Nadine Artemis - Successful Self-Dentistry: How to Avoid the Dentist Without Ignoring Your Teeth

Successful Self-Dentistry

How to Avoid the Dentist Without Ignoring YourTeeth

By Nadine Artemis

Copyright 2011 Nadine Artemis

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1st Edition written in June,2011

Artemis, Nadine

Successful Self-Dentistry How to Avoid the Dentistwithout Ignoring Your Teeth

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Moisten your tongue with praise, and be thespring ground waking. Let your mouth be given its gold-yellowstamen like the wild roses.

Sanai

11th century Persian Poet

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom,and without that self-knowledge you cannot go far. Therefore youmust begin near, and search every word you speak, search everygesture, the way you talk, the way you act, the way you eat; beaware of everything without condemnation. Then in that awarenessyou will know what actually is and the transformation of what is,which is the beginning of liberation. Liberation is not an end.Liberation is from moment to moment in the understanding of whatis.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not leave your health in your dentistshands and assume all will be fine.

Hal Huggins, DDS

Acknowledgments

Loving appreciation to my late night toothbrushing companion, my howdy partner, Ron, who is always up for theadventure of living. To our son Leif, whose smile fills my heartwith gratitude and has taught me so much about the care ofchildrens teeth and whose breath is so pure. Abundant thanks tomy mothers earnestness about making the right choices for herchildren. And, I thank the friends and family that gift our lifeand our house guests who let me show them a better way tobrush.

I acknowledge and appreciate the maverickdentists of this century who persevered through ridicule andopposition until their tooth truth practices and discoveries couldfind acceptance. I also want to thank Jonathan Landsman of the Natural News Talk Hour and Patrick Timponeof the One Radio Network for interviewingmany of these dental mavericks and capturing the current zeitgeistof their work.

I thank my dental hygienist Pat, who, yearsago, did not summon the dentist. She instead encouraged me to, Gohome and put some of those botanical oils you mix on this cavityand we shall take an x-ray next visit and see that it hasevolved.

I am extraordinarily fortunate to besurrounded by a palette of plant essences that offer their giftsand allow me to help others. I am deeply thankful to the talenteddistillers who keep the true art of distilling the plantsquintessence alive.

I am very grateful to Keesha and our LivingLibations kin, who keep everything well-oiled: Heather, Thien-Anh,Elana, Anne, Jen, Dotty, Erin, Vik, Johnny, and Ashley. I havegreat gratitude to all of our beloved clients who imbibe and makemaking Libations such a blessing.

I thank, with an everlasting toast of chaga,David Wolfe, who encouraged me to make a tooth serum with neem andAyurvedic herbs. I send a heartfelt thank-you to the organizationalforce of the Longevity Now Conference team: Rebecca Gauthier, LenFoley, Camille Rose Giglio, and Lucien Gauthier for creating such avenue of leading edge revelation.

Great thanks to the proof-readers of themanuscript: Angela McGreevy, Robert Howard, Hope MacLeod, BenJohnson and Tami Gibson, for giving me the confidence that all ofthe commas are in the right places. I thank Robert Howard of OrbitCreative, who graciously translates the images in my mind tographics and photographer Barbara Stoneham for her ability tocapture essence.

I present this book as a work of care and anoffering of probable solutions so that you, the reader, may empoweryour life.

Table of Contents

Introduction

A Tooth Tour

Super Saliva

The Gums: Turtlenecks for the Teeth

Bacteria and Decay

The Dentin: Whiteness Comes From Within

Fun with Flossing

Evolving Habits

A Visit to the Dentist in the year 2022

Fillings: Heavy Metals by the Mouthful

A Safe Harbour for Bacteria: Root Canals andJaw Cavitations

Questions to Ask a Prospective Dentist

Preparing for a Dental Appointment

Step One: The Salt Rinse

Step Two: Scraping the Tongue

Step Three: Brushing the Gums

Four: Polishing the Teeth

Step Five: Checking the Gum Lines

Step Six: Flossing

Step Seven: Final Rinse

Step Eight: Extra Care

Simple Review of the Eight Steps

Introduction

If you are like me and were raised incontemporary North American culture, youve been told since youwere a toddler about the importance of brushing your teeth andvisiting the dentist twice a year. Your parents showed you how tobrush (hopefully), and, if they were diligent, they may have evenshowed you how to floss. By the time you were a teenager you mostlikely had the hang of it, but you may have also experiencedcavities and other dental issues anyway, especially if you had thediet of a typical teen.

What I discovered, through my research ondental self-care (having teeth, this is a subject that interests megreatly) is that we were not really set up for successful oral careas children, and the reason is simple: our parents, even ourdentists, were less-than knowledgeable about how to care for andfeed our teeth and gums. Even if we brushed, flossed, and went tothe dentist every six months as prescribed, we still got cavitiesand may have even have ended up with root canals, extractions, andother invasive procedures. We did the best we could without havingthe whole picture.