Tooth is growing back

[Pierre]

The point of my upper right canine was broken off I don't know when, leaving a jagged tip. Several days ago I felt the tip and it was sensitive. I thought, "Either it's a new cavity - which is unlikely, as my lower right molar isn't complaining - or it's going to grow back." (Dentin contains tubules which connect to the pulp. If the tooth is going to regrow, the tubules have to widen so that odontoblasts [?] can get to where it's growing. When they widen, they are more sensitive. At least that's what I figured.)

I felt it today and the shelf (edge of enamel) is still there, but the dentin is smooth. How can I document this? My camera is a Fuji Finepix, and I don't know how to take a picture of a tooth with it. (I have taken a picture of my toe, which was about life size on the screen, but that wouldn't be large enough for a tooth.) And the jagged side was the lingual side of the tip, which wouldn't show on a picture without a weird angle. And if I went to my dentist, he'd think I was crazy, ask me why I quit the fluoride rinse (dulse is much better for my body), and want to clean my teeth - and I don't have the money to spend on a dentist visit, as well as get the VitaMix.

Maybe in a few months my teeth will figure out how to drop fillings and regrow :)

Also when I was a kid, I decided I could not eat spare ribs because gnawing on the bones wore down my teeth. I have been gnawing olive pits the same way, and my teeth have not been worn down by it. I haven't checked how hard bones are compared to olive pits.

[sunshinesioux]

Hi! Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that going raw will possibly regrow chips in teeth or actual whole teeth? Woah!! If that is true...raw holds more magic powers than I thought! This may help me do 100%!!

[LightLover]

Pierre, do you, in any form/way, eat a lot of sprouts?

LL


(by the way: do you sometimes blend your big salad of 640 gramms?)

[GreenPrince]

Pierre,
Please document this if possible.

A Fuji Finepix? Put a small mirror between your tongue
and tooth and use the macro.
You don't need to fill the whole picture with the tooth.

[Nenyath]

What a revolution if it is really so! Maybe people would accept raw more easily if this could be documented! I really hope you are right in your suspisions here Pierre! Go raw, truly, go raw!

Fly forever free,
Nenyath

[Draginvry]

Maybe people would accept raw more easily if this could be documented!

Unlikely. Teeth take such a long time to grow that nobody would want to do an actual scientific study. The most you would have would be a case study or two.

But case studies don't really mean anything in the world of science.

[rawfigure]

I would like to see a picture too.

Is it possible the chip simply smoothed out from munching on food over time ? or are you saying the tooth missing is now there ?

[Revvell]

Unlikely. Teeth take such a long time to grow that nobody would want to do an actual scientific study. The most you would have would be a case study or two.

But case studies don't really mean anything in the world of science.


The China Study took 20 years. Teeth have been known to grow in less. There are quite a few people who have teeth issues who'd like to see if this really works ~ myself included.

Revvell

[Revvell]

Pierre,

Thanks for sharing that. I've also got a broken tooth where the filling fell out ~ with an abscess which was mostly gone and came back since the tooth broke. Playing with healing that and seeing if the tooth will regrow.

Anything in particular you feel you're doing? Dulse? often?

Oh, the gnawing of the pits ~ the teeth need exercise and pressure to keep the bones strong. That's one thing Victoria B. realized (as I did before reading her book) that people don't get when they drink a lot of smoothies.

Thanks!

Revvell

[exurb]

does you camera have a macro feature?

how bout getting a nearby dental school to observe and document?

[Pierre]

The tooth has been chipped for years. It's been rough for years. It's now smooth, so it's definitely growing.

I don't blend my salad; I don't have a blender. I'm going to order it this month. I usually eat dulse five times a week.

My left upper bicuspid may be thinking of casting its filling. Many years ago I had a toothache there, and attempting to stop the infection, I dripped peroxide on it. When I finally got to the dentist, he found a cavity reaching almost to the pulp, could not believe it was not abscessed without taking two more x-rays, and put a huge hunk of metal in it. I've been feeling some tenderness there. I'm not saying it's going to, or has started, just that it might. But if it does, it'll be easier to document, as the dentist has x-rays of that tooth.

Those of you who have cast fillings, do teeth more readily cast metal or composite fillings?

[Revvell]

Those of you who have cast fillings, do teeth more readily cast metal or composite fillings?

Mine have had metal for YEARS. Tossed the composite after only a few.

Revvell

[sungoddess]

That would actually pose a huge problem for me, as all of my teeth are capped to be suportive of the places where there are bridges... ahhh

[LeanAndHungry]

The point of my upper right canine was broken off I don't know when, leaving a jagged tip. Several days ago I felt the tip and it was sensitive. I thought, "Either it's a new cavity - which is unlikely, as my lower right molar isn't complaining - or it's going to grow back." (Dentin contains tubules which connect to the pulp. If the tooth is going to regrow, the tubules have to widen so that odontoblasts [?] can get to where it's growing. When they widen, they are more sensitive. At least that's what I figured.)

I felt it today and the shelf (edge of enamel) is still there, but the dentin is smooth. How can I document this? My camera is a Fuji Finepix, and I don't know how to take a picture of a tooth with it. (I have taken a picture of my toe, which was about life size on the screen, but that wouldn't be large enough for a tooth.) And the jagged side was the lingual side of the tip, which wouldn't show on a picture without a weird angle. And if I went to my dentist, he'd think I was crazy, ask me why I quit the fluoride rinse (dulse is much better for my body), and want to clean my teeth - and I don't have the money to spend on a dentist visit, as well as get the VitaMix.

Maybe in a few months my teeth will figure out how to drop fillings and regrow :)

Also when I was a kid, I decided I could not eat spare ribs because gnawing on the bones wore down my teeth. I have been gnawing olive pits the same way, and my teeth have not been worn down by it. I haven't checked how hard bones are compared to olive pits.

For those of us who are overly concerned about our dental health, or those of us who are in drastic need of this type of regeneration, can you give a good description of what you eat and how you take care of your teeth?

[Pierre]

Generally M-F I eat like this:
Breakfast is fresh fruit (peaches, oranges, occasionally apples, pears, or bananas) or frozen fruit (maracuyá, lulo, açaÃ*, guava, papaya).
Lunch is a salad of tomato, avocado, leek, hot pepper, celery, carrot, lettuce, dulse, oregano, cilantro, olives, or whatever such foods I have on hand. It takes me about three hours to eat. I also bring some fruit to work.
Dinner is more fruit, and I don't make a set meal of it.
Right now I have several avocados that ripened at once, so I'm eating guacamole (two avos, two Roma tomatoes, a leek leaf, and half a chili pepper) with carrots.
By Saturday I've usually run out of something, and I often eat a salad at the church or someone's house. If not, I eat some peanuts I bring with me. Last time I also had some pineapple (including the core). The salad usually doesn't have avocado, which I miss.
Sunday is my big food shopping day. After shopping I eat some fruit (fresh or frozen) while waiting for the bus.
I don't brush very often; when I do, I usually use a mixture of 3 parts tea tree, 2 parts peppermint, and 1 part clove EOs. Other things I do to my teeth, when I need to, are:
Hold a mouthful of peroxide for a few minutes and spit it out.
Squirt them. I think the squirter motor has gotten weak, though.
Put a garlic clove next to the root of an aching tooth.
Chew an acmella bud.
I haven't eaten any rice in several months, and bread only once or twice. I probably will think up some way to prepare rice when I get the Vita-Mix.

[misslinda]

Chew an acmella bud.


this is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!! :D what is a acmella bud btw?

[Pierre]

An asteraceous plant containing a chemical called spilanthol which kills germs and numbs the mouth.

The camera does have a macro feature, but I was unable to get anything legible out of it. I can't see what I'm doing, since I have to point the lens at my mouth, and the screen is on the other side. If AJ, LunaLin, or anyone else local could come over and help me, I'd appreciate it. If you have a magnifying glass, bring it too; I have one at work, but it's a Fresnel, and scratched. I don't want to be left out of the loupe ;)

[spicyfull]

Thanks for Sharing.........Look forward to the latest updates.............

[abundancia2007]

Hi! Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that going raw will possibly regrow chips in teeth or actual whole teeth? Woah!! If that is true...raw holds more magic powers than I thought! This may help me do 100%!!

Yes, it will. There are enough stories about it I have found in books and on the web that give me hope of healing my own cavity through raw food, including biogenic raw food. That's reason enough for me to be raw, even if I had no other health issues. My tooth decay stopped for awhile when I was all raw, but when I went back to eating processed and cooked food, I now have a chip that came off of a back tooth, and getting sensitive teeth once in awhile. It's going to cost me big time if this progresses, and being as that raw food helped all aspects of my health and stopped my tooth decay before, it is highly worth it to be raw.

An Ayurveda practice called kaya kalpa can regenerate teeth.
The reason why I am mostly raw is because it helped me to get well from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I am in awe that I have found this forum today because I am a solitary practitioner and have no one to really share this with. I bug all my nonraw friends and associates by yacking about it.
A book called "The Raw Family", by Victoria Boutenko speaks briefly of Sergei's tooth healing itself. First, after 2 years of raw food, the filling fell out, and he got alarmed, but his mother Victoria, said to wait and see what happens. It filled itself in. First it was yellow, then it turned white. That was the reason why I ordered that book: I found the reference to that in a website I was reading. The book Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., and it talks about kaya kalpa and how three treatments of it helped to create a 185 year longevity as well as the regrowth of new teeth. I have a raw blog on yahoo 360 (username thisawesomejourney) where I have put this quote and others, including a quote that says what percentage of vitamins we kill when we cook things.

Tata for now,

abundancia2007

[misslinda]

For sure Pierre, we will all be following this gigue!

Abnudancia, thank you for sharing that information on the kaya kalpa. Something I'd be interested in looking up! :)

[sweet pepper]

thanks for the info..............I will be checking out "kaya kalpa" as well. I have heard the same thing about regrowing missing teeth but failed to find anything more than what was mentioned in book 'raw family'.

I have tried going 100% raw on several occasions only to fail.............I weigh over 300.........and I am giving it another go. Each time I do seem to do a little better than the last time. At least I am not eating any animal flesh now. So that is progress. I have done well these past few days.

Namaste'
swt pepper

[Alba]

My amazing tooth story:D:

I've had a lost tooth - well not so much lost as hiding. After I lost my "child-tooth" - ( I don't know what you call them...in danish we say "mælketand" which means Milk-tooth) a new one never grew back up...but it was down there, you could see it on the xrays.. So for seven years I've had a pretty big void between two of my teeth (you cannot see it - since it is almost in the back of my mouth)!The last time I visited my dentist she proclaimed that the stubborn tooth was rootless and needed to be "digged up" and replaced by a phony one...and I was like...erh...no.
SO I just accepted the fact that the tooth would never come up...

well...I guess you can see where this is going:D

After going raw I started feeling something poking gum...It was the tooth!!:D Now 2 months later the tooth is halfway up and my dentist is amazed!!
So am I:D

Love alba

[Nenyath]

If this is not enough reason to stay raw, then I have no clue on what would be! Amazing stories, keep them comming! ;) The only story I have to add as for now is that my mom mentioned my teeth were whiter than they had been for long. I used to get my teeth "polished" each year by the dentist but since I became 18 I have not been to the dentist.

Fly forever free..

[sweet pepper]

That is an amazing story. I am so happy for you!

I wonder...........does man have 3 sets of teeth? Does anyone know?

I have lost several of mine and have a partial plate and was just kind of hoping that maybe........just maybe, I may be pleasantly suprised some day with some new toofers!

Namaste'
swt pepper