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The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health Paperback – February 5, 2019

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A unique exploration of how dental health connects to holistic health, with a 40-day meal plan and long-lasting dietary guidelines that are easily integrable into everyday life

Throughout the years, dental health has often been characterized as a reflection of our overall health, where bad oral health results from issues with other parts of our body. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if we thought about dental health as the foundation for our physical health as a whole?

Dr. Steven Lin, an experienced dentist and the world’s first dental nutritionist, has analyzed our ancestral traditions, epigenetics, gut health, and the microbiome in order to develop food-based principles for a literal top-down holistic health approach. Merging dental and nutritional science, Dr. Lin lays out the dietary program that can help ensure you won’t need dental fillings or cholesterol medications —and give you the resources to raise kids who develop naturally straight teeth. With our mouth as the gatekeeper of our gut, keeping our oral microbiome balanced will create a healthy body through a healthy mouth.

Dr. Lin arms you with a 40-day meal plan, complete with the Dental Diet food pyramid, exercises for the mouth, recipes, and cooking techniques to help you easily and successfully implement his techniques into your everyday life. The tools to improve overall wellness levels and reverse disease are closer than we think—in our markets, in our pantries, and, most frequently, in our mouths.
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"Dental health is almost a forgotten topic when we think about our overall health, but what if the health of our teeth and gums could alert us to problems like diabetes and Alzheimer’s? Dr. Lin makes a powerful case for not only paying more attention to our dental health, but he makes the case that what is healthy for the mouth, is healthy for our whole being."
— Robb Wolf, New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Paleo Solution and Wired to Eat

"The future of medicine is interconnected in every way. The oral-systemic link is an obvious example of this greater trend, and I am thrilled to see dentists like Dr. Steven Lin leading the way in showing why we must work together to change the trajectory of healthcare worldwide."
— James Maskell, founder of Evolution of Medicine and author of The Evolution of Medicine

"The Dental Diet is an incredible resource. Grounded in new understandings of the critical importance of the oral microbiome to overall health, Dr. Lin leads the way with a unique action-based food plan that is a must-read for anyone wanting to enhance oral health and well-being."
— Mark Burhenne, DDS, author of The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox

"Dr. Lin is a complete breath of fresh air in the Lifestyle Medicine community. I’ve personally learned an enormous amount from his work, and I’m thrilled to see that he is creating a book to make this more available to the public. The dental-body connection is fascinating and completes a missing link for many people worldwide. The Dental Diet is a must for every patient and medical practitioner to read and understand for better overall health."
— Rupy Aujla, M.D., author of The Doctor’s Kitchen

"As an orthodontist that tries to help kids grow up with straight teeth, I know we have to go back to the basics: breathing, posture, sleep, and nutrition. From the moment of the first suckle, what we eat and how we eat it is critical to the final outcome of the face, airway, jaws, and teeth. Dr. Lin’s prescription is just what the doctor should be ordering."
— Barry Raphael, DMD, founder of The Raphael Center for Integrative Orthodontics

"Crooked teeth are a sign of a deeper underlying problem. Dr. Lin’s book provides a much needed look into the profound impact diet has on dental health. It also provides key strategies for parents to ensure their children have a diet that will support optimal dental and whole body health."
— Dr. Michael Ruscio, researcher, health enthusiast, and host of Dr. Ruscio Radio

"Dr. Lin’s revolutionary leadership in nutrition and dentistry connected so many dots during our interview, we are thrilled his important better health recommendations are now widely accessible in The Dental Diet!"
— Ashley Koff R.D. and Robyn O’Brien, co-hosts of Take Out with Ashley & Robyn

"Dr. Lin’s work is timely and addresses an important, upcoming field which few have ventured into thus far. Nutritional epigenetics captures the age-old saying of ‘you are what you eat,’ but he backs up this concept with up-to-date scientific evidence. I strongly recommend this book to students, doctors, dentists, and researchers in nutrition, dietetics, and obesity, as well as other healthcare professionals."
— Professor Dave Singh, DDSC, Ph.D., DMD, president of Vivos BioTechnologies, Inc.

"As an orthodontist, long ago, I saw the limitations of simply straightening teeth to improve a patient’s smile.  Over the last few decades, I have witnessed a paradigm shift in the focus of the dental industry through both speaking internationally and training thousands of dentists in the importance of functional airway dentistry. I believe the next step is for the profession to further integrate preventative steps, which is being led by Dr. Lin’s nutrition program to address the malocclusion epidemic."
— Dr. Derek Mahony, specialist orthodontist at Full Face Orthodontics

About the Author

Dr. Steven Lin is a board-accredited dentist, speaker, and author. Frustrated by the dental profession’s limited approach to applying without addressing the cause of disease, Dr. Lin merged anthropological, physiological, and nutritional science with oral health to integrate effective prevention strategies into his dental practice. A passionate health educator, Dr. Lin engages in a wide variety of community and institutional programs to grow awareness of preventative lifestyles. He is the dental expert for I Quit Sugar, the online platform of best-selling author Sarah Wilson. Dr. Lin is based out of Sydney, Australia, and you can visit him online at www.drstevenlin.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hay House LLC; 2nd edition (February 5, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401953190
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401953195
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Dr Steven Lin is a board-registered dentist, writer, and TEDx speaker with work published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The British Dental Journal. He has also written for MindBodyGreen and About.com.

Trained at USYD with a background in biomedical science, he is a passionate whole-health advocate, focusing on the link between nutrition and dental health. His mission is to prevent dental diseases instead of treating them.

Steven’s journey began when, as a practicing dentist, he realized that today, we live with crippling oral disease. Whether it’s cavities, bleeding gums, crooked teeth or wisdom teeth impaction, there’s no doubt our modern mouths are very sick.

Our current dental care is excellent at fixing these problems. However, it is failing to prevent oral disease. Steven soon became frustrated with the lack of answers for WHY dental diseases occur.

When he discovered a book written by a dentist from the 1930s, he was inspired. The author, a pioneer in dental nutrition, seemed to have those answers.

Today, Steven Lin focusses on helping his patients prevent dental disease and so avoid treatment. He looks for the root cause of disease, believing that the mouth-body connection is the best way to monitor our health.

He is also convinced that our diet is the cause of the problems in our mouth, from crooked, rotten teeth to inflamed gums. The oral-systemic link means our mouths affect our body and our bodies affect our mouths.

Healing Your Teeth Naturally Can Heal Your Entire Body

Why have we never eaten a diet designed for healthy teeth?

Nutrition and dental health go hand in hand. Steven can help you to finds the foods that will strengthen your teeth – and make you healthier overall.

Steven’s program helps his patients solve the cause of dental disease. It merges dental nutrition, breathing, airways, functional orthodontics and sleep health. Today the oral-systemic link is clearer than ever. And it’s helping the next generation of children to avoid braces naturally.

Dr. Lin’s Dental Nutrition course is PACE accredited (AGD Council) for continuing education. He has trained healthcare professionals in Australia and UK. He also teaches general health practitioners about the mouth-body connection.

In January 2018, his book The Dental Diet will be released in the US, UK, Australia, Spain, Latin America, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia. The Dental Diet is a journey of ancestral medicine, the human microbiome, and epigenetics. It explains the foods for healthy teeth based on dental disease being caused by the modern diet.

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So far I have made my way through Chapter 3 and I am already in love with this book. I feel parts of it are words written from my own thoughts in my head as well as conversations I've had with my patients. Many relatable parts in this book, for both a clinician and a patient. Clinicians (dental and not) will love the research findings and mouth/body/nutrition connection, and patients will love the easy reading and insights gained to having a better understanding of their own mouths and overall health. This is truly a must for EVERYONE who desires to not only have a healthy mouth but a healthy body. Great work Dr Lin! Looking forward to finishing the book!
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Michael Driver
5.0 out of 5 stars Parents of young children can save a ton of money by following this.
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2024
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As a functional medicine physician, this is the most eye opening proof of concept for eating properly I have seen. It is one thing to try and get adults to eat properly but quite another when parents learn how to prevent dental decay, the need for braces and the need for wisdom tooth extraction in their young children. Hopefully, parents will adopt the diet along with their kids and the tag along to a lifetime of good health.
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K.R.Mcdonald
5.0 out of 5 stars So glad someone has finally written something on this subject.
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2018
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It's an easy to read, easy to follow (what is basically a Paleo) diet, with lots of references to how it relates to teeth. Referencing the work of Westin A Price, Dr. Stephen Park, and Dr. Mike Mew and the Orthotropics movement. I don't think this will help me, at 44, with only 24 teeth (having had extractions for braces and wisdom teeth out) and now starting to suffer from bleeding gums and teeth sensitivity... there was no advice for mouth rinses (salt?) or bacterial types and how to fix them if there're out of whack (xylotol?) how to brush, or if to floss... jaw surgery or palatial widening for adults? (which I would have expected from a book on these issues. So yeah, this is just a diet... But I hope it can help parents make informed decisions about extractions and braces and reaise the long term implications for breathing. I basically feel like I was butchered by my dentist at 12 years old, having perfectly good teeth pulled (because I wasn't breast fed and had overcrowding). I've been searching the Orthotropic world for years for techniques such as the tongue up on the roof of the mouth technique, and have been paleo for 6 years, so I didnt really learn anything new from this book... but I really hope it will help others who may be new to these ideas, to not butcher their kids in the sane way I was (in the name of orthodontic dentistry!)
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Terry Tenzing
4.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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Excellent book. Key for health. Very intelligent author
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Answer to prayer
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing improvement in only 2 weeks
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2023
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I rarely write reviews but I had to tell others about this. The information in this book was an answer to prayer. My oral surgeon said that more than a few of my teeth had "mobility" and he could jiggle them slightly in my mouth. Two weeks into applying the dental diet program, I could feel my teeth getting more solid in my mouth...each becoming like a granite pillar. A second dentist who I was consulting with for implants looked at my teeth 2 weeks later: he said, with the exception of 4 in the front, YOUR TEETH ARE STRONG! STRONG BONE. I was overjoyed. I thank God. Actual results.
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Anna A.P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful rich book full of knowledge.
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023
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Dr. Steven Lin did is a wonderful teacher. He doesn't just tell you what to do and what not to do. He gives you the whole story of how a lack of certain nutritional content may damage dental health and thus overall health. He teaches how to properly combine food for optimal absorption of nutrients and even goes so far as to give you a meal plan for jumpstarting the journey.
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Wei Qiu
5.0 out of 5 stars I hope I had had read this book before I lost my teeth.
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021
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Thank you, Doctor Lin for educating me understand my teeth.

I had the best teeth of the world before my second child was born when I was 32, even though I did little to clean them - one or two times brush and no floss each day. I felt wrong about my teeth when the baby was four month. I could not see dentist because of the stressful situation until the baby was one year old. All too late. I lost 5 teeth and the rest are all wiggling. Since that I spend tremendous time and energy to keep my teeth clean, but my teeth just getting only down. (They say gum disease is like diabetes - no cure.) The only explanation about gum disease is bacteria, so just keep teeth clean. But my clean teeth were in trouble with gum disease all the time. Thank God for this book guiding me to nutrition. My teeth stopped getting worse. I am very confident I will keep all my teeth and implants in the rest of my life.

I do not think my gum disease was because of bacteria. It is more reasonable to explain it as the shortage of nutrition in stressful situation. Thank you very much, Dr. Lin.

Some people gave this book one star saying they did not find anything new in this book. It is not fair to Dr. Lin - he was not a frontline researcher, but an educator as a dentist to explain our dental problem with the found knowledge. Dr. Lin did a wonderful job writing this job.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Diet is the Key to Good Health
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2019
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I enjoyed reading Dr. Lin's book. I found much common ground, but learned alot, too. He is right on target in this book, handling each aspect of diet and how it affects our dental structure and health. The best part is, following his advice, you will not only stay out of the dental chair, you will feel better and look better overall. Dr. Lin gives a nod to Dr. Weston A. Price in his book, and for good reason. Dr. Price was the forerunner in understanding how what we eat can change our dental health for the good or bad. Our family began following the Weston A. Price Foundation's recommendations about 15 years ago, and my 14-year old is proof that there is great wisdom in the way our ancestors ate. I took her to the dentist for the first time in her life at the age of 14, and she was given an A+. No decay, no plaque buildup, no bleeding gums.

Beyond the basic principles of a good diet, Dr. Lin's book encouraged me to understand how proper breathing and epigenetics, to name a few things, can affect our dental development. His work is so very important in our modern world. I look forward to hearing more from Dr. Lin.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Basically the Paleo diet with some modifications.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2019
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This book is good for someone who is completely unfamiliar with fat based, low-carb and low sugar diets. I don’t recommend this book for those who already have basic knoweledge on healthy eating. This book really had no information that isn’t already pretty well known and accesable online. The dental diet is similar to keto and paleo diets so if you are already familiar with these diets you won’t really find anything new here. I found it was very repetitive after a while. The Dental Diet can essentailly be broken down into three parts. It begins with a history of healthy ancestoral diets and compares that to todays food culture, next it gets into explaining how our health (primarily our dental health) depends on what we eat, and the last third of the book is a breakdown of 40-day recipees on the dental diet. Overall Dr. Lin provides good general information healthwise but nothing new or exciting.
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Ethernysana
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth that can be told is not the everlasting truth
Reviewed in Canada on July 28, 2023
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I bought these 4 books recently:

1.Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition

2.Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums

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

4. Cure Gum Disease Naturally: Heal and Prevent Periodontal Disease and Gingivitis with Whole Foods

They're all good books in their own way. You actually just need one of books as they're all quite similar. What I learned is you need fat soluble vitamins like K2, D3, A and calcium/magnesium. Protein is beneficial while too many carbohydrates/starches/fruits might hinder the healing process. All authors promote an animal-based diet while Ramiel Nagel calls the vegetarian diet as inferior while I personally have no judgment. All authors suggest to avoid refined grains and processed sugars. I personally enjoyed Holistic Dental Care a tad more due to its simplicity.

All of these books will change the way you think, eat, act and essentially live. It was important for me to buy multiple books on the same topic so I can get a broader view on the serious matter at hand; doctors, dentists, and fashionable diets are not here to love and care for you. This will take you down to the dragon's lair as you explore health.

Skin health
Hair health
Nail health
Mouth health
Mental health
Emotional health
Digestive health
Organ health
Spiritual health
Planetary health
Cosmic health

In fact, health is just right under our nose and inside our mouths. Becareful what you put inside your gate/orifice/mouth and becareful what comes out of it with curses/words/oaths/jinxes/hexes.

You always have a choice to eat or to fast, to take or to give and to die or to thrive. Poison can be packaged into the most delightful, enticing, sweet and creamy dessert. Resist the temptations. It will pass. Don't feed the parasites/cravings.
Be strong and be a warrior of health.

You will heal. I will heal. We will heal.
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Gaby
5.0 out of 5 stars excelente información
Reviewed in Mexico on October 23, 2022
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La información del libro reafirmo lo que vengo estudiando, y me encantó que traiga recetas
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Diana
5.0 out of 5 stars The best!!!
Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 12, 2021
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Please read this book if you are a parent and you want to know how to grow healthy children and avoid dental problems, including crowded teeth and cavities. This is one of my all time favorite books, I've read it twice and am going to reread it again and again... Dr. Lin is a wealth of knowledge. I can't recommend this book enough!!!
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Leninha
5.0 out of 5 stars Livro sobre saúde e nutrição
Reviewed in Brazil on August 17, 2020
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Um livro excelente. Não é só sobre saúde dental é sobre saúde como um todo
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A. J. M. CC
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth your time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2019
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This book makes a lot of sense. It’s very easy to read and takes you through the reasoning behind the changes Dr Lin suggests people should make to their diet to benefit not just the teeth but the whole body.
It’s very much a meat eaters diet. As someone who will eat fish (because I personally believe you have to be extra vigilant to get all the essential vitamins and minerals required for a healthy diet if you are vegetarian or vegan, and I’m not), I can adapt the diet to get all the necessary nutrients. True vegetarians and especially vegans may struggle but it could/should be possible.
Whatever the ethics of your chosen diet it’s worth a read.
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