dental health

So my 5yo has a few cavities in her milk teeth. That was quite a shocker for me, as she has brushed her teeth daily, we make sure that we eat healthy. Obviously not healthy enough. She did have the odd bit of white flour product and sugar when we visited friends or family or when she was playing at another childs house. I had figured it wouldn't be that bad. Obviously it was.
So then the dentist comes with the luminous idea to drill and fill. With 1 it worked out. With the next it did't. My daughter was scared and didn't want to co-operate. Obviously the first time had been difficult on her.
The dentist wanted to refer us to a specialist dentist who would do it with anaesthesia. Somehow that just didn't sound right. There had to be a better way.
Besides the whole drilling and filling thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
And then my brain went onto the rollercoaster of thinking. How could it be that our teeth, the ones we depend on our whole life, go down the drain that fast and how come so many people are dependent on replacements, especially when so many people brush daily and do all they have been told.
It didn't make sense. There had to be more to it.
And there was.
After a nice search in information online and offline I found what was "the more to it".
The human diet has changed dramatically over the last 100 plus years. We have lots and lots and lots of processed foods, lots of junk food. Just immense amount of dead food.
And the it seriously hit me. How can food that is totally devoid of nutritients help you keep your body healthy and how can it help a 5-yo grow???
Obviously that is not going to work very well.
So after I have already been into thinking the WAPF way of nutrition I realized that we had gone downhill in our nutrition the weeks before our move. We had speed meals in stead of slow meals, which contain much more nutrients.
Other than that she had had a massive growth spurt, which means she needed even more nutritients, which we basically weren't using.
So then my thinking got me to realize that when the body is growing the building blocks have to come from somewhere and that would be the bones and the teeth.
And then it also hit me that this can be healed, contrary to popular belief.
Nothing in our body is dead, and our body's are very well capable or repairing, our bones can repair, so why not our teeth.
Well... also our teeth can heal. So I got myself a nice little book which explains it all and also explains in lots of detail which foods take nutritients out of your body and which foods give you a nice amount of it.
So we are going to use that now to build up the body's of our little ones to make sure they are healthy.
Will be interesting with family visits with loads of cookies, crips, syrups and all that stuff, as we won't be doing that anymore :-)