It was a normal six-month cleaning for my children that turned into a nightmare! After the cleaning the dentist came in to look in each kiddos mouth for less than half a second and tell me Big Red had eight cavities and Little Red had nine!
Immediately I said, "Excuse me?" See, I'm the mom who brushes their kids teeth twice a day, flosses twice a day, and gives them mouth wash at night. Yes, crazy obsessive, I know. I love clean healthy teeth and I want them to have clean healthy teeth.
You can imagine the surprise of the doctor when I asked how he knew that each kid had so many cavities when he'd only looked in their mouths momentarily and they hadn't taken x-rays yet. He replied with we will take x-rays just to be sure. I scheduled those for another time and left feeling terrible. How could my sweet little teeth brushing monsters have so many cavities? We don't eat a lot of sweets and they brush their teeth all the time!
As soon as we got home I immediately started looking around in their mouths. This is what I saw.
As you can see Big Red and Little Red both had teeth that in fact had cavities. I called the dentist back to ask how exactly they fill cavities on a child and what that process looks like.
They wanted to put each kid under a laughing-gas-type-of-anesthesia and fill their baby teeth with metal and would cost me almost $500 per tooth.
Can I get a big NO THANKS!
Honestly, we didn't have an extra $8500 laying around to fill some baby teeth (Yes, our insurance was less than awesome). Not to mention the trauma. Oh my lanta! Could you imagine how terrified my children would be of the dentist? Don't forget to add in all the metal that would now be in their body every day of their life.
I quickly decided we weren't going to have them fill the cavities. Then what? Was I just going to let their teeth rot out of their head?
No way! I was going to heal them naturally!
I researched and researched and researched some more! I felt like I spent days on Pinterest looking for the right article that actually included pictures and exact directions. To my dismay, I never found that pin! So I decided to compile my knowledge and give it a shot!
In all my research I had learned that Cod Liver Oil was the way to go! Not only is this liquid full of good stuff your body needs it is so helpful to BONES! By the way what are teeth? They are bones!
My kids see a Natural Health Practitioner instead of a regular doctor. Why, simple, she helps with natural remedies instead of trying to shove man-made-with-harsh-chemical-- medications down their throats. She recommended to use a Xylitol Toothpaste. So I switched from Tom's to Xylitol which is also fluoride free!
Here is the magical formula that took these cavity filled teeth to these beautiful cavity free ones!
1ML of Fermented Cod Liver Oil per day
Brushing teeth twice a day with Xylitol Toothpaste
Eliminated all juice boxes that contain sugar
That's it. Simple as can be!
Keep in mind this change didn't happen over night! Don't expect the next day your child will have zero cavities. It took Little Red (who had a TERRIBLE cavity) three months to heal and it's still healing. Track your progress. The longer you use this recipe the more you'll see a change. If you take weekly pictures you'll be able to see the new bone forming and the cavity disappearing!
Here are some pictures tracking the progress they've made!
Need some more research? I've included a few helpful web pages!
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-benefits-of-cod-liver-oil#section2
https://www.greenpasture.org/article/10399/
Ready to try it out?
This is where I order my Fermented Cod Live Oil from. Through mounds and mounds of research this is a company who keeps it simple and doesn't add any fluff to their products.
https://www.greenpasture.org/public/products/
I buy the unflavored kind which my son easily takes. My daughter however doesn't take medicine well so I make a gummy form for her to take that contains minimal sugar. I'll share that recipe another day.
I buy the Xylitol Toothpaste at Natural Grocers however you can buy it online through Amazon.com by clicking the link below. You can also buy the Fermented Cod Liver Oil from Amazon which I've included in the link below.
https://amzn.to/2PrVS9T
https://amzn.to/2QqeQmC
Check back as I will keep updating pictures as time continues!
Don't forget to take pictures and keep me updated!
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