From 45 Years of Decay
to 12 Years of Silence
My Story
Dentists Blamed My Habits.
I Blamed My Genetics.
We Were Both Wrong.
For four and a half decades, I was the guy with the “bad teeth.”
It didn’t make sense. I grew up eating the same food as my siblings. They had normal, healthy smiles; I had a disaster zone. I wasn’t the most perfect brusher, but the punishment didn’t fit the crime. Other people talked about ‘quick cleanings’ and ‘all done!’ I only knew the tilt of the chair, the bib clipped around my neck, and the inevitable scream of the drill.
The low point came when I was in graduate school. I sat in the dentist’s chair, mouth open, while the dentist reamed me out for my “negligence.” I was humiliated. I vowed right then to fix it. I redoubled my efforts—brushing, flossing, doing everything the textbooks said.
Six months later, I was back in the same chair, receiving the same disapproving glare. The decay hadn’t stopped.
At that point, I stopped blaming myself and accepted the verdict: I was just genetically cursed.
The Global Construction Zone
For the next few decades, I traveled the world for my non-profit work. My mouth became an international construction zone of fillings, root canals, and crowns.
I’ve been a patient in clinics in Thailand, Germany, the UAE, Burkina Faso, Mali, and across the US. While I found some great dentists (and some very cheap ones overseas), I lived in a state of constant dread. I never knew when the next throb of pain would hit.
I was managing the decline, but I was losing the war.
The Coffee That Changed Everything
Then, on a return trip to the US, I grabbed coffee with Robert, an old college friend into holistic health.
I told him about my misery. He didn’t offer sympathy; he offered a solution. He told me there was actually something I could do about my physiology.
I was skeptical. I’m an engineer—I deal in facts, not “woo-woo” health theories. But desperation is a powerful motivator. I decided to investigate the science behind his claims.
The Paradigm Shift
I realized I had been looking at the problem effectively upside down. I stopped looking at my teeth as dead ivory that needed polishing, and started treating them like living organs that needed feeding.
I dove into the research of early dental pioneers. I learned that cavities aren’t just about hygiene; they are often a nutritional deficiency. I discovered:
- The Builders: Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, K2) that tell the body to repair bone.
- The Blockers: “Anti-Nutrients” (like Phytic Acid) that were actively stripping minerals from my body before I could absorb them.
I turned myself into an N=1 test subject. I developed a strict protocol to cut the blockers and flood my system with the builders.
The Result: 12 Years of Silence
That was 12 years ago.
The results were shockingly fast. For years, I had relied on Sensodyne toothpaste just to manage the daily pain of eating.
After just three weeks on the protocol, I switched to regular toothpaste. I waited for the pain. It never came.
My teeth simply felt… solid.
Since hitting the reset button at age 45, the constant cycle of new decay has stopped. Today, my dental visits are boring. I go in for cleanings, or to repair the old work from the “dark ages,” but I haven’t had a new major issue in over a decade.
Why ToothReset.com Exists
I built this site because I know the helplessness of the dental chair.
I didn’t invent this biology; I was simply fortunate enough to discover the instruction manual for it just in time to save what I had left.
My goal isn’t just to share research. I want to save you the thousands of dollars on crowns and root canals that I had to pay. You can still protect what you have. Don’t wait until you’re in that chair, numb and regretting, wishing you’d acted sooner.
If you have “soft teeth” and are tired of spending hours in the dental chair, I have hope for you. Follow this method, and you too can avoid the need for root canals.
Welcome to the Reset.
— Doug