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The Wellness Mama Podcast

28: Can Cavities Remineralize?

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Years ago, I wrote about how I remineralized a small cavity in one of my teeth and I never expected the response it would get.

Now, there are dozens of comments from readers who have remineralized their own teeth, and dozens more from readers and dental professionals who claim this isn’t possible. I wanted to get to the bottom of this. I knew what worked for me, but wanted a dentist to really delve in and explain if remineralization is actually possible, and if so, how it works and the science behind it.

A Dentist’s Perspective on Remineralization

I was elated to meet Dr. Judene Benoit who uses a specialized approach to dentistry that combines the research and knowledge she learned in dental school with a holistic research-based approach to oral health. She has helped many people remineralize teeth and is the author of the book How to Stop Cavities: A Natural Approach to Prevention and Remineralization.

In this podcast, she and I delve into the difference between healing and remineralization and when each one happens as well as:

  • Can cavities remineralize?
  • How the body remineralizes
  • How large cavities can’t actually “heal” to completely regrow their normal shape, but they can stop decay, remineralize and actually become stronger (without the need for a filling)
  • Ways we can prevent tooth decay
  • What cavities cannot be reversed
  • The connection between oral health and overall health
  • What diet and lifestyle factors to optimize for better oral health
  • What Matrix Metalloproteinases are and why you need them (in moderation)
  • How bacterial balance in the mouth impacts oral health and how to create good bacteria in the mouth
  • The ways that hormones impact risk of tooth decay
  • Is Oil Pulling safe?

Resources we Mention

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to the Wellness Momma Podcast. I'm Katie from WellnessMomma.com.

0:22.5

Today's fun fact. In 1994, an inmate in a West Virginia prison braided floss into a rope

0:28.8

and used it to scale the wall to escape. Today's guests would probably recommend using floss,

0:33.6

but in a different way. Dr. Judeen Benoit is a dentist in Ontario, Canada. She's passionate

0:39.2

about helping people improve their teeth and their lives using simple natural techniques.

0:44.0

She uses a blended approach to dentistry, combining information taught in dental school with research

0:48.6

from scientific dental journals and her love of whole food and whole person holistic thinking

0:53.6

to get real results and has great success with so many people. Dr. Judeen, thanks for being here.

0:59.3

Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I want to jump right in because I love the topic of

1:04.3

World Health. I'm fascinated by it. And a few years ago, I wrote an article that detailed how I had

1:09.4

reversed small cavity that I had naturally. And this was verified by my dentist, but since I've

1:14.6

written that post, I've had dozens of people write me to tell me how they reverse cavities as well.

1:19.8

But the interesting part is there are a lot of dental health professionals, especially a lot of

1:23.2

hygienists who I believe, you know, absolutely want to help people that have commented on that post

1:28.2

is not possible to heal a tooth and that I must be either making it up or lying. And I've also

1:32.4

heard from dentists in that same post who say that they understand the body's ability to reverse

1:36.3

until decay. And I know that you've done a lot of research on this and you're definitely considered

1:41.0

an expert and I'm not. So I would love to have you really delve into this. Is it possible to heal

1:45.7

cavities? And if so, who's right in this argument? Absolutely. It is definitely impossible to

1:51.9

remineralize cavities. I think the discrepancy between people who say it's not possible to

2:00.3

reverse and heal cavities and people who say it is, it all comes down to the terminology used.

2:07.2

The terms reversed cavity and healed cavity are proper dental terms, but they're only used when

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