343: How to Prevent Cavities and Avoid Fillings with Root-Cause Dentistry | Dr. Craig Clayton
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Craig D. Clayton, a functional and biomimetic dentist who’s changing the way we think about oral health. With a background rooted in biological dentistry and a strong focus on root-cause care, Dr. Clayton walks us through cavity prevention, airway health, and why some dental practices may be making things worse instead of better. We also get into how diet, mouth breathing, and even pregnancy affect your teeth and gums in ways most of us never hear about.
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Topics Discussed:
→ What is biomimetic dentistry and how does it work?
→ How do cavities really form?
→ Can mouth breathing cause dental issues?
→ How does diet affect oral health?
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Timestamps:
→ 00:00:00 - Introduction
→ 00:01:57 - Functional and biomimetic dentistry
→ 00:05:39 - The death cycle and root-cause care
→ 00:10:19 - Cavity treatment and prevention
→ 00:14:49 - Diet and oral health
→ 00:16:21 - Favorite product picks
→ 00:17:31 - The science behind cavities
→ 00:19:42 - Types of dental fillings
→ 00:21:58 - Kelly’s dental story
→ 00:26:06 - Deep grooves and sealants
→ 00:32:41 - Kids’ dental health and airway issues
→ 00:39:35 - How mouthbreathing affects teeth
→ 00:45:18 - Daily habits for oral health
→ 00:51:11 - Alternatives to toothpaste
→ 00:52:16 - Smarter dentist visits
→ 00:55:03 - Electrolytes, coffee, and oral health
→ 00:59:28 - Cavities during pregnancy
→ 01:03:13 - Dr. Craig’s practice and approach
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| 0:00.0 | We see an increased risk of heart disease, of strokes, of heart attacks, dementia, diabetes, |
| 0:08.0 | autoimmune diseases like lupus, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, depression, PTSD. |
| 0:14.0 | We see these associations with the oral microbiome. |
| 0:19.0 | And it's so underappreciated and ignored in medicine and in dentistry. |
| 0:26.9 | You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Leveck. |
| 0:32.5 | Dr. Craig Clayton is a functional and biomimetic dentist based in Meridian, Idaho, and an influential online |
| 0:38.9 | educator with a following of over 385,000 on Instagram. Passionate about uncovering the root causes |
| 0:45.1 | of oral health issues, Dr. Clayton focuses on holistic cavity prevention, airway health, and |
| 0:51.0 | innovation, biologically sound approaches to restoring teeth, and more. |
| 0:55.8 | As the host of the Dentistry Disrupted podcast, he's on a mission to shift the dental |
| 1:00.2 | industry towards a more patient-centered, root-cause-focused approach. |
| 1:04.6 | Through educating and empowering patients, he hopes to bridge the gap between oral health and |
| 1:08.4 | overall well-being. |
| 1:09.7 | Dr. Craig Clayton, I'm so excited to have you on this podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | I was talking your ear off before we even started because I have so much to say about |
| 1:18.1 | dentistry. |
| 1:18.7 | I feel like this podcast is turning into like a dental podcast. |
| 1:23.7 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm so, so excited to have you. |
| 1:27.8 | I am thrilled to be here. So, so excited. I love your podcast. And so when Eliza told me that you had reached out for a potential interview podcast, I was just so stoked. So thank you. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, it's all on you, honestly, because you have given away so much free information |
| 1:48.0 | around functional and biomimetic dentistry. And I mean, I don't, it's just, we're all so grateful. |
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