Teeth

Aajonus used the structure of human teeth as a primary argument against vegetarianism and in favor of meat-based eating. He described human teeth as predominantly cutting and tearing teeth, not grinding teeth. The front teeth are all cutting teeth, the canines are ripping and tearing teeth, and there are only a few molars at the back, which he said serve to crush meat so it can be swallowed, not to grind grains or grasses. He stated that 75 percent of human teeth are cutting teeth.

He contrasted this directly with the dental anatomy of herbivores. Every horse, cow, sheep, and goat he had observed had nothing but molars, every single tooth in their mouths being a grinding tooth for processing vegetation. He asked his audiences to look in a horse's or cow's mouth and compare it to their own. No herbivore has cutting teeth at all; they are entirely molars. Humans have molars only in the back, three on each side, or four if the wisdom teeth came through, and even the bicuspids he distinguished from true molars, noting they are not suited to crushing grain or grasses.

He also noted that the canine teeth in particular are frequently filed down by dentists, often without patients realizing it or being asked, because dentists consider prominent canines unattractive. He said this happened to him as a child. He described the consciousness behind this practice as dentists not wanting patients to "look like an animal" or a vampire. He considered this a significant deprivation because the canines are the primary ripping teeth.

He also referenced the ptyalin enzyme present in human saliva, noting that the only other animal with ptyalin in the mouth is the horse, which is why horses have a preference for sweet things. He connected this enzyme to the alkalinizing function of saliva.

The central mechanism in Aajonus's framework for understanding tooth decay is the brain's role as a heavy metal reservoir and the mouth as its primary dump site. He explained that the brain and nervous system require large quantities of metallic minerals to transmit electricity and light for neurological function. Because people live in polluted environments and eat cooked food, the brain and nervous system accumulate large quantities of destructive heavy metals, including mercury from vaccines and amalgam fillings, thallium, lead, cadmium, aluminum, ether, and formaldehyde. The body works to remove these toxic compounds, and the primary exit routes are the gums, the tongue, and the salivary glands.

He described the mouth as "a dump area for the brain." When these toxic metals drain from the brain down through the gums, the body attempts to neutralize their acidity by binding them with alkalinizing minerals: calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium, with calcium in the highest concentration. This binding and calcification is what forms plaque. In his framework, plaque is not a product of bacterial activity but a mineral complex the body has created to contain toxic metals and prevent them from freely contacting the dentine.

The problem, as he explained it, is that when people eat cooked food, all these alkalinizing minerals are cauterized in the cooking process. Phosphorus loses its alkalinizing ability at approximately 105 degrees Fahrenheit and begins to be transformed at 98 degrees. Cooked calcium has only about 50 percent of the alkalinizing ability of raw calcium. The result is that the plaque the body forms is composed of degraded, cauterized minerals that can only partially neutralize the toxic metals within them. Even a thick plaque formed from cooked-food minerals is not sufficient to prevent the heavy metals from eventually working through and contacting the dentine. He stated it takes 100 to 200 times more of the good alkalinizing minerals to neutralize the toxic metals, and on a cooked diet those minerals are never adequate.

He further explained that it takes only one molecule of mercury to destroy approximately 5,000 healthy cells. When mercury, thallium, lead, or other heavy metals are not fully contained by the plaque and contact the dentine, they burn and damage the dentine cells, including the tubule cells beneath. This is what produces cavities, not bacteria.

Aajonus was categorical and emphatic that bacteria do not cause tooth decay. He described the conventional medical teaching on this point as "absolute bullshit" and "the biggest joke in the world." His argument rested on several lines of evidence and reasoning.

First, bacteria require carbon and hydrogen to live and cannot damage enamel, which is calcium hydroxy phosphate. He pointed out that myriad animal remains in the archaeological record show that teeth and bones are highly resistant to earth-bound organisms over long time periods. If bacteria could actually eat through teeth, no ancient teeth would survive.

Second, he reported conducting laboratory experiments at least 30 times in which he applied bacteria directly to teeth with no toxic minerals present. Over six-month periods with no brushing, this produced zero decay of the dentine, not a single instance.

Third, he performed the reverse experiment: applying thallium, mercury, lead, or similar metals to dentine without bacteria. Within ten to fourteen days, the dentine showed damage no matter how thin the layer of metal applied. The longer the metal remained, the deeper the damage progressed.

In his framework, bacteria appear at the site of dental decay as janitors, not as perpetrators. When the heavy metals damage the dentine cells, the body sends bacteria to consume the damaged, dead tissue so that new, healthy dentine cells can be generated. The bacteria eat the waste product; they are a response to damage already done, not the cause of it. He used the analogy of hotel janitors cleaning up after a rock band has destroyed a room: you do not blame the janitors for the destruction.

He also applied this same logic to the white coating on the tongue, describing it as the same process: the body is using the tongue surface as another dump site for brain toxins, and the bacteria present there are consuming the damaged tissue.

He made the same point about animals generally. Animals lick each other constantly, including each other's bodies and rear ends, and do not develop dental decay from bacterial exposure. Animals in uncontaminated environments do not have dental disease.

Aajonus was unequivocal that fluoride is damaging to teeth and to overall health, and he dismissed the claim that it prevents cavities as a distortion of the actual experimental data.

He described a controlled test in which one community received fluoride in its drinking and bathing water while another did not. The community with fluoride had fewer cavities, and this was used as evidence that fluoride prevents decay. But when he examined the actual details of the test, the fluoride community had fewer cavities because they had experienced approximately 20 to 22 percent greater tooth loss. They had fewer teeth, therefore fewer possible sites for cavities. The fluoride was causing teeth to fall out, not preventing decay.

He described fluoride as one of the major byproducts of the military-industrial complex, specifically the manufacture of tanks, guns, and other metal military equipment. He said fluoride is a major toxic byproduct of that manufacturing process, and because of the political and financial power of the military establishment, it gets dispersed into public water systems across the country. He stated this is done for "national security" reasons, meaning to dispose of an industrial waste product across the population rather than deal with it appropriately.

He also cited Dr. Gerard F. Judd, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, who documented that 30 percent of American youth ages 8 to 10 have no cavities, while 100 percent of Ugandan youth ages 6 to 10 have no cavities. He attributed the Ugandan advantage to the absence of processed acidic foods, no fluoride in drinking water, regular meals rather than constant sipping of acidic drinks, higher calcium and phosphate in the diet, and fewer dentists causing damage.

He described fluoride as interfering with the enzyme adenosine diphosphatase, which normally delivers phosphate to calcium on tooth surfaces, thereby preventing normal re-enamelization. Fluoride also damages the protein molecules that normally cause gums to adhere to teeth. He noted that in children, fluoride causes deformed palates, deformed salivary glands, crooked and discolored teeth, and tooth loss. He also mentioned that the Nazis used fluoride to make populations complacent.

Aajonus explained that all commercial toothpastes contain glycerin, which coats the teeth with a sticky film after application. This film is extremely difficult to remove, requiring approximately 25 washes to fully eliminate it. As long as this glycerin film remains on the tooth surface, re-enamelization is prevented because the tooth surface is sealed off from the minerals in food and saliva that would otherwise rebuild the enamel.

He said this is why consuming calcium-rich raw foods such as milk is necessary for re-enamelization but only works when the teeth are actually clean and free of this glycerin coating.

Despite his view that plaque is a protective mechanism the body creates, Aajonus was clear that plaque still needs to be removed regularly. His reasoning was that even though the body is trying to use alkalinizing minerals to protect the dentine from the heavy metals in the plaque, the system is not adequate. It takes 100 times more of the protective minerals to control the damaging ones, and on a cooked-food diet those minerals are too degraded to do the job fully. If the plaque sits on the teeth for more than a few days, the toxic metals within it work through the mineral matrix and start breaking down the dentine. The bacteria then arrive to consume the damaged dentine, creating a cavity. Without dietary improvement, the process continues: more toxins dump down, more degraded plaque forms, and the cavity keeps growing deeper.

He also described a process by which toxic compounds in the plaque disintegrate the calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium in the plaque itself, leaving the dentine directly exposed to damage. The toxin works through the plaque first, then through the dentine.

Aajonus provided specific instructions for dental cleaning that diverge entirely from conventional recommendations.

He said brushing is necessary in a toxic society but should never be done with fluoride toothpaste or glycerin-based toothpaste. He formulated his own toothpaste consisting of clay, coconut cream, and vinegar, which he described as whitening the teeth as well as cleaning them and dissolving plaque instantly.

For plaque removal, he recommended apple cider vinegar mixed into the brushing mixture, but with strict limits on frequency. He said vinegar can be used to dissolve plaque, including plaque lodged deep under the gums, but should only be used once every ten days for this deeper application, because vinegar applied frequently will itself eat into the dentine.

He described oil pulling and other methods for removing the metals from the tooth surface before they can damage the dentine, stating that getting the metals off the teeth as they drain from the brain or from amalgam fillings is the primary dental hygiene objective.

He strongly recommended against oil pulling with anything that introduces additional toxins. He noted that the objective is to remove the heavy metals from the tooth surface before they have time to work through the plaque and damage the dentine.

He mentioned a product called bio-chelix, available only through dentists or dental supply channels, as useful for infected nerves and cavities that have gone untreated.

He also described how he personally handled his own cavities as an ongoing experiment. He chose not to have any of his cavities filled, allowing them to remain open, and visited a dentist approximately once a year whose sole function was to assess whether the tissue in the cavity was still softening and decaying, whether the decay had stopped, or whether new dentine was growing in. He referenced Weston Price's research showing that when natives who had adopted processed foods went back to their traditional diets, their cavities stopped progressing and new dentine formed.

He reported that in his 62nd year, his own fillings were being pushed outward as new dentine grew in behind them, producing a lip between the tooth surface and the edge of the filling. He said those fillings were eventually popping out and he was no longer having them replaced, allowing the teeth to continue filling themselves in naturally.

Aajonus was explicit that insufficient dietary protein is a major cause of tooth loss across populations and throughout history. He observed that any culture living primarily on carbohydrates, particularly grains and potatoes, begins losing teeth in their 30s and typically has completely deteriorated or lost them by their 50s. He cited Asian communities, particularly those where 80 percent of the diet is rice, 10 percent vegetables, and only 5 to 7 percent meat, almost always cooked, as a primary example. He said that percentage of cooked meat in the diet is not enough to maintain teeth.

He pointed to raw dairy in particular as the most important food for dental regeneration and protection. He said drinking plenty of full-fat raw milk begins reversing dental problems, and where raw milk is not available, eating raw fish works almost as well. He said raw milk and raw fish together speed the healing process.

For tubule and dentine regeneration specifically, he said he had only seen successful regeneration in people under 25 years old who were eating large quantities of dairy that had not been refrigerated. Refrigeration was a significant qualifier in his view.

He connected the teeth-preserving diet of his own father, who retained some of his own teeth at age 90, directly to that father's upbringing on a dairy farm with raw milk. His father grew up on raw milk, fresh food, and only one significantly cooked food, which was bread, and this foundation sustained his dental health even after he left the farm.

He described the Maasai, Samburu, and Fulani tribes as examples of populations that historically lived on approximately 90 percent raw dairy and a small proportion of very slowly cooked meats and had no dental caries at all. He said they would not even need to brush their teeth given their non-toxic diet.

He stated that children under 22 years old can regenerate cavities fully on the Primal Diet, with the holes healing over. He distinguished between first and second teeth in this context, noting that if a child still has only first teeth, regeneration is less urgent because those teeth will be replaced anyway, but a second tooth with a cavity can heal on this diet in someone that young.

Aajonus considered amalgam fillings, called silver fillings in the dental trade, to be a significant source of ongoing mercury poisoning. He said they contain large quantities of toxic mercury and should not be used. He had 16 amalgam fillings in his own mouth at one point and had them all removed in 1978 in two four-hour sessions, one for the bottom and one for the top, without any anesthetic. To numb his teeth he used a homemade clove oil preparation: cloves soaked in water for two weeks, then juiced, with the resulting cream applied to the teeth.

He described the mercury from amalgam fillings as draining out through the gums over time and causing the same damage to dentine as mercury from vaccines or environmental exposure.

He also mentioned that mercury and other dental materials can produce discoloration of the teeth. He noted that tetracycline and cocaine can change the teeth to a gray-brown color if the body cannot process them and pushes them out through the nerve tissue.

For filling materials, Aajonus initially recommended porcelain or ceramic inlays as the best option, but later revised this position after observing that porcelain inlays frequently crack teeth because they must be manufactured to an extremely precise thickness, within a hundredth of a centimeter, in order to snap in correctly without cracking the tooth. He found porcelain inlays were cracking teeth too often and shifted his recommendation to composite, which is a hard plastic material.

He explained that for porcelain inlays specifically, much more of the original tooth must be removed than with composite, which is a further disadvantage. He considered the biological dentist approach of testing for plastic allergies before using composites to be a reasonable precaution, acknowledging that some people are allergic to the specific plastic composites used.

For crowns and bridges, he recommended those reinforced with gold rather than pure ceramic or porcelain crowns, because gold-reinforced crowns preserve much more of the original tooth structure. A pure ceramic or porcelain crown requires the tooth to be ground down to a small post, which can break within one to five years, at which point a root canal or an implant becomes necessary. He said he had seen gold-reinforced crowns last 30 years.

He was opposed to dental implants of any material, including stainless steel, because any implant material drilled into the jaw bone will damage the bone and can release toxins into the surrounding tissue. He said not even stainless steel is safe when drilled into bone because it dissolves over time and the dissolution releases toxic compounds. For a missing tooth where the neighboring teeth are already capped, he recommended a cap with a false tooth attached. Otherwise he said to leave the space open.

Regarding root canals, he described them as a source of persistent infection and serious bodily consequences, including fatigue, neck and shoulder soreness and stiffness, and reddened eyes. He said the fatigue from infection around a root canal can continue for years because the toxicity around such teeth may require more nutrients than most people can consume even on a healthy diet. He stated that if persistent infection continues around a root-canaled tooth, it may be preferable to have that tooth extracted.

He described his own experience with a dying tooth: he allowed the nerve to die on its own rather than having a root canal performed, then when the nerve was dead, he had a dentist pull it out dry and hard.

He also described a situation where he had a large molar that would not fall out because it was still connected by the nerve high up in the gum. He instructed his dentist in Mexico to remove it in three stages: push the extraction tool in and allow him a minute to adjust to the pain, then make the complete rotational cut to free all the gum tissue from the tooth and allow another two to three minutes for recovery, then pull. He described losing very little blood and recovering well. He noted he preferred going to Mexico for dental work because dentists there would follow his instructions precisely without deviating, whereas he described the dental establishment in the United States as fascist and unwilling to deviate from standard procedures.

He also specifically said he avoids female dentists, not for personal reasons but because in his experience, through six male and six female dentists, every female dentist removed significantly more tooth structure than was necessary due to what he characterized as an overcleanliness consciousness, literally removing twice as much tooth as a male dentist would in the same situation.

He warned about dental anesthesia injections, stating that a lot of dental anesthesia causes cancers of the tongue, jaw, mouth, and throat. His alternative was going to a dentist who uses a water jet on the drill rather than injections, which he found sufficient to allow dental work without anesthetic.

In its full sequential form as Aajonus described it, the mechanism of tooth decay proceeds as follows: The brain accumulates heavy metals including mercury from vaccines and amalgam fillings, thallium, lead, cadmium, aluminum, ether, and formaldehyde. The body works to remove these by dumping them through the gums, tongue, and salivary glands. As the toxic metals reach the gum tissue, the body uses calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium to bind and neutralize the acidic metals. This binding produces plaque, which is a calcified mineral complex containing those trapped toxic metals. The plaque sticks to the teeth. However, because the person is eating cooked food, the alkalinizing minerals in the plaque are cauterized and degraded: calcium is at only about 50 percent of its neutralizing capacity, and phosphorus has essentially no alkalinizing ability remaining after heat processing. Therefore, the plaque cannot fully contain the toxic metals within it. The toxic metals eventually work through the plaque and contact the dentine. The heavy metals, which can destroy approximately 5,000 cells per molecule of mercury, burn and damage the dentine cells and the tubule cells beneath. When the dentine cells are damaged and dying, the body sends bacteria to consume the damaged tissue so that it can be replaced with healthy dental cells. The bacteria are eating dead cells, not causing the destruction. The cavity exists because healthy dentine has been destroyed by heavy metals, the protective minerals were insufficient, and the body has not had the raw dietary inputs needed to rebuild. Without dietary correction, the cycle continues: more toxins dump, more degraded plaque forms, the metals keep breaking through, and the cavity deepens.

Aajonus described re-enamelization as possible under the right conditions but requiring that the teeth be genuinely clean, free of glycerin film, and that the person be consuming adequate raw calcium and phosphate, primarily through raw milk and raw dairy products. He said consuming food high in calcium and phosphate increases the probability of re-enamelization but only when the teeth are clean.

He documented that in his own body, after many years on the raw diet, cavities he had carried for more than 30 years were filling in and repairing themselves. He described being in his 62nd year and seeing this process actively occurring, with fillings being pushed outward by new dentine growth.

He also referenced a documented case from Thailand, recorded by a Chinese doctor approximately six years before the time of the workshop, of a man who grew a third set of teeth at age 90 years old. He connected this to the Philippine tribe he had visited where the diet was almost entirely raw and the people died with perfect teeth at ages up to 148 years old.

He said the Primal Diet tribes he knew, like the Maasai, Fulani, and Samburu, living on raw dairy and small amounts of meat, had no dental caries at all and would not even need to brush their teeth in a genuinely non-toxic diet environment.

He noted that he was still approximately 12 years from that level of dental perfection in himself at the time he was speaking, but that the cavities were actively filling in and his teeth were starting to regenerate.

Aajonus explained gum pockets as a direct consequence of the same mechanism that produces cavities, only affecting the gums rather than the dentine, or affecting both simultaneously. The caustic chemicals in plaque, composed of the bound but insufficiently neutralized heavy metals, irritate and inflame the gums. This inflammation pushes the gums away from the teeth, creating pockets.

Fluoride in toothpaste damages the protein molecules that normally cause gums to adhere to teeth, which accelerates this process. He described fluoride in toothpaste as making gum detachment worse regardless of any claimed benefit for cavities.

He said preventing plaque from adhering in the first place, or removing it regularly before the metals can work through it, prevents gum pockets from forming. The remedy is the same as for cavities: clean the teeth properly without glycerin or fluoride, remove the plaque before the metals cause damage, and eat sufficient raw calcium-rich foods to provide the body with the alkalinizing minerals it needs.

On the question of whether bad teeth directly cause disease in corresponding organs through meridian or energetic connections, Aajonus rejected the strong version of this claim. He said the idea that a bad tooth directly causes a bad organ is "absolute bullshit." He described seeing many people in Thailand and across Asia with teeth that were rotting out of their heads, decayed and deteriorated well before age 50, who had great organs, great physical strength, and no apparent glandular disease caused by the bad teeth. He said if bad teeth caused organ disease, every Asian on a rice-dominant diet would have glandular failure.

He acknowledged that in some cases a severely infected tooth, particularly a root-canaled tooth, can create systemic toxicity that affects other parts of the body. But he distinguished this specific scenario of active infection from the general claim that tooth problems cause organ problems through energetic or anatomical correspondence. He stated he had seen plenty of people with bad teeth and good organs, and the correlation was not reliable.

He also noted that teeth can deteriorate to an extreme degree without the nerve being attacked, citing a dentist who showed him photographs of teeth that had degraded until they were small, yellow, and black, yet the person was still using them daily and the nerve remained intact. He said if the nerve is not attacked, a decayed tooth by itself does not create significant health problems in the absence of active infection.

Aajonus noted that tetracycline and cocaine can both produce gray-brown discoloration of the teeth. He said this happens when the body cannot metabolize or eliminate these substances properly and instead pushes them out through the nerve tissue of the teeth, staining the tooth structure. He attributed his own visible discoloration, particularly the teeth on one side, to tetracycline he had received during his medical history.

Throughout his workshops Aajonus returned repeatedly to the dental condition of people living on traditional raw diets as evidence of what is possible for human teeth.

A tribe in the Philippines, reached after three days of travel including four-wheel drive, boat, and over a mile of swimming, with an average lifespan of 138 to 148 years, died with perfect teeth. He documented that this tribe produced a third set of teeth at approximately 90 years of age, corroborated by a Chinese doctor's documentation of a 90-year-old man in Thailand who grew a third set.

A tribe subsisting on raw fish, coconut meat, and one fruit (either mango or banana, partially green) lived to approximately 150 years old with perfect teeth. He interviewed four women from this group, one of whom had a missing tooth with a scar above it indicating traumatic injury rather than decay. He described an 80-year-old man from this group who looked about 39 to 42 years old and had big, strong, perfectly intact white teeth with no cavities. Women in their 50s looked in their late 20s to early 30s. Members of this group could chew on vertebrae bones and fish bones as easily as chalk.

The Maasai, Samburu, and Fulani tribes, living on approximately 90 percent raw dairy and a small portion of very slowly cooked meat, had no dental caries whatsoever. He said they would not need to brush their teeth at all.

He contrasted these populations with industrial societies and grain-dependent communities where tooth loss begins in the 30s and is nearly complete by the 50s.

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