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The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHay House LLC
- Publication dateJanuary 9, 2018
- File size13.9 MB
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— 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 the author of The Dental Diet and is the world's foremost functional dentist.
Product details
- ASIN : B07681JGPL
- Publisher : Hay House LLC (January 9, 2018)
- Publication date : January 9, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 13.9 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 324 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #68,652 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1 in Oral Health
- #1 in Dental Hygiene (Kindle Store)
- #3 in Oral Pathology
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About the author

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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Customers find the book provides good information and insights about diet. They find it engaging and easy to read, with a well-researched and understandable presentation of the information. Readers appreciate the practical wellness roadmap provided by the book. However, opinions differ on the ease of use - some find the recipes simple and delicious, while others find the program difficult to follow and the setup tedious.
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Customers find the book provides good information about nutrition and dental health. It is well-researched and presented in an understandable way. The author provides useful references and insights into diet and teeth. They appreciate the clear explanations and consider it the best book on nutrition.
"This is the best book I’ve read on nutrition, in general, and dental health in particular! I simply couldn’t stop reading til I finished it...." Read more
"Great book. Practical applications which is helpful. Eat the meat and spit out the bones with the theory stuff." Read more
"...I felt more agile, nimble, a bit younger, and whole foods were both enjoyable and filling. As a result of this, I lost about 20 pounds on his diet...." Read more
"...to read, easy to follow (what is basically a Paleo) diet, with lots of references to how it relates to teeth...." Read more
Customers find the book easy to read and understand. They appreciate the clear, concise explanations and logical connection between oral development and food intake. The book is well-written and worth the money.
"Great book. Practical applications which is helpful. Eat the meat and spit out the bones with the theory stuff." Read more
"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...." Read more
"...not only stay out of the dental chair, you will feel better and look better overall...." Read more
"...on nutrition, health, biology, etc, but I found Dr. Lin's explanations vivid and easy to follow...." Read more
Customers find the book helpful for promoting good oral and overall health. They appreciate the author's explanation of the connection between nutrition and overall well-being. The book provides a practical wellness roadmap that readers can follow. Readers mention it's not just another diet book, but a way to change their lives.
"...is the best book I’ve read on nutrition, in general, and dental health in particular! I simply couldn’t stop reading til I finished it...." Read more
"...Thank God for this book guiding me to nutrition. My teeth stopped getting worse...." Read more
"...He is right on target in this book, handling each aspect of diet and how it affects our dental structure and health...." Read more
"...explanation of how your body works, to what we need to do and eat to get better teeth, and then even gives a meal plan with recipes for putting the..." Read more
Customers have different views on the book's ease of use. Some find the recipes easy to make and delicious, with simple preparation of vegetables pasta that appeals to kids. However, others find the program difficult to follow, the setup tedious, and the recipes inconvenient.
"...Not only does make so much sense, it’s doable...." Read more
"...We just made our first sour kraut, and we could not believe how easy and delicious it is...." Read more
"...But the recipes are too much, despite that we do cook, extensively, use herbs, grow a huge veggie garden and sprout sprouts. We make our own soups...." Read more
"...Vegetable pasta is pretty simple to prepare, will appeal to kids, and sounds like a great alternative to the flour-based pastas...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024This is the best book I’ve read on nutrition, in general, and dental health in particular! I simply couldn’t stop reading til I finished it. Not only does make so much sense, it’s doable.
And it explains why much of the medical advice typically given has been wrong and has led to poorer health. In looking for info on bone health I found this, and now I know that better dental health will lead to better gut health which will lead to better bone health, and better health overall. I already started today!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2024Great book. Practical applications which is helpful.
Eat the meat and spit out the bones with the theory stuff.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2024As a dentist, I never once dreamed that there would a dental diet book, let alone that I would ever read a dental book! But I was thoroughly engaged in this, and have to thank Steven Lin for providing the impetus to dig deeper. I've read a half dozen more books on related topics of diet and our physiologic responses to different foods, and it has been eye opening! I'm shocked I ever learned any of this in school.
Not finding myself in particularly poor health, but rather in perfect oral health, I didn't need to try his "dental diet" to cure any problems or disease that I had, but I tried it anyway. In fact, my wife tried it with me (bless her soul). Our results were kind of underwhelming, but understand that we weren't starting from a position of sensitive teeth, high caries risk, or any other condition of oral disease. I modified his diet to include intermittent fasting (so I removed breakfast from his meal plans) (we also switched some meals around, but always stayed consistent with his restrictions). While I didn't get an drastic results, I did feel, overall and on a system-wide scale, better. What do I mean by that? I felt more agile, nimble, a bit younger, and whole foods were both enjoyable and filling. As a result of this, I lost about 20 pounds on his diet. Much of that is the result of removing sugar, snacking, and a constant barrage of food throughout the day. I hadn't gone into this with that expectation, but in the two months since finished his diet, I've lost an additional 5 pounds and been stable, have maintained a similar diet plan/philosophy, and continue to feel well and enjoy whole foods.
More important to me than the diet in this book was what I learned and how I applied it to my lifestyle. Knowledge is power.
Do I recommend the book? Yes, in short, but it may not be for everyone. As for the health topics, I think there are better books that I've read. This just happened to be my gateway. If the claims in the book about improving oral health are true, then I think this book is indispensable to my field and every patient, but I'm lacking both access to sufficient research studies and personal experience of seeing this in action to assert confidently that it will work. For now, it's a tool in my arsenal, and I would love to hear of success (and even failure) stories from trying what this book teaches.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021Thank 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2018It'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!)
Top reviews from other countries
- EthernysanaReviewed in Canada on July 28, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth that can be told is not the everlasting truth
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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GabyReviewed in Mexico on October 23, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars excelente información
La información del libro reafirmo lo que vengo estudiando, y me encantó que traiga recetas
- sanjayReviewed in India on December 9, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars You never go to dentist, trust me
A superb read. It's not only a reading, but a dentist (not literally) on your desk.
sanjayYou never go to dentist, trust me
Reviewed in India on December 9, 2024
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- DianaReviewed in the Netherlands on October 12, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars The best!!!
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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LeninhaReviewed in Brazil on August 17, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Livro sobre saúde e nutrição
Um livro excelente. Não é só sobre saúde dental é sobre saúde como um todo