Tooth Extraction

The core criterion Aajonus gave for when an extraction is appropriate is full, natural release. "If the tooth naturally, completely releases from the nerve and bone, then extraction is appropriate. Or pull it out yourself when it is that loose." This is the threshold he returned to repeatedly across multiple written communications and workshop discussions. A tooth that is still attached to the bone, regardless of how much pain it is causing or how badly it appears infected, does not meet this threshold in his view.

He was equally direct about what happens when a tooth is extracted before that point: "Having a tooth pulled only seals off the exit point of detoxification." The underlying nerve toxicity, which may run from the base of the tooth all the way to the brain, does not go away. It will attempt to exit through other routes, sometimes through the face or the eyes. The gums are the preferred and most efficient exit pathway, and interfering with that exit by removing the tooth creates a worse situation than the one the dentist was attempting to treat.

He said explicitly that when your body wants an extraction, it will do it on its own, as long as you eat the Primal Diet. The implication is that the diet itself creates the conditions under which a tooth that genuinely needs to come out will gradually detach, and that the body's own timing is the correct timing.

There was one noted exception in his writings. For people with advanced cancer, in circumstances where the tooth infection was actively competing with the body's resources needed to address the cancer, he acknowledged that extraction might become necessary as a last resort. He described this as rare, applicable only to people in very bad systemic condition where the infection simply could not stabilize, and he was clear it was not something he recommended until every other option was exhausted.

Aajonus's explanation for why teeth become infected and why extraction is the wrong response begins in the brain. The brain continuously offloads industrial chemicals, heavy metals, and other accumulated toxins, and its preferred exit route runs through the gums, tongue, and saliva. When heavy metals detoxify through the gum tissue, the metals bind to dentine and cause structural damage. Bacteria then appear in response to that damaged dentine, not as the cause of the problem, but as the body's mechanism for eating the damaged material so that regeneration can begin.

The nerve running to any given tooth can be poisoned along its entire length from the tooth base up to the brain. This is why abscesses form around teeth. The abscess is not a dangerous bacterial infection; it is white blood cells surrounding and encapsulating toxic material, most often heavy metals, that the body is actively trying to remove. "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." The abscess creates holes in the gum tissue because the body is trying to push that material out. This is normal, expected, and does not indicate that the tooth should be removed.

He identified specific drugs and substances that travel down the nerves to the teeth and cause deterioration from the inside out, including tetracycline, cocaine, and mercury from amalgam fillings. When a capped tooth was causing an abscess, he explained it was not the root canal or the bacteria that was the problem, but the nerve outside that capped tooth continuing to carry toxic load from the amalgam filling that had been absorbed into the nerve tissue before the crown was placed. That detoxification process continues regardless of whether there is a cap over the tooth.

Aajonus was explicit that he did not accept neo-dentist or alternative dentist assessments of when teeth need to come out. He mentioned the work of Dr. Weston Price and Dr. George Meinig in this context. Meinig's position, relayed through a correspondent, was that pulling a tooth is not enough, that the periodontal ligament is infected with bacterial toxins in the dentinal tubules, and that one millimeter of the entire bony socket should be drilled away after extraction. Aajonus rejected this completely. "Of course, having surgery and undergoing all of the chemicals involved is going to distract the body from its other problems for a long while, up to 5 years. So, the claim that removal and scraping into the root corrects disease is basically false."

He also rejected dentists' claims that nerves are dead when they are not. In a workshop he described a dentist telling him a nerve was dead and requiring a root canal, and his response was to tell the dentist to poke it and see if it bled. It bled. "If you had pain, it was alive." He said dentists lie about this regularly, and that he had been told multiple times his nerves were dead when they demonstrably were not. This matters for extraction because the dead-nerve claim is often the pretext for recommending removal.

His view on implants was also negative. Whatever is implanted into the jaw bone, even stainless steel, dissolves at some level when drilled into bone and releases toxins. He preferred leaving a gap where a tooth had been rather than installing hardware, and said if the teeth on either side of the gap were already capped, then a cap with a false tooth bridging them was acceptable, but otherwise he recommended leaving it open.

Aajonus described performing his own extraction at least once, wrapping kite string around a tooth twice and pulling it out himself when his dentist in Mexico was closed. He framed this as straightforward once a tooth has loosened sufficiently, and implied that for a genuinely loose tooth, it is the simplest option.

For professional extractions, he went to Mexico specifically because Mexican dentists would follow his instructions without the mandatory chemical protocols required in the United States. American dentists, in his description, are legally required to give Novocaine or Xylocaine, take x-rays, apply fluoride, and use various other chemical preparations. He considered all of these toxic impositions that make the procedure worse, not better.

He described having four extractions performed without anesthetic and captured one on video. The process he requested from his Mexican dentist for a large molar used a blade-edged tool that is inserted into the gum and rotated to cut the membrane away from the tooth all the way around, then the tooth is pulled. Rather than having it done in one continuous motion, Aajonus requested three distinct stages: insert the tool and hold for 30 seconds to allow the initial pain to pass, then make the full rotation to cut the gum away, hold again for another 30 seconds, then pull. He said the dentist agreed and executed it exactly as requested.

The pain from extraction without anesthetic, in his description, is sharp and immediate but ends quickly because there is no chemical causing swelling. He contrasted this with the aftermath of Novocaine: the injection causes swelling in the gums and bones, converting what would have been a moment of sharp pain into a toothache lasting days or weeks. The calculus he presented is direct: a split second of intense pain followed by rapid cessation, versus prolonged pain that continues because the anesthetic has disrupted circulation in the bone and hardened the tissue.

He described what happened immediately after his molar extraction: "The blood went across the room, stopped bleeding, just like that. One heartbeat, it bled, and then it stopped just like that." His dentist called it a miracle. The nerve, which had been swollen and damaged and attached all the way up into the upper jaw, was pulled out intact with the tooth, confirming the degree of connection that had kept the tooth from falling out on its own despite being mobile for a year and a half.

Aajonus identified dental injections, specifically Novocaine and Xylocaine, as responsible for 80 percent of mouth, tongue, and neck cancers. His reasoning was that the injection solidifies tissue and stops circulation into the bone, causing long-term damage to the bone and gum structure beyond the immediate site and procedure. He said he had not used anesthetic for dental work since 1972.

The one exception he noted from his own life was after a violent assault in which he had bone knocked under his tongue, the jaw was split, and nerves were severed. He needed surgery and allowed Novocaine to be administered, which he said was a mistake. He was so healthy that the drug caused his gums to turn white and recede, and burned a hole from his palate up into his sinuses as if he had a cleft palate. The Novocaine also remained in his system and continued causing problems, with metals from the injections still emerging from his jaw and gums years later.

He prepared for amalgam removal in 1978 by chewing and expectorating cannabis leaves for 30 minutes before drilling began, and by using whole cloves placed in the mouth about four hours before dental procedures. He chewed the cloves and held them in the area of the tooth to be worked on. He specified that clove oil was not appropriate because it is never raw and he had experienced it rupturing his gums.

Rather than extraction, Aajonus recommended specific dietary approaches to manage the underlying detoxification process that dentists were interpreting as infection requiring extraction. His consistent recommendation for tooth problems was cheese, eaten frequently throughout the day, as the minerals in dairy bind with the toxins being discharged through the gums that would otherwise attach to and damage dentine. He specified large amounts of cheese without honey generally, plus thrice daily doses of two tablespoons of cheese with one teaspoon of honey.

Sipping milk often was recommended specifically to absorb toxicity being discharged from the brain through the gum tissue. Eating cheese with a little butter every hour was given as a protocol for the same purpose. He also gave a tooth brushing formula of one teaspoon vinegar, one teaspoon clay, and one teaspoon coconut cream, used once daily. In a later refinement he specified brushing with coconut cream and clay every day, but only adding vinegar on every fifth day to avoid over-acidifying the gum tissue.

For tooth pain specifically, he recommended the pain formula as the most reliable intervention. Hot water held against the face in a glass jar was described as a way to soften hardened material that would otherwise emerge as a boil, encouraging it to drain through the gum tissue instead, after which he would eat cheese and clay throughout the day to absorb the toxins as they came out.

For a tooth with an exposed nerve, he recommended biocalyx (also referred to in his talks as bioflex, a calcium-based powder) packed onto the nerve surface before a filling is placed over it, to dry the nerve and eliminate the pain response without requiring extraction or root canal. He said dentists often skip this step and place the filling directly on the nerve, causing permanent pain. He was emphatic that when a tooth is still attached to the bone, it does not need extracting.

Aajonus described a period during late-stage cancer treatment when radiation dissolved the bone around all of his teeth, leaving them dangling in his gums and causing him to bleed heavily from his gums with any motion. At that point, oncologists wanted to extract all of his teeth. His response was to refuse, reasoning that if he was going to die in three months as predicted, spending those months recovering from a full mouth extraction would be worse than the condition he was already in, and that recovery from such surgery would likely take two years. He kept his teeth by starting raw meat and bone consumption, and within approximately one year the bone had restored around his teeth.

He described keeping teeth for ten or more years beyond what dentists predicted was possible simply by leaving them alone and maintaining the Primal Diet. He also described having multiple root canals in his mouth simultaneously, some made naturally by his own body through the nerve dying and drying out without intervention, and some made dentally, without experiencing the catastrophic systemic effects that critics of root canals predicted.

He mentioned the possibility, without claiming certainty, that teeth might regenerate entirely, referencing a 90-year-old man in Thailand who had lost all his teeth by age 60 and grew a complete new set by age 90. He framed this as something he hoped for personally and had read about but not directly witnessed, as a way of pointing toward the body's capacity when given the right conditions.

Aajonus gave specific guidance for situations where a dentist has declared a tooth dead. If the tooth is dead, as he explained, no root canal is necessary because the root is already dead and drying or already dried. If a cavity exists in the dead tooth and can be reached without removing the crown, he recommended having it filled. If the cavity is under the cap, he reasoned that no digestive acids can reach it, so it will not get worse, and his advice was to leave it alone and let it eventually fall out naturally.

For a tooth with a porcelain crown sitting over an eroding stump where the underlying tissue is detoxifying, he acknowledged difficulty in knowing how much of a patient's fatigue was caused by oral detoxification without a direct examination, and referred the person to a consultation. He noted in his book, which he quoted when this passage was raised by a correspondent, that even on a healthy diet the toxicity around teeth may require more nutrients than most people can consume, and that if a persistent infection occurs in this context, it may be preferable to have the root canal tooth extracted. This is the one case in his published writing where he acknowledged extraction might be preferable, and it applies specifically to teeth with pre-existing root canals where the nerve has already been killed and the surrounding tissue is in continuous infection.

Aajonus was consistent across multiple talks that the only way he could receive dental procedures according to his own specifications was to go to Mexico. He described a third-generation dentist in Tijuana who owned a practice with both parents also practicing, and who did exactly what Aajonus requested without deviation. In the United States, he said, dentists are legally required to take x-rays, administer anesthetic, apply fluoride, and perform various chemical interventions that he considered harmful. He described this as fascist. He also mentioned that he had the extraction without anesthetic filmed, and used that footage as documentation for what is possible on a healthy diet.

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