Remineralization of Teeth

These images do a decent job of showing how much wider my upper palate has become after using my Homeoblock style dental device for 8 months. They also show how my teeth seem to have remineralized during the last three weeks that I've been following basic RBTI guidelines. I've not been RBTI tested yet I've only followed the simple rules of no meats or sweets after 2 pm and then loosely followed the no food list. (No sea salt, popcorn, nuts (except coconut), chocolate, nutmeg, white potatoes, white rice, tea, shellfish, skinfish, pork, hard seeded berries. Chocolate, Tea, Nutmeg, Nuts, Popcorn, Skinned Fish (ie. tuna, shark, mahi mahi, swordfish, marlin, mackerel, bluefish, catfish, etc.), pepper.) less butter but I still eat some and I still eat high fat sheep yoghurt.

I discovered the other day that my teeth looked a lot whiter, at closer inspection I also noticed that my front teeth looked smoother around the corners. Those corners used to be really sharp and now it's as if the tooth has somehow grown a little, filled itself in with new enamel.

I know the lighting is totally different in the images however you can still see how soft the corners are and how there are no more differences in colors. Note the very low edge of the front teeth, they had a yellow discoloration all my life and it got worse on low carb and now after three weeks of RBTI it's totally gone (that's not due to any lighting trick or anything).

New image of my teeth after the use of a homeoblock style device for 8 months, and after three weeks of RBTI.


After three years on Bee Wilder's unhealthy low/no carb diet.


On low carb I also developed my first ever cavity and by the end of it I began noticing that my front teeth had grey stripes inside of them from what I guess was some kind of demineralization process. That was too depressing to even take a photo of. It disappeared as soon as I started RRARFing thankfully. But the yellow shading remained and so did the sharp edges that I had considered asking a dentist to fill in with some kind of porcelain. Now it looks like I won't need that.

Palate Expansion Update

So, this is a picture of my teeth after having used my Homeoblock style dental device for 8 months. I know it doesn't look like that drastic of a change, but trust me it is a huge difference for me. My bite right now is the best it's been in my entire life. For the first time I can actually bite down all the way cause my upper teeth are now all in front of the lower row. It feels very good and functional. The dental device itself has widened with about 1 cm. So that's how much wider the palate must have grown.

August 2011


July 2010



My upper palate is not going to be widened any more and right now I'm just using the device without widening it further. This is to allow the teeth to "settle". The next month I'll be getting some kind of thing to push my front teeth together. After a month of that we'll add veneers to create slightly bigger teeth on both sided of the front teeth - where my current smaller "piglet" teeth are sitting. This is necessary in order to keep the palate widened, otherwise, if we were to leave big gaps between my teeth, the palate would most likely shrink back again. I'll miss my piglets for sure but I really don't want to risk my palate going back to where it was when I started making the money and effort meaningless.

My orthodontist is saying that this way of changing teeth is considered "conservative", and functional. For example, I won't need to use any braces to move the teeth. We'll instead let them settle on their own, allowing time to do the job.

The amazing thing with all this, even though it may not look very drastic, is that my piglet teeth moved forward without any pressure forward what so ever on them. The pressure was all to the sides. And when the sided widened my front tow teeth moved forward on their own, as if they were growing into place naturally.

Interestingly as a kid when I had braces, the braces forcefully pushed only on the piglet teeth forward. It worked, however, my bite never improved and as soon as I discontinued using the braces after whatever two years or so of usage, the teeth moved back within no time. It was a futile practice to try to push the teeth forward with force. The homeoblock has really amazed me in that it made the teeth move forward without even the slightest pressure on them.

Also, I have felt no pain what so ever while using the homeoblock, no discomfort or anything. I was expecting to get regular headaches or so. It has been super easy to live with it. The only thing that was annoying was to try to remember to roll the little roller thing with my tongue, something that I was supposed to do all day long to prevent the tongue from pressing upward. I kept forgetting to do this. Hopefully it will be ok anyways.

I must add though that I also have not noticed any improvements in sleep while using the device, nor improvements in clarity of mind or less anxiety or anything like that. I wrote about the potential for this is this blog post:

http://healingendo.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-mental-or-is-it-dental.html

Some people that I've read about online do seem to see huge improvements to their life quality and mental health from widening the upper palate but I have not noticed any improvements. Also, worth noting, my CP did not improve at all from using the device. It's just interesting to note this. I am still very happy that I did use the device. Both for a better bit and frankly for cosmetic reasons. I liked my teeth before but I love them even more now! And we're not done yet, but I am looking forward to having a more traditional looking set of teeth. Never thought I would but now I do see the benefits of that. I guess once you realize the whole deal about the value of a wide upper palate, you begin to see the functional beauty in wide upper palates and straight teeth. Then your cosmetic ideals change too. Where I used to think that the most beautiful teeth were the most unique looking once, I now have fallen back into the societal norm of admiring straight teeth in wide upper palates. So, now I'm excited to get to join that group of people.