The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health

This is the best book I’ve read on nutrition, in general, and dental health in particular! I simply couldn’t stop reading til I finished it. Not only does make so much sense, it’s doable.And it explains why much of the medical advice typically given has been wrong and has led to poorer health. In looking for info on bone health I found this, and now I know that better dental health will lead to better gut health which will lead to better bone health, and better health overall. I already started today!

It's an easy to read, easy to follow (what is basically a Paleo) diet, with lots of references to how it relates to teeth. Referencing the work of Westin A Price, Dr. Stephen Park, and Dr. Mike Mew and the Orthotropics movement. I don't think this will help me, at 44, with only 24 teeth (having had extractions for braces and wisdom teeth out) and now starting to suffer from bleeding gums and teeth sensitivity... there was no advice for mouth rinses (salt?) or bacterial types and how to fix them if there're out of whack (xylotol?) how to brush, or if to floss... jaw surgery or palatial widening for adults? (which I would have expected from a book on these issues. So yeah, this is just a diet... But I hope it can help parents make informed decisions about extractions and braces and reaise the long term implications for breathing. I basically feel like I was butchered by my dentist at 12 years old, having perfectly good teeth pulled (because I wasn't breast fed and had overcrowding). I've been searching the Orthotropic world for years for techniques such as the tongue up on the roof of the mouth technique, and have been paleo for 6 years, so I didnt really learn anything new from this book... but I really hope it will help others who may be new to these ideas, to not butcher their kids in the sane way I was (in the name of orthodontic dentistry!)

As a dentist, I never once dreamed that there would a dental diet book, let alone that I would ever read a dental book! But I was thoroughly engaged in this, and have to thank Steven Lin for providing the impetus to dig deeper. I've read a half dozen more books on related topics of diet and our physiologic responses to different foods, and it has been eye opening! I'm shocked I ever learned any of this in school.Not finding myself in particularly poor health, but rather in perfect oral health, I didn't need to try his "dental diet" to cure any problems or disease that I had, but I tried it anyway. In fact, my wife tried it with me (bless her soul). Our results were kind of underwhelming, but understand that we weren't starting from a position of sensitive teeth, high caries risk, or any other condition of oral disease. I modified his diet to include intermittent fasting (so I removed breakfast from his meal plans) (we also switched some meals around, but always stayed consistent with his restrictions). While I didn't get an drastic results, I did feel, overall and on a system-wide scale, better. What do I mean by that? I felt more agile, nimble, a bit younger, and whole foods were both enjoyable and filling. As a result of this, I lost about 20 pounds on his diet. Much of that is the result of removing sugar, snacking, and a constant barrage of food throughout the day. I hadn't gone into this with that expectation, but in the two months since finished his diet, I've lost an additional 5 pounds and been stable, have maintained a similar diet plan/philosophy, and continue to feel well and enjoy whole foods.More important to me than the diet in this book was what I learned and how I applied it to my lifestyle. Knowledge is power.Do I recommend the book? Yes, in short, but it may not be for everyone. As for the health topics, I think there are better books that I've read. This just happened to be my gateway. If the claims in the book about improving oral health are true, then I think this book is indispensable to my field and every patient, but I'm lacking both access to sufficient research studies and personal experience of seeing this in action to assert confidently that it will work. For now, it's a tool in my arsenal, and I would love to hear of success (and even failure) stories from trying what this book teaches.

Thank you, Doctor Lin for educating me understand my teeth.I had the best teeth of the world before my second child was born when I was 32, even though I did little to clean them - one or two times brush and no floss each day. I felt wrong about my teeth when the baby was four month. I could not see dentist because of the stressful situation until the baby was one year old. All too late. I lost 5 teeth and the rest are all wiggling. Since that I spend tremendous time and energy to keep my teeth clean, but my teeth just getting only down. (They say gum disease is like diabetes - no cure.) The only explanation about gum disease is bacteria, so just keep teeth clean. But my clean teeth were in trouble with gum disease all the time. Thank God for this book guiding me to nutrition. My teeth stopped getting worse. I am very confident I will keep all my teeth and implants in the rest of my life.I do not think my gum disease was because of bacteria. It is more reasonable to explain it as the shortage of nutrition in stressful situation. Thank you very much, Dr. Lin.Some people gave this book one star saying they did not find anything new in this book. It is not fair to Dr. Lin - he was not a frontline researcher, but an educator as a dentist to explain our dental problem with the found knowledge. Dr. Lin did a wonderful job writing this job.