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

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. 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!

When I was a practicing orthodontist (retired last summer) I was acutely aware of what is necessary for the health of the mouth and how that relates to the overall health of our body. Once we realize that food becomes the cells of our bodies, the foods we put into our mouths directly influence our state of health. Bad food will eventually catch up with you. Our body perpetually tries to heal us, but it can only do so if it has the correct fuel. Dr. Steven Lin's great new book is the solution we have all been looking for. That is, how to protect our mouths and our bodies at the same time. In addition, if adopted early enough in life, these protocols could possibly influence facial growth and development of children, giving them stronger teeth and possibly greater arch dimensions for the developing dentition.Each year at Christmas I always gave gifts to referring dentists as a way of thanking them for their referrals. I would try to give them something that would have meaning for them, instead of a perishable item they would eat and then not remember. Dr. Lin's book would be the perfect gift for all orthodontists and other specialists to give to their referring dentists for Christmas, and in turn, for dentists to recommend to their patients. Or, maybe don't wait for Christmas. Do it now!Way to go, Steven.J. Michael Steffen, DDS, MS

As 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.

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!)