillings in the new teeth, and was young, with plenty of vital energy to help him along the way to recovery.
About the egg shells for calcium: I think it is a good idea to put those ground eggshells into apple cider vinegar for a day or so. Keep the mixture in the fridge, otherwise it will go off in the heat. Apple cider vinegare helps the calcium, silica, and other minerals to break down so that they can be absorbed more easily as they travel through the intestines. Much of the ground eggshell will go through the body unabsorbed unless you put fruit juice or apple cider vinegar with them. The same goes for calcium supplements – I think much of the tablet is wasted because it is not absorbed unless something acidic such as fruit, or fruit juice, or apple cider vinegar is used at the same time. Edgar Cayce recommended gelatine granules for helping the body to maximise its use of minerals and viitamins. Gelatine is very nutritious. It is good for the hair and nails and eyes. I should think it would also be helpful for keeping healthy teeth. A little could be used every day – Say half a teaspoon twice a day for a child. Or make up a fruit jelly with real gelatine.
I think it might be good for your daughter to see a professional naturopathic dentist. They are in the minority, but they are around. This action would ensure that you were not leaving out something very important.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards, Merrilyn.
Thanks Merrilyn for the tips. It really helps knowing such information. I know that it may be impossible to regrow my daughter’s teeth, yet I’ll just give it a try…….maybe. This diet won’t do any harm, I think,even if it does not do any good. I just have one question about the ground eggshells: I tried putting it in an apple/carrot juice but it did not dissolve. How can I make it dissolve in the juice? Thanks.
Hi Sue/Soheir, Thanks for your reply. The eggshells will be softened by putting them in fruit juice or apple cider vinegar (cider vinegar is best). It doesn’t matter that they are not fully dissolved. Soaking the crushed shell overnight in vinegar will start the breakdown process – This helps assimilation because the stomach acids may not be strong enough to break them down on their own.
Also – some mineral cell salts have proved to be helpful for some people in growing strong teeth. Children, especially, benefit from the cell salts whilst their bones and teeth are still growing. Ferrum Phos, and Calcarea Phos. are two cell-salt remedies which are recommended for children, to harden the teeth. These two are also good to take in pregnancy, as they help form strong bones and teeth in the baby, and help protect the mother from deficiencies in calcium. I think the Silica cell-salt is another good one for teeth, bones, hair and nails. You could alternate the tablets each day: Give Silica one day, Ferrum Phos the next, Calcarea Phos the next. Keep this up for two weeks, then stop for two more weeks. Then repeat the procedure, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. You could do this over six months to a year. I think that this would be helpful, as the cell salts help the body to absorb those important minerals out of the food and drink which is taken.
Keep in touch and let me know how you go. Stop the cell salts if you feel that they are doing no good, or that there is any untoward reaction. I have never heard of anybody getting a reaction, but these things are always possible.
Best Wishes and Regards, Merrilyn
Very interesting post!! Thank you! Just to add, I have been reading a lot about phytic acid which is present in a lot of healthy foods, but it basically binds to the minerals in your body and leaches them. So even if you are eating nuts, and whole grains which are high in phytic acid, it will still lead to cavities. I am on a serious mission to heal my teeth, they are in a shocking state, so thank you for this post.
Hi Megan – Neat to get your letter. But we found nuts and seeds to be good. We used lots of raw carrot, and celery too. I made a point of using these to finish off our meals, even if we had had a gluten-free desert….Raw carrot and raw celery are great cleaners of the teeth, and they are also very alkaline, so they help to restore the alkalinity of the mouth. It worked with my young son, whose new front tooth healed up within 9 months of this diet. Of course, these measures may not work with everybody. I had already had my own teeth removed when I discovered that diet really does have an effect on tooth enamel….Alas. … Never mind.
Regards, Merrilyn
Thanks for the reply Merrilyn, its always good to go with what works for you! I am pleased to hear that your cavity healed, its great when we can prove conventional medicine wrong! Thanks for the blog, keep posting please, I really enjoy reading. To healthy bodies, and healthy teeth
Have a great day Megs.
Greetings again Megan – and thanks – Yes – lots of different methods to heal the body – great for us to be sharing these ideas to let people know that there ARE alternatives. It was my eldest son who benefited from our alternative methods – Unfortunately, I had already had my teeth pulled out at the age of 26 going on 27. What was I thinking? Regards, Merrilyn.
Hello, I am a 20 year old guy who has REALLY bad teeth. I know this diets purpose was to help Jacqui through her cancer, and that the teeth and hair were a bonus side effect. However, I am interested in doing it. Does it REALLY work? I have been eating Celery and Carrots like no bodies business. Please e-mail me back.
petty773@yahoo.com
Hey Merrilyn,
Cant you regrow your teeth back using this diet?
Great Blog!
Hi Sam – Maybe. Who knows? These stories I relate are from people who thought that they were going to die. Jacqui had been given up by the medical profession, and as good as pronounced dead, when she went on a diet which pretty much followed the Gerson regime for cancer. This regime was incredibly rigorous – she took enemas throughout the day -wheat grass juice and other vegetable juices throughout the day – castor oil every second day, and did anything and everything she could to stay alive. Not many people would have the dedication to the programme which she did. Also, I am not suggesting that people try to follow her example just to get their teeth regrown. The message is that DIET TRULY DOES AFFECT TOOTH GROWTH. However, that does not mean you should stop seeing your dentist.
Go to see your dentist for advice.
Regards, Merrilyn
Hi John – Best thing is to get some professional advice, of course. But it might be helpful to read the posts, and then the comments and questions from Sam, a few comments down the page, with my answers. The answer to the question about whether ‘it works’ is the same – I really cannot say, as there are so many variables. The fact is that diet really does affect the growth of, and the quality of, the teeth. So – you may be able to improve the condition of the enamel if you are vigilant, and rigorously follow somebody’s plan for healing – but don’t stop seeing your dentist.
Regards, Merrilyn
Dear Merrilyn Can I regrow my tooth enamel and original size of my teeth after I had slenderizing for a orthodontic procedure? I am in my fifties and have good health habits. I want my original beautiful smile back with the big teeth and wide smile I used to have. Can I please talk to you about this?
Dear Louise, It can be done, but it is a very difficult thing to do. Jacqui Davison managed to do it, but she followed a healing programme for a year or more, only because she had terminal cancer: Following the Gerson therapy was her last shot at life, as the doctors had given her up for dead. Jacqui was very fortunate, because she had her daughter to help her get all those enemas done, and the fresh juices made, the groceries bought, and to encourage her to keep at it.
It is very difficult to follow such diets to the letter, which you would have to do, I think, to regrow the tooth enamel. In my experience, I have been able to sustain such diets only during the periods of crisis in my life, when I was severely sick.
It takes an enormous amount of perseverance to follow a regime such as Gerson’s: Most people would not have the determination or the perseverance to do it unless they had an illness which they feared might end their life.
The lesson is that diet really does affect the teeth. you may not be able to sustain a health regime such as the one Jacqui used, but I believe that the teeth can be improved greatly by improving one’s diet and removing all the harmful things.
Regards, Merrrilyn
So – yes, it can be done, but for most people, recovering the teeth as Jacqui did, would be a difficult thing to achieve.
Hello there,I really appreciate your advice for all those who wish to regrow their enamel back.However,
what about regrowing size – By making small teeth grow bigger n thereby filling gaps? Your previous posts say that if the nerve of root is intact then only,
it can work out.so if teeth are sensitive due to some treatment,does it mean that the nerve is still alive?
I am 23 yrs old female from India.
I have ceramic veneers on my upper front
four teeth ;basically my dentist reduced the size of my teeth to accomodate the veneers.I remember:the colour of the central front two teeth has been affected due to his procedure.However the other smaller
two (first and last of the four) still have the same natural colour.But the sizes of all four front teeth have reduced! So can the enamel and size especially increase;so that the gaps( made by him) are filled naturally.Also will the veneers stuck on these four teeth interfere with the regrowth…if at all it starts growing;because if I remove these veneers then the gaps and small sizes will be seen.So please give me some hope,my orthodontist says that braces cannot be used as this procedure is not reversible.
Kindly help,I dont want to replace these veneers again.Regrowing my natural teeth size n also the natural colour is what I want.Thanks for reading such a long query;you seem to be the only hope.
Hello there, It sounds to me as if the nerves may have been affected: Only teeth which have the nerve intact are capable of restoring themselves. So regrowing those teeth sounds nigh impossible. But nevertheless, a good alkaline diet which is high in nutrients, fibre, and low in sugar and clogging foods will benefit your teeth and help to stop decay. Ask your orthodontist for advice.
Thankyou for your question.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Ten years ago I had a root canal and gold cap on a back tooth. Two weeks later the gold cap came off. I was in a foreign country for a year and didn’t want to risk another bad dentist, so I left the stubb open and without a cap. There wasn’t much of the tooth left and there was a little filled hole where the dentist had supposedly drilled out the blood vessels and nerve. Within two years the tooth was fully grown. Ten years later it is doing fine. I am looking for a dentist who is interested in helping people regrow their teeth. BTW, dentists will tell you that even if you have the root, teeth will not grow back, yet in the same breath they will tell you that if you have a top tooth out, the bottom tooth will keep growing. Clearly teeth regrow and we should be harnessing this regrowth capacity when fixing people’s teeth. My fb account is zak rymill https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002635973597/
At last – Thankyou Zak – someone who has REGROWN their tooth enamel through natural means. Your comments are really valued here -Thank you for sharing your story with us. This will encourage other people to do the same.
Regards Merrilyn.
thank for such a website. ?t is good to know the existence of people trying to fight with the cancer and trying to regrow their tooth enamel. ? have broken my tooth four days ago and 1/4 of my tooth is broken now. ? went to a dentist and he told me ? have tooth decay and the only way to cure is a root canal. ? searched the web and it look ?t is almost impossible to regrow my enamel. People who say they restored their enamel here is ridicolous. I hope ? had such a chance but ? dont understand why there isnt a scientific research proving it is possible to do it.I would appraciate any information about any research proving it is possible.
It is not ridiculous. It has been experienced by Jacqui Davison who wrote a book on how her teeth repaired themselves whilst she was following a diet to cure her of cancer which was supposed to kill her within 3 weeks. She recovered from invasive melanoma and lived to tell the tale. That, you might say, is also ridiculous. But these things HAVE been done, and books written about these miracle recoveries. You have to ask yourself WHY ISN’T THIS INFORMATION ABOUT SUCCESSFUL NATURAL TREATMENTS PROMOTED TO THE PUBLIC ? Why is it that the causes of cancer are hidden, when it is obvious that chemicals in our environment are the main cause of ill health? The same goes for dental decay – it is not really a mystery as to why people’s teeth are generally so bad, needing continual expensivew visits to the dentist. I will leave you to think about these questions.
Regarrds, and thanks for your comment.
Merrilyn.
This woman is so full of misinformation it’s pathetic. Tooth enamel is created by amneoblasts which die off once the tooth erupts and tooth enamel cannot regenerate itself. Her claim that “unless the pulp is removed” has to do with the nerve of the tooth. Your tooth enamel cannot regrow anymore than a crack in a sidewalk will repair itself. Do I wish it were true – yes. Is it true, no. Can porous enamel repair itself – yes. We are talking slightly porous because it contains the frame work for calcium/phosphorous to build onto the network.
Whatever your theories are – people HAVE regrown tooth enamel using specific diets -
mainly while they were treating themselves for cancer using alternative means. There are naturopathic dentists who can treat holes in teeth by using minerals to heal the teeth – The idea is that holes in teeth can be repaired by supplying the right minerals, and by avoiding certain foods so that an alkaline effect is achieved in the body and the saliva.
I suggest you read Dr Max Gerson’s books on his cancer treatment cases – and also the book by Jacqui Davison. This might enlighten you. I am not making it up.
And your analogy to a crack in the side walk is perfectly ridiculous – Unlike a tooth, a side walk is not a living thing which is connected to nerve structures, blood supplies, etc etc, and its survival is not dependent upon the food it eats….. so of course a side walk cannot be expected to repair its own cracks.