Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums

I love the tips in this book for keeping healthy teeth for my whole family. My dentist is very impressed with our improved whole mouth health! I highly recommend this book. Natural health has been my passion for over a decade and working with top notch naturopaths for our family’s health. Our NMD likes what we have taken away from this book too. Buy it!

Before I discovered this book, I had searched for a natural and holistic products that would help my dental health (gums and teeth) naturally as well as easy to find products. This book is worth every penny that I spent on it! In this book, there are 19 totally useful helpful chapters in this book, and while I found them all very helpful for my dental health, these are the sections in the chapters that I found the MOST HELPFUL and worked right away to restore my dental health: Below are my favorite chapters in this book: + Chapter 2 - Your Teeth Are Alive - Gums Turtlenecks for the Teeth---This explains how swollen gums, gum disease can be treated and gums restored to pinkness and health! This + Chapter 8 - This has given great helps and what tools are needed to care for the gums (all with easy to use products). + More on Chapter 8 - This has Self Dentistry in 8 steps for using at home. This is the chapter I use the most! + Chapter 3 - The Truth About Toothpastes, Toothbrushes, and Mouthwashes. This helped me greatly as I never knew that was supposed to lightly apply a toothbrush again my teeth and gums! Also had not idea that commercial toothpastes are so harmful! The same with many commercial mouthwashes! This is a MUST HAVE BOOK on dental health in my opinion. And what I like the best is that I can follow the helpful guidelines at home. Have been doing so and they really work to help me with my dental health!

I highly recommend it if you want an understanding of your mouths condition and how to handle it. I have been in the Dental field for 30 years and two years in holistic dentistry and this book helped me understand and learn about the oral health. I learned stuff I’d never knew.

I take everything with a grain of salt. Chapter 8 nicely lays out "8 steps" you can do for natural tooth care every day. I like "Chapter Nine: Beneficial Botanicals"; it outlines what herbs may be the best for various oral issues. "Chapter 10: More Tooth Tips" is equally helpful and continues to point out helpful herbs. The most helpful advice I've taken from the book (so far) is to use plain baking soda for brushing teeth, gums, tongue, (and I decided to brush my cheeks too), because it neutralizes acidity in your mouth, creating an environment that is not conducive to the bacteria/plague that rot your teeth and can ruin your health. My teeth feel way, way, way cleaner, my breath is fresher, and my whole mouth stays cleaner throughout the night and well into the day - when I use baking soda as opposed to normal toothpaste on my teeth, tongue, gums, and cheeks. I truly appreciate info on toothpaste ingredients in Chapter 3; I will never use toothpaste again - because certain ingredients prevent re-mineralization. The beginning chapters have some good information on teeth in good health and poor health, children, selecting a dentist, etc. but I am more focused on what I can do to minimize cavities and gum disease. I have a few complains which, sadly knock my rating down to 4 stars: The author advocates gargling with salt water, but doesn't tell you not to use sea salt, until Chapter 10, and I need to brush up on my chemistry to fully understand her explanation. On page 86 "Iodine Mouth Gargle" is suggested, but the author does not include a warning about the ill health effects of consuming too much iodine - which a few people WILL do! Page 87 states "the Keyes technique" "swishing undiluted apple cider vinegar around in the mouth" - WTH?! Do not try that - it will burn your mucus membranes - I cannot even believe this is in the book! :( Overall though, I am quite pleased with my purchase and I have found Artemis's book to be helpful and insightful. I recommend it to others, but if I gift it to anyone who may be naive about science - I will have to write in caution notes next to "Iodine Mouth Gargle" and "Keyes technique"!

I am so thankful and happy that I found this book. I devoured this book as soon as it arrived staying up very late to read as much as possible. It was fascinating! My mom suffers from so many dental issues despite taking such good care of her teeth her entire life. This is in part what prompted me to buy this book. This book explains how everything we are taught is contradictory to good oral hygiene. It blew my mind. I have now been tending to my teeth in a whole new way and can’t believe the difference in such a short amount of time. My mouth feels so extra clean and already my teeth are brighter/whiter. Also, my teeth were always sensitive but right before this book arrived they were starting to hurt to brush which was new. I guess I got this at the perfect time because my teeth have not hurt or been sensitive. It’s been a week maybe less since I started this. My mom noticed a huge difference from the very first time. She brushed and did the routine laid out in this book and she said the next day her mouth felt better than ever. She usually wakes up with a bad taste in her whole mouth but said she work up feeling so clean and fresh before even brushing. Everyone needs to read this and tell everyone they know about it.

What a great book! Truly so helpful to have on hand.

Easy read and very informative.

This book was kind of what I expected, and I loved it. It confirmed my suspicions from several years, wondering why we have an entire epidemic of tooth decay, constant need of professional dental care, and even crooked teeth in our modern times. As with everything, it all goes back to diet. The word "Holistic" in the title may scare some people off, but don't let it. It just means that you can make and keep your teeth and gums function at optimum health by simply eating real, healthy foods. The secret is not in the right toothpaste, the amount of professional cleanings, or the sealants and fillers your dentist uses. The secret is in your overall bodily health. This is a quick little book to read; I finished it in one evening. It gives the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of natural dental care in simple terms. In fact, I plan to add this to my (homeschool) students' reading list for high school, and explain it in simple terms for the younger children. The suggestions in this book are not going to be things you can't implement or purchase; the general suggestions for healthy eating, and simple cleaning of the teeth and gums are all that's required to repair or maintain your teeth and gums without unnatural chemicals or procedures. Highly recommended!

Thank you for this information packed book! My only regret is that I didn't have this information in my awareness over 30 years ago when I was raising my children. Or even 6 years ago before I allowed a dentist to convince me that I should get caps on my back teeth because they were beginning to crack and would eventually break... now I have caps that don't fit right in my mouth and not only bother my bite but also capture food in between in a way that I'd never experienced with my real teeth. It makes so much sense that I teeth, like the rest of our body, is alive and was designed for self-healing!

Excellent book. Practical guide book with explanation to take care of gums and teeth.

Great book, heaps of user friendly information, things we should all know, bought another copy for my son ,save yourself some dental visits

I bought these 4 books recently: 1.Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition 2.Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums 3. The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health 4. Cure Gum Disease Naturally: Heal and Prevent Periodontal Disease and Gingivitis with Whole Foods They're all good books in their own way. You actually just need one of books as they're all quite similar. What I learned is you need fat soluble vitamins like K2, D3, A and calcium/magnesium. Protein is beneficial while too many carbohydrates/starches/fruits might hinder the healing process. All authors promote an animal-based diet while Ramiel Nagel calls the vegetarian diet as inferior while I personally have no judgment. All authors suggest to avoid refined grains and processed sugars. I personally enjoyed Holistic Dental Care a tad more due to its simplicity. All of these books will change the way you think, eat, act and essentially live. It was important for me to buy multiple books on the same topic so I can get a broader view on the serious matter at hand; doctors, dentists, and fashionable diets are not here to love and care for you. This will take you down to the dragon's lair as you explore health. Skin health Hair health Nail health Mouth health Mental health Emotional health Digestive health Organ health Spiritual health Planetary health Cosmic health In fact, health is just right under our nose and inside our mouths. Becareful what you put inside your gate/orifice/mouth and becareful what comes out of it with curses/words/oaths/jinxes/hexes. You always have a choice to eat or to fast, to take or to give and to die or to thrive. Poison can be packaged into the most delightful, enticing, sweet and creamy dessert. Resist the temptations. It will pass. Don't feed the parasites/cravings. Be strong and be a warrior of health. You will heal. I will heal. We will heal.

Das ist der beste Ratgeber für die tägliche Zahnpflege, den ich kenne. Man muss tatsächlich mehr tun, als man denkt. In diesem umfassenden Ratgeber zur natürlichen Mundpflege in Eigenregie stellt die Autorin und Gesundheitsexpertin Nadine Artemis einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz vor, der der Entstehung von Problemen vorbeugt und die Zahngesundheit auf sanfte Weise wiederherstellt. Sie führt den Leser in die Ökologie des Mundraums ein, erläutert die Physiologie der Zähne sowie die Ursachen für Bakterienbildung und Karies, beleuchtet die potenziellen Risiken gängiger zahnärztlicher Eingriffe – darunter Füllungen, Zahnextraktionen und Wurzelkanalbehandlungen – und erörtert die Bedeutung einer guten Ernährung für gesunde Zähne sowie die immunstärkende Wirkung pflanzlicher Substanzen und Extrakte. Ihr Acht-Schritte-Programm zur Zahnpflege in Eigenregie bietet ein essenzielles Konzept, das sich täglich anwenden lässt, um die Zähne zu schützen und Karies vorzubeugen.