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>Causes of frequent cavities
Articles about tooth decay prevention advise regular brushing and flossing of teeth along with avoiding sugary foods like candy and sodas as main ways to stay cavity free.
While these are a good start, Ayurveda suggests we look a little deeper at three underlying causes of tooth decay:
Sweet blood. In Ayurveda, the term sweet describes foods that build and nourish tissue including macronutrients such as protein, carbs and fat.
Unfortunately what builds your tissue is also a favorite of the hungry bacteria that can grow rapidly in your mouth and promote cavities.
If cavity causing bacteria love your sweet blood, regularly brushing and flossing your teeth, while avoiding candy and sodas, will not be enough to prevent tooth decay.
You will also need to adjust your diet to make your blood less sweet and less attractive to these bacteria. And this goes beyond avoiding candy and sodas.
Acidic foods. Eating excess acidic foods (and/or having your teeth in contact with acidic fluids such as vomit or acid reflux) can wear down your teeth.
Toxins. Toxins (ama) have an acidifying effect on the blood which leaches minerals. Toxins also create a ripe environment for bacteria to grow.
How to prevent frequent cavities
Start by reducing intake of or eliminating foods that promote sweet taste in your blood.
Check out this article for a comprehensive list of sweet promoting foods. Especially avoid these sweet foods:
Dried fruits--especially mango which can stick to the teeth.
Soda
Fruit juices
Grains (have phytochemicals that leech minerals from bones). You can reduce phytic acids in grains by soaking and slightly fermenting them before cooking.
Oranges & Orange juice--Oranges are both sweet and acidic and can quickly create cavities. "Love of oranges caused my otherwise healthy daughter to develop a large cavity in a few short months." Always floss immediately after eating an orange. If a piece of acidic pulp becomes lodged between teeth the citric acid can quickly erode enamel.
And see our list (below) of Diet Remedies for "Frequent Cavities," conveniently organized by dosha, herbal action, biocharacteristic, taste or season.
You may also need to reduce your intake of acidic foods and contact with acidic fluids.
Other helpful frequent cavity prevention steps include:
Drinking bone broth to alkalize your blood and help re-mineralize your teeth.
Practicing oil pulling to help reduce the amount of cavity causing bacteria in your mouth.
Flossing after meals, especially if your teeth are close together or you often find food stuck between them. Swish water in your mouth after flossing.
Brushing your teeth in the morning as well as at night.
Saliva is essential for cavity prevention. However, your mouth tends to dry out as you sleep, leaving teeth vulnerable to decay. Brushing in the morning will help remove bacteria buildup over the night.
You can also stimulate saliva production by sipping ginger tea first thing in the morning.
Consulting an Ayurvedic practitioner to help you assess the sweetness of your blood and suggest a diet that supports your dental health.
How to Reverse Cavities Naturally
Minor cavities may heal without drilling into the tooth through re-mineralization of enamel, by following the steps above. Over a several week period you may notice the infected black areas of the tooth becoming whiter and infection free.
Once the cavity reaches into the dentin layer, however, the hole in the tooth will not refill on its own. By following the steps above, you may be able to reduce or even eliminate the amount of drilling needed at the dentist, preserving the structure of the tooth as much as possible. The dentist can then fill the hole with a non-drilling formula.
Reversing cavities naturally takes some commitment and knowledge of details, which can be found in the book Cure Tooth Decay: Health & Prevent Cavities with Nutrition by Ramiel Nagel. Note the book reviews contain many positive anecdotes of healing through this method.
It is important you work under the supervision of a qualified dentist while attempting to heal the cavity using home remedies, in order to ensure the infection is not progressing and further damaging the tooth.
Disclaimer: Conditions such as 'Frequent cavities' that cause tissue changes could be serious and should be checked by a medical doctor.
Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Frequent cavities'.
Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution.
Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
An agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial is an umbrella term that can be broken down into specific categories of target microorganism, such as anti-bacterials, fungals, and virals.
In Ayurveda, oily refers to anything moistening. More specifically, oily refers to building substances that increases fat, or are themselves fatty. For example, sugar is Oily.
The term "bland taste" refers, in Chinese medicine, to food containing few macronutrients, such as cabbage, radish or bok choy. These may be compared to negative calorie foods.
An agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial is an umbrella term that can be broken down into specific categories of target microorganism, such as anti-bacterials, fungals, and virals.
In Ayurveda, oily refers to anything moistening. More specifically, oily refers to building substances that increases fat, or are themselves fatty. For example, sugar is Oily.
DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body.
The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care.
Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
Balance Your Body with Diet, Herbs, & Lifestyles Having These Biocharacteristics
Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas).
Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body.
Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism.
Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism.
For 'Frequent cavities', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics.
Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.
FOODS TO FAVOR
MATCH WITH YOUR WELLNESS PROFILE
BITTER
ABOUT BITTER BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes and is laxative, and drying.
An agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth. Antimicrobial is an umbrella term that can be broken down into specific categories of target microorganism, such as anti-bacterials, fungals, and virals.
FREQUENT CAVITIES IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE #4 - TISSUE DISEASE
If you have symptoms in this category it means your imbalances have overwhelmed your body's resistance causing a full-fledged disease.
Once imbalance reaches this stage it is more likely to cause acute or chronic conditions.
You might be tempted to focus your attention on fighting symptoms in this category, but dismiss earlier warning signs of imbalance - i.e. symptoms in the stage 1 category.
It is ideal to find and address the root causes weakening your system and remove them first.
This ensures you are not adding fuel to the fire of disease.
Once the root causes are removed, you can work on addressing the disease head on along with strengthening your body.
This typically yields a quicker recovery and prevents recurrence.
Ayurveda's preventative approach suggests you pay careful attention to every stage of disease development.
(See all disease stages on JB)
AVOID DIETS, LIFESTYLES & HERBS THAT AGGRAVATE THESE EFFECTS
According to Ayurveda, one or more of the following
doshas
and biocharacteristics may aggravate 'Frequent cavities'.
If you have an excess of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics below, Ayurveda recommends reducing foods and lifestyle habits that aggravate them.
Click on the biocharacteristic to learn what foods and
lifestyle habits should be reduced.
Symptoms Tell A Story
The first step to healing is learning patterns from your symptoms.
Symptoms are clues that reveal underlying imbalances.
Symptoms show you where your body is weakened.
Ultimately, all disease has a root in tissues too weak to defend itself.
Ayurveda describes these patterns of weakness using doshas & biocharacteristics.
If you notice a biocharacteristic or dosha appears next to many of your symptoms,
it helps you establish a pattern that may be systemic.
The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Frequent cavities'.
See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type.
Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them.
Risk Factor: 50% more often Complication: +1.4 times as often
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Biocharacteristics of 5,892 People Reporting Frequent cavities
On average the biocharacteristics
of people reporting Frequent cavities were more aggravated than 50% of other symptoms.
From the 5,892 people who reported Frequent cavities
average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:
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29.5% avg client level
24.0% (1,417) of cases
7,179 have Salty constitution
Risk Factors of Frequent cavities
Below you will see general risk factors as well as the greatest risk factors, i.e. those who were also more likely to report Frequent cavities.
Overall, 14.90% of people surveyed reported Frequent cavities.
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581 cases with both
+1.4 times more likely
10% of cases
7.24% (2,812 cases)
WHAT'S NEXT?
DISCOVER YOUR BODY WITH YOUR FREE INDIVIDUALIZED BODY MAP
Find ideal foods, herbs and lifestyle tips.
See your imbalances, and locate intervention points.
Your body map contains a complete analysis of your Ayurvedic imbalances, organ by organ.
Give your chart to your functional medical doctor or any alternative health practitioner.
Ayurveda strengthens the body while opposing disorders. It takes a holistic,
systemic approach that looks at the whole body. Ayurveda
shows how to interpret signs and symptoms of imbalance, and how to address them
using diet, lifestyle adjustments, and herbs. It shows a person how to optimize their health on a continual basis. You can't
take the doctor home with you, but you can take Ayurveda home with you.
Ayurveda is the most advanced and easy to use home system for self healing.
HOW DOES AYURVEDA WORK?
Ayurveda starts by identifying your body type,
which identifies certain tendencies in your body to get sick (as well as identifying your strengths).
It uses body type to determine the likely root causes of your disorders.
Next, Ayurveda analyzes the nature of your disorder.
It fits all your signs and symptoms into a pattern, expressed as a combination of biocharacteristics (gunas).
For example, you may have a heat disorder, a cold disorder, or an oily disorder, etc.
This simple categorical approach shows you how to correct systemic imbalances and strengthen your body as a whole.
On Joyful Belly, we've created an extensive categorization of food so you can easily match food to your imbalanced biocharacteristics.
By eating an optimal diet that balances your biocharacteristics, your whole body is strengthened
and the conditions that created the disorder are removed. Once the root causes of the disease
are removed, the disease lessens in strength or disappears altogether. Additional remedies -
such as herbs and lifestyle practices - focused on the specific disorder, can greatly enhance
your healing.
GET STARTED
To get started on your Ayurvedic journey, we first recommend that your find your body
type by taking our free quiz. In Ayurveda, every solution is based on your unique body type, so
by taking this quiz, you’ll get the best results.
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It shows you simple, practical ways manage your health.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy,
& botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John, his wife Natalie and their 7 kids live in Asheville, NC
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
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Ayurvedic Perspective on Frequent cavities
Stage of Imbalance (Samprapti)
Diet Remedies by Dosha, Biocharacteristics (Guna), Action, etc.
Herb Remedies by Dosha, Guna, Action, etc.
Biocharacteristics & Herb Actions to Favor
Biocharacteristics to Avoid
Related Symptoms
Live Report: Biocharacteristics
Live Report: Risk Factors
Live Report: Complications
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