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Here is a picture of my perfect little granddaughter Alyza, with her perfect little teeth buds: 
Like grannies the world over, I want my Granddaughter to have the best life possible… great educational opportunities, lots of time to play and dream, clean air, good food, bountiful love, and, please, NO PAIN.
Now, I know that I am expressing an ideal. Pain is part of life. We are born in pain, and we continue to try to avoid it as life unfolds. Pain avoidance is what we share with the one-celled animals called amoeba (those little blobs we looked at in biology class):when a hand introduces a pin to a microscope slide, and attempts to prick the amoeba, they move away. It is common to all living creatures to try to avoid pain.
Okay, so there will be pain in my granddaughter’s life… emotional and physical. I don’t want to think about the possibilities. I DO however, want to assist in eliminating unnecessary pain and distress and DIS-EASE. If I find there are ways to protect her from stuff that I went through in my life that people no longer have to experience, well, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will tell her Mommy and Daddy about it, and do what I can to support their choices.
One of the greatest areas of stress and discomfort throughout my life has been my teeth and gums. I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan (the coldest province in cold Canada) and the way we took care of our teeth was to stuff the throbbing cavity with a small clove-oil-soaked hunk of cotton batting. When the pain was totally unbearable, we made a trip to the dentist. There was probably a good reason why we didn’t go to this particular dentist any more often…. when my brother’s wife was a little girl of seven, he broke her jaw in the chair and she spent isolated months in a far-off city hospital. Maybe he broke other children’s jaws, I don’t know. In any case, he had a reputation of being a “horse doctor” dentist.
As a teenager I boarded in a convent in a small city. The dentist I visited there filled eleven cavities and extracted one molar in the one visit I made to him (I guess he knew I wouldn’t be back).
In my adult years I have had several root canals, and crowns. I probably have a whole mouth full of mercury compounds. Frequent visits to the hygienist were necessary because otherwise the cleaning was the most excruciating ordeal I had ever lived through.
Because of the root canals, I have suffered from sinus infection in my gums (it seems that the sinuses can drain right into that vacuum).
I’m not thrilled by the fact that although I have fairly presentable looking crowns, I have these stubby little “vampire” teeth underneath, and that sometime in the future, I will need to have the crowns replaced.
So, I want to spare my little Granddaughter all of these discomforts…. and save her family a “mouthful of money” to boot!
AND I KNOW HOW IT CAN BE DONE!
First of all,
Alyza is at the most critical age in which to prevent future teeth and gum problems. Between the ages of 0- 12 months, babies have the best possible opportunity to set up great habits that will last a life-time and ensure perfect oral health.
One of her parents needs to begin a program of brushing with a soft toothbrush (no paste needed) after meals, and cleaning between her teeth with something similar, but not quite, like dental floss. Besides the cleaning, it will be necessary to check for what look like holes or cavities in the child’s teeth (with a good light). And if there is a cavity, then there is a SOLUTION that parents can use to fill the cavity right at home… and NO HARMFUL CHEMICALS or METALS or SCRAPING or PULLING or DRILLING or DIGGING or etc.!!
And Diet is of great importance, of course! Alyza is breast-fed, so that is a great start. Breastfed babies will have less/no acids and toxins in their saliva– and it is these acids and toxins that produce cavities and gum disease. Keeping my precious grandchild away from refined sugars and other acid-forming foods will be a challenge for her parents, I have no doubt. However, the payoffs in life-long health will be worth every minute of monitoring and instruction. I want to see Alyza cracking the old world open with her ear-to-ear smiles when I’m a really old granny!
Now, the really amazing thing about what I read is that not only is this an excellent preventative program for babies, but it ALSO WORKS FOR OLDER PEOPLE with wiggly teeth and receding gums. The whole idea of REMINERALIZATION of my teeth is mind-boggling. And the notion that my damaged gums can regrow, and even reattach where needed, is incredible!
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