Comments on: How to Grow Straight Teeth–Naturally!

By: Felix Liao, DDS

Felix Liao, DDS — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:16:00 +0000

In children and adolescents, bones grow despite bad diet as long as malnutrition is not extreme. In adults, physical stimulus is needed to grow bone to make room for straightening teeth. Good nutrition helps, but diet alone cannot control the direction and amount of bone growth. Only proper pressure from palatal expanders can. Hope that helps.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:29:00 +0000

Hello,

Thx for answering, now my question if you expand the upper and lower palate to make room for the teeth to be straight. Is that the same principe like you would get with the diet is that making your jaw also bigger so you get more bone?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:00 +0000

Answer from author of two books on diet and teeth, Rami Nagel:

First, on the article, the child’s facial structure and template at birth makes a huge impact on how wide their dental arches are.
If a child is started on a good diet later, there may be limitations.

I have not heard that teeth always keep moving.
On the contrary, I would say health adult teeth would never move at all.
The better the diet, and the more firmly implanted the teeth are.
The jaw does continue to slowly grow as we age.
The diet will not make teeth straight as an adult.
An adult will need to expand their upper and lower palate to make room for the teeth to be straight.

best wishes,
Rami

By: Lay

Lay — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:50:00 +0000

Hello,

The whole story makes sense, its what I see yeah. Only question I have, because I read teeth always keep moving will this diet make teeth straighter as a adult?

Thx for answering somebody that knows about it.

By: Ed Hochhalter

Ed Hochhalter — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:18:00 +0000

I’ve read about this in another blog. So there’s this diet that affects the health of children’s teeth, huh. I guess that’s why my teeth are unhealthy. I wish I could have taken better care of my teeth when I was still a kid in Tucson, AZ and I hope I can find a dentist that can help me straighten things out. I’ll share this tips with my brother who just took his daughter to her first visit to the dentist.

By: Leonel

Leonel — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:39:34 +0000

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!

By: gresham chiropractor

gresham chiropractor — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:04:09 +0000

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.

By: Week links « The Complete Body

Week links « The Complete Body — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:34:02 +0000

[...] Curtis illustrates how diet and effect teeth and consequently [...]

By: Weston A. Price Found. Wise Traditions conference in Chicago Nov 13-16, 2009 « The Bovine

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:51 +0000

[...] and tend to suffer from crowding of the teeth. Here’s a recent story by Janice Curtain, from Kimberly Hartke’s blog about the effect of a Weston A. Price style diet on children in a contemporary [...]

By: Stanley Fishman

Stanley Fishman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:54:14 +0000

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