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RAMIEL NAGEL IS NOT A DENTIST. NAGEL DOESN'T HAVE PATIENTS - ONLY HOPEFUL FOOLS THAT MISTAKE THE ABSENCE OF SYMPTOMS FOR ABSENCE OF DISEASE. RAMIEL NAGEL'S TWO GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS ARE 1) FOOLING OTHERWISE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE INTO THINKING HE KNOWS ABOUT "CURING DECAY" BECAUSE HE LET HIS DAUGHTER'S BLACK ROTTEN TEETH FALL OUT WITHOUT GOING TO A DENTIST AND 2) MANAGING TO CONTINUE THIS HOAX BY KEEPING HIS NOSE BETWEEN THE BUTT CHEEKS OF WAPF LEADERSHIP. IF WESTON A PRICE DDS WERE ALIVE TODAY, HE WOULD BE EMBARRASSED OF WAPF FOR ITS LACK OF INTEGRITY IN SUPPORTING THIS CHARLATAN. IF YOU SUPPORT A CHARLATAN, YOU BECOME A CHARLATAN. And I say all this while liking WAPF nutritional information and disagreeing with mainstream dentistry's direction. I am a dentist with a natural health orientation. Cure Tooth Decay has more than errors of ignorance. It has substantive errors that pose a danger because it promotes neglect of oral health to the public and promotes false claims and misappropriations of Dr. Price's information. For an example of how Mr. Nagel misinterprets what Dr. Weston Price was asserting, let's look at Chapter 10 in Cure Tooth Decay, "You Can Heal Your Teeth Naturally" on pages 187 and 188 (printed version). Dr. Price wrote comments about tooth healing with nutrition using two sets of x-rays demonstrating secondary dentin formation on the inside of the tooth. THIS IS NOT "NATURAL HEALING" as Mr. Nagel's chapter title implies. This is HEALING with GOOD NUTRITION COMBINED with RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY. Notice the temporary fillings! This was absolutely - not a "nutrition only" approach as Mr. Nagel apparently would have his readers believe. Dr. Price was showing good healing results that could not have been achieved with nutrition alone and most likely not restorative dentistry alone. I see examples daily of teeth that have healed in combination with restorative dentistry. No sane dentist in the history of the world has verifiably seen what Nagel asserts about decayed teeth on page 152, "There still may be holes and these will become covered over with hard new enamel, but will not usually fill in." Hard new enamel over an existing cavity even with excellent nutrition is a biological histological impossibility! PULL OUT ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY BOOKS. FOR HEALING OF ANY BODY PART, THERE NEEDS TO BE A BLOOD SUPPLY. THERE IS NO BLOOD SUPPLY TO TOOTH SURFACES OR DENTIN EXCEPT ON THE INNER PORTIONS NEXT TO THE PULP. FOR TOOTH HEALING, THERE NEEDS TO BE AMELOBLASTS AND ODONTOBLASTS. THERE ARE NO AMELOBLASTS (ENAMEL FORMERS) ONCE THE TOOTH IS VISIBLE IN THE MOUTH. THE ODONTOBLASTS (DENTIN FORMERS) ARE ON THE INNER SURFACE OF THE DENTIN LINING THE PULP CHAMBER. HEALING CAN OCCUR INSIDE BY THE ODONTOBLAST LAYING DOWN SECONDARY DENTIN. HEALING CANNOT OCCUR OUT ON THE SURFACE OF TEETH ONCE SIZABLE DECAY HAS TAKEN OVER. RAMIEL NAGEL DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE PURPORTS TO KNOW. HE DOESN'T KNOW ODONTOBLASTS FROM AMELOBLASTS, SECONDARY DENTIN FROM SCLEROTIC DENTIN, HE DOES KNOW THAT HE CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY SELLING LIES IF HE USES THE WORDS "CURE" AND "HEALING". Introduction pages xiii-xvi The book claims that you can: * "stop cavities--sometimes instantaneously" - yes kinda, not instantaneously though, but stop cavities only if they are shallow, not as the author suggests. * "regrow secondary dentin" - Dentin can't be regrown, only grown. The growth of dentin is only inside the teeth. This "secondary dentin" forms on the inside of teeth in most everyone - Nagel mistakenly believes it forms on the outside surface of teeth which is preposterous. * "form new tooth enamel" - Ridiculous! Show me the ameloblasts (the enamel forming cells) in an erupted tooth. They aren't there after a tooth comes into the mouth! (He states on page 152 about hard new enamel forming over decayed areas) Teeth are not stalactites or stalagmites forming enamel by mineral accretions. New enamel can't form. Biologically impossible!!! Total B.S. "100% Real Dental Healing Testimonies" - Not one of them at all indicates "real healing". "Leroy from Utah" - One month after being told he needed a root canal, his tooth was pain free. As a dentist, I have seen people go several years with dead teeth that are causing bodily harm, but they have no pain. They are not "healed", just pain free and that represents a monumental difference. "Ms. Steuernol from Alberta, Canada page xiv" - had painful decayed teeth and after better nutrition, she was more comfortable and her dentist saw secondary dentin formation on x-rays. Hooray for her better diet which could help her gums and her comfort, but secondary dentin formation is the rule rather than the exception. Her story is no revelation whatsoever and secondary dentin forms in people with horrible diets as well. "Mike from Ashland, Oregon page xiv " - Once again, with a better diet his decayed teeth were less sensitive over three months. No surprise. This does not equate with healing though. I am not a huge fan of root canal treatment, but Mike has a false security and will have worse dental health over time from neglect. Neglect will cost him more in the long run in terms of dollars and/or disability. "Pioneering Tooth Cavity Remineralization pages xv-xvi" Mr. Nagel says they had a good diet and his one year old had front tooth decay. How good could their diet have been? Rampant early decay like that is rare even with those eating a "Tater Tot and Twinkie" fast food diet. As time went on, his daughter's front teeth crumbled with decay and he personally had four new cavities diagnosed and had tooth sensitivity. Four to five years later, his daughter's decayed black baby front teeth fell out and he also was now pain free. Cured? I think not. The person that deserves our compassion is his daughter who was forced to have black crumbled front teeth for years. Mr. Nagel is not a "pioneer" - he is a purveyor of misinformation. "Tooth Drilling page 3" He implies that the use of high-speed drills are only for the sake of "speed" (profit) for the dentist. What patient would want greatly increased vibration from slower speed drills and procedures that take five times as long? High-speed dental handpieces greatly improve patient comfort and successful outcomes! He says drilling causes "irreversible nerve damage in 60% of the cases." Total falsehood. Any patient that has had multiple fillings knows this to be false. Traditional and alternative dentists know this to be false. He inaccurately says the original mercury fillings used "melted silver coin", but it was actually silver coin shavings. Does the author really think molten silver was placed in teeth? This is another example of his careless use of misinformation. He describes GV Black's mercury filling innovations included "drilling away all discolored tooth structure" - that is most definitely not what we dentists are taught to do. Not all discoloration of dentin is decay. "Dental Alert: Bacteria are Not the Primary Cause of Cavities page 7" He states that, "In a 20% sugar solution bacteria will perish." A worthless fact. This does not prove that bacteria don't feed on sugars and impact decay! With high concentrations of sugar, osmotic pressure can kill bacteria in that 20% solution. Bacteria feed on lower concentrations and sugar can't stay at 20% very long in the mouth due to saliva diluting it. "The Failure Of Conventional Dentistry pages 9-10" In this section he points out decay rates as a result of a "failure of conventional dentistry". He fails to note that 50% of people don't go to dentists even if they have insurance. It would be appropriate to blame a poor diet motivated by convenience, but he points out absolutely nothing relevant to his assertion that dentistry failed. Dentistry wasn't given the chance to fail or succeed with his daughter. Illustration: "Anatomy of a Tooth" page 29 The most glaring inaccuracy of this "educational" illustration is that the enamel is shown to cover the root surfaces as well as the crown of the tooth. Mr. Nagel is not smarter than a 5th grader! A less well known fault of the illustration is that the enamel is shown to be laminated over the dentin parallel to the outside of the dentin - but in fact, enamel rods radiate out from the dentin. Mr. Nagel's hatred of dentistry shouldn't have kept him from looking on the internet for an accurate tooth illustration that even most lay people would be familiar with. He should have used more than a cartoonish illustration if he is posturing himself as one with dental expertise. "Cod Liver Oil Heals Cavities" pages 36-37 He describes an "experiment" of only 6 months duration and erroneously claims "41.75 per cent more resistant to tooth cavities". First, Mr. Nagel doesn't comprehend the difference in resistance versus healing. The title of the section claims "healing" and his conclusion claims "resistance" and even then - the short 6-month span of testing makes ANY conclusion irrelevant. Mr. Nagel's book, Cure Tooth Decay, is a menagerie of misinformation, misappropriation, misguidance, and misrepresentations (plus some valid nutritional ideas). If he were a dentist, he should be sued for supervised neglect. I will end my critique with discussion of Mr. Nagel's advice on page 154. "Still Not Sure? Talk To Your Tooth" He writes, "Consider beginning an inner dialog with your tooth....Here are some examples. "How are you tooth?" "What will make you feel better?" "Do you want to visit a dentist?" "Do you want a root canal?" ...... "Do you want to be pulled?" ...If this exercise is too abstract, place an object near you to represent your hurting tooth. Then talk to the object as if it were your tooth. Wow - that makes it much less abstract! I certainly believe we need to pay attention to our bodies and try to ascertain what is best, listen to our inner self....but really...a conversation with a tooth. What if you have several diseased teeth? Must you call each one by its proper name to know which one is communicating back to you? Greetings Sir Maxillary Left Second Bicuspid! The book, Cure Tooth Decay, has rotten information.