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Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition, 2nd Edition Paperback – November 11, 2010
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2nd edition (November 11, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 252 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1434810607
- ISBN-13 : 978-1434810601
- Item Weight : 15.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.57 x 9 inches
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Ramiel Nagel is the author of "Cure Tooth Decay" and "Healing Our Children." His health articles and research have been published in Wise Traditions, Nexus Magazine, Fox Business News, Epoch Times, Natural News, Rodale News, and the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. His background is in body oriented psychology, energy medicine and yoga, and his writings focus on empowerment and self-responsibility in relation to health. He has been a speaker at Westminster University in London. Ramiel is especially focused on rediscovering and teaching about authentic traditional food habits for health. He is the founder of the traditional food market and educational site, TraditionalFoods.org.
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Cure Tooth Decay has more than errors of ignorance. It has substantive errors that pose a danger because it promotes neglect of oral health to the public and promotes false claims and misappropriations of Dr. Price's information.
For an example of how Mr. Nagel misinterprets what Dr. Weston Price was asserting, let's look at Chapter 10 in Cure Tooth Decay, "You Can Heal Your Teeth Naturally" on pages 187 and 188 (printed version).
Dr. Price wrote comments about tooth healing with nutrition using two sets of x-rays demonstrating secondary dentin formation on the inside of the tooth. THIS IS NOT "NATURAL HEALING" as Mr. Nagel's chapter title implies. This is HEALING with GOOD NUTRITION COMBINED with RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY. Notice the temporary fillings! This was absolutely - not a "nutrition only" approach as Mr. Nagel apparently would have his readers believe. Dr. Price was showing good healing results that could not have been achieved with nutrition alone and most likely not restorative dentistry alone.
I see examples daily of teeth that have healed in combination with restorative dentistry. No sane dentist in the history of the world has verifiably seen what Nagel asserts about decayed teeth on page 152, "There still may be holes and these will become covered over with hard new enamel, but will not usually fill in." Hard new enamel over an existing cavity even with excellent nutrition is a biological histological impossibility!
PULL OUT ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY BOOKS. FOR HEALING OF ANY BODY PART, THERE NEEDS TO BE A BLOOD SUPPLY. THERE IS NO BLOOD SUPPLY TO TOOTH SURFACES OR DENTIN EXCEPT ON THE INNER PORTIONS NEXT TO THE PULP. FOR TOOTH HEALING, THERE NEEDS TO BE AMELOBLASTS AND ODONTOBLASTS. THERE ARE NO AMELOBLASTS (ENAMEL FORMERS) ONCE THE TOOTH IS VISIBLE IN THE MOUTH. THE ODONTOBLASTS (DENTIN FORMERS) ARE ON THE INNER SURFACE OF THE DENTIN LINING THE PULP CHAMBER. HEALING CAN OCCUR INSIDE BY THE ODONTOBLAST LAYING DOWN SECONDARY DENTIN. HEALING CANNOT OCCUR OUT ON THE SURFACE OF TEETH ONCE SIZABLE DECAY HAS TAKEN OVER. RAMIEL NAGEL DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE PURPORTS TO KNOW. HE DOESN'T KNOW ODONTOBLASTS FROM AMELOBLASTS, SECONDARY DENTIN FROM SCLEROTIC DENTIN, HE DOES KNOW THAT HE CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY SELLING LIES IF HE USES THE WORDS "CURE" AND "HEALING".
Introduction pages xiii-xvi
The book claims that you can:
* "stop cavities--sometimes instantaneously" - yes kinda, not instantaneously though, but stop cavities only if they are shallow, not as the author suggests.
* "regrow secondary dentin" - Dentin can't be regrown, only grown. The growth of dentin is only inside the teeth. This "secondary dentin" forms on the inside of teeth in most everyone - Nagel mistakenly believes it forms on the outside surface of teeth which is preposterous.
* "form new tooth enamel" - Ridiculous! Show me the ameloblasts (the enamel forming cells) in an erupted tooth. They aren't there after a tooth comes into the mouth! (He states on page 152 about hard new enamel forming over decayed areas) Teeth are not stalactites or stalagmites forming enamel by mineral accretions. New enamel can't form. Biologically impossible!!! Total B.S.
"100% Real Dental Healing Testimonies" - Not one of them at all indicates "real healing".
"Leroy from Utah" - One month after being told he needed a root canal, his tooth was pain free. As a dentist, I have seen people go several years with dead teeth that are causing bodily harm, but they have no pain. They are not "healed", just pain free and that represents a monumental difference.
"Ms. Steuernol from Alberta, Canada page xiv" - had painful decayed teeth and after better nutrition, she was more comfortable and her dentist saw secondary dentin formation on x-rays. Hooray for her better diet which could help her gums and her comfort, but secondary dentin formation is the rule rather than the exception. Her story is no revelation whatsoever and secondary dentin forms in people with horrible diets as well.
"Mike from Ashland, Oregon page xiv " - Once again, with a better diet his decayed teeth were less sensitive over three months. No surprise. This does not equate with healing though. I am not a huge fan of root canal treatment, but Mike has a false security and will have worse dental health over time from neglect. Neglect will cost him more in the long run in terms of dollars and/or disability.
"Pioneering Tooth Cavity Remineralization pages xv-xvi"
Mr. Nagel says they had a good diet and his one year old had front tooth decay. How good could their diet have been? Rampant early decay like that is rare even with those eating a "Tater Tot and Twinkie" fast food diet. As time went on, his daughter's front teeth crumbled with decay and he personally had four new cavities diagnosed and had tooth sensitivity. Four to five years later, his daughter's decayed black baby front teeth fell out and he also was now pain free. Cured? I think not. The person that deserves our compassion is his daughter who was forced to have black crumbled front teeth for years.
Mr. Nagel is not a "pioneer" - he is a purveyor of misinformation.
"Tooth Drilling page 3" He implies that the use of high-speed drills are only for the sake of "speed" (profit) for the dentist. What patient would want greatly increased vibration from slower speed drills and procedures that take five times as long? High-speed dental handpieces greatly improve patient comfort and successful outcomes!
He says drilling causes "irreversible nerve damage in 60% of the cases." Total falsehood. Any patient that has had multiple fillings knows this to be false. Traditional and alternative dentists know this to be false.
He inaccurately says the original mercury fillings used "melted silver coin", but it was actually silver coin shavings. Does the author really think molten silver was placed in teeth? This is another example of his careless use of misinformation.
He describes GV Black's mercury filling innovations included "drilling away all discolored tooth structure" - that is most definitely not what we dentists are taught to do. Not all discoloration of dentin is decay.
"Dental Alert: Bacteria are Not the Primary Cause of Cavities page 7"
He states that, "In a 20% sugar solution bacteria will perish." A worthless fact. This does not prove that bacteria don't feed on sugars and impact decay! With high concentrations of sugar, osmotic pressure can kill bacteria in that 20% solution. Bacteria feed on lower concentrations and sugar can't stay at 20% very long in the mouth due to saliva diluting it.
"The Failure Of Conventional Dentistry pages 9-10"
In this section he points out decay rates as a result of a "failure of conventional dentistry". He fails to note that 50% of people don't go to dentists even if they have insurance. It would be appropriate to blame a poor diet motivated by convenience, but he points out absolutely nothing relevant to his assertion that dentistry failed. Dentistry wasn't given the chance to fail or succeed with his daughter.
Illustration: "Anatomy of a Tooth" page 29
The most glaring inaccuracy of this "educational" illustration is that the enamel is shown to cover the root surfaces as well as the crown of the tooth. Mr. Nagel is not smarter than a 5th grader! A less well known fault of the illustration is that the enamel is shown to be laminated over the dentin parallel to the outside of the dentin - but in fact, enamel rods radiate out from the dentin. Mr. Nagel's hatred of dentistry shouldn't have kept him from looking on the internet for an accurate tooth illustration that even most lay people would be familiar with. He should have used more than a cartoonish illustration if he is posturing himself as one with dental expertise.
"Cod Liver Oil Heals Cavities" pages 36-37
He describes an "experiment" of only 6 months duration and erroneously claims "41.75 per cent more resistant to tooth cavities". First, Mr. Nagel doesn't comprehend the difference in resistance versus healing. The title of the section claims "healing" and his conclusion claims "resistance" and even then - the short 6-month span of testing makes ANY conclusion irrelevant.
Mr. Nagel's book, Cure Tooth Decay, is a menagerie of misinformation, misappropriation, misguidance, and misrepresentations (plus some valid nutritional ideas). If he were a dentist, he should be sued for supervised neglect.
I will end my critique with discussion of Mr. Nagel's advice on page 154.
"Still Not Sure? Talk To Your Tooth"
He writes, "Consider beginning an inner dialog with your tooth....Here are some examples. "How are you tooth?" "What will make you feel better?" "Do you want to visit a dentist?" "Do you want a root canal?" ...... "Do you want to be pulled?"
...If this exercise is too abstract, place an object near you to represent your hurting tooth. Then talk to the object as if it were your tooth.
Wow - that makes it much less abstract!
I certainly believe we need to pay attention to our bodies and try to ascertain what is best, listen to our inner self....but really...a conversation with a tooth. What if you have several diseased teeth? Must you call each one by its proper name to know which one is communicating back to you? Greetings Sir Maxillary Left Second Bicuspid!
The book, Cure Tooth Decay, has rotten information.
You can get vitamin a from cod liver oil and it is very inexpensive. You can get natural vitamin d from lanolin. It works just the same. You can get k2 from natto or the mk4 version that is synthesized from something in a plant. This mk4 is being used by the Japanese to cure osteoporosis with great results. I and my family have been getting excellent results with these supplements in terms of arresting and reversing tooth decay, bone and joint problems, etc.
Many people just cannot afford to shell out 60$ for an 8 oz bottle of cod liver oil. Even if they could there are some disadvantages to it. The amount you can get from it varies from 2000 to 7000 units per tsp. So you can't dose very precisely. If you are very deficient or are a person who happens to regularly need higher doses because you probably have a vdr (vitamin d receptor) polymorphism, meaning you have a genetic problem that causes you to require much larger d levels than others to avoid deficiency symptoms, then you would have to consume very large quantities which would be a.) cost prohibitive and b.) potentially toxic from ingesting so much easily oxidated unsaturated fats. (Read Chris Masterjohns artcle westonaprice.org. he talks about how Dr Price was not an advocate of taking more than a tsp max of cod liver oil for this reason.) The reality is that we were meant to get large quantities of vitamin d from sun exposure. Problem is that today many people are too far north and/ or live in frequently cloudy places and so can't do this much of the year. Aside from cod liver oil which has its drawbacks there are relatively few that are high in d and some of those are expensive like sea foods. These might be eaten sparingly by most, but large enough quantities to be therapeutic would be cost prohibitive. The only cost effective solution and also simple enough to ensure compliance rather than struggling and juggling foods to try and get enough and having to guess at the dose you are actually getting, is to supplement.
I was taking a natural cod liver oil from garden of life which has the natural a and d in fairly high amounts at the largest dose I am comfortable with, one tbsp daily getting 2000 plus units of d. I also tried to eat as much other d foods as possible and get sun when possible. Based on tests and symptoms I was still d deficient. I also tried to eat as much pastured high k2 products as possible. I didn't get really good results until I started taking d3, k2 and vitamin a supplements instead of the cod oil and k2 from food only. I also strive to get calcium from dairy, bone broths, herbal infusions and an egg shell supplement I make myself. I eat greens and take some extra magnesium for magnesium intake.
I read Jeff Bowles book on high dose vitamin d and k2 on kindle and vitamin k2 and the calcium paradox: how a little known vitamin could save your life. I started out with 10,000 iu of d from fish liver oil, d3 10,000 iu and 1,000 mcg mk4 k2, 200mcg mk2 k2. Within 3 days maybe, I had to cut my thyroid med in half. I continued for about a week and then upped to 20,000 iu. Within a couple of days I started having the feeling of hyperthyroid again so skipped taking any that day with the plan to monitor daily. The next day I felt good and no symptoms indicating hypo or the need to take the thyroid. This has continued for a week or more now. I am warm, alert, and have good energy. No heart palps or shortness of breath. Plus my shoulder that popped and made grinding noises when swinging my arms walking is about 70 percent gone. I know it will go completely in time.
I plan on monitoring my blood levels and how I feel and figure out what dose I feel best on. That might be on the high side. I could be one of those with genetic vdr dysfunction.
I think that what has happened is that WAPF has swung from one extreme to another. This is somewhat understandable because careless and foolish interventions of man have caused a lot of problems. Feeding livestock unnatural diets has resulted in malnutrition in man. And on and on. So as a result they are very down on anything "man made". While I believe this is often true, there are exceptions. I believe nutritional supplements are one of the exceptions. Given the sorry state of affairs with regard to food availability and quality for many and inability to get adequate sun for many, supplements are a godsend and I am very thankful for them.
So don't let this author dissuade you from using supplements if that is what is cost feasible and compliance feasible for your needs. They do work and work great. My mother in law used to be sick all the time and never gets sick anymore. I could go on and on with proof of their efficacy.
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What I have taken from this book and what worked for me is:
- avoid sugar, processed food and alcohol (in particular spirits)
- make sure you get enough vitamin D (e.g. through cod liver oil)
If so, I will come back and amend this to five stars. The book makes for an interesting read and I do recommend it, but I'm not yet a believer. The price association has some cult like tendencies that make me more cautious. Can all dental bodies really be so behind the times? Surely not.
The suggested supplements are indeed pricey but not essential at an eye watering £35+ for 200ml. A well known health professional had a heart attack whilst taking this which some believe it's due to the exceedingly high levels of vitamins that are toxic in high doses. This claim is unproven and he was taking about twice the recommended dose.
I will experiment on myself and will happily advocate the book of the healing is as stated in original price experiments.










