How Parents Can Save $8,000 on Orthodontics!
by Hartke is Online! Contributor, Janice Curtin
Assuming you have two children, and the average cost of braces for each child averages at least $4,000, you will probably need to spend over $8000 to straighten your children’s teeth. But did you know research was done years ago that shows how this expense can be totally avoided?
Yes, It’s true. Research was carried out by a famous dentist named Weston A. Price. Dr. Price studied traditional cultures around the world that ate their native diet. He found that these groups, who were not yet exposed to the refined and toxic foods of modern civilization, displayed beautiful teeth, as well as exceptional health and happiness.
They had almost no cavities—in general, less than 0.5 percent. He continually found they had beautiful facial structure and normal dental bone development with room for all thirty-two teeth, which were straight and even. In other words, because of good nutrition, they were able to fulfill their blueprint for perfect growth.
Compare that to today’s children who often have narrow faces. Dental cavities are quite commonplace and are even considered to be normal and unavoidable. We expect most children will need braces, which are painful, stressful, time consuming, and expensive. Extraction of wisdom teeth is considered to be a normal rite of passage for most teens and young adults. But have you ever considered that this was not meant to be?
What did these early people eat? Diets varied around the world, but none were vegetarian and in every case they consumed some combination of meat and organ meats, fish, shellfish, eggs, and raw milk, cheese and butter. They did NOT eat factory-made boxed cereals, canned or pasteurized milk, refined vegetable oils, sugar, or flour. They did not have low fat or imitation foods. Whole grains were traditionally prepared by soaking or fermenting to release nutrients and eliminate anti-nutrients.
The Sargeant family has seen all food, dental and medical costs drop, as a result of switching from the standard American diet to the Weston A. Price dietary guidelines.
Sargeant Family has seen medical costs drop on Weston Price Diet
You can help your child obtain beautiful teeth and bone structure, his natural birthright, as did the Sergeant family, shown above. You can do it, in spite of media advertising and factory food lobbying. Learn more about how by visiting www.WestonAPrice.org and www.highest-health.com.
The oldest Sargeant son, brought up on the standard American diet until the age of seven, has a narrowed palate and crowded lower teeth.
Teeth Created on SAD diet
The third child, raised on a nutrient dense diet since the age of two has more room for the teeth and is unlikely to need orthodontics.
Teeth by WAPF Diet
Janice Curtain
Janice Curtin is a long-time member of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Price-Pottenger Foundation. Janice’s philosophy is that to have good health and reduced health costs we must eat nutrient dense farm food, digest and metabolize it well, and avoid toxins. Our nutrition determines how our genes express. She grew up on an Iowa farm on a diet of real farm food and raw milk. She has a degree in Education from the University of Northern Iowa and a masters degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University. She has worked in Legislative Affairs on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She is a WAPF chapter leader, coordinates nutrition talks, and is the coordinator for a farm buying club. She also works with a TBM practitioner (Total Body Modification) who uses a whole body approach to healing.
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Check out this Press Release: Diets Bad for the Teeth are bad for the body!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uow-dbf070909.php#
Anne Sargeant will be speaking at our annual conference Nov 13-16 in Schaumburg, IL. See our conference page for details!
http://westonaprice.org/conference/index.html
This is very interesting. I especially liked being able to compare the two sets of teeth.
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Very interesting and well written article. It reminds me of when I visited the Masai Mara, a tribe in Eastern Africa who has avoided assilimation into the modern world and still consists entirely on their ancient diet. I was astonished to note that all of the Masai I came into contact with had beautiful, straight and sparkling white teeth. Ancedotely it lends proof to this article.
Good job Kimberly! I enjoy your blog.
I did not know about nourishing traditional diets when I conceived my two children. Both have dental problems. We are trying pallet expansion instead of braces. I learned about this technique at the Weston A. Price Foundation Conference in 2008. This technique will hopefully maintain all 32 teeth. The work will be completed before they become teenages. It appears that early intervention is far cheaper than standard orthodontic treatment.
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Great posts.! I wanr ro share a tue story. There was a 12 year old boy, who had grown up on SAD. He had a narriw face, and his teeth were crowded together. A couple of his teeth had no room to come out. The dentist wanted to do oral surgery followed by braces. The boy did not want this. His parents were learning about the WAPF dier. A deal was struck.
The boy gave up candy. soda, and all junk food.. He took cod liver oil. He ate real milk, raw cheese, grassfed meat, pastured butter, grassfed beef tallow, real lard. He drank a pint of bone broth every day.
Three years passed. Everyone of his friends had braces. the boy’s mouth and face widened. The teeth came out perfectly. All of his teeth straightened out, and became nicely spaced. Dental work? None.
Stanley
Wow! Amazing how the human body responds to real live foods. Sadly, I didn’t know this information when my kids were young and they are part of the ‘brace’ statistics. They have never had a cavity though …. they’ve always brushed with our Tooth Chips – Soap for Teeth. These are fluoride, SLS, and chemical free. http://www.roseofsharonacres.com/tooth_chips___soap_for_teeth
Monica, thank you for the link to Tooth chips.They look great, we are going to try them.
Ny experience has been that real food can cure almost anything.
Stanley
Kids are always prone to lose their teeth specially when it is a baby tooth, this maybe change by time and even old may experience loosing their teeth because of not proper caring of it.
Wow, this is a fascinating post. It makes perfect sense to have a healthy diet in order to not only grow straight teeth, but to also be healthy in general. They say, “You are what you eat” and this applies 100% including your teeth.
Thanks for this great post!
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