Tooth and gum disorders, including cavities, dental decay, gum recession, gum pockets, bleeding gums, and abscesses, are, according to Aajonus, conditions that arise not from bacterial infection or poor oral hygiene in the conventional sense, but from the body's attempt to dump accumulated industrial toxins, heavy metals, and poisonous compounds out of the brain and nervous system through the mouth. These conditions represent a form of systemic toxicity manifesting locally in the oral environment.

The teeth themselves are composed of enamel, specifically, calcium hydroxy phosphate, and dentine beneath it, both of which are highly resistant to biological organisms under normal conditions. As Aajonus states explicitly: "Bacteria cannot damage the enamel (calcium hydroxy phosphate) and never cause tooth decay. Bacterial decay of the enamel is impossible because bacteria require carbon and hydrogen to live. Myriads of animal remains show that teeth and bones are resistant to earth-bound organisms."

Cavities are defined not as holes created by bacterial acids but as the result of heavy metallic compounds, mercury, thallium, lead, cadmium, aluminum, and related industrial toxins, burning and dissolving dentine cells as they discharge from the brain through the gums. Gum disease, gum recession, gum pockets, and bleeding gums are likewise the result of these same toxic compounds eroding soft tissue rather than being caused by bacterial colonies or poor brushing habits.

The distinction Aajonus draws between decaying teeth and gum disease is significant: "They are two separate issues although they can be caused by the same toxins."

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The foundational cause of all tooth and gum disorders in Aajonus's framework is the detoxification of heavy metals and industrial toxins stored in the brain and nervous system through the gums, tongue, and salivary glands. Aajonus explains this in extensive detail across multiple teachings:

"Our teeth are very affected because of their proximity to our brains. Our brains and nervous systems use large amounts of metallic minerals to transmit and relay electricity and light for neurological functions. Consequently, the brain and nervous system contain very large quantities of metallic minerals. Since we live in a polluted environment and eat cooked food, our brains and nervous systems contain very large quantities of destructive free-radical heavy metals and chemicals that magnetize to those metals. Our bodies try to discard (detoxify) those compounds that are stored in the brain and head mainly through gums, tongue and salivary secretions."

The specific heavy metals implicated are: mercury, thallium, lead, cadmium, aluminum, and other metallic industrial compounds. Aajonus notes that vaccines are a primary source of these heavy metals entering the body: "If you have any mercury coming from a vaccine that you got and it's coming down out of your brain into your gums... just remember that it takes one molecule of mercury to destroy about 5,000 cells, healthy cells."

The mouth is described as the primary dump area for the brain: "The mouth is a dump area for the brain. Very toxic."

When these heavy metals and toxic minerals migrate from the brain down through the nerves and out the gums, the body attempts to protect the dentine by mobilizing alkalinizing minerals, primarily calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium, to bind with and neutralize the acidic, corrosive metals. The resulting compound that adheres to the teeth is what is commonly called plaque.

"When you have plaque on your teeth, your body is dumping all the heavy minerals from the brain down the gum. Your body has to use lots of calcium and those other alkalinizing minerals to bind to it so you don't have dental decay."

However, this protective mechanism has a critical limitation: because most people eat cooked food, their available calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium have been denatured by heat and are far less effective than the raw equivalents. Aajonus explains the specific chemistry:

"Everybody's eating cooked foods, the calcium, phosphorus, potassium is only 10% effective. Yet when you cauterize a toxic substance like mercury and thallium, it becomes more aggressive and toxic, not less. So it takes 100 to 200 times more calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium to create a plaque that will actually protect your tooth from the damaging chemistry of those toxic metals."

In another passage he elaborates: "The phosphorus has no ability, phosphorus basically loses its alkalinity, its alkalinizing ability at about 105 degrees. It starts being transformed at 98 degrees. So, very delicate."

The cooked calcium, described as "pasteurized calcium," has "only 50% ability to alkalinize that acidic, toxic mineral."

If the plaque accumulates but is not removed, the heavy metals within it gradually overwhelm the neutralizing capacity of the plaque minerals and begin to penetrate through to the dentine underneath. Aajonus gives specific timeframes: "If the plaque gets on there, you have so many hours or so many days before that heavy metal will neutralize the alkalinity of the plaque and eat right into the dentine wall."

In another passage: "If you don't get it off in a few days, guess what, the acidifying toxic metals work through and start breaking down the dentine. Then you have a cavity."

Once the dentine is damaged and destroyed, bacteria arrive, but as janitors, not as the initial cause. "Bacteria results to eat the damaged tissue. It's not causing the cavity." Aajonus likens bacteria to janitors arriving at a trashed hotel room after a rock band has departed: "Whenever you go and see the damage in a hotel after a rock party has left, you don't blame the janitors for all the damage."

He has tested this directly: "You can apply bacteria straight with no toxic minerals to the teeth and it will never, ever cause degeneration of the dentine. I've done it in a laboratory at least 30 times, never once, even over a six-month period, with no brushing of those teeth to form any kind of a decay. However, if you put thallium, mercury, lead, any of those on the dentine, usually within two weeks, ten days to two weeks, you have damaged dentine, no matter how small the layer is. The longer it sets on there, the deeper it goes."

Bacteria in cavities are entirely a secondary, responsive phenomenon: "It is never bacteria that causes decay. It's the heavy metals that burn the dentine. Then your body develops bacteria to eat the decayed or damaged dentine. So your bacteria is your janitor. It's not the problem."

"The bacteria forms to clean the damaged tissue. It's not causing the cavity. You're taught that the bacteria causes the cavity, brush the bacteria away. Absolute bullshit. It's all from industrial pollution."

This distinction has important practical implications. Antibacterial toothpaste and mouthwash are not only unnecessary but actively damaging. Mouthwash destroys the bacteria needed to begin digestion in the mouth: "Saliva comes out, it mixes with all that Listerine that's in the mouth or whatever you're using... You've just destroyed your ability to start digestion in your mouth... you're putting poison with your food instead of bacteria. Harming digestion."

If bacteria are present without the underlying heavy metal contamination, they will not create decay under any circumstances, as Aajonus's laboratory experiments have confirmed.

Gum recession is caused by the same mechanism, toxic compounds draining from the brain through the gum tissue. As Aajonus explains: "It's deteriorating the gums as well as the teeth, or the gums instead of the teeth. But it all comes from the toxicity from the brain dumping out the mouth."

The specific nutrients depleted in this process are vitamins K and U: "As the metals pass through the gums, they take most of the vitamin K and U with them. Those deficiencies cause gum bleeding."

The medical and dental establishment's claim that bacteria cause gum disease is just as incorrect as their claim that bacteria cause cavities, in Aajonus's view. He notes that the toxins from the brain can dump preferentially through the gums or the teeth depending on individual circumstances.

Plaque-prevention also prevents gum pockets. "Gum pockets form as the caustic chemicals in plaque that irritate and inflame gums, push the gums away from the teeth."

Fluoride is singled out repeatedly as one of the most destructive agents for teeth and gums, despite being marketed as a preventive for tooth decay.

"Fluoride interferes with the enzyme adenosine diphosphatase that normally delivers phosphate to calcium on teeth surfaces. Drinking water with fluoride added causes the same problems."

"Tooth pastes that contain fluoride damage protein molecules that normally adhere gums to teeth."

Fluoride is described as a neurotoxin "linked with 114 ailments." The mechanism of destruction is specific: "The mechanism for destruction of enzymes by fluoride has been proved by x-ray studies showing that hydrogen bonds are broken by fluoride."

Regarding the fluoride tests that were used to justify water fluoridation, Aajonus dismantles the data: "The community that got fluoride in their drinking and bathing water had fewer cavities because they had more tooth loss compared to the community which did not have fluoride in its water. Of course, fewer teeth equates to fewer possible cavities."

In another passage he gives specific numbers: "They had less cavities in those that had fluoride. But do you know the details of that test? They had less teeth. Teeth started falling out of those people. So they had less teeth than cavities. That was the whole story. They lost somewhere around 20% more dental extractions and tooth loss in the people who had fluoride."

In children specifically, fluoride "causes deformed palates and salivary glands, crooked and/or discolored teeth and tooth loss."

"The Nazis used fluoride to make you complacent," Aajonus states, adding that the fluoride tests from Maine in the 1950s, when properly examined, show that "the people who got fluoride in their water had a lot of tooth loss, teeth were falling out of their heads."

"Tooth cavities are caused by abrasive unnatural acids and gum secretions composed of heavy metals and combinations of industrially produced byproducts and toxins. We absorb industrially produced byproducts and toxins, including heavy metals from our air, water, food and medication."

"Industrial chemicals cause most decay." "Canned food, additives, whether it's food coloring, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, no matter what it is, that is damaging the dentine."

He observes that in Manila and Bangkok, children "live on soda pop because it's cheaper... and their teeth are rotting out at 3 years old. First teeth. The second teeth are completely destroyed already, and they're 16 years old."

In contrast, wild animals eating raw food chains that have not been disrupted by industrial toxins "have no dental caries." The Eskimo (Inuit) experience is cited repeatedly: "The first case of dental caries was 1886, it was 50 years after using sugars and breads that the Germans and British brought."

Asian communities that subsist primarily on rice (80% of diet) with minimal meat (5–7%) develop severe dental deterioration starting in their 30s: "Most of them have completely deteriorated their teeth or lost them by their 50s."

"A lot of years ago, people lost teeth because they didn't eat enough protein. They were living on carbohydrates. And that involves any country that lives mainly on carbohydrates, lives on potatoes and grains. They all have a problem with their teeth starting in their 30s."

• Vaccines (mercury, thallium, aluminum, formaldehyde, ether)
• Amalgam fillings ("silver fillings" containing large quantities of toxic mercury)
• Novocain injections
• Medical and recreational drugs
• Chlorinated and fluorinated waters
• Processed cheese
• Caffeine, including chocolate
• Canned food
• Food colorings, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides
• Cosmetics

All commercial toothpastes contain glycerin, "which coats teeth with a sticky film that takes approximately 25 washes to remove it. That film prevents teeth from re-enamelizing."

The body treats a root-canal tooth as essentially a foreign object: "There's no nerve to it now. You've got a root canal. There's about probably that much space, you can barely see it, of still root that they haven't been able to clean. OK? And the body decides to clean that out and disengage the tissue from that tooth. There's going to be an abscess."

However, Aajonus makes an important distinction: "It's not the root canal tooth that's your problem. It's the nerve that is stopped at the outside of that tooth, and the nerve is still trying to detox the mercury and thallium that was absorbed into that amalgam filling... So it will cause abscesses around the teeth. But it's not the bacteria that's the problem, and it's not the tooth that has a root canal in it that's the problem. It's the toxins in the nerve that's trying to dump."

Root canals can cause systemic effects: "Root canals sometimes result in large deep abscesses that affect the entire body. Those abscesses can cause general fatigue, neck and shoulder soreness and stiffness, and reddened eye(s). I have seen very debilitating conditions as a result of the body trying to dissolve and remove nerve and bone toxicity around teeth, especially root canals. Fatigue that results may continue for years as long as the infection continues."

"Amalgam fillings, called silver fillings, contain large quantities of toxic mercury and should not be used to fill teeth." If amalgam fillings are placed, the mercury and thallium they contain are absorbed into the tooth and nerve, and then cycle back up to the brain and back down again repeatedly: "It's going to leach into everything, go all the way up to the brain, and then it's going to kick it back again. It's going to go up and down. You're going to have abscesses."

A decaying filling in the mouth can leach toxins for years: "It is not as small as I had imagined and it looks as if it has been decaying for years. I would have it removed if I were you, the sooner the better."

Aajonus destigmatizes dental abscesses, explaining them as cleansing events: "I've had lots of those. Lots of them. And what they do is just pus out. It's part of the mercury. If you had it analyzed, you'd find it's a lot of toxic compounds that were in the nerve."

"The pus is not dangerous. It's what the white blood cells have eaten that are toxic, so I don't suggest that you swallow it, spit it out, but that's what an abscess is. It's a cleansing of heavy metals that were in the nerves, and it's going out to the side."

On the Primal Diet specifically: "I've had people have lots of abscesses, but it comes out and pus out the side and not around the tooth, and none of them have lost a tooth. Even people with severe damage, they do not have the" [loss that conventional dentistry predicts].

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This condition fits primarily within several intersecting principles of Aajonus's framework:

Root Cause / Terrain Theory, The foundational premise that disease originates from accumulated industrial toxins, heavy metals, and the body's attempt to eliminate them, rather than from bacterial infection.

Detoxification, Dental disease in its entirety is a manifestation of the brain and nervous system detoxifying accumulated heavy metals through the nearest available exit: the gums, tongue, and salivary glands. Cavities, abscesses, and gum recession are all detoxification symptoms, not diseases in themselves.

Microbes, A critical principle for this condition, because the entire conventional justification for dental treatment rests on the germ theory claim that bacteria cause cavities. Aajonus systematically dismantles this claim with direct laboratory evidence and clinical observation.

Cooked Food, The denaturation of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium by heat is directly responsible for the inability of the body's plaque-forming protective mechanism to adequately neutralize incoming heavy metals. Raw calcium is 100% effective; cooked calcium is 10–50% effective. This is a central reason why populations eating cooked diets suffer dental decay while populations eating raw diets do not.

Sovereignty, The fluoride narrative, the bacterial cause narrative, the amalgam filling standard of care, the ADA's restrictions on alternative dental practices, and the forced medicalization of natural detoxification processes all fall within Aajonus's framework of institutional deception and medical tyranny.

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What conventional dentistry calls a biofilm of harmful bacteria is, in Aajonus's framework, a protective mineral complex formed by the body to isolate and neutralize heavy metals draining from the brain through the gums. "Plaque is mainly calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium trying to bind with those poisons, mercury, thallium, lead, cadmium, all those that are dumping out the brain down the gums."

Plaque on the tongue carries the same significance: "Do you have a white coating on your tongue? That's the same thing" as plaque on teeth.

The plaque is protective but imperfect, especially when composed of cooked minerals. It still needs to be removed regularly because even though the minerals are attempting to neutralize the toxins, they cannot fully do so, and the metals eventually break through.

Cavities are the result of heavy metals breaking through the plaque barrier and destroying dentine cells, followed by bacterial cleanup of the damaged tissue. They are not caused by sugar feeding bacteria that produce acid, as conventional dentistry teaches. Aajonus: "There's your cavity. Bacteria results to eat the degenerative, the damaged dentine cells."

Gum recession is predominantly a sign of heavy metal toxicity dumping through gum tissue, not gum disease in the bacterial sense. It is especially prevalent in vegetarians, vegans, and fruitarians, who lack sufficient dietary minerals to buffer the toxic discharge: "Most people I know who have receding gums are vegetarians and vegans, especially fruitarians."

Bleeding gums signal the depletion of vitamins K and U as heavy metals drain through the gum tissue, carrying these vitamins out of the body along the discharge pathway. Even with daily replenishment of these vitamins, some bleeding may continue until the toxic load is sufficiently reduced.

Abscesses are the body's organized discharge of heavy metals and industrial toxins that have accumulated in nerve tissue, particularly in root-canaled teeth or in teeth adjacent to amalgam fillings. The pus is composed of white blood cells that have consumed toxic compounds. It is a cleansing event, not an infection in the pathogenic sense.

Tooth sensitivity and nerve pain occur when heavy metals reach exposed nerve tissue or when detoxification pathways through the teeth are particularly active. Aajonus describes eating nuts as potentially causing nerve detoxifications: "If you have any cavities, if you have any damaged nerves in your spine or anywhere in your body, it's going to make you painful."

Systemic fatigue is a recognized symptom when oral toxicity, particularly from root canals, decaying fillings, or abscesses, is significant. "Fatigue that results may continue for years as long as the infection continues."

When a porcelain crown sits over a stump of tooth without enamel, the body's detoxification process continues beneath and around the crown. This can create persistent infection, ongoing fatigue, and continued dissolution of the underlying tooth structure.

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The foundational dietary intervention is consuming raw dairy in sufficient quantity to provide the calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium needed to buffer the heavy metals discharging from the brain through the gums.

"In order to prevent tooth decay, you need to make sure that you're eating enough dairy products."

"So you need to remove that plaque. It's not the bacteria... You need to eat more cheese, drink more dairy. Because those poisons are not bound with enough minerals to isolate them."

Aajonus's personal account: "Within 1.5 years after drinking and eating lots of raw dairy, the bone around my teeth reconstituted. After chemo'therapy', my gums receded terribly. After consuming lots of raw dairy for 1.5 years, much of the receded gums reconstituted."

When he switched to a raw fruitarian diet, he "suffered much tooth decay and gum recession again." When he resumed "raw meat twice daily and consuming raw dairy again, within 3 years my tooth decay decreased by 85% and gum recession stopped and reversed about 60%."

For active dental decay or heavy metal discharge through gums: "Consuming 1 tsp of cheese every hour would be very helpful."

In another context: "To absorb the toxicity being discharged from your brain that is causing your tooth decay, I suggest that you sip milk often and eat cheese with a little butter every hour. Minerals in the dairy will bind with the toxins being eliminated through the gums that damage dentine."

The rationale: the constant supply of bioavailable raw calcium and associated minerals keeps pace with the ongoing toxic discharge, giving the body adequate buffering material to form effective protective plaque rather than allowing the metals to contact dentine directly.

Egg Shell Powder in Fermented Milk:

"Unwashed egg shells blended until they are powder and fermented in raw milk for 7 days outside of refrigeration. After fermenting, add 1 T. shells to 2 oz. fresh or fermented milk (kefir)."

The specific brushing mixture Aajonus recommends is: 1 tsp clay + 1 tsp coconut cream + 1 tsp vinegar.

In another passage it is given as: "1 T. clay, 1 tsp coconut cream and 1 tsp vinegar."

In a newsletter formulation: "Brush once daily with a mixture of 1 tsp. of vinegar, 1 tsp. of clay and 1 tsp. of coconut cream."

Aajonus describes this formula as both cleaning plaque and whitening teeth: "A combination of clay, coconut cream and vinegar... it whitens the teeth as well as cleaning them. It cleans off all the plaque, instantly dissolves it."

Frequency: Brush once daily with this full formula. However, vinegar use must be limited: "Only do that once a week because vinegar can eat into the dentine too, if you use it often."

In a later clarification, the protocol is refined further: "You can brush with coconut cream and clay every day but with coconut cream, clay and vinegar every 5th day."

In yet another instruction: "Only once every 10 days, if you've got some plaque deep up in there, put about a little few drops of vinegar, apple cider vinegar with that mixture, and brush your teeth with that, and that'll dissolve the plaque that's built under the gums. But only do that once a week because vinegar can eat into the dentine too."

Note: There is some variation across sources in the exact frequency of vinegar use, ranging from once every 5 days to once every 10 days to once per week. All versions agree that vinegar should not be used daily.

To specifically address plaque forming in the gum pockets, the formula (including vinegar component) can be applied as described. Also: "Another way you can prevent that kind of plaque from forming deep down in the pockets is to take a tablespoon of coconut cream, a tablespoon of lemon juice, a teaspoon of vinegar, we'll make it a tablespoon of vinegar for this, and then put it in a cloth, not a cheesecloth, not fine enough, but like a t-shirt" [and apply to the gum area].

"To reduce or stop bleeding, I suggest you drink 4 oz. of raw, fresh, green cabbage juice every 4th day."

The rationale: cabbage juice is high in vitamin K and vitamin U, which are depleted as heavy metals drain through the gum tissue.

"Consume about 1 T. clay daily with veggie juice or milk." Clay taken internally helps absorb and bind heavy metals throughout the digestive system and lymphatic pathways before they can accumulate further.

"Eating fish helps, especially oysters." Oysters are specifically mentioned in the context of gum healing, presumably for their high mineral and zinc content.

"Even rinsing the mouth with a little milk or other liquid after eating could help." The milk provides calcium and phosphate that can potentially remineralize enamel surfaces if they are clean (not coated with glycerin from toothpaste).

Aajonus mentions "cheese and honey" in the context of cavity treatment and expresses regret at not having discovered or emphasized it earlier: "Cheese and honey. I wish I had discovered that, realized it 20 years ago." The specific formula or quantities are not elaborated in the available passages, but the combination is referenced in the context of Primal Diet Newsletters 3 and 18 and in a tooth formula consultation dated December 2012 (cross-referenced in a Q&A message).

"Consuming food high in calcium and phosphate, such as milk, increases the probability of re-enamelization of teeth, but only when they are clean", meaning clean of the glycerin film from commercial toothpaste.

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Recovery from dental disease on the Primal Diet is measured in years to decades, not weeks or months. Aajonus is extremely direct about this: "It takes hours, days, weeks and 40 years on a perfect diet to cleanse and re-" [build and restore].

The critical variable is the total toxic burden stored in the brain and nervous system and how long it takes to discharge fully. Since most people have spent decades accumulating vaccines, amalgam fillings, processed foods, drugs, and environmental toxins, the detoxification through the oral cavity is correspondingly prolonged.

Aajonus uses his own case as the primary clinical reference:

• After radiation therapy for cancer, "all of the bone around my teeth dissolved. I could not chew anything without bleeding profusely."
• "Within 1.5 years after drinking and eating lots of raw dairy, the bone around my teeth reconstituted."
• After chemotherapy, "my gums receded terribly. After consuming lots of raw dairy for 1.5 years, much of the receded gums reconstituted."
• When he switched to raw fruitarian diet: tooth decay and gum recession returned.
• When he resumed raw meat twice daily and raw dairy: "within 3 years my tooth decay decreased by 85% and gum recession stopped and reversed about 60%."
• "It took me 31 years before my body started to regrow tubules and dentine in unfilled cavities."

In one passage he states: "In my 62nd year... when I was 20, they were all decaying like crazy. I almost lost all my teeth... I have cavities that I don't have them filled, and my teeth are active teeth that I have that are mine... filling in and mending themselves."

He notes that "about 10 years ago" (from the time of the talk) he observed that facial fillings were growing outward, meaning the cavity had grown inward and new dentine had filled in behind the filling, eventually pushing it out as the cavity healed from the inside. He subsequently had three cavities that "are no longer cavities. The tooth has actually regrown and filled in that old cavity."

"Children I've seen under 22 years old can regenerate cavities on this diet. Teeth. Regenerate and get rid of the cavities. So the holes would heal? Yeah, the holes would heal."

The regeneration of cavities is specifically connected to the capacity for dentine regrowth, which is much greater in younger individuals. Aajonus cites Weston Price's research: "Price in his work said that when natives went out and ate their good diet, they stopped the degenerative process and even grew back dentine."

For a three-year-old child with cavities, Aajonus notes that the child has already spent half her life eating cooked food and could still have toxins discharging: "Brain toxicity comes out. Let's say she got some vaccine poisons from you into her body. And if she got any of her own, it'll start leaving the brain and coming out to the gums. It'll damage the tooth."

"I've only seen dentine regeneration in people under 25 who are eating lots of dairy that was not refrigerated." This is a more restricted statement, he has not observed full dentine regeneration in adults over 25, though he notes his own case as an ongoing experiment.

Regarding whether unfilled cavities can heal in adults: "I'm going out on a limb. But I was supposed to lose all my teeth at 21 because after radiation therapy, my teeth dangled."

As long as the brain is still discharging accumulated metals through the oral route, ongoing dental damage can continue even on a perfect diet. Aajonus explains: "Did you have cavities for 31 years because you were detoxing out metals and they destroyed the protection we have on our teeth? Will I continue to get cavities for an undetermined amount of time?"

His answer: "If you brush your teeth as I suggest in Newsletter #3, you will not have to suffer many, if any, cavities while you detoxify metals from your brain through the nerves in the teeth and gums." The brushing protocol, along with adequate dairy consumption, is presented as the primary means of minimizing damage during the years-long detoxification process.

After the point at which gum recession stops (which itself may take years), reversal can begin. Aajonus's own gum recession "reversed about 60%" within 3 years of resuming raw meat and dairy. The amount of reversal depends on the degree of remaining damage and the nutritional support provided.

Abscesses may occur as part of the healing process, particularly around root-canal teeth and formerly amalgam-filled teeth. These are expected and not cause for alarm on the Primal Diet: "On this diet, I've never found that the case [of losing a tooth from abscess]. The body has enough nutrients to handle any kind of a decay and a degeneration of tissue anywhere to keep up with the toxic byproduct."

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