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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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