By Dianne Trussell, BSc Hons,Goonellabah, NSW.
When I was a little child, I was already committed to my health. At school we were taught in the subject ‘Health And Hygiene’ to brush our teeth 3 times a day, so I did that diligently. But no-one told us or demonstrated how to actually brush properly. And no-one told us about toothbrush care. They also told us that sugar was bad for our teeth and caused decay and that’s one of the reasons we should brush our teeth 3 times a day. But no-one told us what foods sugar was in! And no-one told us about relating the sugar consumption and the brushing together in time i.e. that you needed to brush your teeth after you ate the sugar and what this would mean for the wellbeing of our teeth.
My mum had false teeth, as she ‘lost’ all hers in her mid-teens. That was so horrifying to me that I was motivated to care for my teeth! Not only that, but because she had no real teeth for her whole adult life, she was no role model for tooth care for her children. Putting your plastic choppers in a glass at night hardly qualified!
So fast forward to young adulthood, and I had tooth decay breaking out everywhere, and extremely thin enamel from too-hard brushing for too long in childhood. To me dentists were demons and the clinic was some version of hell. The burning smells, the intolerable whining of the drill, the pain. Oh, the pain! I’m very sensitive to most drugs, but eventually discovered that I needed double the expected dose of dental anaesthetic to effectively numb my mouth.
So you can understand that I was a bit cranky with the dental profession and health education, and how I perceived them to have failed me.
So I began to find out for myself….
And discovered that there’s a Catch-22. When sugar is consumed, it produces a lot of acid. Acid dissolves tooth enamel. If you brush right away after sugar, your softened enamel gets worn away quickly by the brushing. But if you leave the sugar on your teeth, it gives the bacteria time to use it to eat away at your teeth, i.e. decay!
So what do you do, brush immediately and thin your enamel, or wait and risk decay? Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar! But back then, sugar was utterly ubiquitous and normal in everyone’s diet. And as you can see, without understanding the time connection, I was doing both – brushing sometimes right after eating sugar and sometimes long after – and getting both results: thin enamel and decayed teeth, in spite of being a dedicated tooth-brusher! It seemed hopeless. And there had to be something else going on with the tooth decay story.
In my third year of undergraduate studies in Biological Sciences at university, we did a practical class on the main species of bacteria involved in tooth decay: Streptococcus mutans. All the students took a sample from between their teeth with dental floss, which we then cultured in petri dishes to see what bacteria were in there. We tested the strength of the bacteria to produce the ‘glue’ that they use to stick onto teeth and start the decay process. Different strains of the bacteria produced different strengths of glue. To my horror, of all the students I had the most powerfully decay-inducing (‘cariogenic’) bacteria. My strain was a doozy, a patient’s nightmare and a dentist’s dream! So you can understand that my level of interest in the tooth decay process leaped up exponentially at that point.
We had the choice to do an in-depth project in microbiology, and I chose Streptococcus mutans (of course). The scientist who was my microbiology lecturer and laboratory practical supervisor saw my dedication and the quality of my experimental work and kindly gave me special privileges, such as expensive culture media for my bacteria, extra attention, support and resources, and permission to use the labs outside normal hours. Thanks David!
In the course of doing this experimental work, I learned a lot about these bugs that bugged me so painfully. One thing I learned was that they are ‘partial anaerobes’, that is, they are not too keen on oxygen and get on best without it. Hence one of the benefits of flossing every day – it pulls oxygen in between the teeth and below the gum line and can help tip the scales in favour of the human. Sucrose is the favourite food of Streptococcus mutans and it’s when it digests the sucrose molecule that it produces the glue that sticks to teeth – a polysaccharide that looked like colourless honey on the culture dishes. Within half an hour after eating sugar, this glue would already be strong and the bugs locked onto your teeth, so you’d have to brush right after eating sugar. But the acids produced by the sugar are around for about an hour, softening your enamel, so you’d have to wait over an hour before brushing! There’s the Catch-22. So eating or drinking the sucrose present in many forms of food – table sugar, cane juice, golden syrup, molasses, agave and honey – was a no-no. But try eliminating sugar from the diet in the 1960s, 70s and 80s! It wasn’t easy but I did my best.
After uni, I read books on dental bio-films: the layer of bacteria forming an ecosystem on your teeth. The bio-film can both protect and can harm your teeth and gums, depending on how you look after your overall health and your teeth particularly. I learned about the toxic effects (including subtle and long-term) of mercury in dental filling, many of which I had been suffering for decades. And I spent a few thousand dollars and eight months of misery and serious symptoms while replacing my fillings and removing the stored mercury from my body.
So now here I am at 59 with 3 gold inlays, 2 or 3 root canal jobs that I don’t enjoy at all, and 3 other teeth that are more filling than teeth. One inlay came off on a Friday night and I had to go the whole weekend with a ring of ‘razor blade’ enamel and exposed nerves in my mouth. One fell off while in India, and fortunately I found a very skilled dentist to stick it back on for me. The root canals sometimes used to get infected with anaerobic bacteria that are smelly, and I had to floss 3 times a day and bathe the tooth in peroxide to knock out the offenders. My enamel is so thin that my beautiful, ‘well’ cared-for teeth look greyish from translucency and yellowish from easy stainability, and thus people think I don’t clean my teeth! But my dentist knows, and was gobsmacked – he said in all his years of practice he had never seen such clean teeth and gums!
So why, if I have the cleanest teeth my dentist has ever seen, have I had so much trouble with my teeth? Could there be more to it than just eating sugar? Lots of other people I know kept eating sugar, and did not take nearly so much care with cleaning their teeth, but their teeth are fine. Why the difference?
Since studying with Universal Medicine, I have come to understand that there is more to teeth than roots, dentine and enamel. In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives. Now that is something worth pondering on!
Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?
Read more about dental health:
- Life, stress and dental problems
- Responsibility and Dental Health
- Sugar and Dental Decline
- My teeth and what they have taught me
Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
We can be inspired by the choices of another however seeing the unhealthy choices of another can be enough for us not to do the same and inspire others through the choices we make and show there is another way. Seeing a relative with no teeth can be scary enough to say ‘I don’t want to be like that!’ and also seeing a relative that has clean and healthy teeth can be enough to say ‘I want to have teeth like that!’ I can say this is what has happened to me throughout the years and has had enormous impact on my relationship with my teeth.
A super informative blog that has re-inspired me to floss, and to understand how and why it works – and how we can truly take care of our teeth. Thank you Dianne.
Fascinating to understand that the way we have been living, which includes so much more than the foods we eat and the drinks we consume, not just in this life but previous lives also, can have such a huge impact on our teeth.
It is amazing that with something that most of us do at least once a day like teeth brushing that there is so little information around about how best to carry this out to maintain your dental health and not cause other issues e.g. receding gums from over-brushing.
It is great to understand what is at play when we consume sucrose and how it attacks the tooth enamel and what the options are to best counter it if you are unable to give up completely which as you point out requires a lot of diligence as it is so ubiquitous. With the consistent rise in diabetes I would imagine that dental health issues are going to become more prevalent and it is extremely useful to have such clearly explained information. Thank you Dianne.
Very informative on sugar and teeth, I didn’t fully understand what sugar does, and how destructive it is … but the real question is understanding why we reach for it and being more aware of how we are when we do.
Our choices impact our body. The more we accept this the more we will be able to take greater responsibility for ourselves.
“Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar!” And then the question is ‘How have you been living that may be reflected in the health, or otherwise, of your teeth?’
It is not so common to hear tooth health and karma put together. But this is one of the wonderful things about Universal Medicine, how they make sense of every detail in life and relate it to the bigger more fundamental aspects of our lives, which personally I find very supportive because it helps me to understand not only myself but also how life works and the journey that every one is on.
“Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?” And I would add ‘does your body reflect the way you have been living?’ – for all our choices are like painted strokes on a canvas which is our body.
I have over the years discovered that I have very thin tooth enamel too – hence when I eat foods like citrus (for example even a squeeze of lemon in water), or fruit or berries etc then my teeth get very sensitive as the acid from the fruit begins to eat away on the enamel further. Sensitive teeth can give you a headache and can be very challenging to live with as you seem to react to hot or cold drinks and foods, sweet foods etc. And when the pain is triggered it is like nerve pain that gets you right to the core. By simply cutting out these foods and by have a gentle tooth brushing regime, and also by swirling some minerals in my mouth, I have managed to have little to no sensitive teeth today.
Thank you for that tip Henrietta as I too have sensitive teeth and have been taking minerals 3 times a day along with other things to counter the effects of mercury toxicity but have never considered swirling them around my mouth to increase the beneficial effects.
Thanks Dianne, fascinating read about teeth, bacteria in the mouth, and sugar. Some people can do all the right things and have many problems with their teeth, others may be lax on oral care yet their teeth are ok. This signifies to me that there is more going on than just the basics of the physical.
Spot on Melinda – the body is amazing with how it communicates things to us and we can have so much more fun with life when we allow our perceptions to be far grander than just the mere physical explanations.
It just goes to show that everything is energy – regardless of how much you brush your teeth and take care of them, if there is a lesson to be learned in regards to your teeth they will show it.
Love all that you are presenting here Dianne. I have also just read Gabriele Conrad’s blog ‘My teeth and what they have taught me’ that is also posted on this site. In this she mentions that our teeth are of one of the parts of our body that do not regenerate. This means that how we have cared or not cared for ourselves becomes immediately apparent by the state of our teeth, because nothing here is being erased or regenerated. We are left to see and feel it all – you could say it is our karma left bare. Observing the state of our teeth helps us to more astutely observe the energetic quality of our previous choices. Paying more attention to this will help us tend with more care, not only the state of our teeth but also the source of energy we align with (love or not-love) in our every movement in life. Furthermore, the mouth is the beginning of the digestive system and on an energetic level we are being asked – which energy do we ingest? As are we being asked – how do we digest life? Do we accept love or do we accept abuse? There is so much for us to look at here.
Dianne I love your blogs, there is always so much information and a great deal to ponder on, from my own experience I can say that our teeth do reflect the way that we are living, because if we are disregarding of our own care it is often shown to us in many ways including our teeth, so when I need any dental work doing it is also an opportunity to consider how I have been living.
I love your blogs Dianne, science made so simple and easy to understand – Thank you.
I love your dedication to your teeth and the detail you go to to understand and find the answer. You unplug the way we look at science and medicine today and give an insight to a much deeper spectrum of all that plays into our health and well-being.
I love it – could multidimensionality be the only thing that would explain the seeming unexplainable?
I found this blog to be really fascinating to understand more deeply just what wild things are going on with my teeth and why I have had some of the dental issues that are similar to Dianne’s in my life. Lately, I have noticed how even though I now take super good care of my teeth, gums, and mouth, there still exists receding gums, that to me is a marker of the momentum I had of being in disregard to my body before initiating a more self-caring way of life in the last 8 years. Many people seem to have a difficult time going to the dentist, and perhaps that is because they are actually being faced with the results of all their choices and Karma (as Dianne mentioned) in their lives, and are avoiding taking responsibility for this.
Love your blog Dianne, you make sense of how we can still have tooth decay even when we brush our teeth regularly. I know for myself my mother would offer us an apple instead of cleaning our teeth before going to bed when we were growing up because sugar in fruit like apples, was never considered harmful if even considered at all. Until I read your blog I had no idea that the acid after eating sugar softens the enamel and that bacteria can be like glue sticking to the teeth. thank you I learnt a lot by reading your blog.
“Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living? What a great question. I would say a definite yes to this. I know that part of my dislike of going to the dentist is that I get to feel in my body how I have been living and it can be quite confronting.
Fascinating read Dianne, that our teeth reflect to us the way we have been living, and not just our food and diet choices. There is so much more to our bodies than just its physical being and when we are open to understanding this there is so much more for us to learn about how the impact of absolutely everything that we do affects our bodies.
This blog is gold Dianne. It raises a topic that everyone can relate to, and it’s been fascinating to read about what you discovered during your studies but also in life. Our teeth absolutely reflect the way that we live, and for myself I’ve never had a filling or particular problems but can notice a slight change in colouring depending on how I’m living, looking after my teeth and myself in general.
Our relationship with our body show through many facets. It is our willingness to delve deeper into the patterns that lead to these signs are the best form of medicine we can ask for.
My teeth aren’t straight nor pearly white, but they are strong and healthy. In the last 2 years I’ve had 3 wisdom teeth removed and how I live and how I cared for myself after allowed me to heal very quickly. It makes sense that how we live is reflected in our health yet this stance doesn’t get nearly as much mainstream attention as it should.
I always wondered when I was younger how some friends had great teeth and others not so great, we all seemed to be cleaning them the same, we even started using the same toothpaste, yet some of us needed more fillings than others, it goes to show that all our choices are revealed through our physical body even over many lifetimes.
I absolutely love how you bring your easily understandable scientific way of approaching everything in life, in this case your teeth, into this blog. What you have shared has offered me so much to consider as to the reason why my teeth have ended up the way they have. And I too have discovered that there is more to how my teeth are than just removing sugar from my diet and flossing more; it’s also in the way I live.
Puposely seeing life in separate parts is our habitual way of fighting the true science of life. Everything relates to everything else and can’t be compartmentalised. Thank you Dianne for leading us to chew on that fact!
Yes to understand what the teeth represent allows me a much deeper understanding of them – and how there are people who drink coffee and eat sugar in high amounts and seem to have a good set of teeth, while at the same time there are people who eat super healthy and their teeth look like they don’t care.
So interesting Dianne, how you bring such simple understanding and true wisdom to such basic, everyday things. I’ve learnt more from reading your blogs about science in relation to the human body than I ever learnt in a science class at school. Thankyou.
I love the way you make science so accessible and simple Diane, and to consider the bigger picture with any issues with may be having with our teeth.
I read this blog in a timely way… I may have to have my first root canal done in the next week or so… so you have given much to ponder on, Dianne!
My teeth certainly reflect the way I had been living in my earlier years. I have a mouth full of fillings as well as 5 implants and one root canal. The price …literally ….you pay for indulgence!!
Beautiful Dianne – just recently my teeth have been teaching me about taking things for granted and settling for a view of life that’s just about surface. Boy, our teeth have a lot to teach us – and they’re just one part of our body! Makes you wonder how we act so dumb when we have so much wisdom coming our way.
This is the perfect follow up to the dental appointment I had last week! I’ve never been so inspired to floss! Thank you for making the science so simple Dianne😁
“So what do you do, brush immediately and thin your enamel, or wait and risk decay? Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar!” – I so love this. This really made me laugh. This question is a classic example of how we try to solve a problem. How can we ever not have a problem without removing the problem?
It would seem from what you have observed that all our choice in life, too eat sugar or not, perhaps truly care for our bodies are all very individual. Therefore it is not useful to compare ourselves to others, rather look at our patterns of behaviour and quality of our choices in order to understand the root cause of our maladies.
What a fascinating blog, love the detail you give about tooth and gum health, your investigations and findings. ‘In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma’ this would explain why people eating exactly the same meals or food choices have very different dental health. Definitely worth us pondering on..
With all the current discussions on sugar consumption and obesity this article on the effect of sucrose on our teeth adds to our understanding of the effect of sugar in the diet.
” Since studying with Universal Medicine, I have come to understand that there is more to teeth than roots, dentine and enamel. In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma ” This is interesting and I wonder how does teething work in this.
I’ve learnt that whether it be your teeth or any other part of the body the willingness to love and be tender with it will result in the loving refection it will offer you back.
This is such an educational blog. The karma aspect of teeth explains so much, how in one family everyone can be on the same diet and yet some members suffer more decay and issues than others. I’d love to know more about what each tooth reflects in terms of choices and what we can learn from reading this.
It seems so simple that it is almost laughable, yet our insatiable need for sugar prevents us from eliminating it from our diet. But what if it is causing more harm in our bodies than thinning our teeth enamel and causing cavities? What if it is also responsible for many other diseases and is the prime ingredient that feeds cancer cells? Will this make us consider the depth of harm consuming this product is?
An awareness of our teeth and what they represent, when truly understood, actually gives us the power of understanding and insight and also reflects to us the beauty of not having perfect teeth. Caring for them is a must, but being disappointed when they are not perfect is letting our belief of what we should get from our labors take precedence, instead of leaving us with deep understanding for our past choices.
Thank you Dianne it is so supportive to understand the detail of what is happening in our mouths and how best to support our teeth and our overall wellbeing. I had 17 mercury fillings replaced a few years ago which felt amazing but feel there are still ongoing effects of having had the mercury in my system which I am in the process of getting support with.
The other thing I notice about sugar is how stimulating it is, often covering up how I might be really tired and exhausted by the way I am living during the day.
I remember as a child being allowed to put heaped teaspoons of white sugar all over my porridge or cereal in the morning and the white bread I had for lunch was probably loaded with sugar as well, how I got through childhood without a mouth full of fillings I will never know.
This to me is a very clear example of how life is so much more than what we can see. There are unseen influences on us and our bodies which manifest in all sorts of ways – illness and disease being two of them.
I have always found that anything going wrong with my teeth brings up a lot of dis-ease in me, far more than it does with any other part of my body. This is because our teeth really do reflect how we have lived and there is no hiding from that when we have an issue with our teeth. It can be quite an ouch moment.
Another great blog Dianne, really understand how our every action has consequences, either in this lifetime or the next.
There must be more and I am sure my teeth are reflecting back the way I have been living, I had major problems with my teeth when I was young, did not eat any different than a lot of my peers and yet there were only a few of them with bad teeth just like me and the others did not have this same problem.
Love it Dianne – The tooth about truth 😉
This is so interesting Dianne. I never knew about the favoured anaerobic conditions for these bugs and that flossing was a way to introduce oxygen – how amazing is that! It brings a whole new attention to looking after the details of our teeth and not dismissing a ritual of brushing and flossing because we can’t be bothered or don’t see the importance of looking after ourselves.
“Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?” – and we could ask: does your body reflect how you have been living and the choices you have made? For the body is the marker of truth.
“Since studying with Universal Medicine, I have come to understand that there is more to teeth than roots, dentine and enamel. In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives. Now that is something worth pondering on!” – I love it Dianne how you bring it all into a perspective and understanding – there are physical aspects to our well being that may seem out of proportion to how things should be, and this is where the energetic understanding is paramount. Thank you for this great reminder!
To take each part of the human body and relate it to an extensively larger view that includes past lives, energetic integrity, how we move, is wonderful because with it comes the opportunity to be ever so much more responsible.
I have had problems with my teeth since I was 8 years old. My brother had exactly the same diet as me and has never had any problems with his teeth! Yes, there must be something else at play here other than sugar and dental hygiene.
It just goes to show how important the details are in the technique of how we care for ourselves for like you Dianne I too brushed religiously but excessively hard and have irreparably damaged my tooth enamel and gums in the process.
When you choose to do something that doesn’t honour your body – it’s not just the consequences of that you receive, but it has a knock on effect. One contraction leads to some more, compounding what you choose to start with. But the beautiful thing is as you also show Dianne – that when we choose love it lifts everything in our life not just one element or part. The alchemy of energy means we can transform in hugely powerful ways just with the ‘small’ choices we make.
I love the simplicity of what to do: Stop eating sugar. But as you have shared with us Dianne there is a lot more at play than meets the eye and is it possible that the teeth are the part of the body that is clearing the Karma we have accrued from the choices we have made. Be it this life or one from the past. It definitely brings us to a stopping moment to at least consider what choices are we making and what effects are they having on the body.
Wow and wow, reading your blogs is like going to a science class. I just learnt so much about my teeth and what’s happening in my mouth. Awesome.
I love the education you offer in your writing but also how it invites the reader to ponder over their own choices and contemplate possible pathways not previously considered. There is so much to the body that science is yet to discover when it opens its parameters to the world of energy and the impact of our choices.
I always love your rich prospective Dianne, when I was young, my first set of baby teeth simply grew through brown and eaten away, rotting. I was in the dentist every week and I had a the same thing with needing a double dose of the drugs because I could always feel the pain when they were doing the endless fillings. The Dentist told my mother it was the sugar, my mother explained that I had not ever had any sugar in my diet, they were gob smacked. I knew back then and even my Mum confirmed it, that this was something I had come through with. My adult teeth looked straight, white and attractive, thank god but they were and are rife with issues, with every second tooth being a mercury filling. The interesting thing is, the longer I have studied with Universal Medicine, the more my teeth have improved. Now I am going to embark on getting all this mercury out of my mouth, an expensive and painful endeavour! But I think it will be well worth the investment.
An interesting and inspiring blog on teeth Dianne. I have learnt more from reading this than I was ever told as a child by dentists and have another view too of the quality in our way of living that also has an affect on our teeth. Thank you.
I just love how our body reveals so much to us and it is often not what we want or expect. In this way the body is so objective, it just tells the truth no matter what we may believe.
Understanding the physiological responses in our bodies at play is so supportive but it’s only when we bring in universal medicine that we get the full picture of what and why something is going on in our bodies.
I am a student dentist and see a lot of mouths and really sugar alone does not explain dental caries. It is really related to how people are living and being with themselves.
Dianne thank you, your blog had me transfixed, I really prefer not to think about all the bugs and bacteria in my mouth, but this was fascinating, and it’s great to have a deeper understanding of what actually goes on in our mouths. I also didn’t actually realise flossing had a purpose other than to remove debris – this puts now puts flossing in my top ten things to investigate!
There is more to the physical body than the physical body, there is an energetic world to be considered.
It was amazing to read through this article and come to a point where everything is being done right physically but something we’re afraid of is inevitable. It implies that we’re more than physical and our bodies reflects the physical and energetic imprints that we’ve managed to accumulate over lifetimes. Thank you for sharing!
A great reminder to not become complacent about tooth care and also recognizing that we have some Karmic influences also working against having great teeth.
“Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?” A good question Dianne. I’ve always cleaned my teeth at least twice a day, but had fillings from a young age, despite sugar being rationed ’til I was four. The karma explanation makes a lot of sense to me. So the quality with which I brush (and in fact do everything) nowadays will affect the quality I return in.
“Our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.” Thank you Dianne for saying it how it is, what a great wake up call for us all to check in with how we are living as our every move/ action/ thought is directly impacting not only this life but our next life too.
I love how you break this down Dianne, it strikes me reading this, that we are often given partial advice without full facts, so brush your teeth but no real direction on when to brush and the best time. I too was a diligent brusher so much such that I over brushed and affected my gums. But in fact on reading this today and considering what I did, it was all from fear of not wanting to loose my teeth, so in fact it’s only in later years that I’ve actually developed a relationship with my teeth and considered what they have been showing me and since then my overall care has changed so now while I still brush and floss, how I do it is vastly different, it’s not a chore but a daily check-in and more with my teeth and what they show me.
I love your enthusiasm and dedication to investigating, observing and making sense of things. I did not imagine enjoying reading about issues with teeth so much. Fascinating. Then there is even more – reflection of karma! I would love to read a blog from you on that one 🙂
Dianne it was really interesting to read your blog about teeth, thankyou. Sugar was so normal in the 70’s and 80’s when I was growing up, there was even a belief that you needed sugar to think. The advent of the low-fat food fad also saw a rise of hidden sugar in many products. What would have been supportive at that time would have been health warning adverts about sugar from the dental associations! Great blog Dianne, thank you.
I can remember as a child being committed to my health in the sense of healthy eating and exercise and cleaning my teeth was no different. I was inspired by my granddad who told me when I was in my teens that he had no fillings, only one tooth removed and that remained until he died in his late seventies. He also told me that he did not brush his teeth twice a day every day and of course the fluoride toothpastes, floss and mouthwash weren’t around then like they are today. Ever since I often pondered on what he shared with me and was sometimes puzzled by the fact that he didn’t religiously take care of his teeth… there had to be more at play!
Thanks Dianne a practical science lesson I can relate to.
Your enthusiasm for science is infectious and the fun and simple way you present and relate it to everyday life is so interesting, thank you! All the practical tips you have shared make sense to me e.g when and how we brush and floss and also being open to seeing what energetically is reflected to us in our teeth and gums and whole body for that matter!
What an in depth understanding of teeth made simple to understand by the brilliant and light hearted way that you write Dianne. I know the best thing I ever did was to remove the mercury amalgam from my teeth, it was worth every penny and I no longer have the sluggish feeling of tiredness that I had before. Since making the time to floss every day I can see and feel a difference in my teeth so it made sense that bacteria don’t like oxygen so allowing my teeth to have space to breath made sense. I feel like you that teeth can tell a story of our past and how we have lived. Thank you Dianne for making science so real and relatable.
Yes Dianne, we like to see life as a million separate things, best navigated by rules and regimes. ‘Do this, do that but don’t take the other’. But how many of us stop, to stock take the quality our life takes place in? Or the connection between choice A and choice B? For what you show us here is that our traditional view of life’s details seems to be inside out. So what, as an experiment would our world be like if we made every step about energy and intention first? And saw every event as part of a bigger whole? Perhaps then we would have to admit there is a science to life we have until now, simply ignored.
Great blog Dianne, I love how informative your blogs are and how you present something for us to learn from and ponder on too. I have found that looking after my teeth has been an essentially part of my oral health, taking proper care to clean and floss between my teeth has definitely improved them.
What a great blog Dianne – as always so informative and understandable from the scientific perspective and also the energetic perspective – the root cause of all our ills and woes.
It makes sense to me that teeth reflect the way we have been living – each tooth, every filling, crown, root canal, bridge and gap as well as our gums have a story to tell and it is not always a pretty one, but important they are as they show the way forward and that everything counts, down to the smallest detail.
Thank you Dianne for providing an insight into the harm that a sugar diet has on our dental health. So often we are convinced that if we eat sugary foods and brush our teeth that the harm will not be noticed on the body. My neighbour works in this field and specialises in oral dental health for young children. She recently shared how the rates of decay due to the consumption of high rates of sugar diets, has escalated in the last 10 years. The worst in 30 years. Although the dental care and education is offered to us all, it is the willingness to be responsible for our daily actions that make the difference.
I remember feeling like no amount of dental advice about sugar was going to stop me from eating it, and I’m sure this is common for lots of things which are bad for us, and this reveals the nature of our spirit which does not want anything other than its right to say it can have what it wants, but this may not necessarily serve us in the long run. What I can say now is that I don’t eat sugar and generally don’t crave or enjoy sweet things, I feel as though my body becomes uncontrollably stimulated and causes fogginess.
This is a revelation in recognizing that every decision we make has an impact either in this life or another one. Thank you Dianne.
So great here Dianne how you are exposing the limitations of our so called solutions. We often try to use solutions to counter the effects of our daily choices rather than looking at the beginning so to speak of the original choice and whether it makes sense or not.
Great point Andrew. Solutions are mere band aids that do not even attempt to look at the underlying cause of why something is occurring in the first place.
As a teenager I fell against the side of a trampoline and broke my two front teeth, taking a v out of them. I didn’t even know I had done this as I was laughing and having fun at the time. Thus began a series of dental visits, and a great dislike of dentists. I went many years without going for checkups, only going when I was in dire straits with pain. Such behavior led to having a huge build up of plaque and a lot of pain again each time it was removed. In the past couple of years I have changed this, and visit the dentist for yearly checkups, doing so has meant my visits are much more pain free. But what I have considered is how my choice of dental care, or lack there of, coincided with a total lack of care of myself.
“Could there be more to it than just eating sugar?” A great question Dianne. There was rationing in my childhood in the UK until I was four – and we ate a pretty healthy diet as a family. I recall my Gran giving us sweets as a treat at every visit later in my childhood – but that was only weekly. Learning about teeth and karma shed a whole new light on my relationship with teeth.
“They also told us that sugar was bad for our teeth and caused decay and that’s one of the reasons we should brush our teeth 3 times a day. But no-one told us what foods sugar was in! ” It is only now that we are becoming aware that there is sugar in nearly all our food and that while brushing our teeth is a part of a healthy regime, understanding the effect of sugar on the body and how harmful it is, not just to our teeth, would we be a great part of our education and support us for the rest of our life.
Ah Dianne,, your words remind me how something in us just prefers to make life into a list of things we should and shouldn’t do. If we follow orders surely we should be delivered the outcome we would like to get. But all of this absolutely omitts the impact of the quality we live, not to mention the fact that our life and our health may be arranged in a certain way as a process for us to go through, grow and to learn. Life and our body is so much wiser than we think.
Magnificent Dianne, I think you just rewrote to the very detail, the lesson content for ‘teeth week’ in Health And Hygiene subject! Going back to these very basics, in detail, and then broadening out to the effects feels a very complete way to introduce a topic.
Wow the context of information is so important! What if we were sat down and explained not only why we should brush our teeth, but how this is an end result of the food we are choosing to eat! I love how the whole bacteria side of things work and it really exposes what sugar does to us before it has even reached our systems. I have a 7 month old who is teething at the moment, and many people have warned me that it is a horrible time because the child will be grumpy – but unless I feel for teeth, I would not know she has them. My daughter has been so calm about her teeth coming through, and a friend proposed to me that it could have something to do with her karma and that she may not have too much to clear. And wow what a beautiful way to look at teeth and how individual they are to all of us.
I go to my dental hygienist every 3 to 4 months rather than the recommended 6. I sometimes wonder if the regular cleaning is wearing away my enamel. I have had to start using a softer toothbrush because vigorous brushing in my younger years has lead to receding gums and consequently exposure of the dentine. Flossing is part of my daily routine. It feels good and does get ride of small pieces of trapped food that my brush will never reach. I liked reading about the added bonus of it bringing oxygen into areas where the bacteria are.
I always feel different after I clean my teeth. My whole body feels clearer if the way I have cleaned them is very present and not thinking about something else.
An interesting read, and how great you share your understanding that, ‘our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.’ This makes sense.
Yes, my teeth definitely reflect the way I have been living, this time around and other times as well. And they don’t look particularly pretty: easy stainabiity, a certain shade of grey and lots of fillings, etc etc.Sometimes I ask myself whether I would have actually truly listened had someone explained the whole picture or whether I needed to find out for myself and bear the cost and the discomfort.
Our teeth reflecting our karma, that absolutely makes sense. Not only does karma reflect our choices made, it keeps us in a momentum of these choices until we choose to change them. What you have also shared Dianne is that our teeth show us more about ourselves to accept, as our bodies do not lie. Ultimately, in acceptance of ourselves, we will understand others deeper and accept how interconnected we are as a whole.
I love the enthusiam and joy you can feel in what you share Dianne. This is the essence of science and life to me, that you uncovered something unusual and did not get down or glum or slump to the ground, but looked at it as great opportunity to understand how everything worked. This is a ‘doozy’ of a blog because of your unrelenting quest for the truth.
As Dianne says, there is so much more that can be learned from a deeper connection with ALL parts of us, with our bodies and our hearts, and from this connection our evolution unfolds
Reading that has upped my inspiration of flossing at least once a day Dianne.
It seems crazy that we are not given routine demonstrations of how to brush our teeth to do an effective job without wearing down the enamel. I have several friends who have over-brushed for years and now have receding gums whereas I was always less diligent with my tooth hygiene and had to have many fillings when I was a child but since cleaning up my diet over several years have spent much less time with my lovely dentist. Your writing is so accessible and relatable and I love how you explain the science of what is going on but also recognise the role of karma in our dental health.
Ain’t that the tooth! (sorry, sorry, could not resist…I am sure I am not the first). But it is true, there is more to our teeth than just random good or bad luck or simply just genes. Yes genetics play a part in the type of teeth we have, but what is in place before those genes are chosen from that great gene pool we all swim in before incarnating? It makes sense that it is the choices we make throughout the various lives that we live that imprint the physicality we are faced with in our present incarnation. As such, time is a blessing and not a curse through which we are able to experience the effect of all our choices and whether these were made with love or whether they were not. Passing over at the end of our life does not mean we are magically absolved of any choice we have made in it that is not in accordance with the love that we are.
Thank you Dianne for exposing the Catch 22 of dental hygiene. When I cut most sugars from my diet my visits to the dentist are no longer something to dread.
Your level of dedication to science and research is nothing short of extraordinary Dianne. I am reflecting on my happy-go-lucky attitude to my oral care during my lifetime and am having quite a battle not to go into feelings of comparison. My teeth are worn down by grinding during my sleep because for years I just accepted it as something I had to put up with. When I finally mentioned it to my dentist and he provided me with a splint to wear at night to protect my teeth. This too became another thing that I simply had to put up with. I have tried on numerous occasions to get to the bottom of what is the cause of my grinding without success so just keep putting it aside into the ‘too hard basket’. You have inspired me to keep looking.
Thank you Dianne, great information about teeth care, really explains well why some people can be fastidious with their care and still get lots of fillings while others like myself more reckless and not. I appreciate how you have also opened up a larger picture about how our body’s state of health reflects all of our choices, perhaps even distant past ones.
I was chatting to my dentist the other day, I hadn’t been to him before, he was putting quite a bit of pressure on about the kids’ teeth and using fluoride, first he explained that the reason one of my sons had one tooth come through with no enamel was that he had too much fluoride when he was 4 years old, I then explained that the kids don’t use fluoride anymore and he told me that I was crazy not to use it. There is plenty of different research and it all says different things but in the end, like you say, there has to be more to it….
We can tick the boxes and do all the right things for our teeth, but this does not count for the fact that there is more to the story: “our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.” Thank you Dianne, for this beautiful reminder to always take deeper responsibility for ourselves and our choices.
I so enjoyed rereading this blog Dianne! I giggled with familiarity several times and I too agree that our teeth reflect far more than our diligence or neglect when it comes to cleaning them and being responsible for the food and drink that they encounter.
More time to do things, and more importantly more space around them… and sure enough the quality improves
I know the way I am cleaning my teeth tells me much about how Ive been, if I am rushing through and having other thoughts then I know somethings up – but other than that teeth cleaning can be a very supportive ritual for ourselves, as well as dental hygiene.
Your statement “our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives” is indeed something to ponder on Dianne. As this is the case, as I know from experience from the extraction of a wisdom tooth in which I felt such a clearing and afterwards a change in me being me as very old patterns and behaviours just vanished, how would I then approach life in this awareness that my body carries the karma from all my lived lives? To me it is about taking responsibility in life and with that I do not only mean this life but the life I am living already for centuries on this planet earth.
Yes our teeth are like pillars of Wisdom, clearing our Karma from past lives, well all I can say is my teeth are fillings from top to bottom, despite my mother’s dedication to having us brush our teeth. So definitely more to the picture than meets the eye and what stories our teeth could tell.
My teeth started rotting big time when I hit puberty. The dentist put it down to being on the pill. After reading this blog I’m pretty sure it was more likely to be karma.
Absolutely yes! They do definitely reflect the way l have been living. I was recently reminded of that fact after a most painful visit to my dentist. More pain on the pocket but it got me pondering. Everything reflects something back to us. The disregard of my own wisdom and my self-dismissiveness was made very clear to me. With a massive crack in my wisdom tooth. OUCH!!!
I have always thought that flossing was to remove food from in between my teeth so I have tended to floss only where I see or think food may get lodged. Becoming aware as Dianne says in her blog that flossing ‘pulls oxygen in between the teeth and below the gum line’ and therefore helps to eliminate decay gives me a greater purpose to floss in between all of my teeth and not just where there is food.
Fascinating Dianne thank you, I did know some of that about teeth, enamel and brushing too soon after eating sugar, but now feel thoroughly informed and motivated to look after my teeth with that bit more attention to the details than before.
There is always more to life than just the physical as you have chronicled Dianne. Often it doesn’t seem fair and this is especially born out with teeth and what happens to them. It is really interesting to discover the secret life within our mouths and quite scary in some ways. How we live affects our health and our health is reflected in our oral health but not just that. Often many are born with problems and I sincerely feel that this shows that there are things we carry into this life from another past experience. It teeth reflect our Karma then that kid that pushed me over and just about knocked out my front tooth (it’s dead) when I was little, must be part of that. Knowing that, I can accept that fact and move on, letting go of the resentment I felt about it.
Great to refresh my understanding (from as past read) of tooth hygiene. I love your in depth and sometimes humorous approach to your studies and the great educational value you share.
These are great points to make Dianne as we cannot limit ourselves to this life, this body, nor can we blame or judge ourselves or others in any way; all we can really do is start to take responsibility for ourselves right now by making choices that are self caring, self loving and self responsible.
Having a deeper understanding of why things occur, i.e. Karma affecting our teeth, allows us to start walking with our eyes open in the world. Without it we are like moles in the sunlight blind to the magic and beauty around us.
“In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives. Now that is something worth pondering on!”
Indeed something to ponder on, thank you Dianne for deepening my awareness.
I had not imagined I could be so enthralled about gaining a deeper insight about the health of our teeth. How amazing would it be if all those communicating about biology and science resisted the dry complicated expression and expressed with playful simplicity like this blog. And what an ending! I was happily enjoying running through the different insights shared and then wham – a whopper – all of this could have a far deeper significance- Karma. Wow. Feels like a cliffhanger ending.
I have learned so much reading your blog Dianne, thank you for your wisdom and scientific bent. You join the dots so simply and practically.
Growing up, I lived at the dentist or should I say Dentists, I would change regularly as I was so horrified by each new one I visited. I could always feel the pain from my nerves during drilling and was tortured by the rough handling and lack of consideration, not to mention fear mongering that took place.
I was considered a strange case, as my teeth started just rotting out of my head as soon as they came through, the dentists put it down to sugar but my mother explained that I had never eaten sugar, in fact I had only had breast milk at this stage and some basic mashed homemade baby food. This to me proves that there is much more to teeth than we might like to admit. I have much to say on this subject, so thank you Dianne for beginning the conversation, over and out from me but only for now.
I know what you mean about the rough handling and lack of consideration! In dental school they should also teach how to deliver nurturing dental care.
There is certainly more to teeth than meets the eye, so to speak – a whole plethora of past choices and consequences as well as sound science and you combine knowledge and wisdom beautifully here.
Besides the fact that this is such a great blog, giving us much to consider and ponder in regard to our teeth, your insatiable quest for knowledge and understanding and your amazing life just blow me away…..you are very inspiring Dianne…thank you for all that you so beautifully express and share.
Thank you Dianne, I always find your blogs both educational and entertaining, a great combo. I am booked in for an extraction of a wisdom tooth this week as it has a fracture. You have certainly given me something to ponder on and I may get in touch with a dentist who could give me more information on wisdom teeth and their Esoteric significance too.
Wow!! What an epic journey… Dianne I so appreciate your incredible dedication in exploring the human body, the universe, and everything in between within and without to educate us all on the extraordinary world we live in and the amazing body that we inhabit… May your writings bless the children of the future.
I agree Chris, there is so much of what Dianne writes that will bless children and education in the future!
Ah the simplicity of flossing! I love flossing – it really does feel amazing to have those little spaces between the teeth all cleared up and free! I floss at least once per day now and if I for some reason don’t get the flossing in, then my teeth do not feel complete. But this did not used to be the case. I used to floss only rarely – like never at all till I was about in my 30’s to then just once per week if I was lucky. But then when I began to understand the importance of it and also felt the difference in my body (yes the whole body came alive when I flossed) then I began to ‘make myself’ do it more. But this was still somewhat forced. I can’t really say what shifted for me, but I do know that there came a point where I began to really enjoy the flossing and it was like I was ready to embrace a deeper level of self care. Perhaps it had to do with how I had been working on my relationship with myself and how I then wanted to do more things that cared for me. The thing is that when I now think back, there is no way I would not floss in a day or brush my teeth, and it shows me that self care is a thing that grows and deepens when we work on it, and this then shows in how we are with others too!
I agree, I too only sporadically flossed my teeth but when I started caring for myself more and discovered dental tape rather than the much thinner dental floss, my oral hygiene changed. Flossing now feels great and like you, when I haven’t done it the whole experience seems incomplete and half done.
Agreed Gabriele, the details make all the difference… in life, as well as cleaning our teeth.
Again Dianne, a well-educated enthralling piece of writing. I love the story and the depth you go to the roots literally of why and how simply it can be done.
I have a dentist appointment today and have to admit that I have always given my teeth over to the dentist to do their thing rather than actually look at how are my teeth reflecting how I am living. This is just such an amazing blog to read about the pressure we put on our bodies just to get a little bit of satisfaction through taste. But you also raise a great point about Karma and how everyone’s teeth are different because karma has a role to play. I absolutely agree with this – so we can’t compare our habits with another’s, because our lives and karma is for us and us alone.
It feels like there is a part 2 to this blog – to explore the question of how our teeth reflect the way we are living and our karma. It is certain that our current understanding of our teeth and of decay isn’t the full picture because as Dianne has explored here, our current pro-active brushing and flossing regimen it doesn’t work for everyone. So what are the additional factors in this exploration?
It is fairly common knowledge these days that eating sugar contributes to the decay of our teeth, but what about the rest of our bodies? It would seem to be common sense that if it decays our teeth – one of the strongest parts of our body, designed to deal with foods, what does it do to us internally? And equally, why has it taken until now, until scientists confirm the fact for us to start to act on our relationship with sugar? Are we so beholden to science these days that we ignore common sense until scientists get around to confirming what we already knew? Perhaps we should learn to trust our common sense once again – maybe it is full of true wisdom.
When I was a boy, it was fairly common for people to have false teeth. All three of my grandparents I knew as a child had them and the sight of them in a glass by the bed is a strong motivator for taking care of your real teeth believe me. We have come a long way in dental care in my lifetime but what I love most about it is that it is so pro-active, that we have a level of responsibility that we don’t yet take into other areas of our wellbeing. What might our health and wellbeing be like if we are as pro-active with every area of our health as we are with looking after our teeth? Perhaps our health services would be more able to cope with our needs.
I agree Dianne it is important to bring in the karma aspect to oral health as some times there is no other explanation. When I was a young mother I never allowed my children any processed sugar. They ate fruit, seeds, nuts and vegetables but no processed foods at all, no meat and at one point not even bread or grains. It was at this time that one of my children had immense problems with her baby teeth. They just were rotting in her mouth. I took her to the dentist and he told me that she needed to cut down on her sugar and eat a healthy diet! I threw him completely by saying she has never ever eaten sugar and that her diet was even better than what he prescribed. Poor guy had nothing to say after that, except that it must have been from the mother’s milk! Even though she didn’t have teeth when I was breast feeding her! We were all at a loss. . . . letting go of karma from past choices in past lives actually makes more sense.
Wow Dianne, I love the way you investigated every detail and never stop until you get to the bottom of it . . . until you have discovered a truth. It inspires me to look deeper in all areas of my life! You make sense of everything. You are a true scientist.
Teeth and karma is certainly something to ponder on! Thank you so much Diane for sharing your knowledge and experiences – it does help us all understand the importance of tooth care on all levels and is inspiring to keep up the sparkle in the smile!
Gosh false teeth as a teenager! 😮 It is great your school were teaching you about forms of self-care like brushing your teeth. However, as you mention so much was missed out like what foods sugar is in, which is why when teaching anyone anything it’s always good to reflect and see what has been overlooked or not shared that could have been supportive and can be shared the next time. Before teaching about teeth (even though it is awesome they did!) wouldn’t it be great if you were first taught about the truth in energy, to honour your clairsentience and connection with yourself. I reckon this is one of the first things we should be learning and Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are lighting and paving the way.
Diane I never learned so much about teeth! Thank you so much to share all your insights about it. As a child I had also a lot of problems with my teeth so I started to ponder on your question and I have to admit that I am now sure that my teeth problems reflected something about my karma otherwise all my teeth problems back then made no sense.
I know my teeth have been an accurate barometer of how I’ve been living. Thanks Dianne
I just love your inquisitiveness Diane – unwilling to simply accept what you are told, noticing that there is more, and then setting out to figure out the why. Such important characteristics that we need more of to uncover what is festering at the root of society’s ‘normal’.
Your blog clearly points to the fact that even meticulously looking after ones teeth cannot guarantee their health and wellbeing, so I repeat your question Dianne, is it possible that teeth may reflect the choices we have made, not only in this life but previous lives? I agree this is something worth pondering on!
Which, as an adage, is what is so sensational about this blog and the work of Dianne Trussell – she don’t stop until she got to the truth!!
The Catch 22’s that you describe are fascinating. To me they expose the problem with not seeing the whole picture. Clearly when you get to a Catch 22, the smart thing to realise is that by definition of the the fact that your answers have given you a Catch 22, you answers must therefore not be the truth. I’m no science or medical expert but my feeling when I observe or read about science or research or medical discoveries is that they haven’t got there yet, they haven’t got the whole truth. Thus we are sold these semi-bogus theories with a few of the frayed edges smudged a bit so as not expose the fact that it doesn’t quite add up. Truth is an absolute. There are zero loose ends, zero dichotomies, zero catch 22’s. So, if any of those are lurking in your reasoning, then you know you haven’t got to the truth.
Before I saw anything about this blog I gotta say a lot about you Dianne. You are so deeply amazing. They way you write; the joy, passion, care, fun, love, enthusiasm with which you express this kind of thing. It’s so ace. You brings science alive. You make it real. About people. And you eyes are so clearly so open to seeing the whole picture. That is what I love the most. And thus – the answers you get to are closer to the truth than ANYTHING I was ever told by any of my teachers. You are a game-changer. I love it. Thank you.
I have had great enamel when I was young, in fact my dentist told me one in ten thousand in terms of thickness and toughness. I ate lots of sugary things and rarely cleaned my teeth, without needing fillings. My sister on the other hand was like Dianne. Yet in my older life I had quite a large erosion of teeth going on with high acidity in my body from food choices. The moral is, your choices are going to matter sooner or later.
Universal Medicine offers amazing insights into disease that go beyond the usual medical understandings. They are presented as possibilities and all that I have chosen to explore for myself, have come to have a bearing on the disease process in question. Being playful and explorative with understanding health and well being has worked for me.
Teeth, reflecting our karma, I would love if we could all open up to explore and understand this further.
Understanding and misunderstanding about true dental health care, it is all in your blog Dianne. I appreciate you sharing your first hand experience and supporting what you have learned with scientific data. There is much we think we know, that years later turns out to be the opposite of truth. Let’s keep exploring and feeling into everything when it comes to caring for ourselves.
You ask do our teeth reflect the way I have been living and I would say not only our teeth, but every cell of our bodies.
This is the best outline of dental care I have ever read and so shines a light on how there is much more going on with our teeth than the usual brushing and flossing we have been told keeps our teeth strong and healthy.
There is so much variety and commercialism to contend with when it comes to choosing toothpaste, toothbrushes and dental floss that it’s no wonder people are bemused as to what true dental care entails and how to go about it in a loving and self-nuturing manner. This blog shows the way. Thanks, Dianne.
Sally what a great confirmation that the choices we take to look after ourselves make a real impact on our bodies. In this case the simplicity of care is great to see.
And I love how you bring so much more depth to the topic of our teeth and our relationship with them – not only is there sugar, bacteria and the way we care for our teeth to be considered – but also the possibility that our teeth can reflect past choices – ie our karma. Brings a whole new level of appreciation for my great teeth 😉
Thanks for the extra information on the importance of flossing Dianne – a timely reminder!
Your blog certainly is worth pondering; from what you have presented Dianne there is more to our teeth than decay and sugar. Your blog is so interesting to read and feel, thank you for the inspiration to look after our teeth on a practical and energetic level.
First I accept the last suggestion Dianne, that what goes on in our mouth and the rest of our body is a result of how we have been living this life and our previous ones. Second I feel lots more inspired to look after my teeth…
A very informative blog Dianne, explaining the science of tooth decay and flossing, to then open up the enquiry to consider karma and energy, which in itself, is a beckoning science well worth investigating to understand its impact on human health.
Good way to look at brushing teeth, as a nurturing act instead of a chore
Very informative article Dianne, went to the dentist yesterday for checkup and clean. I also have had issues with my teeth all my life and I appreciate the awareness you have presented that our teeth reflect Karma and the way we have been living
I loved hearing about this. Found it super interesting about the bacteria and how detrimental sugar is to the health of our teeth. Real interesting to note the karma aspect.. And it makes sense, as some hardly clean their teeth and have nearly the same result as those that do clean their teeth sometimes.
I have also cut the sugar from my diet and can say the benefits are nothing short of amazing both in the oral health but in my overall wellbeing.
This is great Dianne, I was gripped by every word you wrote explaining about the bacteria that ‘stick’ and ‘glue’ to teeth. it just shows that having understanding and now awareness about something, you are more likely to adhere to taking care of yourself.
Dianne, you are a natural teacher. Your writing is jam packed with facts and knowledge, but without an ounce of needing to prove your intelligence or justify the education you have had. As a result, it is so easy and enjoyable to learn what it is you have to teach.
Wow Dianne your blog had my full attention right to the very end ! This is absolutely fascinating. I have always looked after my teeth. However I have never appreciated my beautiful teeth. After reading your blog I will now have a higher level of appreciation for them. Thank you for sharing.
Wow – Diane your blog was riveting to read! I too love biology and science and cannot help but be fascinated by the type of bacteria, the glue they make etc etc. But science or no science, tooth hygiene and food choices aside, there is far more to tooth decay than that…the accumulated choices over lifetimes that have not been of the kind that support us, will affect our teeth. And hence as you have so wisely said – our teeth do reflect the way we have been living, our choices from the past exposed to be cleared. I have been delaying to go and see the dentist, but your article is a perfect read to remind myself of the self care and self love of getting regular checkups and professional cleaning of the teeth…so today I will call to book an appointment!
I so agree Henrietta, great read. Dianne has given so much for us to ‘ponder’. Not only the biology and science behind what is going on in our mouth, our teeth, but asking us to be open to the possibility that there is so much more going on than just how we brush out teeth, that karma is at play. Not only how we have cared for our teeth and for ourselves in this life, but how have we cared for our teeth and ourselves in past lives. I for one definitely understand this concept and have an innate knowing within myself that this is indeed the case.
Denying ourself the understanding that life is not just limited to this one life, is very limiting indeed and does not allow the scope of understanding when it comes to illness and disease that we encounter. I know this (the idea of reincarnation and many lives) can be hard for some to fathom and I respect that, but with a little openness and flexibility we can play with possibilities of other lives and just explore them, and this can help explain so much that we already know deep within.
‘Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?’ great question Dianne and great to ponder on the messages our body gives us all time.
If our bodies are living science experiments, then Dianne, you have just blown out of the water a lot of theories about tooth health. For your teeth to have received such dedicated care all your life and still to have decayed when others don’t give half so much attention to oral hygiene and their teeth remain relatively intact speaks volumes. Our teeth must be affected by more than sugar and regular cleaning.
I worked as a dental nurse for several years and can count on maybe two hands the amount of times I saw a dentist demonstrate how to brush teeth. This is still a problem but 10years ago so was the amount of children coming in for treatment or check-ups quite low, due to the extensive cost. Now Australia has a teen dental scheme that may assist in this area. Thank you for your writing I found it very informative.
You had me squirming in my seat Dianne with this blog as I too have experience many fillings and root canals over the years, with my body often rejecting the foreign substances placed in my mouth and all root canals failing and resulting in extraction..
It’s interesting to look more deeply and become aware of the reduction in decay since I attended universal medicine events with Serge Benhayon and how my choices are reflected in my mouth. This is something to definitely ponder more deeply. Thank you!
It is fascinating to look at what is going on more than just the physical side of things when the body presents such stuff – Like for Dianne and her teeth. Each irritation to potential full blown illness and disease is a reflection of how we have and are choosing to live our lives. This kind of responsibility can seem too much hard work but because ultimately your body = your choices is something that we don’t want to honour as it and can feel to much and to act on what we are being told by the body can be uncomfortable.
It is interesting to read so many comments where teeth cleaning was seen as a chore. It shows me that from an early age we are not taught the implications of self nurturing and self care. These things ‘to do’, like brushing our teeth, seem like prescriptive to dos, without connecting to the absolute preciousness and gorgeousness that we each are. When we realise there’s an opportunity to connect and to nurture ourselves we could instead be jumping for joy.
Lovely comment Jenny. To brush our teeth as a celebration of ourselves would be a new experience for most people and one that would bring sparkling smiles.
Love that Jenny and Jane…Learning to brush our teeth in the knowing that we are precious and gorgeous would definitely bring sparkling smiles!
I feel if a child does not have the support from a parent who is living this Joy it is very difficult for a child to stay connected to their innate Joy and care for ones self. Universal Medicine supports parents everywhere over the world in doing this, by supporting parents to know the best way to support our children is to live from this innate inner connection we all have but while growing up in the world may have forgotten how to connect to and live from our innate self.
Yes I agree tonisteenson. Universal Medicine is supporting me enormously to live my life in connection with myself. There is no greater medicine I can give my children other than this loving connection to myself as it offers and supports them if they so choose to connect to themselves too.
It is extraordinary how these daily loving rituals have become as you say a chore. I know that I would avoid brushing my teeth properly until I really got to understand that being disregarding towards yourself is absolutely not loving. Serge Benhayon presents such a clear and practical way of truly nurturing yourself and as you say Jenny when it comes to those moments of looking after yourself it really does become that lovely time you get to spend with yourself.
Well said Jenny and a great point of reflection. It feels like so often when children are encouraged to do something from a point of fear (you must do this or else this will happen) and not from love as you have said and then this becomes a cycle as those encouraging children have not been nurturing of themselves either. Amazing to be able to start breaking those cycles.
It does make me wonder now – what else is actually super supportive for us that we view as a chore or too hard? Being the love that I am comes to mind and I am reminded that building up a routine is not an instant thing, but a building up process. This leads onto knowing that it is a building process, so how can I best support the build up? We have all the answers already, but if it isn’t fostered at the start, then we have more groundwork to cover beforehand and if we do, then that’s ok too.
My teeth were always an afterthought for me, something to be done as I raced out the door so I wouldn’t have bad breath when I went to school or work. My body has come so alive and having a deeper connection and understanding to what my teeth reflect helps me be much more loving towards myself and supports me to enjoy myself.
I too can relate to this Nicole, and also would sometimes brush my teeth out of fear of having them rot. Of course it makes sense to brush your teeth so you don’t have bad breath that affects those around you, and that you don’t have a mouth full of rotting teeth – but in the end if you brush your teeth because you care for yourself and your teeth then this is far more powerful than brushing them out of fear or brushing them to not smell. When we put self love and self care as our priority, it is like all the other things are also included without even trying. And as you have said Nicole, as our bodies come alive, it is that much more easier to care for ourselves and do the things that support us, such as brushing out teeth, and gently so!
So much changes when we move from a focus of just function and things we feel we “should do” to connecting with self love and self care as a priority.
I love the fact that you were committed to your health when you were a little child and the fact that you were so self determining from a young age, this is very awesome.
What is it that motivates a child/young person? What supports them to care for themselves? Interesting questions for us to ponder as no doubt the answer will vary from person to person. It is only in later years, since being a student of Universal Medicine that I have truly cared for, and valued, my teeth.
I would say the same Shirl, only since attending Universal Medicine workshops and choosing to take more care of myself, I also pay more attention to my dental needs. Iv’e always brushed but looking back I would be quite hard with my teeth and saw brushing as a chore, but I am very pleased to say I still have all of my teeth and it is never too late to start looking after our teeth and gums, and be gentle at the same time.
I can feel that each teeth brushing moment offers me a possibility for a deeper connection to my body and yet sometimes I choose to do other things at the same time eg look for my shoes, pack my bag etc. It has become a 2 minute, twice a day ritual based on function. It is time to reconsider my relationship with my teeth and brushing and take the opportunity to connect.
This is a valuable point you make Jane about brushing our teeth functionally rather than it being a time to take care with our teeth in the same way we would tenderly apply cream to our body.
And actually now I am wondering if there are other times in the day when I am caring for myself in a functional way? I know I have become heaps more caring towards myself in recent years but this is something to consider.
Shirl great comment – this surely points to a couple of things – the motivation to take care of ourself has to be from within, where does this come from, in the understanding of reincarnation it would point to the fact that how we were in our previous life supports our next and so on. The other factor, similarly influenced is that of the parental home, whatever that looks like, and the modelling of caring behaviours. Behaviours good or bad are seen and felt on a deep level and adopted consciously or not, they are used in greater or lesser degrees by the child throughout their life. This is amazing really and supports very much the fact that we are all responsible for every part of our life, what we take on, what we choose, what we see and act upon. Amazing to feel the impact of the way we are in every moment of our lifetimes has an effect.
“I love flossing, and brushing and this feels like a beautiful part of daily rituals.” Me too Jane, I have also started to add more detail to my flossing where I use specific types of floss or brush depending on the nature of attention each tooth or area of the gum needs. I hadn’t realised how tailored tooth and gum care can be! But it feels great to take such care.
I agree flossing is a way of practically demonstrating our self care in daily life.
I never realised how relaxing gentle flossing was until i tried it especially at night just closing eyes and relaxing. It really helps me to wind down and fall asleep wonderfully easily.
Dianne I love this article as it is well researched and very clear and still you are able to bring in a deeper level for the reader to ponder on. What if our teeth were more then just their physical appearance?
‘And discovered that there’s a Catch-22. When sugar is consumed, it produces a lot of acid. Acid dissolves tooth enamel. If you brush right away after sugar, your softened enamel gets worn away quickly by the brushing. But if you leave the sugar on your teeth, it gives the bacteria time to use it to eat away at your teeth, i.e. decay!’
It just goes to show how much sugar does destroy our bodies and does not support it in any way, shape or form.
This is the most brilliant, revealing and accessible article I have ever read about teeth and dental care. No gloss over or lack of attention – just a lot of great research and study shared with a beautiful helping of simplicity and common sense. Thank you. And what a humdinger of a thought provoker at the end.
A very enjoyable read with useful information regarding tooth hygiene. It is painfully clear that it would be best to avoid sugar in all its variations. Interesting to ask ourselves whether our teeth reflect our way of living.
Since first reading this article Dianne I’m very aware of the Catch-22 that sugar causes – “what do you do, brush immediately and thin your enamel, or wait and risk decay?” I couldn’t agree with you more, the sensible conclusion is to not eat (or drink) the sugar.
I’ve often felt a fuzziness on my teeth after sweet foods. Now I know why. This explanation of how decay works, with its ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ dilemma re brushing after sugar can lead to only one conclusion: we’re just not meant to eat it.
‘Hence one of the benefits of flossing every day – it pulls oxygen in between the teeth and below the gum line and can help tip the scales in favour of the human.’ At last, a thorough explanation of the benefits of flossing! How wonderful to fully understand a process I have taken up wholeheartedly in recent years after trying to ignore the fact I wasn’t doing it. If we all read this marvelous piece, we’d all be flossing diligently. And not eating sugar.
Yes. I am totally loving the clarity and sense that Dianne has brought to the flossing habit I have, that I do without really understanding why…this in itself asks me to ask myself how many other things I do unquestioningly.
Yes Victoria I too thoroughly enjoyed reading the explanation of how flossing supports our teeth and gums. Having this understanding supports me to be more consistent with flossing in my day.
‘But back then, sugar was utterly ubiquitous and normal in everyone’s diet.’ The problem is, I don’t think much has changed. We are still addicted to sugar and it can be tantamount to heresy to suggest it should be eliminated from our diets.
‘I was a bit cranky with the dental profession and health education, and how I perceived them to have failed me.’ Oh how I can relate to this – blaming health professionals for my bodily woes and their failure to fix them/me/it. Granted, some are lacking in people skills and don’t offer much by way of support or explanation; however in the end, the responsibility lies with me.
Thank you Dianne for a very informative blog, for quite a while I would wake up every day with a sore and itchy throat and what felt like hay fever. I had known for sometime how bad mercury fillings were. So I took the leap and decided to have them removed. I was amazed to find sometime later that all my symptoms had completely disappeared, no more itchy sore throat and no more hay fever.
Great question Dianne, I have only just this year had some issues with my teeth, starting the year with removing my amalgams, I had 4, this was a relatively ok process, but did result in 1 tooth needing a root canal, then another one appears to be getting a little sensitive and now in my most recent visit to the dentist, I may need more work on a few teeth. So yes i have been posing the question to myself, what is going on here? I am healthier than I have ever been in my whole life, take better care, self honour and love myself more than ever before, so why are these thing occurring with my teeth? I do subscribe to the fact that our teeth hold our karma, so I have been feeling that there is more to what is going on than ‘how’ I have been caring for my teeth.
Dianne’s teeth show that sugar is only part of the problem. The suggestion our teeth reflect the sum of our past choices, deeply held in the body at the bone/skeletal level and released via the teeth, is one I have heard presented by Serge Benhayon too. This rings true to me. Interestingly, my teeth are good – it’s my gums that are compromised, partially through over-brushing of the kind described here, and partially through ill-choices I have made throughout my life. Either way, disregard will catch us up, sooner or later.
A tooth had cracked in half and the pain and pressure behind it was so intense trying to clear and release. After the extraction the feeling was one of instant ‘letting go’ a huge release. An implant was offered but, I was given a limited time to make my decision to have an implant. A wise woman shared with me to not get the gap filled too quickly and allow the clearing/draining to continue to take place. The wonders of our teeth and the stories they can tell. Awesome blog Dianne thank you.
Cool supervisor BTW. It’s always awesome when someone can see our enthusiasm and dedication and support us in that.
I laughed out loud when I read ‘Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar!’ Hilarious. And very true. You mentioned the worst offenders, but are you also referring to fruit sugars? I imagine in small amounts our body can handle them, especially if choosing the less sweet ones.
It’s a bit harder to explain that to our kids though. My daughter had a really big filling at the age of 5 and it gave her a shock. Since then she has been very happy to eat her small amount of sugar after a meal (when the acids are all flowing and can deal better with the sugar?) and then clean her teeth, as the dentist recommended (she has a travel toothbrush set in her school dress pocket), but now I am not so sure this is a great strategy. Interestingly, she has been happy to significantly reduce the sugar content of her diet since we got clear on it as a family and I now bake with small amounts of stevia rather than sugar.
Yes Dianne, I think my teeth do reflect how I have been living!
I have very few fillings, probably because my parents always took me regularly to the dentist, because I certainly ate a lot of sugar in my childhood. But I do have sensitive teeth and receeded gums from brushing too hard, or rather being way too hard on myself and hardened in general to protect myself from world that seemed unsafe to me.
Yes emmadanchin, I also have similar dental problems and can relate to being hard on myself and having high self expectations. I had to have all my wisdom teeth removed due to various problems they were causing but now am wondering about the symbolic significance of this. Perhaps a case of not wanting to see things as they really were/are … Thanks Dianne – I have certainly gained more appreciation for my teeth since reading this blog.
Great reading Helen. It is so awesome when we allow ourselves the reflection and space to allow an understanding of what our body is reflecting to us, because it always comes if we remain open and present to ourselves, willing to know.
Great to reflect on emmadanchin’s comment as I have only ever had one filling and have sensitive teeth and receding gums from brushing too hard. I too have been living in a way where I have been very hard on myself and very much in protection from the outside world. I am very pleased to say this is changing since being introduced to Universal Medicine, as I have been offered another way which is true to me where the way I choose to be with myself and my body affects my entire wellbeing and that includes my teeth.
‘our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives. Now that is something worth pondering on!’
It definitely is Dianna.
Recently after reading your blog Dianne, I met a friend who has beautiful teeth. I saw his teeth because we were doing a photo shoot together and he was smiling. So we began a conversation on teeth and he told me he has never had cavities and has won a prize when he was young for this record. Having cavities nowadays is considered so common, that not having cavities is seen as extraordinary.
Awesome blog Dianne. I love the way you explain the science and then go beyond what the science presents to find the answer. Some people would continue to look in the scientific box for answers but you take it further to give it all a deeper meaning. It’s truly beautiful.
We are taught to brush our teeth out of fear, but not out of the fact that brushing is actually an act of self care. Totally different way of looking at things.
Yes we are indeed. When I visited a caring dentist 3 or 4 years ago and he introduced the concept of brushing my teeth gently I was gobsmacked. It was such a common sense idea yet one I had never considered. I had to train myself out of the hard and fast style which now seems so brutal. He also took the entire concept of dental care out of something I only did because I had to and into the realm of self-love. Getting a cap on a root canal that I never seemed to have the money for became a priority once I saw it as a loving thing to do for myself.
Same here Nickimckee, I too had to bring much awareness to brushing my teeth and still do in order to re-train myself to brush my teeth gently, and with care, instead of the ‘hard and fast’ routine.
Again, an educational blog from Dianne Trussell. A dedicated wholistic scientist like yourself should be funded. I would happily donate some of my time or funds to see your work go further. It’s always an inspiration to read anything you research and pull apart for the true evolution for all.
Although it’s levelled out now for years there was a decline in the health of my teeth, I wasn’t taking care of them or myself during this time but it is very interesting to consider how this is also due to choices made over other lifetimes and the karma of these.
Michael bringing in the aspect of karma and lifetimes of choices to how we are today gives us the missing part of the puzzle. What once was uncertain now makes sense and helps us really understand our health, our bodies and why we find ourself in the places we do.
Yes teeth and disregard our very much linked. I had no problem with my teeth it wasn’t until as I got older and took less and less care of myself that then I needed a filling and started having more problems with them. They were reflecting what I had been living in .. disregard. It is crazy as when we are young we seem to feel we are invincible with our body and health and can treat it as we want; it is only when we get older and things start going wrong we think yikes!!!! It makes sense to start self-love and self-care young and all the way through our life 😄
Very true Vicky – before university I had no fillings in my teeth and going to the dentist felt like a formality – I had no real appreciation for the health of my teeth. Following two years at university living a very disregarding lifestyle I required 9 fillings and one extraction. I was taking very little care of myself and my body and teeth reflected this.
You do science so very well, thank you – all I ever wanted to know about teeth and more and for the first time ever a sensible explanation of what flossing actually does and how it works rather than the command ‘you have to floss’.
For the first time I want to floss daily! A very sensible explanation indeed.
Yes Gabriele it is awesome to get a clear description of what and how to floss and the extraordinary benefits that it offers us. The dogma of ‘you have to floss’ is a killer and makes you want to so not floss at all. I have only been flossing on a regular basis for just over 4 years and now I know the awesome benefits to my tooth hygiene. I love the whole process of taking the time to nurture myself like this. Because I haven’t done it pretty much my whole life it is refreshing to know that it serves much support to my health, far beyond what I have been told until know and reading this great blog. Thanks Dianne.
Isn’t this a great example of how when the purpose is clear the task is no longer burdensome. It becomes a no-brainer that can then actually be touched by the joy of something greater – the bigger picture stuff.
I knew that brushing teeth after eating something sugary damaged our teeth and that it was important to clean our teeth last thing at night to prevent the build up of bacteria but I had never understood exactly why. Your blog raises how important the timing is in the care of our teeth as it is in all we do in life. Timing makes such a difference to so many outcomes and our teeth are a lovely reminder of that.
Also, after having something acidic in our mouth, like water with lemon juice is another time to wait before we brush, as this also softens the enamel for a while after being consumed.
Dianne, it was not until the work of Universal Medicine that I realised just how hard I was brushing my teeth. The way I now care for my teeth is entirely different although the the damage has already been done.
I so love reading your articles Dianne and all you share so simply with facts and knowing combined to bring a clarity to everything we have all pondered on at different times and ways. There is so much more to life than we often want to acknowledge and bringing responsibility and past lives and future ones really does bring the bigger picture with understanding and wisdom to it all.
Brilliant, brilliant blog Dianne. I love reading it, it is so relatable, informative and inspiring. There were a few tips I didn’t know about our teeth, our mouth and how the bacteria operates. But at the end of your blog you’ve raised something deeply inspiring for me to ponder on and that our teeth reflects our past choices. I ask myself what condition my teeth are in reflects all my choices and how I have lived. An awesome reminder for me to really pay close attention to my teeth in the way I care and look after them.
I had no idea flossing allowed oxygen to get between your teeth and gums which helped fight bacteria. All the more reason for careful flossing.
Neither had I any idea that flossing allowed oxygen to get between your teeth and gums. If I’d had the understanding years back I would have been more inclined to floss regularly.
I love your insightful blogs Dianne. It’s interesting as, all things considered, my teeth are in exceptional condition. I have always had ‘good teeth’ and lovely dentists who I enjoy going to see but my care of my teeth as not matched my good fortune. You have inspired me to take more care of my teeth in this life and to stop being so complacent.
Well said, Fiona. A little bit of appreciation goes a long way to inspire purposeful action!
Dentists have commented to me, as to yourself, that I also have the cleanest mouth they have ever seen, and like you, I have had oral hygiene issues on and off throughout my life. So… I am inclined to agree, Dianne, that there is definitely something else going on with teeth and gums than we can garner from a purely physical perspective.
The same for me. I have always cared well for my teeth yet had problems. It used to bewilder me as to why I needed so many filling when I took good care of my teeth. Having the understanding that there is more going on changes this.
I love the life long dedication to your teeth that you share here, Dianne. Offering your personal experience and your experimental work as evidence that we are still a long way off from the absolute facts and truth of tooth decay and oral hygiene, I find inspiring – thank you!
Great aha-effect at the end of your fascinating blog, Dianne. Pondering on this, the view at my teeth and their state of being becomes very interesting and I can read them like a biography of life(s). Thank you for this inspiration!
Like you Dianne my dentist said my teeth were so clean but actually I’d brushed them too hard. Which was a very true reflection how I was living my life. The stories our teeth could tell.
Science made accessible for all in equality. Wonderfully shared.
Science made accessible and in an easy to understand way. Your description of ‘partial anaerobes’ was gold – they are not too keen on oxygen and get on best without it. If science was always explained like this, the world could be quite different.
This is science shared openly rather than, as is common, kept exclusive to those already in the know. I am loving simply considering how it will be when we communicate with each other like this: sharing our areas of expertise in everyday totally ‘everyone-friendly’ language. Yes please.
When, as suggested by Dianne, teeth are about karma, we would need to recognise that science and medicine until now haven´t incorporated the concept of karma as part of a holistic healing process. In that sense they achieve great results in their field of expertise and are indispensable, but when they are presented as all there is, we fall short of the whole that we are and of what is needed to bring an all-encompassing approach to healing. Only in consideration of all aspects that make the whole of who we are, will our form of medicine and health care be able to not only deliver the cure, but also the healing.
A science and philosophy lesson to my taste ;-), relevant as related to life, and investigative and challenging the limited range of thinking that keeps us blind to the multidimensionality of life.
I love the fact that there is always more to life than we think we can understand, see, feel or hear. Teeth are not just teeth, everything in life is a reflection. Everything always carries a deeper meaning, a sense that life is not about just this life, but about many other lives.
Thank you for sharing this insightful information. But I love the catch, there is always more behind our health than the medical reasons, our teeth clearly reflect how we have been living for a long time.
I love the scientific and medical thoroughness and then, when the physical realm is fully explored and honoured, the step beyond it, opening another dimension to expand our awareness to realms unlimited.
Yes me too – I love how “..the physical realm is fully explored and honoured..” married with the understanding that there is more going on ‘behind the scenes’ in life and health as well.
It is brilliant really, our body constantly reflects back to us all our choices. It provides a truthful map of every choice we’ve ever made and communicates to us also what will happen if we continue to live in a loveless way. The signs are all there.
Reading that your mum had false teeth instantly brought up memories of my grandfather chasing me with his around the kitchen and, watching both my grandparents drop their bright pink plastic gummed/white teeth into fizzing water at night time. This really gave me the hebe jeebies! I have an amazing dentist and definitely inspired to look after my teeth in my mouth not, in a glass next to my bed.
Fantastic blog Dianne, I so love the way you share with us all. No science/chemistry/biology lesson at school ever held my interest/attention in the same way. Thank you.
Hahaha, Marion: Hands up – I was also negatively inspired as a child to look after my teeth after seeing a neighbour’s false teeth in a jar upon the TV set in the living room – and then observing the strange speech that came out of a toothless mouth! Interesting how such things play out!!
Like yourself coleen24 both my parents had false teeth, which I had seen in a glass of water beside their bed when I was little, and thought “oh my gosh I better look after my teeth.” However, despite this I had lots of fillings and teeth pulled out as a child. It makes sense now that something else was going on energetically – like karma clearing from your teeth.
I’d like to stick up for those of us who have dentures. I have partial dentures and it was the best thing I ever did when I had some of my teeth removed. I choose to pull out some teeth because I could feel how the root canals were poisoning me. They had actually let in tiny pockets of anaerobic infection ie cavitations. Cleaning that all out and scrapping the bone back to healthy bone (it regrows) was absolutely wonderful and a massive healing and clearing.
Wow! I can really sense how much of a healing that was for you, Nicola. The experience I relate here was in the time ( the 60’s) when it was considered ‘normal’ to have all of your teeth removed around the age of 40 and there was, at times, an underlying sense of avoiding the responsibility of oral healthcare – quite different to the quality of your experience.
“Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?” Yes I subscribe to this. I have read quite a few blogs about teeth and each time I have had the feeling the writer is my dentist going over my dental history. I would laugh if it was not so sad. When I reflect on the time, care and money spent on my teeth I can only come to the conclusion that something else is a work here. So it is up to me to free myself of my past choices that led me to this state of affair. Yes my teeth are definitely my karma.
It does make sense – there is definitely something much bigger at play and not just the 1+1=2 story.
Dianne, you have an amazing ability to bring science and philosophy, and the bigger picture of our world, together in a way that makes so much sense! Whatever you write or present is always fascinating, inspiring and revealing – thank you.
Yes Paula and what I love is that it is always so accessible and easy to understand. I have often found science to be complex and dull but Dianne brings the topic to life.
I agree Paula. Dianne inspires me to broaden my horizon on matters that seemed out of reach for me but now start to make sense.
What you have wondered about teeth Dianne and why some people have healthy teeth despite their unhealthy diet and others don’t, I have wondered about health and how some people are sick and some are not. There is much that can be revealed if we start to look at karma and past lives and how this influences our lives. I could never understand how very young children could be sick or have cancer, yet if we were able to see the karma we carry from previous lives we would be able to have a better understanding of the illnesses and diseases we have today.
Alison this a is great point and if we bring karma into the equation then every single choice we make is going be the future of what karma we are building. With that as our knowing then Responsibility is key and one that can not be ignored, as much as we try to avoid it at all costs! One to ponder on most definitely.
Alison and Natalie these are great points and one that really has people stuck when it comes to understanding illness and disease. So much so it can keep us in a cycle of hurt and pain rather than being able to ‘ponder’ as you offer Natalie – ‘what could be going on’ as the everyday knowledge we try to apply to our understanding of what happens with our health just doesn’t add up. As in ‘fit’ people get sick.
Thank you alisonmoir and Natalie this karma-thing is really a good explanation for all these questions of why e.g. young children could be sick or have cancer – for me it really makes so much more sense than all the other explanations we try to give.
I agree, Alison, with the caveat that such disease can be seen as a blessing – an opportunity to heal certain energies that have run the body – and definitely not a punitive form of karmic retribution – a kind of revenge. We need to be really clear on our understanding of what Karma truly is as there are many ( mis) interpretations around. Karma and Grace can walk hand in hand, I feel.
Yes Alison, I agree. So much became clear for me once I accepted that we do indeed have past lives. This life we face the consequences of our choices. I had never understood why some people could seemingly get away with things from this life and I know understand why.
Yes absolutely Coleen – so often ‘Karma’ is presented (elsewhere) as some kind of punishment or revenge rather than the true grace and blessing it offers by way of clearing and the opportunity to change our ways to live in deeper and truer connection with our essence.
Karma brings back balance when our lives have got out of kilter.
I have heard that there is a great deal of mental ill health amongst dentists and many take their own lives. I wonder if this has anything to do with having to deal with everyone’s karma every day and being affected by their energy, but not being aware of it.
It’s more likely due to long term exposure to toxic mercury vapour, don’t you think?
I feel in light of Dianne´s mind-expanding presentation, both factors equally deserve to be fully honoured and explored.
well said Alex, it is not for us to look for one cause but to see the whole picture, both temporally and energetically. This way we can get to the root cause of what is going for this group of professionals in society.
No doubt the pressure of needing to perform highly skilled procedures in very tight time frames also plays a part. I cannot imagine this is easy if your patient is fearful of the dentist chair and there is a certain amount of reassuring required too.
Very interesting question Jinya. You’ve definitely got me pondering on this.
Jinya, could mental health issues arise from not living the level of awareness that we have, personally I have experienced anxiety and depression due to the choice to shut down my awareness and avoid responsibility. We cannot but feel everything, karma and all, but are we accepting this awareness in ourselves?
A beautiful dentist once told me that I should brush my teeth as if I was cleaning my jewellery. It made me realise how different I treated my teeth to some other parts of my body.
That is a beautiful suggestion. Very often we have family brushing sessions at home before bed. We can observe how we are all feeling about ourselves, through how we brush our teeth. As we can in any movement, but it is great to see this reflected in a small room with mirrors! I have learnt to be much more gentle and involved in brushing my teeth. No longer a rush, a chore, but a pleasure, yes caring for something precious.
I love that Samantha, especially the picture of all of you in that bathroom feeling the quality in which you move!. I used to not like cleaning my teeth and always saw it as a chore, but how different our lives become if we take theses simple everyday actions as a moment of reflection and connection.
Samantha I love the ‘family brushing sessions’! Although most people do their tooth cleaning privately during their bathroom time, I actually love cleaning teeth side by side with loved ones. From this I’ve had the opportunity to see how rough, un-present and un-thorough people are with their delicate teeth and gums, carving some places up like meat, and missing others entirely – scary! It’s almost as if, because teeth are hard, they can be scoured as if we were cleaning the pots and pans! I also notice that many people brush vigorously sideways. When you look at the incredibly soft, delicate little prongs of gum tissue that come down between your teeth, and imagine if you were looking down a microscope at them being brushed, you’d see giant abrasive nylon spikes carving those little pink things from side to side – owch! When we bite and chew, the movement of stuff against the gums is up and down, so the gums ‘know this’ and are designed for it. But side to side – so unnatural and abusive! A lovely thing about brushing together with others, is that they then have the opportunity to see and feel how delicately and consciously and completely I brush and floss my teeth. And discussions naturally arise so people learn new ways. Lovely to share!
This is great Samantha, and I love what you have shared in your reply Dianne. So true, it is an intimate moment cleaning our teeth and I agree it is lovely to share with loved ones. This has inspired me to take more consistent time and care with my own dental care as I tend to get all enthusiastic after going the dentist and then over time make it a chore again. Very inspiring guys! Thank you.
I too have developed a loving relationship with my teeth, and making time for flossing has been super supportive. Something that I have never done my whole life is something that I actually love doing. Spending this time with myself has been a great moment of checking in and seeing where I am at and how I feel. Whether I am checked out and thinking of other things or totally present and enjoying spending the time with myself. Always a constant reflection as you say Samantha.
I love how by reading the comments I am brought back to blogs again and again and today Kathleen your comment has reminded me to not let the ‘chore’ energy slip back into cleaning my teeth. thank you
Yes a great reminder for everything we do – not out of obligation but the joy of the love we bring to our actions.
Carolien, I love this, it transforms my teeth into the precious gems they are each and everyone of them with their unique and needed purpose. As I brush my teeth tonight I will envisage them as the precious jewels they are.
Thank you Carolien, this is a great reflection on how to treat our teeth. They are indeed precious and we get only one set of them.
Thanks for sharing. It makes me aware how ridiculous it is that we often treat expensive belongings with more care than our own precious body.
well said Ilja, there is nothing more precious than our body and that which it enhouses. We – and our body – deserve the greatest loving care and nurturing.
Gorgeous Carolien. I got to see a few years ago how hard I have been brushing my teeth and have worn them away quiet a bit. I am learning to be much more present and much more gentle with them these days.
Wow Carolien. Thank you for sharing that… Puts it into perspective. We are gems, we should treat ourselves as such.
What I love about your blogs Dianne Trussell is the information that truly is expanding and keeps me focussed. I never lose interest half way so its a great sign for me that what you have to say is so interesting and inspiring so BIG Thank You.
Teeth is big business in our world today and with this cosmetic stuff its really is a billion dollar industry.
I am glad you mentioned teeth flossing and the oxygen bit as it has inspired me to continue flossing as I never knew why but I know my teeth, gum and mouth do feel like they have had a deep deep cleaning ritual when this is done in my winding down time before bed.
Great to hear the lengths you went to regarding understanding more about teeth as your knowledge and lived experience holds great value for us the readers.
My teeth – I reckon I got away lightly. I was addicted to chocolate and sugar sandwiches as a child and ended up with 4 mercury fillings at aged 7. Since then no more teeth work and I am now 53. What I did do in my days of wanting to look great on the inside was replacing a silver filling with a white one. However I could not go back as they gagg your mouth and I could not breathe to the point of thinking I was being suffocated. I recall saying to the dentist it felt like I was suffocated in another life as the feeling was just too strong to ignore and there was no other reasonable explanation.
On that note of past life – I like your pondering question about karma and teeth.
I say Serge Benhayon knows what he is on about so there is something here if we are open and willing to sit with this.
I agree in that Bina, that it is worth pondering on the question if there is more about our tooth decay than the medical studies do present to us, and to take karma into the equation.
Reading or hearing something that confirms what you have chosen for yourself previously is truly empowering. Sometimes you get to hear the science behind it as in the case here with flossing. This only goes to show that our body knows the answers even if we are not trained or educated in certain fields, there is an innate wisdom deep inside us all.
Understanding that my teeth are not just things I chew with has been an enlightening experience.
Haha great way to look at that Dean. Opens up a lot.
Same applies to the body hey… not just something to walk me from A to B… not just something for me to use to experience a nice tasting food or some dazzling entertainment… but something that I live in which holds an untold wisdom… but just depends on how much I am willing to listen to it.
Dianne I enjoyed it very much to read your amazing blog. I love it as well that you are able to present a “dry” information so simple and lively. When I read your blog I wished I could be a scientist too! I had also problems with my teeth when I was young the enamel were to soft and too white but that changed when I got older! It is an interesting insight what you shared about teeth and karma. That is really something worth pondering on.
I agree esteraltmiks. I love the way Dianne presents ‘dry’ information to show that it is not really dry at all. We are all scientists because life is a science laboratory. It’s time to get our lab coats on and get experimenting! Love your comments.
Yes Jinya, ‘life is a science laboratory’ and our bodies are the finest instruments we have. We are an entire walking talking, laboratory universe in each and every single person.
Ahahaha I love what you share Jinya because it is so true – I will get my lab coat right now because I agree “life is a science laboratory” – I wished I had learned this at school!
Love this Jinya. We don’t have to leave it up to someone else, we can find things out for ourselves 🙂
When we come to know and live from our body opposed to putting all our emphasis on our minds, we discover that we all indeed scientists feeling and observing how our bodies respond to each choice we make. Our bodies become our own daily science experiment.
That is so true Donna, our bodies are our own daily science experiment, the only thing is we have to choose to see it like this. I will do it now as I love the idea to observe how my body responds to each of my choice I have done or will do.
‘If we feel and respond to every choice we make’ we become aware that we are responsible for every disharmony in our body and can influence the outcome.
All of what Dianne presents on Science that I have read has been simple, fun and very very relative to real life. This is true science alright
I agree Joshua, it is true science. I remember feeling so bored in science lessons at school. The more I read blogs like this one by Dianne, the more I am able to let go of the beliefs and ideals I have taken on, on the true meaning of the word ‘Science’. Science is to me simplicity and applies to my every day and not just in the lab!.. this is what I love about Dianne’s blogs; seeing and feeling the science in the practicalities of life… I love it when I think of science in this way. Thank you Dianne for supporting me to reconnect to the true meaning of the word Science.
Yes absolutely Caroline. Science is a word that is going through a pretty big over haul of change for me too, awakening the deeper purpose and livingness behind such a word and what it actually entails… it is becoming clear that it is normal to be a scientist!
Very great questions to ponder Dianne. Plus i learned so much about teeth and brushing, the timing and the like. Also flossing, something that I never do unless the dentist does it. Learning more about how our body functions is so important and honouring with self care what it needs, are steps to building our self worth.
Absolutely Reagan – and so interesting about sugar ‘ So I began to find out for myself….And discovered that there’s a Catch-22. When sugar is consumed, it produces a lot of acid. Acid dissolves tooth enamel. If you brush right away after sugar, your softened enamel gets worn away quickly by the brushing. But if you leave the sugar on your teeth, it gives the bacteria time to use it to eat away at your teeth, i.e. decay! So what do you do, brush immediately and thin your enamel, or wait and risk decay? Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar!’
Agreed Raegan. Was great to know that flossing does something more than get the visible gunk out!
Such a great blog Dianne. Loved it!
And as for your pondering about how the state of our teeth may well be influenced by our karma just reinforces for me how little we truly know about the human body.
‘Putting your plastic choppers in a glass at night hardly qualified!’ Oh you’re such a funny lady Dianne Trussell. The way that you write makes me laugh every time. I love it.
What a wonderful blog Dianne! So entertaining and full of very useful information at every level. You are the real tooth fairy! Thank you for your visit.
My teeth have shown me a lot of how I have been living too. My inconsistencies in pretty much everything meant I yo-yo’ed between brushing hard and often to not at all as I grew up, leaving tender, sore gums at times. There are always consequences of living a certain way.
Those bacteria…having a party in the mouths of millions will we keep on putting all forms of sucrose in there! For me this article highlights there is no place for sugar in our diets. My teeth have been saying thank you since I let go of the sugar habit. But yes also interesting to consider the choices made on this life and others and how they are reflected in the teeth….
Love the detail and science in here. Illuminating concerning dental health.
Absolutely Dianne, our education today is a little like learning A and Z and missing out everything in between. In truth the way we live, move (and chew!) brings richness, depth and fullness to life. Imagine if, instead of waiting for teeth to fall out, we embraced the school of life and what it shows us about the quality in which we live. This wealth of wisdom available makes the tooth fairy look pretty cheap.
Agreed Joseph, education so often leaves out the how. We get taught the what very well, but miss out on a depth of wisdom that knowledge doesn’t come close to.
Awesome piece Dianne. You have so clearly shown that despite understanding all the science behind tooth decay and being very dedicated to oral hygiene this was still not enough to keep decay away, and that perhaps our teeth reflect far more that just good oral hygiene.
Dianne, what an incredible story – despite all the science, much remains unanswered. There is more to tooth decay than sugar and brushing, as you have shared, understanding that everything is energy simplifies everything but also answers everything.
Isn’t it fascinating that the body can speak to us on so many levels – who knew that the teeth was where our karma can be released. When I heard Serge Benhayon say this I was like are you sure but know it makes complete sense to me that just like everything that we choose it needs a place to clear in the body – so too does the karma from the choices we have made. My feeling is it is some karma that has been fairly significant that it needs to be cleared through the teeth.
I am reminded of the phrase, ‘Get your teeth stuck into it’, when asked to try really hard at something, and put a lot of effort into it. It feels like a way of living that is full of drive, hardness and harshness, with gentleness not getting a look in. Perhaps this is how the phrase came about and that humans on some level know that teeth clear some very un-gentle ways / karma.
It’s like teeth are our archaeological dig if that makes sense. Our history can be read by studying them. Not just our journey in this life but past lives and our choice of parents probably. My teeth bear the mark where I was pushed over in the playground and nearly knocked out, so one front tooth is dead. I have to presume this was a past life beef. Perhaps we get to read our own teeth because we know what our path has been.
What I feel from your sharing on teeth is that often the details are missed in life – as in the instructions you were given at school: clean 3 times a day but not how to clean your teeth or care for toothbrushes; not to eat sugar but what foods contain sugar, or how to relate sugar consumption and timing of teeth cleaning.
Its like we are given half the story and have to put the rest together the best way we can…its a clever energetic game, and its only when people like yourself who have the depth of scientific understanding, and an understanding of the bigger picture of life, who then make sense of it all for everyone!
This is true Paula and what sense Dianne makes! I have never had the education to support what is actually going on with cleaning and sugar, flossing and brushing.. it’s always just been something ‘you should do!’.
What Dianne shows us is that the education is there and it is our responsibility to care deeply enough about ourselves that we seek to choose it.
And so everyone lives a different story, full of half truths, like religion.
You have a wonderful sense of science and of the world Dianne, and your sharings always bring a profound understanding of life and how we live. Science, and life in general, comes alive and has a magic about it when you present. Always awesome to read, and hear you speak – thank you Dianne.
I’m now looking at my teeth differently Dianne. I love the way you share something potentially boring and make it a riveting and thought provoking read.
Yep, I love this too Natalie. What Dianne presents always intrigues me to understand and experiment further for myself and actually have fun doing so!
Thank you for the tooth-education Dianne! I find it so interesting how and why they don’t teach this in schools – in the same way it isn’t publicised much/enough that sugar can be massively damaging to our health, this seems to be another ‘best kept secret’ in the health industry. There are two huge reasons why sugar is not being exposed by many; one being that sugar is a gobsmackingly HUGE industry, making trillions of pounds/dollars each year, and the other being that for someone to stand up and speak up about just how poisonous sugar can be to the body, they would have to look at their own diet and relationship to sugar!
Reading your blog Dianne and the subsequent comments bringing the understanding that our teeth hold all our karma has been quite a wake up call – a call to more responsibility for how we live. Because they’re so in your face (sorry :-)) we can’t help but have such an intimate relationship with them making it difficult to ignore what’s going on when things are not quite right but of course we always have a choice.
I agree deborahmckay. There is no running away from karma, especially when it is ‘so in your face’!
This is quite a reality check Deborah…as you say we can’t avoid seeing how we have lived when it comes to our teeth. And the fact that karma plays out with our teeth helps explain why children have teeth problems when they haven’t consumed a volume of sugar, or brushed hard for years etc.
Diane there is so much to ponder on here, your sharing is great. How there is more to teeth than just this life, but how we have been living in all our past lives, so our teeth are reflecting that karma. Self care is so vital in our over all health including our dental health.
Dianne, after I left my comment I realised that up until this point I had not truly appreciated my gums and teeth. I have not felt their value to me, and as a result not cared for them in a way that reflected that appreciation. This has been great to connect me deeper to my body overall and welcome in a new level of appreciation and detail to my loving self care.
I have been really enjoying being in conscious presence when brushing my teeth, and also brushing my teeth very gently and delicately, with a rhythm of movement that connects me to me. I used to (and occasionally still do) brush my teeth hurriedly and quite roughly even though the gums and mouth are quite delicate. It’s beautiful to take the time to really care for my body, and enjoy the many benefits of applying love in detail to my oral care.
It just goes to show how persistent we are and where we are at because we don’t want to give something up. To know that sugar is the biggest hindrence and cause to decay then why oh why would we keep eating it. You don’t need to be a scientist or mathematician to do the maths. Stop eating the sugar – another questions that could be asked is; Why do we need to keep eating sugar, are we living in a way that is totally exhausting ourselves that we need the sugar to keep us going or other substance for that matter? Is sugar like a drug and has an addictive quality to it? Is this a coincidence that this is what is going on? Ok so more than one question but all worth asking don’t you think? Oh another one!
I wonder when we are stressed and anxious, if our bodies become acidic, and the saliva in our mouths becomes more acidic, thus causing harm to our teeth enamel and leaving us open to tooth decay?
I would say yes Thomas. Our whole body is affected by the energy we choose to live in.
It’s interesting what you said about Karma and the way we have been living in this and past lives that affect our teeth. I hold a lot of tension in my jaw and clench and grind it at night, which has worn down my teeth, so stress and anxiety also have an impact on our teeth.
Very interesting and informative blog Dianne, you have a unique way of making science not only easy to understand, but also you bring fun and humor, into what can be a rather serious dry subject.
I could see how you have come to the conclusion that perhaps we carry on past life choice’s into this life. To have given so much care to your teeth and have an outcome such as yours, it does leave one pondering.
Always so interesting Dianne to read your blogs, your curiosity is inspiring and a gift for all. I have had a very non-committal relationship with my teeth. Never not caring but never going to the full care they need. Which when I look at my life as a whole I would say this is how I have approached many things. Taking a little responsibility but never whole.
Dianne I love your blogs for several reasons and this one is no exception. You seem to bring a playful but disciplined curiousity to so many aspects of life, but like a true scientist yet are willing to keep observing and enquiring to uncover and explain how things truly work on a deeper energetic level.
Thank you Dianne, I enjoyed reading your blog and the questions you have presented for us to ponder about our teeth representing karma in our lives and where we haven’t been taking responsibility of the choices that we make.
Wow your blog is so interesting, loved it! It is ironic that with all the care you gave to your teeth you ended up having lots of trouble with them. Its karma and choices after all!
Thank-you Dianne I found this blog to be very informative and what a conundrum in the way that sugar can affect our teeth and especially these days when most people consume a high amount of sugar/sweeteners in their diet and how it is in so many processed foods. The fact is we have so much sugar in our diet that when there is none the food can often seem to taste bland. We need to allow our taste buds time to re-educate to taste how sickly sweet things really taste and the best way to avoid sugar of any description is, if possible, to prepare our own food and cut back the carbohydrates in our diet and if we do choose to eat something sweet what about simply rinsing your mouth out with water wouldn’t that work? I have also been told by my GP that sugar depletes the calcium in our bodies, which of course is another great incentive to avoid sugar. But after all the practical things that can be done to look after your teeth, it is really worth pondering on the possibility that another cause behind tooth decay may be a reflection of our karma, because like you I have had huge amounts of work done on my teeth from a young age, even though I didn’t consume a lot of sweets and I also feel there is more at play than food.
I talk to patients all the time about sugar and most are convinced that they don’t have a lot. But when we sit down and look at the detail of what they eat, they realise how much they are in fact having. Most just see it as the white stuff they add to food and drink, but what is hidden in our favourite foods is excessive. This can take a while to take in especially if we begin to consider that we have an emotional need to eat it…”I don’t want to feel how exhausted I am”
I agree Jennifer…sugar is hidden in so many foods that people aren’t aware of or choose not to be aware of – sliced smoked salmon even has sugar in it! It is all about greed…sugar is addictive and so more products are sold if they have sugar in them.
It is quite an eye opener to discover that our bodies carry the results of choices we have made in ALL our lives – do we go ‘oops’ and carry on as before or do we make a new choice to change our ways so that our future bodies will be different?
Diane, I love how you not only bring science to life when you write you also bring self-care, self-love and cosmology into the picture as well. I have never heard the scientific detail that you give here about flossing and the benefit of creating a more aerated environment to make it less favourable for damaging bacteria to multiply.
Wow, there is much to ponder here, thanks Dianne
Thank you Dainne for this article, there is much to ponder on here. In the past i did not look after my teeth at all, i would eat huge amounts of sugar not caring at all about the health of my teeth, this has changed now and i look after my whole body so much more, including my teeth, i now floss every night, regularly see my dentist, and regularly see the hygienist, it feels very lovely to be taking care of my teeth in this way after so many years of disregard.
I too neglected my teeth for a while, using the excuse that it was too expensive to go to the dentist. That’s revealing in itself… However I now go every 3 months, and it feels great to check in, have a thorough clean and it supports me to continue with my own cleaning in between my visits. Our teeth do most definitely reflect the way we have been living, and will tell us very quickly when something is not right. A severe toothache is not something I wish to experience too often, if ever again, so my tooth care has stepped up enormously in the last few years and it definitely pays off!
Great Blog Dianne and an important sharing. Our teeth really do reflect how we have been living. As I see my hygienist every 6 months and as I make more loving choices I see this reflected in my teeth and the care I take and the loving approving remarks from my hygienist and dentist make and who I have known for many years. A great reflection and confirmation.
Diane, I have often wondered why those who had not cared for their teeth often have less problems than those who do, and just guessed that it might be because they were born with stronger resistance to bacteria. Bringing in the subject of teeth representing our karma from past lives throws a whole new light on the situation that brings a deeper understanding and the possibility of clearing our karma, and also healing our teeth. Is that possible — to heal our rotten teeth — if we clear our karma? Why not if “everything is energy and because of energy”; the fact that we feel teeth are very dense and once rotted there is no return to formation of tissue, does not take into account that they are predominantly space and dancing particles anyway. Looked at like that, they could re-form. A sequel to this from a scientist please, I am just an observer!
Joan I don’t know about teeth re-forming, though when it comes to everything being energy, and matter responding to energy, anything is possible. I reckon your question would be a good one for the switched-on dentists who understand about teeth, karma and energy. However I did once work with a woman who, in her thirties, grew a third set of teeth. Since our adult teeth come through during childhood when we often don’t care for them, we are left with the damage for life. But this lady got a whole new set and she declared that they would be looked after with her greatest care and attention. She was so grateful for a second chance!
Diane there is much to ponder on when considering how we care for ourselves.
There isn’t a one-size fits all approach because as you share it seems very probably that our past choices also play a part in how our bodies respond to the way we treat them in this life. What has become increasingly clear to me is by treating my entire body, teeth and bones included with the utmost regard I can support the best possible health and well-being for myself, and in certain instance reverse the deterioration caused by past disregard. This has been a wow in itself and worth the commitment and consistency of my care and attention.
That is the point Sandra, that Dianne is making – that even when an issue shows up in the teeth and gums, that with the understanding of how karma plays out, it may have as much to do with the person’s past treatment of their teeth yes, but also with the treatment of the entire body of lifetimes. Fascinating to me and so empowering.
Oh to have had all this amazing information from a very early age as I know that it would have made such a difference to the way I ate and the care I took of my teeth. After years of neglecting my teeth, eating too much sugar in many forms and general disregard for my body, I now am caring for my teeth, and myself, so much more lovingly than ever and the results are delighting me. I was especially delighted when the dentist informed me that I don’t have to see him every three months for a deep periodontal clean but instead every six months. When I looked back over the previous year all that I had done differently was to sit down in front of the bathroom mirror when I cleaned my teeth instead of wandering around the house, looking out the window as I brushed and flossed. I can see that allowing myself the space to be consciously present during this most important time has resulted in a huge change in the condition of my teeth and gums. Nowadays, standing up to care for my teeth feels very strange and not as loving as it could be.
What you describe here about the change in your behaviour seems so simple yet it is life changing. It just goes to show that it is the little things in life that make all the difference.
Ingrid, what you share is great to hear for me, as my daughter suffers the same and has to go to the dentist every 3 months. It is wonderful to hear of your experience in taking deeper care of yourself how this has an impact on the health of your teeth.
Ingrid, I love the idea of sitting down whilst cleaning my teeth, what a self loving gesture. As I am tall I usually find myself supporting myself on the sink but now I shall sit down and take my time, even if it is on the toilet seat as I don’t have space for a chair in my little bathroom.
I brought myself a beautiful chair for my bathroom about six months ago – one of the best presents to myself ever – but two days a week when I am working away from home the bathroom I use is too small, like yours sandrahenden, so the toilet seat works just as well.
Ingrid, what a fantastic anecdotal sharing and reflection you offer here. I often observe how responsive my muscles and tissues are when I pay attention – adjusting and letting go just because I am paying attention to them- I definitely experience this as a healing so why should it be different when you bring the same care and attention to your teeth? What lovely confirmation from your dentist too!
Ingrid, your comment called me to stop and wonder where else this healing care and paying attention to what is at hand could be applied- of course it can be applied to all and everything we do but in particular a few other things came to mind such as a caring and loving touch when applying moisturiser and make-up, how we eat and the impact this may have on digestion and the absorption of nutrients, how we shower and dress ourselves and other situations where it can be tempting to multitask such as talking on the phone while driving but sometimes may be adding a subtle degree of unnecessary strain and therefore depletion.
Deanne, this feels like true healing and medicine at the highest level, bringing conscious presence to everything I do.
The list of moments we can stop and pay this level of care to a part of our body is endless Deanne, offering us so many opportunities to be in connection to ourselves at a very deep level. And from this loving care there is a natural flow on effect that is hugely healing to all of our body, not just the part we are bringing our focus to.
There are so many tasks we do in life, either on the run or multi-tasking, that can be done sitting down. It is an opportunity for our bodies to stop and rest a moment or three. And this brings us back to feeling our bodies, to re-connecting to what is happening within it – checking in if there is any tension or discomfort, and I find my body is always grateful for that connection.
Ingrid’s comment made me pause too and then reading your comment Deanne, I started laughing! It was the bit about multitasking while on the phone. At a friend’s place recently, I noticed a piece of furniture that was a wooden chair with upholstered attached cushion attached to a side table. It was quite old fashioned looking, but immediately I knew it was for the telephone. In the ‘olden days’ people used to sit down when on the phone, dedicating that time to the person on the other end of the line, instead of the way we talk these days. It makes me think everybody needs to focus of more care and attention to all parts of their lives and body, teeth no exception of course.
Beautiful Ingrid, it is like you have created a daily stop moment where you can reflect what has happened for you in the day.
Absolutely Ingrid, I find that when I sit down to brush and floss my teeth, close my eyes and feel, all that’s there to be felt it makes a huge difference, and I am gentler and enjoy the process of cleaning more, rather than it being something that has to done.
I also shut my eyes Thomas as I brush and floss as it brings me into total connection to the care I am giving my teeth at that moment. I can feel that every movement matters and I am often guided to an area that is asking for more attention. And like you I am enjoying being with the process, letting go of looking at it as just “something that has to be done”, in the quickest time possible.
And I like to focus on each tooth at a time! I used to brush as quickly as possible to get it over with, but I now make it a game to see how gently I can hold my brush without it falling out of my hand!
I just read a great article on this Ingrid. I like the idea of sitting down, it’s a great way to stop one from moving around. teeth.http://www.evolvedental.com.au/resources/blog/20-mistakes-ruin-your-teeth?utm_content=bufferadc39&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Ingrid I love the way you’ve changed something that is so usually seen as a task or chore to get done as quickly as possible, to something that is done with such a level of care and attention – and that you now obviously enjoy cleaning your teeth! Super inspiring – thank you.
Me too, Ingrid. Though I often don’t sit to clean my teeth (I already sit too much at the computer), I do make the time and space to be very present and conscious when cleaning and flossing my teeth. I love to give every tooth and every gap my undivided attention, feeling them as I work gently along the rows in a pattern that ensures every bit gets done properly. I also use only my left hand now for tooth brushing, though I’m right-handed. This began a year ago when I had my right arm useless in a sling for 2 months after shoulder surgery. Why have I kept using my left hand to brush? Well, it’s because my left hand is gentle and tender, not driven, hard or habitual (ie. used to moving while my head is elsewhere) the way my right hand has been for a long time!
Since reading your comment a while ago Diane I have been using my left hand to brush my teeth – at times – and what I have found is, because it feels a bit awkward and not as smooth as using my right hand, I am having to be more present with myself, bringing much more focus to what I am doing. So the question that then rises is – why don’t I bring that amount of focus when I am using my right hand? Something important to ponder on there!
In my youth I had very serious tooth decay and I found it extremely unfair because my class mates did not had that much trouble with there teeth as much as I experienced maybe only one or two exceptions there. So yes much huge fillings covering what is left of teeth and some inlays is the result. The knowing that karma has a part to play in reflecting our karma makes sense to me, and since I discovered this through the teachings of Universal Medicine my way to going to the dentist has changed completely as it is now part of the healing to become more of who I truly am.
Annelies this raises a great point here; that our dental visits are a part of healing just as we might hold in more general terms, the visit to the doctor or the physiotherapist as being part of our healing.
Could it be that true medicine involves not only seeking health professionals should we have ill health, but the way we move, speak and make loving choices.
I agree Rosanna. A visit to the dentist is a healing session as well as being a deeply self-nurturing choice.
I too have had a new found appreciation in my visits to the dentist. What used to be a bore and a chore now is something that I actually enjoy going to. That I actually go on a regular basis and it’s not even questioned. So to have come to this realisation with the inspiration from Universal Medicine is something that I am very thankful for.
I agree Annelies, knowing that karma is reflected in our teeth makes sense to me too. I recently had my amalgam fillings replaced with white composite fillings, and when the first amalgam filling came out I felt as if something very very old and imposing left my body. I cannot explain it any more clearly than that, and would not have thought it possible, but the feeling was very powerful and very real.
My teeth and gums are very healthy now and I would say it is because I am being much more responsible in my life; taking care of myself more; having a good sleep routine and eating foods that suit my body, digest well and are not leaving any uncomfortable symptoms as well as having three monthly dental checkups, flossing each night and brushing my teeth morning and night consistently, for a number of years now.
Dianne, you gave me much more understanding about my teeth and explained a lot of things that I had experienced with them without getting why certain things were going on (as far as bacterial decay and the relationship with the sugar and acids formed). Also, it helped me realise that years ago when I broke a molar on a small rock that was in my mixed veggies at a restaurant, I had not taken responsibility for the fact that it was actually the decay of the tooth that weakened it (as discovered by my dentist later) and not entirely the fault of the restaurant, which I fully blamed at the time. Your blog helped me realise that teeth do have some kind of connection with karma, as it was my own lack of previous self-care that lead to the pain and eventual pulling of a tooth. So teeth can teach us that ‘what goes around, comes around’, as they say.
It shows how slow we are as human beings to become aware of the obvious. Sugar = tooth decay = don’t eat sugar. Yet sugar is so readily accepted as ‘normal’ that it is put in so many foods. Human appetite for stimulation and numbness, both being one and the same, blinds us from the truth that is right there before our eyes. I am sure in time to come, probably quite a few years from now, sugar will be seen like tobacco, exposed for the harming drug that it is.
Sugar is already being seen by many for the poison to our bodies it really is. The sugar industry however does unfortunately have huge sway politically due to the vast amounts of money it has, so it will be a very long time before there is consensus on the matter. And then of course there is the issue of why we eat the sugar in the first place. Until we don’t need to sweeten life or can live without stimulation to counteract the exhaustion that is rife in humanity, sugar will continue to be ubiquitous.
Yes Lucy, sugar is poison. Interesting that here we are in 2015 just coming back to this fact. Yet in the mid 1970s a book came out entitled “Pure White And Deadly”, and sugar was one of the substances it spoke of as being a poison. Gosh we humans have plugs in our ears – we really don’t listen or act on good information when it’s handed to us ‘on a platter’!
I agree Dianne. We are adept at ignoring the nose on our faces if it serves the purpose of being able to avoid taking responsibility for our choices. It’s hard to understand how politicians and the CEOs of sugar companies were able to make the decision to not only squash the research presented in “Pure White and Deadly”, but to completely discredit the scientist behind the research so his work lost credibility (until recently). The consequences to the health of the world have been devastating. However it’s easy to blame them and not recognise that they were able to do this because we, humanity as a whole, did not care. Could it be that they did not know what they were doing in full and were mere puppets in a much larger game? Sugar is our group karma so it is quite fitting that it affects our teeth so badly.
This is really interesting thank you for sharing what you have learnt. It definitely seems like a catch 22 situation especially after having certain foods so when you ‘think’ you are looking after them we could be making it worse! I have only just realised, in the last few years, how important looking after my teeth really is. When I was younger I brushed them but not carefully and properly. I took them for granted. Also recently when I went to the dentist he mentioned how smoking affects them which I could really feel (I used to smoke) and could feel how important it is to look after and care for our body throughout our life. I think my nephews loved the present of dental floss I gave them! 😶😄
I too, thought I was looking after my teeth, but in the later years it was drawn to attention that the enamel was being badly worn down. It was suggested that I had been brushing my teeth in a very hard manner, and I have come to realise why. I was frustrated and probably in anger for much of my life, so when I brushed my teeth, I brushed very hard, pure frustration I see now. So I have these very thin pitted areas on my teeth. Obviously, my teeth are very much reflecting how I previously was living. I have been going through quite an amount of repair (me and my teeth) in the last nine years years, and am now very aware of giving them a very gentle clean.
This is a great additional point in how our teeth reflect how we have been living. I had a similar experience with my gums where one or two started to raise above the tooth line – again this was because of the way I had been brushing – in frustration and anger – too hard for my gums. A super sign to tell me to deal with it and be more gentle with myself!
I used to be quite careless about my teeth. Nowadays I cannot go after a meal without a quick floss. I can’t stand having food stuck in my teeth. Stomach acid also affects our teeth, which in turn affected by the food we eat, which is affected by how we are feeling. So yes, our teeth are showing us everything!
I loved reading your blog Dianne. It also made me realise how a lot of people don’t have a very loving relationship with their teeth and definitely not with their dentist. Could it be that has something to do with our teeth reflecting our Karma?!
I find the teeth are a very exposing part of our bodies, as it is difficult to hide the way we have been living through the reflection our teeth give out. If we have problems with our teeth it feels to be very true what you say Dianne, that this might be reflecting a way we have been living that is more than from this life alone.
Maybe the teeth also reflect how we think that we can bury and ignore issues by not addressing them, but in reality all our choices are stored in the teeth.
So if that’s the case Jenny, we cannot escape our choices as they are literally in our faces 😉
Great point Jenny. And yet as we use our teeth day in and day out, there really is no way of avoiding what is going on. We can try and try we do, but they are designed to be a constant, daily reminder of our choices.
Yes Stephen, it is certainly interesting to look at what our teeth may be reflecting to us. A very different take on how we usually regard our teeth. I was a very contracted person for most of my life, and I had/have a jaw that was too small for all my teeth, resulting in overcrowding and crooked teeth. That feels something like karma to me in this case. Ouch. Still something to be really felt into, I have a feeling I was contracted for more than just this one life.
It seems like our teeth reflect a lot, it’s time we started taking our teeth more seriously and understanding the reflections of our teeth, whether it be from the life or past life.
It is really interesting to see that if not told the whole truth it is hard to do something well. Like you shared with getting taught bits of how to care for your teeth but because of the missing bits of information it all getting a little confusing and hard to truly take good care of your teeth.
Great point Lieke, if we go around making choices without having the full picture, it’s like trying to row a boat with one oar!
Ha ha I agree – and then we just end up going round and round in circles – we may get really good at rowing with one oar, but without realising that we actually need another, we will never go anywhere.
It seems that in many more realms of life than teeth cleaning, we have been going around in circles rowing with one oar. However, we have the best boat shop on the planet now – Universal Medicine, with Serge Benhayon serving at the counter!
Also shows how recklessly we leave our own innate knowing when giving our power away to knowledge, instead of making use of the knowledge but still stay connected to our knowing. The ‘whole-body-mind’ is inclusive and can embrace linear intelligence and knowledge, but linear knowledge rules out everything outside its line of thinking and hence is exclusive when not held by the bigger picture.
absolutely agree Alex, it is reckless to abandon our inner knowing for the pursuit of linear intelligence and knowledge.
It is interesting to read how this all works in our mouths, and see that it is not only the physical effects that are describing the problem, but that there is more going energetically that describes the problem, teeth reflect what has been going on for a long time.
Wow Dianne. This is interesting what you share here. It shows me that our behavior around teeth has also an influence on dentists and their treatments.
This is gold to say the least Dianne. There are many out there now (of which I was one – until I read your blog) that was under the illusion that brushing brushing and more brushing was like absolute gold for your teeth. No where have I been shown otherwise and this is to our great detriment because the skills of Mathematics, Science and everything else at school are not in-truth of any greater value than knowing and embracing how to truly love and care for ourselves and our bodies
Joshua I’m glad that my unfortunate experience with teeth can benefit someone young before too much damage is done. I sure have learned that it’s not just the things we do to care for our bodies, but the tenderness, awareness, timing and quality of what we do and how we do it.
And I am blessed to have been offered the reflection of the power of true self-love and care that shines through your blogs. Thank you
I agree Joshua, I absolutely love this blog too. It’s informative, deeply inspiring and something for us to ponder on at the end. Giving us a full insight into the possibilities of really considering all aspects of our teeth and how we choose to live, not just the medical side of things. This I find very, very refreshing and I love reading every part of this blog and the inspiring comments too.
Your blog Dianne is a great account and has left much for me to ‘chew on’.
Re-reading your wonderful blog Dianne I feel that there is so much more that you hint at concerning our teeth, especially the aspect of Karma. I know I have heard this mentioned before and I look forward to any extension on this.
Wow Dianne, thanks for leaving us hanging at the end there. If our teeth represent Karma, that means there is much more to medicine than we currently understand. Medicine and health has come a long way, but is missing an important piece. After working in a hospital for a week I can say that there is a lot of technology and science that has been developed that can benefit people on an amazing level, but all that is missing is love.
Wow Dianne, I love your enthusiasm for the way in which you get your teeth stuck into the job at hand. For me it has also been an eventful journey backwards and forwards to the dentists with the loss of many teeth and with too many fillings to count. Thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon, I now have a greater understanding of the roll karma plays in the health of my teeth.
Mmmm.. it seems the simple answer to dental health is don’t eat sugar. We like to make it more complicated than that, including the whole fluoride debate, but this is a reflection of how we don’t want to take responsibility for our choices when it comes to our health and medicine. We still believe that medicine is something that is there to come to our rescue when we have abused our bodies so far that they break down. We don’t as yet see life and how we live as medicine.
I agree, there is much to be said about sugar consumption and tooth decay. In both Australia and the UK one of the main reasons children are going under general anaesthetic is for dental care that is largely unavoidable – you could say its our karma coming coming around very quickly but that seems remiss when a two year old is having several decayed teeth removed due to excessive sweet and sugary beverages.
My mother also had false teeth since she was a teenager and I grew up thinking that was the norm. We didn’t go to the dentist as children unless we had a bad tooth ache and then would go and have it extracted. My teeth weren’t that bad but when I was 20 I had a tooth ache so took myself off to the dentist and ask the dentist to pull all of my teeth out. The dentist couldn’t believe what I was asking him to do but my belief was that I would need to have them all extracted soon so why not just get it over and done with. Fortunately the dentist convinced me to have a filling in my tooth and keep my teeth.
It is crazy how much sugar we consume in drinks alone. To have coke for breakfast has always been a mystery to me. But, then when sugary drinks have been introduced to us as a normal everyday thirst stilling drink it is simply something we adapt as normal and we get used to the constant energy supply not even knowing how to live without it.
“We know so much really and have professionals who regularly let us know our body is struggling, yet choose to ignore it for the sensation it gives the body.” So very true Lucy. And not only that, we even defend our cause and find arguments why what we are doing is good for us. And even the doctors are often not trained to tell us straight up what would be best for us. We are so used to ignoring the obvious and keep on going with what we like to do that honesty, first and foremost with ourself, has become something very scarce.
Your blogs elucidate and entertain Dianne, I loved this, so much to know and understand about teeth.
What i appreciate when reading this Dianne is your curiosity. The curiosity to bring understanding and when you share this it is delivered in a palpable light way that I too am in awe of our teeth and of you. Thank you.
Dianne – another brilliant look into what is behind the science of how we live. I had no idea what sugar does to your teeth in so much detail – what an absolutely huge topic to consider. How we eat is a huge factor in how we live, and to read about the effects on the body really brings it home.
I love your point about teeth storing karma and being a marker for how we live. it is true in most things that people can live so irresponsibly and not feel the consequences, and others can live so lovingly but one slip up can be huge.
But karma will always come to us – be this life or another. So what is important is our choices, how we are living, the responsibility we are taking and simply to listen to our bodies.
Wow Dianne thank You for this open, honest and so precise sharing and opening up a new space to ponder on and be inspired by Your story here and lived experience.
You expose that there is always something on a much deeper level playing out and only when humanity accepts and understand this will there be true healing that can take place.
I love that reminder Tracy, in everything there is a much deeper level playing out. Gosh, life is interesting, when you look at it like that, isn’t it?!
I love the simple way you present science, Dianne, it is a great read and has given me much to ponder on. I was told to rinse my mouth out with water after eating an apple, to help reduce the acid. I recently had all 11 mercury fillings removed (over two years) and, thanks to sound nutrition advice from my dentist, had no side effects. I am just starting a procedure for realigning my crooked teeth. I hated dentists when I was younger and refused to continue with any orthodontic work, but now, at 65, I feel it’s about time I got my teeth straight. What that means for my Karma I don’t know, but it feels great, even though I’m going to look like a teenager for six months while the brace is in.
I must have good karma because I have excellent teeth..Thankyou for sharing Dianne. I also enjoy my dental hygiene! although when I was younger i used to eat a lot of sugar, and then began to see brushing at night as burden, as I just wanted to go to sleep. When I got braces when I was 13 I was re-inspired to look after my teeth.
I had braces on from age 11 to 12. How that came about was that, like someone else on this blog, my teeth did not all fit in my jaws (even though I have wide jaws I obviously have teeth disproportionately large). So when the time came for my canines to descend there was no room for them and they came down on top of other teeth. I was starting to look like a wild animal! The orthodontist had to take out 2 perfectly healthy pre-molars to make room, then fit braces to pull the canines down into spaces. I didn’t feel embarrassed about braces as some people did because I loved to be correcting my structure, but it sure made for extra work and care (not a bad thing). And a lovely straight-toothed ‘human’ smile! However where the braces sat changed the enamel chemically, and has become a greyish band across my front teeth in my later years. I also had all 4 wisdom teeth removed, so have lost 6 healthy teeth altogether and still have a mouth full to the brim with teeth! Goodness, there’s such a lot to teeth!
I could feel how complicated it could get with eating sugar, to brush and affect the enamel, to not and have the plaque and decay. Of course there is always a simple answer, not eating the sugary foods and this is a personal choice we all have the opportunity to make.
There is clearly more going on than we as a society are prepared to see. People who brush their teeth religiously and eat well with bad teeth problems, people who don’t brush at all and eat poorly with no teeth problems. It makes no sense. What you propose makes absolute sense as it takes us deeper and brings a responsibility and awareness to our choices on a bigger scale.
When you see someone with bad teeth we automatically judge that they are neglecting them and holding back from getting help and yes, that does happen but like you have stated Dianne you have looked after your teeth so well – so it does make me wonder what is going on, how it it possible that some people seem to take very little care of their teeth but they still look in great shape. It’s one thing to look at our teeth and see our choices in this life shine back to us (or not) in the mirror, but to see them as all of our choices from past lives, takes it to a whole new level. I will never look at teeth in the same way ever again.
I never enjoyed going to the dentist as a child and then as a young adult did not go for many years. It is only since learning and understanding more about teeth and what they are showing us that I understand this is a necessary part of self care so now make my visits with more willingness. Thank you Dianne for another amazing blog relating to our bodies.
I love all you have shared in this blog, Dianne and really helps us understand more about teeth and what is really going on with tooth decay. It shows how we are not being given the full picture when it comes to teeth health and how we can learn about the health of our whole body. Thank you.
I so love your blogs Dianne they are fun and informative. I have learnt so much about teeth that I did not know about before. I feel if the dentists started to understand more about teeth from a karmic point of view it would add another dimension to how we look after and care for ourselves in this life.
True Julie, with the food which rests on the teeth even after brushing. But one thing I have observed: depending on the food I eat, I can immediately see/feel on my teeth what it is going to do in my body. There is food which sticks really in ‘big bits’ between the teeth. There is food which seems easy to digest but is letting a slight film on the teeth. And there is also food which causes irritation in my mouth and wounds. So in regards of that everything entered energetically in our body before we put it in the mouth – this is a great reflection.
I could keep reading Dianne. I love the way you bring science to life and life to science.
It just goes to show the importance of not just skimming the surface when educating children but to offer them true care by going into detail so that when they form habits around self-care, they are rhythms that truly support rather than just part of the picture that can hinder health long term.
Reading your blog at the end it felt like a cliffhanger where you have to wait until the next series starts in the season to hear what happened. I want to know more about teeth and karma, this sounds really interesting. Please can you write some more : )
Dianne – I loved the fascinating science journey you took us on, explaining the Catch-22 situation with tooth decay, sugar and brushing your teeth. And like Ester I too could listen to your wisdom for hours.
I learned so many interesting things about teeth from this blog, Dianne, thank you. It has always interested me that my 3 boys who eat a similar diet and care for their teeth in a similar way (not great) have such different teeth, one even has 8 missing adult teeth that never developed. This is supposed to be hereditary but he is the only one in our extended family. That our teeth may reflect our karma makes sense.
Dianne a fascinating read that has answered many questions but has evoked many more… Interesting the teeth prepare the food for digestion which leads me to consider what else we digest energetically … Is this the part that we now take deeper into our responsibility with not only the food we eat but the how, what, when and why.
I will be chewing over this today😀
Hmmm Dianne.. if karma defines our dental states it would explain so much about the different states of teeth in children. Some have perfect white, strong, straight pearlies and others greyer, crooked or rot very quickly despite daily dental care and their parents DNA. There definitely seems to be more to teeth than meets the eye.
As a child my mother was relentless with her reminders to clean our teeth and have regular visits to the dentist. Without fail he would always find a hole to fill … thus I have many fillings… all amalgam. Dianne interesting to read the Catch 22 situation we are all in … it appears our teeth have their way with us, whatever needs to come out and be cleared happens, regardless of our external care. Which leads me to ponder on the energetic relationship and the karma that is released through our teeth.
Maybe that can be part two of your in depth fascinating discovery into the dark caverns of our mouths and the truth untold.
Wow Dianne, this is quite a journey you have taken us through, I loved every word of it and learned quite some new bits about my teeth. Thank you! I could sit and listen to your wisdom for hours.
I loved reading the information so simply and playfully presented about a topic I never thought I would be that interested in – teeth! And then when I was expecting a summing up of the great things you had learned about teeth …wham!… you took it even deeper: “Since studying with Universal Medicine, I have come to understand that there is more to teeth than roots, dentine and enamel. In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.” This is a profound insight. Teeth will never be just teeth after reading your article.
They do definitively, Dianne! Our teeth reflect all our past choices and even or especially those accumulated from past lives. My Grand-Grandmother had all her teeth till she was around 90. One she lost shortly before her death. She never brushed her teeth (which I would not recommend) and had no problems with them, but maybe with her liver… she was angry all life long. 🙂
That is amazing Sonja and your Grand Grandmother certainly puts a different slant on the importance of dental care. Maybe we have invented another one of those solution driven belief systems that only seem to focus on one aspect of our choices, making it all about dental hygiene while failing to step back and regard the whole of our choices, from this life and our previous ones. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could begin to read our teeth and see what choices in our past have led to our current dental health. That would make for a much more interesting visit to the dentist!
Everything we put in our body has to come out again in a certain way. Our mouth is a big expression tool, it and our teeth and gums show very much what we choose for us and for all others to receive. The reading of our teeth should be definitely taught, not only for professional dentist but also for us in the first place. Then the dentist would not have so much to do in a positive way.
What you propose about teeth reflecting our karma would give dentists so much more of a role in our lives than people who are there to fix our teeth. They would help us understand the effect of our way of living in previous incarnations and how it is playing out in this life.
True, life is so much more than it seems. And this awareness alone could change so much about the way we live.
This could be applied to all the medical professions – if we truly understood energy and how it plays out in the physical body then our health professionals would have a much grander role to play in healing the being as well as mending the physical body.
A very interesting read Dianne. Our teeth are so precious yet they can be overlooked or ignored until we need dental work on them.
You are a God given gift Dianne Trussell! My mouth is watering and I am salivating at the detail about the bacteria and the different veracity of it. I love it. This is nothing at all in relation to the truth about our teeth that you mention at the end. Yes much to ponder! Thank you!
Interesting – this would explain a lot of phenomena around tooth care. I noticed that many people who take good care of their teeth suffer lots of problems in spite of the care. And it shows again the responsibility we have in our daily choices. We are laying the foundation for our future (teeth!).
This is great Felixschumacher8, and this certainly feels true. Knowing that all elements of how we live are a reflection of what we have chosen I find it a blessing when they are very obvious such as Dianne example and experience.
Laying the foundations for our future teeth! Love it Felix, how amazing to be raised with that awareness and care, to be encouraged to see that our choices made in this life time are also laying the future foundations we will return to in the next. It brings a whole new dimension to dental care, if we want a mouthful of pristine teeth, then every choice we make contributes to building these amazing structures that serve us so well throughout our lives.
Fascinating blog Dianne, I have weakened my own tooth enamel in the past through eating fruit and then brushing straight afterwards, it is so often the misinformed choices we make that affect us. It also makes a lot of sense to me as my teeth stain quite easily and yet I eat few foods that would actually stain my teeth. The dentist puts this down to just bad luck, saying some people’s teeth just stain more easily, so I wonder what the energetic reason is for this and if it is linked to choices I have previously made.
Dianne, your blog is an absolute joy to read. Your humour and lightheartedness can be felt with ease as you take us through what would usually be a long and painful biology lesson, but you deliver as an entertaining journey of evolution.
The teeth, as every part of our body, have a huge part to play in our lives. What we choose to see and understand from them is up to us, but the questions are certainly worth asking.
Dianne, I love the common sense of this statement, ‘Obviously the answer is: don’t eat or drink sugar!’ This really would be the simple answer to preventing tooth decay.
It’s amazing how the simplest of answers are the ones we often ignore! It’s amazing also to see how sugary foods and drinks are perceived largely as a normal part of life, and something we would need to consume. The fact is this is not the case at all, and our teeth tell us this very clearly, not to mention all the other parts of the body that do too!
Another one of your great blogs Dianne and very relevant to me presently. I have had a major toothache for days now with a nerve dying in a tooth that is supporting a bridge for 2 other teeth that I had removed 10 years ago due the the abuse I had been in with bulimia. This is another level of clearing connected to having abused myself as a woman and allowing abuse from others. Another huge package to clear through my teeth and I am looking forward to going to the dentist tomorrow to complete the process. I never thought I would ever say that I was looking forward to going to the dentist!!!! The difference is that now I understand that seeing a dentist supports the clearing and healing of buried stuff.
This is really interesting Mary-Louise, ‘The difference is that now I understand that seeing a dentist supports the clearing and healing of buried stuff.’ I had not considered that going to the dentist could help us heal buried stuff, this gives me a new perspective on going to see the dentist and how supportive this can be.
Mary-Louise I didn’t go to the dentist for 10 years, but teeth were ok but my gums were a different question. I now go 4 times a year, essentially because I have to, but I also love going. It’s not too often I hear people say this. Most go to the dentist with a sense of dread. But when you see a dentist that you know takes great care and consideration in how they are in all that they do, it certainly makes it easier. Loving and caring for my gums is supporting me to remove old (and ongoing) patterns of disregard.
I can so relate Jennifer. My teeth are fine, as in no decay but I seem to have a mouth to develop tartar very quickly, so I am now for the first time in my life going to have them cleaned every 3 months and this feels very lovely to do. It does indeed feel as a part of deeply caring for and loving myself.
I agree, Jennifer. Having a deeper understanding of the meaning of disease has changed my attitude to the dentist – and also brought into my life one who is very tender and caring. I now love going to the dentist too, even though it can be at times still painful or at least very uncomfortable, as any healing process can be.
This is a great attitude to have towards the dentist Mary Louise, for many years I have held a very deep respect and appreciation for my dentists and felt actually a lot of love for them, and this has been reflected back in most of my visits to the dentist have felt amazing, (with a few traumatic ones). I see what a difficult job it is to perform very precision operations in the confined space of one’s mouth!
Great question: Why is it that for some like a good friend of mine, who rarely cleaned her teeth when she was growing up, maybe 3 times a week maximum and ate heaps of sugar and junk food and never had a filling until recently, at 36 has teeth that are strong and white. While others like your self who took care of your teeth and was conscientious of what you ate, do not enjoy the same dental health?
I was asking the same question, Mary-Louise and it makes so much sense what Dianne is sharing about the karma.
A great sharing here, thank you Dianne. I have a somewhat similar situation to you, but my reason for very vigorous cleaning of my teeth I feel is somewhat different to yours. I have come to see that the reason for the thinning of enamel on my teeth is due to the frustration that I lived in for much of my life prior to the past 9 years or so. In my frustration, I cleaned my teeth 2 and sometimes 3 times a day, I guess full of fury and frustration at and of myself and and just wore the enamel down each day. Now I clean my teeth with much gentleness, but unfortunately I have similar problems, my teeth are no longer pearly white and tend to stain very easily. I don’t have many fillings nowadays, mainly replacing old ones that need repair or replacement. But years ago, I had lots of holes in my teeth and am left with a mouth full of fillings. Now I realise why. Yes, to your question, my teeth reflect how I was living for most of my life, not knowing how to deal with my issues and staying with the frustration and fury.
This is interesting Beverley, that you have clearly made the linkage and it feels true. I know there is a strong reflection of where we are at and what plays out in our mouths, as when I go into nervous energy I tend to grind my jaw which has also happened in my sleep. In fact instead of palm readers you could have mouth and teeth readers.
Oh Diane, this is a carbon copy of my dental history. I have brushed so hard and for so long in the false hope of caring for my teeth that I had to change to ultra soft brushes to avoid thinning them any further. I have crunched on my own tooth when it became too thin, had root canals, caries, extractions…..
My dentist knows how much I care and is astonished at how often I sit in her chair for yet another treatment. She puts it on the count of bad luck. But I know it is a reflection of my past lives. The lesson is a powerful one.
There are so many stories around our teeth. I never had the problems Danielle as you describe, but my teeth were so yellow I rarely smiled because they were the wrong colour. Teeth whitening was a huge boon for me and made quite a difference.
Really interesting blog Dianne, fascinating how the oral health message we get can be inadequate, confused and at times misleading. But then you seal it with a corker that maybe, just maybe there is more going on that the physical symptoms.
I love listening to and reading your words Dianne – your love and enthusiasm for the human body just leaps off the page/screen. You make the complex, simple and easily digestible. Thank you – you inspire me to be inspired by the magnificence of the human body.
Yes, whenever I read or hear Dianne talk about the human body I am in awe of just how magnificent we are. There is so much wonder to behold about ourselves as human beings.
Yes, very much so, Dianne is a master of bringing the all to everything in simplicity. Very easily digestible, a delight for body and mind.
And I enjoy Dianne’s humour and lightness which comes through her words.
Yes her humour and lightness of looking at things makes listening to her so easy and joyful, you simply want to keep listening. And the incredible thing is that she knows so much and is an absolute science genius but she does not think she is better or grander than others who do not know so much in that area. She does not identified herself by what she knows and has an absolute zest for how things universally work and shares everything she knows with everyone else.
And yes again Josephine, isn’t that what we all can feel, the quality in which we talk, present and express, and don’t we all know that we are all influenced by it enormously? We all know yet we haven’t really put the dots together and come to the conclusion that when we are all so very sensitive and can feel every bit of another’s state of being how very important it is then to always make sure to take good and deep care of ourself to be able to be there for everyone in our fullness to the best of our ability instead of being cranky, sick, angry, sad, annoyed and so forth.
I agree, Esther, the absoluteness to hold everybody equal is seen in the love how Diane expresses in her sharing about scientific knowledge and understanding. It is understandable by everybody including children. This is awesome as it brings a total new, different and loving light to science,.
I agree Sarah. Dianne is a scientist (and science teacher) in the true sense of the word. Thanks to Dianne I have now re-discovered my own sense of wonderment in my own body.
Yes, lots to ponder on, Dianne! Thank you as always for your blogs. I always love them.
What you say about the different types or strengths of bacteria makes sense Dianne, and my feeling is that they change in accordance with what is going on in one’s life and the choices being made. I was slightly surprised that within the 6 month period between hygienist appointments (not normally prone to decay) that I had developed two tiny holes in the enamel of a back tooth. Running through the list of possible causes by the nurse, none applied, so it would seem a strong case of the body responding to what is being and has been lived on a much broader scale than simply sugar consumption and dental care.
This is interesting Rosanna that in running through the list of possible causes none applied. This just confirms to me that there is more to the causes of illness and disease than we commonly know and have accepted.
Great point shevonsimon, I agree we can take this wider than just the teeth and dental care, and apply it to a general care of ourselves and how that has a significant effect on our health and how we live.
This makes sense Rosanna, that our choices how we are with ourselves influence the bacteria and its harm in our mouth.
Great point simply put.
Awesome and fascinating read, Thank You Dianne !
Dianne as usual a really informative and interesting blog! It helps me enormously to understand the state of my teeth and especially the cleaning of them. I too always though I did a pretty good job of looking after my teeth, one parent also had false teeth from and early age and we were encouraged to look after our teeth, visiting the Dentist regularly, a visit I too disliked intensely at the time. Thank you for an amazing blog Dianne!
I loved reading this story of your quest Dianne – it really goes to show your dedication to leaving no stone unturned when it comes to your health. Your natural inquisitiveness appears borne from a thirst to truly understand what happens in the body, and why. So many of us do not have this – or ignore it if we do. What you bring with your quests is invaluable and inspirational, thank you Dianne!
Amazingly interesting Dianne. Despite cutting out sugar not being the answer to everything, it’s fascinating what it physically does to our teeth. I could picture teeth just dissolving ever so slowly and I was reflecting back on all the years I used to eat copious amounts of lollies specifically, and I’m grateful my teeth are still intact.
Thanks for the science lesson Dianne, very interesting and much to ponder on!
I have had a lot of issues with my teeth.
I have a friend who was deteriorating but all tests came out negative until the root canals were tested for issues. Removing the teeth made that friend completely whole again at one stroke. I am not sure if keeping your teeth at all costs is a good idea.
Thanks Dianne for an interesting and revealing article on teeth, the point I found most fascinating is that our teeth are Karmic and represent past choices.
Dianne I love how you share your scientific understanding with the world in such an informative and easy-to-understand manner….
Then with a great dollop of love you add the esoteric factor.
For example; Teeth… the way we care for them, the way we are often not taught the full truth, the reaction of the body to sugar and then WHAM our relationship between our teeth and karma. THANK YOU.
Your question Dianne makes perfect sense to me and this is because when I was 17 it was discovered that I had milk teeth left. I wasn’t ready to deal with this and so didn’t accept the treatment on offer. Hit 26 and I’m met with the same scenario and opportunity to have those teeth removed. It took 8 years of dental work but the most traumatic part was having my milk teeth taken out. It was like I just didn’t want to let go. With wisdom (pun unintended!) and hindsight, not losing my teeth at the appropriate age was linked to a stubbornness in me of not wanting to grow up.
Holding stubbornness in your teeth. I didn’t know we could do that but then again I hold my tension in my back jaws which makes me clench my back teeth. So I guess anything is possible.
Brilliant as always Dianne, your ability to use science and take it to a greater wisdom is deeply inspiring and truly serves humanity. Your ability to pull apart that which does not make sense and make it make sense is outstanding. You don’t settle for what we have “been told” and accept that as gospel, so much of what we have been told by science does not make sense yet we accept it as science told us. Thank you for taking it deeper and bringing a greater truth to so much of what we just accept.
Diane another great blog. Our teeth certainly can reflect how we’re living. In my experience, I found that when I started taking care of myself (almost no sugary foods, sleep, exercise) and gave my teeth consistent attention (gentle brushing, using inter-dental brushes and regular visits to the hygienist), I became more steady and so did my teeth. No more bleeding gums, fillings that fell out, tooth ache and visits to the dentist to fix recurring problems. My relationship with my dentist has evolved over the years and dental visits are no longer resisted or dreaded.
To me it makes perfect sense that the state of our teeth and our mouth reflect the way that we have been living. Mine are so sensitive that the correction is immediate and I cannot escape the messages being relayed as they are to coin a term ‘in your face’ and consequently hard to ignore.
Yes Josephine I can totally relate. If I have been living in total disregard and not taking care of myself my teeth become so sensitive. It is a loud message to stop and change my ways.
Imagine losing all of your teeth as a teenager?? My grandfather had all of his taken out before he went to war (2nd world war) and there was nothing wrong with them. It’s really interesting to ponder on what you said about Karma being reflected in our teeth and what happens with them. I can feel for me the lifetimes of disregard in my teeth, which is why I need (and choose) to go to the dentist every 3 months. What’s interesting is that people tell me I have beautiful teeth, but what we see is not necessarily the truth.
Dianne I was interested in your journey of your early years journey into caring for your teeth. It’s amazing what we do out of reaction, because we don’t want to find ourselves in the same situation as someone else, so we go hard at it (whatever it is that we are desperately avoiding) to make sure that that is not our experience. Your experience highlights that this is not true at all.
This is a great blog and I remember the dentists’ admonition to brush three times a day. I have never met anybody who actually did this and so I wondered whether this was just one of those oft-repeated but never acted upon things so nobody knew the consequences as Dianne outlines above.
Thank you Dianne for sharing these revelations about our teeth. For me your words were quite technical in the beginning, but as I allowed myself to continue reading with full attention I could feel that I found it extremely fascinating. That choosing one behaviour (eating sugars) has so many biological consequences in our mouth! Incredible. We’re not taught that, maybe because we as adults think that it is too boring or too extensive for our children. I will have a try with my child soon… Your last part about our teeth reflecting our Karma isn’t new for me. But what is new is my (uncomfortable) honesty that I’ve never really connected to my own teeth / mouth. As this part is somehow functioning which is enough. Where as I can feel the difference when I eat with connecting to my mouth, or if I connect to my teeth when there’s pain (something I used not to like, connecting when anything in my body hurt). Up until now there hasn’t been a lot of appreciation. Thank you for making me aware of this. To be continued and revealed.
Floris this blog gives me a new appreciation for my teeth as well. Whenever I brush my teeth I go into auto pilot and I think of all sorts of things whilst brushing my teeth. No matter how determined I try and stay present while brushing my teeth it doesn’t seem to happen. There is a reason for this and one which I need to ponder on.
Hi Lindell, what I found after writing the above comment in which I nominated a lot, that I actually take a lot more time to brush my teeth. I now brush them one by one and even start to have little connection to them. Not with all of them, but definitely more then ever before. Which feels lovely. My feeling is that there’s a lot to connect to.
Great blog Diane on the science of dental health and to discover it is not as simple as first appears. I’ll certainly post this to someone I know who has had similar experiences to you and recovering from dental surgery going forward only wants non-evasive dental interventions.
This is a very interesting article Dianne, I have many fillings and have just had a crown fitted as my tooth was so weak it could have cracked at any time, after years of eating sugar and not taking care of my teeth I am now paying the price for this lack of care, I had not considered that my teeth reflect the way I have been living though and will ponder on this, thank you.
I used to use a very hard toothbrush and scrub my teeth hard. I thought I was doing a great job keeping them clean. Recently my dentist has told me that I am wearing away my gums and thus exposing sensitive dentine because of years of hard brushing. I now have a softer toothbrush and am not so rough on my teeth. Being more connected to my body these days, I can feel that my teeth are quite a delicate part of my body that need gentle care.
This is so true Debra. Every part of our body needs gentle care, including our teeth.
Thank you Dianne I really enjoyed reading this and enjoy how you write. I never knew that by flossing it allows oxygen to get in-between the teeth and gums – this fact alone encourages me to keep flossing. I recently brought a magnifying mirror and you have to be very brave to use it, but it is great for flossing and highlights how much food is still lodged within the teeth even after brushing with the latest supersonic toothbrush.
Yes Julie, it’s great to know the science behind flossing. It’s something I am going to make a regular part of my self-care routine.
Too funny, Dianne’s blog has also inspired me to now pay more attention to flossing, not something I have been committed to before but feeling the truth in what has been presented I am inspired. Thank you Dianne for your true care.
I have a magnifying mirror and will try it out when flossing, thanks for the idea, Julie – I will be brave!
When I was reading Dianne’s excellent blog and got to the info about flossing, I immediately got my dental floss out and ‘did’ my teeth whilst reading 🙂
I’m not sure I’m glad or happy about reading your latest blog Dianne as I had another it’s time for a little more responsibility in just another area of my life moment. I am now freaking out about the extent of what is in my mouth at any given time that I didn’t necessarily put in there of my own free will.
Your comment made me laugh kevmchardy, love your honesty and it’s true, sometimes ‘ hard when we read things like this as then it is up to us to take responsibility or not.
Your story just exposes so many other ways we treat and manage the affects of dis-ease in our body’s from our choices… when the best cure is to just stop doing it.
Yes Steve, we spend time and effort dealing with the symptoms, when the simplest thing would be to stop doing what’s causing the symptoms in the first place.
Wow, thanks Dianne for your expose on teeth. I love how Universal Medicine brings everything back to energy. There is not one thing in our body that we can take as face value, there is always more beneath the surface in which reading the energy reveals our past choices.
I love reading things that are plain and simple, that you actually understand and learn something.. Now to the teeth I have a few missing and without hesitation would have to admit to being MIA at stages over this lifetime..
What a great question to ponder on Dianne. We may think that we know the physics behind tooth decay, as you so beautiful have explained Dianne, but why does this work differently in people is indeed the question we have to ask ourselves. There must be more to why one persons health is serious affected and that of the other not while living in general in the same way, eating the same food, utilising the same care to themselves etc. I have to agree with you that we have to consider other aspects of our lives. As we live a perpetual life as human beings here on earth, we must also consider the effects of our past lives have on our current life and then karma is one of the things we have to start looking at.
Dianne, I find your commitment to getting to the root of your dental health inspiring, especially because as you say, there is more than teeth and sugar at play here. It makes sense that our teeth reflect the way we have lived, for what we put into our mouth will affect what is inside our mouth. Likewise the quality of what we ingest energetically by way of what we align to, be it truth or be it not, will determine the quality of our internal environment. And, what is lived internally will govern what can be lived externally. As the ancient Greeks put it: “As above, so below”. The quality we choose to move us will be the quality with which we move in and by.
I agree Liane and love this part ‘The quality we choose to move us will be the quality with which we move in and by.’
‘Likewise the quality of what we ingest energetically by way of what we align to, be it truth or be it not, will determine the quality of our internal environment.’ Beautifully expressed, Liane and shows so clearly that all parts of our body are affected or supported by our choices. Our body shows all truths of life.
Wow its so simple isn’t it yet profound. Every single part of our body speaks to us all the time. From top to toe we are walking talking units of energy. To really know this and then live in such a way as to honour the loving quality that we choose is a life long commitment.
Yes Kathryn, it is a life long commitment. There is no end to it.. 🙂 So life does not get boring.
” ‘getting to the root’ of your dental health inspiring” … You are so funny Liane!
Yes indeed they do Dianne and yes so much to ponder on.
What a very informative, practical and educative blog, I really enjoyed reading and reflecting on the deeper issues behind the practical!
Another informative, entertaining and truthful blog from you Dianne. Yes, I want to read the rest of the story, what you have discovered about karma and teeth. My teeth have always been reasonable but when I had the amalgam fillings removed a couple of years ago it started a whole tooth adventure and suddenly after fifty-six years of cruising with my teeth I had to have a lot of ongoing work done. It has felt like things that have been buried have been coming out and the dentistry has been a correction. What the karma is I couldn’t say but have at times noticed that old memories surface when I am in the dentist chair and the work is being done. My mouth definitely feels lighter, clearer and more sensitive now.
I love your scientific, inquisitive approach. It’s always such a joy to read your offerings, Dianne. And it’s fascinating that tooth reflect our karma. I would love to know more about this and how that can be applied to understand about myself and my choices.
Wow, Dianne- I love listening to your science talks. So fascinating, informative and easy to understand. This talk about teeth and decay brings up lots of Food for thought, especially considering you had pristine clean teeth and gums yet you attracted the worst dental problems amongst your peers. Something deeper has to be acting out. e.g. karma.
Fascinating article Dianne – thank you! I can relate to what you have written on many levels. I am one of six children in my family and we all have different types of teeth yet have all had the same diets and similar dental hygiene habits. As you suggest – there has to be more to this than just genetics or good/bad luck.
Dianne, I really enjoyed this, thank you, there is so much here, and yes our teeth do show us so much. For me it’s been my gums and I know when I don’t take the time and care to floss for instance that they will bleed, and I’ve learned to love that, the almost instant feedback to remind me to take care.
That is a great point monicag2, and after reading this article and having the understanding about bringing more oxygen there it makes even more sense to floss more often. For me, once I understand why, then I find it so much easier to do certain things.
A great lesson in tooth care Dianne – certainly things I didn’t know before! You had me hanging at the end with the posing of the possibility for us to consider the well being of our teeth being not only related to the way we are living in this life, but in one’s previous, and it would be great to read about this in another blog!
Really interesting learning more about the science behind tooth care, thank you Dianne the way you write is so informative, personable and funny as well. And it makes sense to me too that our teeth reflect more than just the way we brush/ floss our teeth or the foods and drinks we have, sure they all play a part but are not the only answer.
Wow Dianne, the amazing life of our teeth. As with all things health related, there is often more going on than meets the eye or the microscope. Looking at the influence of energy and the way we live our life may account for the differences that we see between health outcomes from the same treatments.
Very true Lee. Why is it that bacteria that live within be different, some more voracious than others, as in Dianne’s case? When we choose not to see that the energy we choose to live affects everything we limit our understanding of what is going on.
What I love about this blog is that it invites us to consider more deeply what might be going on within us and around us. Of course we all know that sugar is terrible for our teeth but as Dianne very elegantly explains here there is more to teeth decay than just that. Just about everyone dislikes anything going wrong with his or her teeth. It brings with it a lot of pain, discomfort and vulnerability. The vulnerability comes from knowing deep within us that we have been living in a way that has not been self-regarding. It is in fact a moment of truth for us and an opportunity for healing should be choose to accept it.
Wow, quite a lesson on all things teeth, thanks Dianne.
Such a cliffhanger! I want to read more… But so well said, that when the equation doesn’t stack up between the level of care and attention you’ve given to your teeth over the years compared to how they have ‘behaved’ back to you, there must be something deeper at play.
I love the cliffhanger Cathy, it inspires me to truly ponder on the fact that it is not only about the physics but that we have to widen our view and have to explore other area’s of our existence that finally all contribute to how we are in this very moment of time.
I know pretty awesome, a sequel is needed
Exactly how I was feeling at the end of yet another awesome article by Dianne. Please bring on part 2!
What a great example Doug that the science and wisdom of our bodies if we are aware of it is far greater than what mainstream science can explain today.
What a dangerous thing sugar is to our health and here is more proof of that. I found it very interesting to learn that there is no ‘get out of jail’ free card when it comes to eating sugar. I used to believe that I could get away with eating sweet things as long as I followed strict teeth hygiene practices, but this blog shows that this is simply not true.
Great point Andrew – yet this is how the sugar industry ply their craft – and the dental industry backs them up by literally saying brush your teeth regularly to avoid decay. It shows us that the convenience of ‘almost truths’ is literally where we are held in order to be the puppets of what ever ‘big industry’ wants to do with us.
Using the brushing your teeth x amount of times per day as a way of saying it is okay to eat the sugars in the first place is just a fix it, that clearly doesn’t work. It is so important that we change the way we live, i.e eliminate sugar as much as possible so that we don’t have to fix our teeth. But even more than that it is not just the sugar, I think it also has a lot to do with what we eat, how we eat and how our bodies natural flora is.
We have been fed sugar coated ‘half truths’ so that we don’t have the energy to go deeper and feel for ourselves the ‘whole truth’.
Thanks Dianne for another excellent blog – fascinating stuff! I had no idea that there were different strains of bacteria that could rot your teeth with different strengths. It does beg the question why does one person get a particular strain (and the increased decay consequences of this) and another one doesn’t? There must be another energetic factor involved that we have not considered widely as yet. Karma makes sense to me.
A great point Andrewmooney and this would be interesting science as it already is.
I used to brush morning and night thinking I was doing the right thing, only to find out (from a dentist) that my religious brushing had actually scrubbed some of my actual gum away! That was a shock. I wanted to blame someone for giving me these false instructions on how and how often to brush my teeth.
But when I sat with the whole experience I had to also ask myself, how come I didn’t ever feel the fact that I was actually hurting my gums? I certainly felt it once the dentist had pointed it out.
I took it as a metaphor for my life, that there had been lots of things I had cared for in the ticking boxes and doing the right things sense, but I hadn’t really consulted my own inner wisdom as to whether these things were right for my body or not.
So the message has clearly been, no matter what any one says or who says it always consult yourself and how you feel about it before taking it on as the your way.
Totally with you here Dean, when we listen we can let the wisdom of our bodies guide the way and we do not need to buy into the beliefs and ideals about the so called ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ ways to do things.
Well said Dean. If we override our innate wisdom, we will wear way our natural defences, which are simply that which has been put in place to support us.
Dean I can identify with what you have experienced. Learning to trust our own inner wisdom is important so that we don’t give our power away to medical advice that is always changing and streaming out from every part of the media.
Awesome point Dean. We get so furious, well, I do, when we find out that doing the right thing isn’t ‘working’. But as you’ve so clearly pointed out, could it be that when we do the ‘right thing’, we are purely on auto-pilot for the sake of ticking a box without actually feeling whether it is the right thing for us or not? We, I, love to give our power away to the instructions of others so that we have a back up blame plan in case it doesn’t all work out. There is no responsibility in that, and therefore little to feel empowered about.
Part 2 was this evening Elodie when I picked up the toothpaste purchased at the shop – you know the toothpaste that says on the box ‘full, super, anti-plaque, total protection and care’ or something like that.
I brushed my teeth and that was fine but I didn’t actually take any time to feel and assess whether this toothpaste actually worked for me. The box had told me it was all good so I had just switched off after that… I wondered how often I do that with other things? Just take on what ever I am told but not test it for myself.
I know if I go to buy some after shave or a pair of trousers I make sure I get the exact product that suits me. Yet when it comes to my teeth, I have deferred my own personal assessment of what works to some words on a box.
As you say, ‘there is no responsibility in that, and therefore little to feel empowered about.’ One thing’s more sure, I need to start paying more attention to what I am putting into my body and how.
Beautiful advice, Dean to always consult my inner wisdom whether something is right for my body and to not override what I feel and my body tells me.
Great point Dean. Its only true if our body says its true!
I found what you shared really interesting Dianne in the fact that you detailed not only the physical processes that happen when we consume sugar but also the impact of our choices on our overall health. There is so much more to our teeth than meets the eye and they really do offer us a reflection of our livingness. A really fascinating article that has definitely got me pondering the choices I have made in my life.
Wow, a fascinating read and highly educational topped with inspiring contemplation of teeth being a reflection of how we have lived! Thanks for sharing and asking us all to look outside the box.
Wow Dianne, I had no idea about the depth of what teeth have to offer, I have just appreciated the fact that they are still there and serving the purpose of preparing my food for digestion. This blog has generated much ‘Food’ for thought. Thank you.
So many of Us have not understood the depth of what teeth can offer, besides the fact that they are there to support us in our digestion of food. I know as I grew up there was very little shared about teeth, all I remember as a child, parents and teachers saying drink lots of milk it’s good for your teeth.
Very true Amita, I too have had a similar education about teeth, just drink lots of milk, which I did to my detriment and I still have fillings! Our teeth are so precious, Dianne’s blog is a welcome education for us all.
Gorgeous offering, Diana: “our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.”
You gave me something to take into my day. My teeth have always been healthy, strong and almost without any filings. They don’t want to stand in a straight line but are getting more and more out of line. What does this reflect about my past lives?
Love what you have shared here Monika, my teeth are quite out of line too and I do sometimes live like that… I had never looked at the connection of the two!
Fascinating Dianne on many levels. I recently had to have a tooth extracted after starting root canal treatment because of a hairline crack deep into the root. It felt to me like it was healing of a deep rooted way of being with myself and throughout the lead up, during and post-treatment, I allowed myself to feel fragile and vulnerable, and put my trust into the dentist doing the work. I felt very blessed because the dental staff were very caring and kind, and the dentist super gentle in his chair-side manner and way – I felt supported and cared for which allowed me to surrender to the process. And so, this experience strengthened my view that our teeth do carry our karma as this felt like a healing of a very old way of being and that it was an opportunity to heal it at it’s root cause.
That’s amazing Sandra – it is beautiful when we can change our approach to the dentist from one of dread to one that is openly accepting the healing that can be offered. I always feel our teeth look and feel very ancient and this would make sense when we realise that teeth carry our karma, hence the healing we receive when we are open and accepting. Over the last few years I have also been far more pro active about the health of my teeth and my relationship with the dentist, and I now see a visit to the dentist as another way that I can look after my body – and my karma.
This is a huge shift for me Susan as I have always dreaded the dentist and would become rigid in the chair having had very rough dental treament as a child. But this experience has confirmed for me that we are so supported if we allow ourselves to be, ask for help and surrender to the healing process. And consequently, I had no pain and no drugs needed after the extraction….just some very tender loving care and rest.
I came into this life with tooth decay! I had 8 fillings at the age of 4. My brother had the exact same diet and he is filling free. I know that my tooth decay runs deeper than just sugar. It feels like my body had a great deal to clear and it cleared it through my teeth. My tooth decay continued throughout most of my life but it has now stopped. I put this down to the fact that I am now dealing with my issues and the initial karma that I came in with has now cleared.
Interesting experience Rebecca. I had my first visit to the dentist when I was about 7 yrs old and needed 6 fillings and 2 teeth out, and on my second visit I needed 7 fillings and 1 tooth out.
I didn’t eat a lot of sugar at that age. I had put it down to the fact that I hadn’t learnt how to brush my teeth properly or frequently enough.
But, it now makes sense that it was karma I was dealing with.
Nowadays, I seldom get fillings. And I know that I am dealing with life’s issues as they come up for me.
It makes sense for me too Lorettarapp. I had a growth in my jaw some years ago (before Universal Medicine) and spent some time investigating the reasons why before I agreed to the operation that removed it, and three of my teeth. My teeth have also always been a bit on the yellow side, and when I was young, inclined to break rather than rot. Now they are as good as they have ever been, don’t break, and only one filling in the past 10 years. I put it down to clearing life’s issues as they come up too, and know that in my next life my teeth will hold a message for me to consider.
This is a brilliant sharing Rebeca and highlights that energy and past choices play a much more significant role than science is yet ready to admit.
This is interesting, lorettarap and Catherine, I don’t remember having much problem requiring fillings when I was very young, but I had a small, narrow jaw, and my teeth did not fit, were quite crooked. (didn’t help that the dentist told my mother in front of me that I had a mouth like a rabbit). I had pretty unsuccessful work done to rectify the crookedness when I was an early teenager, but it was several years later that I suddenly had lots of decay and an enormous number of fillings over a few years. Maybe that was part of the karma that is dumped into us when we reach the teenage years. I was never a huge fan of sweet foods. Since I met Serge Benhayon and learned to work on my hurts and issues, I have not had much new work done, mainly maintaining and replacing old fillings.
This is a fascinating story in itself Rebecca. The fact that both you and your brother had the same diet, yet only you suffered from tooth decay points to the fact that there is so much more going on under the surface. We have to introduce the concept of reincarnation and karma for it to make sense.
Yes, this is in fact is proof that there is more to us than just the life we are living. There are so many things in life that show us this but we have learned to doubt and not trust what we innately know that most of us simply deny reincarnation and karma.
Yes we have learnt to dismiss these things. Is this because if we can claim ignorance we don’t have to do anything about our choices and therefore are giving ourselves permission to keep playing out the same old irresponsibilities?
Rebecca I can relate to this, I had many fillings between the age of 6 and 13yrs. After that I have only had one more filling and that was when I was around 29, I am now 42. I too feel I have cleared a lot of it away. It was interesting to reflect when I was a child I was never really a sweet person, more of a savoury person. I feel I came into this life with past life karma that had to be cleared.
Rebecca reading your comment reminded me of my own teeth story! I too had a lot of fillings at a young age and too many teeth for the size of my mouth, and had some removed plus all 4 wisdom teeth removed at age 21 as they were impacted. I’d often wondered why I had loads of fillings and extractions and my brother didn’t despite a very similar diet as we grew up. I had more teeth treatment in my 30s with crowns but for the past decade I’ve had very little treatment except one tooth removed recently which I know was a very deep karmic healing. And so, you’ve shed some light for me on perhaps why I had so much treatment on my teeth at a young age.
Wow Rebecca, that’s amazing that you had so much to clear at such a young age, and they would have all been your baby teeth. When we look a little deeper, we realise there has to be more of an explanation than just the physical facts.
Thank you Rebecca, what an amazing insight that you have brought to the way in which we can heal and make changes that are profound.
As someone who has had so many dental experiences similar to yours Diane it was a joy to read your wonderfully informative – as usual – article. It has made so much sense of what my teeth and I have been through together over many years. To understand not only the scientific reason for my teeth issues, but the underlying energetic reasons, has brought a deeper understanding to the whole of me, after all my teeth are just not sitting in a space all on their own, they are a part of me, and just as important as all the other amazing parts.
So true, Ingrid. I have had some teeth issues too and it is lovely to read this review and gain a deeper understanding of how our choices affect our teeth.
Teeth reflecting the way we live, not only this life, but also those many other lives we have lived. Thank Dianne for sharing this truth.
Teeth store past life karma. An amazing revelation but one that explains things on so many levels.
They definitely do Diane. Although like many I did not always want to see this trooth, so avoided the Dentist like the plague. I can feel the love you have for life in your fascination and wonder at this process and part of the body. What stands out to me is how we make life about a choice between A and B. But what if there is actually another way open to us altogether? This questioning of life is the beauty of Esoteric Medicine and the way you see science, to me.
Once again Dianne, I love your sharing. The clear understanding that you offer us all here, should be all that is needed for us to consider the possibility of eliminating sugar from our diets. Or, does the Karma we bring with us hinder us in our quest to care for our bodies, including our teeth. Is it possible that old patterns and ways of living that we have chosen before now influence how we live today. In my experience, yes, and it takes a deep dedication to loving my body to begin to arrest these old farmilar patterns.
Dianne I am open to my teeth reflecting more than just the choices I have made in this lifetime. Sometimes it is like I feel things to the bone, well that is what I say when my teeth ache or something is happening with them. This reference is that what ever is happening is old and very deep.
Diane Trussel, a favourite to read and a favourite to listen to when she presents and I get to hear her. Your love of the body and the Universe is infectious. In the most loveliest way of course.
All this great information Dianne and then I felt left hanging at the end 😉
In answer to your question… YES! my teeth, my body, and my experiences all reflect how I am living and or have lived. I have always cared for my teeth and have fantastic teeth with no fillings even which is quite rare, however my gums are not in the best shape. My gums are the bed of support & environment my teeth are given to grow in and I have disregarded mine. This is what I felt as the dentist was speaking to me about gum care. It made so much sense and I could see how this pattern of disregard had played out in other areas of my life. I am a gorgeous delicate woman yet I spent many years living in some very abusive and harsh environments – places where nobody would want their daughter to live.. so yes my teeth do show me how I have lived.
I so relate to what you share Abby as I have had little issues with my teeth till my mid twenties. It was around this time that I went into a deep level of disregard and this is when my teeth issues began. More recently it has been my gums and as you share they are “the bed of support” for our teeth, this makes so much sense and has me really stopping in my tracks to see how choices I have been making are being reflected so clearly in my teeth. Definitely time to look more deeply in supporting self. Thank you Abby and Dianne for this amazing new awareness.
I love the extra offerings coming through Universal Medicine, such as our teeth offer us an opportunity to clear karma. I take them at face value, try them on, enjoy contemplating what my karma is (my dentist told me I had one in a thousand tooth enamel, being very strong and resistant to caries). In short I have fun with such offerings and have come to really appreciate a bigger picture of life and what our bodies truly represent.
Dianne your blogs are always so refreshing, informative and fascinating. I have so much to ponder on, regarding my teeth since reading this blog. l haven’t taken thorough care of my teeth. They have suffered from neglect. l was shocked recently with a diagnosis from my dentist. lt made me take notice of how l was not caring for them enough. The biggest help was remembering to floss, floss, floss and floss some more. Your scientific descriptions are so fascinating and intriguing, and they make me see a bigger picture.
Intriguing exploration, lots that I didn’t know about enamel, sugars and dental bacteria.
But I wonder if you could explain a little your last paragraph, on how your teeth reflect your karma, your choices in life and past lives?
Many thanks
Dianne I love the lightness of touch and depth of knowledge you bring to this topic. Having teeth that were always requiring attention it makes absolute sense to me now that this is a reflection of the way I have been living in self disregard for many lives. Now that I’ve understood this fact i’ve dropped the feeling of being a victim to bad genetics and got on with taking responsibility for caring for myself with great attention to detail.
Another fascinating and revealing blog Dianne! Thank you. Your observations inspire me to religiously floss my teeth and the idea that teeth reflect our karma is confronting but it is also the only thing that makes sense.
Once again Dianne you have managed to share a scientific understanding in a way that is understandable to all and then expanded that to a much bigger question for us to ponder. Understanding health and well-being is far more than mere function and chemical understanding.
Dianne, I love the way you explain things so simply with scientific reasons. The ‘Catch22’ is more proof of the harm of eating sugar and how we can be doing something that we think is good for us but it can actually be causing harm.
The diligent (often unconscious) scrubbing of the teeth has worn away many teeth and though dentists nowadays are more likely to educate children how to brush teeth carefully, it can still become a chore done on automatic with little attention to detail. The quality of the action makes a difference and your question ‘Do your teeth reflect the way you have been living?’ is worth pondering.
Wow Denise, another fascinating article. It’s certainly worth pondering how the choices we make could be reflected in the state of our teeth…and I really appreciated the explanation of why flossing is so important! Will certainly be bringing more attention to flossing regularly from now on.
Wow this is an amazing learning about teeth and all they show us and an in depth study in progress. It certainly shows the dilemmas faced on when to brush, floss and clean and when not to. Eating sugar has so many harmfull effects on our bodies that has not been clearly recognised before and the whole karma and what is going on really does add a another dimension to it all . Thank you Rachel for this great insight shared so clearly and lovingly expressed with joyfulness.
Thank you Dianne for your beautifully open and informative way of writing I learn something new each time I read your articles and they always leave me more fascinated with my relationship with my body.
I feel this too Nicole, Dianne’s articles are always informative and her passion for her topics is truly inspiring. I find myself wanting to delve deeper and look closer at my own relationship with my body, it truly amazes me how much our choices effect us on every level and inspires me to connect more to this amazing body that supports me everyday. Dianne you are a true inspiration!
Thank you for this informative blog Dianne, the double whammy assault on teeth by sugar should be common knowledge.
Dianne this is absolutely fascinating, the world of bacteria….I didn’t know that the bacteria that cause tooth decay could be different in each of us. But it makes complete sense if you consider that our health and our body’s responses (and so even down to that microbe level) are relative to the choices we make!
It just goes to show how different each person is, and there could be a whole host of different reasons behind the same problem seen in a selection of people. So we can’t make sweeping assumptions that everyone will get affected by the same thing in the same way. I know people who hardly ever brush their teeth, don’t floss, never go to the dentist, and have no problems with their teeth. And there are others who are constantly in need of attention whatever they do. And the reminds me, I need to go to the dentist 🙂
Dianne, I could read your blogs over and over again and often do. I learn so much about things I would never have thought I could understand. Your blog has helped me understand so much about sugar and yet that was not the main focus of your blog at all…the culprit of so many baddies perhaps but not the main focus!! I love the introduction of our teeth holding more than simply this life…it left me wanting more, so one to ponder on through my day. I will have to come back to read people’s comments to see how the blog builds.
For a while now I have be aware on some level that our teeth are much more than the psychical tooth. But I’ll admit that I have not really sat and questioned (until now that is) ‘I wonder what this means?’ ‘what is the energy behind this situation with my teeth?’ ‘What choices have I made that have resulted in the state and way my teeth are today?’. Overall my dental health I would say is very good like you Dianne, I brush, floss and the best one the tongue cleaner (these things are amazing!) and yet I’ve got one wisdom tooth impacting under the surface and another wisdom tooth with a cyst. I don’t believe in coincidences anymore and reading this blog has perked my curiosity into wondering what more can be learnt from this situation than just fobbing it off, ‘just life’ and getting the dentist to sort it all out then be on my merry way.
I felt exactly the same Leigh, Dianne’s article is so revealing and asks us to go a little deeper, is there more to our teeth than meets the eye? Absolutely!
Half winging and half smiling over this amazing sharing Dianne. As a small child clearly remembering getting a filling from the school dentist as a 7 years old which, was not meant for me but another pupil at the school, this did not give me any form of confidence with dentists. An elderly gentleman (in his mid eighties) I know has the most amazing teeth, straight, strong yes some yellowing with limited cleaning and eats the hardest of foods/nuts/sugary treats etc. When he feels to go to the dentist he gets a complete clean bill of health.? This does ask the question why do some have great teeth with very little care and others take great care, sometimes over the top cleaning regimes with their teeth and have many painful situations crop up.
Thank you Dianne for another very educational, exposing and thought provoking article. Teeth are an amazing part of our anatomy and I know that my teeth most certainly reflect the way I live my life. Years of eating way too much sugar, smoking, drinking red wine, coffee and tea have taken their toll on my teeth, not so much the decay but receding gums. Sometimes if I ate too much sugar my gums would start bleeding! What I dreaded most was having my teeth cleaned, it was so painful. However over the last 10 years I have been able to cut out all the sugar, tobacco, alcohol and caffeine from my diet and so my gums have recovered their health to a degree, having my teeth cleaned is no longer the nightmare it once was. The thing with our teeth and gums is that we cannot recover the damage done, they so honestly reflect the level of disregard we have chosen to live in and sometimes that disregard is so great our bodies have no choice but to carry it over from other life times.
Yes Rowena the level of disregard reflected by our teeth can be very confronting and I can relate to the dread of having my teeth cleaned in the past. Since changing my diet it has transformed my experience of going to the dentist but I am still living with the consequences of past choices and it is great to have more understanding of what is at play here.
I love how you bring science into everything you write about Dianne and make it understandable and relatable. I have a mouth full of fillings too and 4 teeth removed to make way for my wisdom teeth. My teeth were also affected by a penicillin I took for bouts of childhood coughs and turned the enamel brown as my adult teeth came through. At night my brothers and I were often given an apple instead of cleaning our teeth so I can see that all that sugar left on my teeth at night would have greatly contributed to the decay. Your question about is there more going on with our teeth than just decay is interesting and makes sense. Our teeth in relation to karma would make an interesting study…mapping out peoples lives in relation to their teeth.
Thank you so much Dianne for this clear explanation of why it is not always the way you care for your teeth that dictates the issues you have with tooth decay etc. As someone with a mouthful of fillings and soon to be having another crown it is great to know how to deal effectively with Streptococcus mutans but also empowering to choose to have the willingness to look at the deeper issues and take responsibility for past choices.
Wow, what a lot of information about teeth and bacteria! The knock out line though is, “In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.” This is something to deeply ponder on.
Thank you for sharing.
Dianne I found what you have shared super enlightening. I too have a mouthful of filings and a previous fear of dentists. Your point about our teeth being related to karma and the way we have lived are definitely worth considering and something I would like to understand more about.
I loved reading about your anecdotal experiences with your teeth Diane and all the facts that you have learned. However what I love most of all is the question you ask at the end. No matter how much time and effort some put in to self care there are still issues, whilst there are some that put in much less effort and yet have no ill effect. Clearly something else is going on here and the fact that we might be clearing karma through our dental issues makes a lot of sense.
” In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives. Now that is something worth pondering on!”. This is indeed worth pondering Dianne. The effects of sugar on our health is in the news currently – and I have always blamed my soft teeth on the ending of sugar rationing in the UK when there was an explosion of sweets for children. Fortunately I didn’t give my children sugar when they were young – and neither have a sweet tooth – but sugar is everywhere these days – at supermarket checkouts and petrol service stations. It is also hidden in so many processed foods. No wonder the nation’s teeth are in such a poor state. And then there’s karma…….
Reading your blog just reminded me of the irresponsibility we choose to live in. In the school I work the cafeteria sells tons of sugary drinks, candy bars, chocolate and the favorite product of almost all students are blue lollipops. After the half an hour morning break you have a class full of blue tongued pupils hyped with the sugar rush and most of them still with the lollipop in their mouth. The students tell you that they need the sugar to get through the day and the cafeteria sells on demand.
When picking up my daughter from school there are parents lining up with the afternoon treat for their children, who come out of the building, going directly for the chocolate sandwich, cake or muffin. Breakfast is either sugary cereals or Nutella on toast. High sugar consumption as a way to get through the day has been normalized and is rarely questioned. Kids are trained to like sweet things as there is a culture of pleasing the young by feeding them sugar as a way of pandering their emotional dependency to fulfill our emptiness and life void of love. If you come with chocolate they give you a smile, if you offer them a bottle of water and a nutritious dinner arriving home half an hour later you might not get your so confirming welcome kiss and they just pass by you with a grumpy face.
Thank you Dianne, I love reading this as it brings more understanding to tooth decay.
I realised many years ago there was more to tooth decay than just sugars and tooth brushing as my son who was 2 at the time had 2 badly decayed back teeth. The first dentist I saw was shocked at them and said they needed to be removed (it turned out they weren’t). He was very insistent that he was eating too much sugar and drinking too many drinks with sugar in and this was the cause, there was absolutely no other reason. I explained the only liquids he drank were breast milk and water, as I was very aware of sugar and was keeping this out of his diet, knowing how it affects the body. However he insisted and said it was in so many foods that we wouldn’t realise how much we do eat e.g. like in tomato ketchup. I explained that no he didn’t eat these foods but came away feeling firstly a little insulted but also confused myself as to why this was so. When I look into this more I found out that Karma can come out through our teeth and this all started to make sense and then since meeting Serge Benhayon I understand more is at play with the health of our teeth and is just as much about how we are living.
That question at the end is certainly food for thought… it’s a brilliant article and I was genuinely very interested in what you learnt and what you shared. But then the comment at the end puts the whole scientific logic on its head – there is more to our lives than just the understanding of how x + y = z. The energy in which we do things, and our inbuilt strengths and weaknesses point to the fact that there is more going on. It is these building blocks that are so important in understanding what is really going on for us, and explain why science does not have all the answers as it discounts an energetic component that it cannot measure (yet).
Well said simonwilliams8 and Marika, there has to be more to it as the blog states at the end…leaving us on a cliffhanger! How we live everyday must have a massive impact and placing a focus on the energy driving what we do and how we do it is a great and valuable study.
Fascinating blog Dianne, there is so much more than what the eye purely sees. I know how good oral hygiene is important and what you have shown is that effectively sugar, of any kind, is a major contributing factor to problems with it.
Dianne, this is a great article on responsibility and how we are always being reflected how we are living if we are willing to see it. This is such an important way of living life as it empowers us to know that we can make change and that we are not at the mercy of what has been done to us but instead that we are the creators.
Thank you Dianne, there is such a lot to consider in your article. I agree with you, our teeth do reflect to us how we are living or have lived. I used to be terrified of going to the dentist. I never really knew why but over the years I have come to know that the more responsibility that I take for my life the easier it is for me to visit the dentist. Seeing the dentist does confront us with our disregarding choices.
Teeth are wonderful at teaching us about self-care.
Great blog Dianne, loved reading it and love your humorous style. You write about how there was no knowledge about the sugar contained in food in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, but today we have all this knowledge and people prefer to ignore it and food companies decide to pack it into words that hardly say anything to the consumer. Despite of knowing the impact of food on the body we eat more and more food that is basically not edible at all and has almost no nutritious value for the human body. That’s quite revealing about how we choose to live and accumulate irresponsibility that might then be reflected in our teeth, now and in all the lives to come!
Great moment rachelandras, we choose to live and accumulate irresponsibility. Marketing is a about persuading, selling, telling you what you want to hear to encourage you to spend your money. We are easily fooled when we hear what we want to hear rather than determine the intention behind the message. Taking responsibility and choosing to look at labels, to ask questions about how things are made means we take an active role in choosing what we put in our bodies. We are not victomes of an industry, we are simply irresponsible in our unwillingness to engage which is reflected in statistics of diabetes and pre diabetes…shocking.
Fascinating. Thank you Dianne for clearing the gaps between my understanding of dental problems. Your final question shows us the responsibility we have to care for ourselves and to ask all the questions of – Why? And know that the answers lie in the way we choose to live.
Another super blog Dianna. And I love how you have shared your own personal story with your own teeth, preparing the reader for your conclusion and understanding gained around the subject of teeth; In fact, our teeth may reflect our karma – not just the choices we have made in this life, but the choices we have made in other lives.
Diane not only have you shared something we take for granted but know little about but also that there must indeed be more to tooth decay than sugar – especially considering your 3 times a day brushing technique. How is it possible that we are not told the whole truth or even the truth about so many topics. To teach people, as I was, that sugar is not bad for you but not where sugar is found is absurd yet I never questioned this – and the education system that taught me that also were the ones providing some of the highest amounts of sugar in my diet. Thank goodness we now have the choice to take more care about the way we live, albeit after breaking through many of the accepted ways of living that are anything but supportive for us.
Brilliant blog Dianne. I love how you studied the bacteria from your own mouth with so much dedication – your willingness to learn and experiment is inspiring.
I agree Lieke – Dianne is inspiring how she looks at everything to truly support the outcome. It’s a scientific methodology based on truth. No need, hidden agendas or preconceived results – open research for all to see and be a part of. Love it!
Dianne, your presentation of the things that are full blown science facts that are made simple. You are a scientist with a quest for how things work and affect us with never presenting from the head.
I love Dianne’s logic too Steve. It makes sense of the nonsensical!
This is fascinating Dianne and thank you for providing a deeper understanding around the subject of teeth and their enamel. I’ll be pondering on what my teeth are reflecting to me.
Dianne, I found this article very interesting and many ‘catch 22’ situations, however your last sentence maybe is the clincher – how have I been living? After having many many fillings as a child and not being prone to eating much sugar back in the 50’s I can only surmise that part of this either came from my mother’s nutrition back during the 30’s and 40’s or karmic. This is not to say that how I have been living since childhood to be part of the cause for similar dental experiences to yours, thank you.
After 24 years in the dental profession I know that there is vastly more to dental problems than bacteria, hygiene and sugar can account for. The gums and the decay and in fact the whole mouth environment give away a tremendous amount about the way we are treating ourselves. Gums are very revealing when people are doing more than their body can naturally handle.
There are other important factors in tooth decay – saliva and calcium levels. Dry mouth is a very significant contributor to tooth decay, as is low calcium levels. For anyone with high decay rates in spite of good brushing, I recommend a blood test to check their calcium levels and vitamin D if possible too. if they are low, work with the doctor to get both into the healthy range.
The final advice is simple, your body and teeth are one. Don’t just brush your teeth and hope for the best – take care of your whole self to the best of your ability, eat well, sleep well…and see a great dentist who supports you in this.
For too long we have separated the mouth from the whole body. It is time to put them back together.
Thank you Dr Rachel, that is such great practical advice and support – to work with the our dental hygiene as part of our body wellness. I know that i can brush my teeth and use it as a moment – or quite a few moments – to connect, feel my body, check I am still physically and mentally in my bathroom and haven’t started my day or am not chewing over my day. It is a great regular event to choose to be present and in the moment. I have been working on connecting with the stillness that is inside me, even though I am brushing my teeth – that has been a profound program.
Good to have your comments added Rachel. I know my Vitamin D was good (too much sun rather than too little!). But calcium – hmm… my intake was high, being a big dairy eater, and there’s another whole story – the myth of dairy and calcium. I did inherit big strong bones and never broke one, so calcium was probably good, but not necessarily due to the dairy. Interesting about saliva – I always had very poor digestion, which begins in the mouth with saliva’s enzymes. So perhaps my saliva was ‘faulty’ too, and that helped contribute to the decay. Perhaps my poor digestion was an unwillingness to ‘consume’ or ‘digest’ life the way it was – what I saw did not feel true to me.
The dairy/calcium story is slowly unravelling as more studies and most crucially, people’s experiences, are challenging the nutritional value of dairy. When a person has a lot of decay it is vital to leave no stone unturned in terms of bacteria, hygiene, saliva, the teeth themselves, digestion, emotional conditions – the whole entire package, not just suggesting fancy toothpaste with more fluoride.
Decay is a whole body problem and it needs a whole body perspective.
Yes, thank you Dr. Rachel Mascord it makes a lot of sense and super-supportive to see a practitioner who supports you treating the body as a whole.
That is a very interesting statement you are making Dianne, that our teeth may reflect our karma and I have to agree tooth decay does not seem to be in total correlation to how much you take care of your teeth, there is definitely another factor playing a role here.
Wow Dianne I love this because I’ve never heard in such detail what is actually going on for our teeth when we eat sugar. But the real pearler is the last paragraph where you bring home, how can I care for my teeth yet have all the issues I’ve had with them. There is so much more going on than I just ate this or did this. Thank you for introducing how this can develop through karma, my gums are receding and I notice that I put effort into caring for them most the times but not always… very interesting to reflect on how that then relates to how I am in this life, and have been in others.
Dianne I am really glad you opened this conversation. There really is so much more to life than what is in the physical and if something happens and we say that is life, what we are choosing is not to be aware. To truly live and evolve our responsibility is in awareness. Thank you.
On the upside Dianne, you’re sure to have the most beautiful teeth in your next life given the love you have embraced in this one!
Thanks Dianne,
As always a wonderful combination of reflection, science and wisdom, bringing a new light onto something that we could all open wide to ☺ sugar certainly was ubiquitous back then, but in some societies it still is… In the USA there are 25 million people with type II diabetes… That is alarming enough, and obviously a reflection of the input of sugar as well as, as you point out the other energetic aspects, but what is even more disturbing is the condition called prediabetes… Which is now rated as the condition that you have that will without doubt turn into diabetes unless one’s lifestyle is radically changed… And that number is 125 million. We certainly need to look at sugar.
Love your contribution too cjames2012 very interesting. The body is amazing. I love how it warns or gives you signs like a pre-stage or pre-condition. If only we really listened to co-create our destiny instead of the stops it offers. I’m a big fan of my body it has all the answers.