Okay, for those of you who read this blog and haven't hopped on board in your own kitchens just yet, this news might be enough to push you over the edge and into vats of fermenting vegetables and jars of delicious raw butter and cream...
My teeth are GROWING BACK!
I had a couple of strange experiences which compromised the original design of my front teeth. One was chipping my tooth in a swimming pool by colliding underwater with the cranium of my dear friend Mollie. I'm not sure who got the worst of it, but I don't think I chipped her skull in the process, thankfully! The other incident occurred on the day I had my braces taken off. A glorious day, really, and one we all longed for when we were strapped with the darn things, but in my case the orthodontist took the length of my teeth too personally, I guess. He had been grinding off the leftover cement on the fronts of my teeth and rather abruptly informed me that my two front teeth were "too long" and would look better once he trimmed them down a bit. He didn't ask if I wanted that particular grinding done, but he just went ahead and zipped them down.
The chip is almost gone, AND my two front teeth are again longer than their neighboring teeth, as well as feeling sharper to the touch. This is super exciting to me, since teeth are the body's last priority and their healing is a good indication that my bones and the bones and teeth of the baby I'm carrying are all full of minerals!
The children's jaws are visibly wider than they used to be, in proportion to their faces, and the spaces for their teeth are expanding. My seven-year-old's lower adult teeth, having come in crooked and crowded, have spread out into a flat set of four across the front, looking very much like the teeth of healthy immigrants I've observed (not to mention envied!)
If you wish to pursue the dental angle on a Nourishing Traditions Diet, this video from the author of Cure Tooth Decay is a good place to start.
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So I'm wondering, since I need some motivation to get back on the wagon here,are you seeing your older kids' jaws widening out? My two little guys have started losing baby teeth and it is obvious that the new teeth are going to be way too big for their mouths. I'm sure that their prenatal/baby nutrition was very poor. I'm just wondering if we can avoid orthodontia with some better food now.
We don't know how to measure this, and we're really eager to see improvement, so we're very biased observers and shouldn't be trusted.
But: what we think we see is our youngest children's jaws widening the most, with some small benefit for our oldest (7 years old).
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