My son (11) has an abscess on his top molars. He has struggles with poor tooth health since he was a baby as he has a tongue tie.
We tried getting the tongue tie lasered but it was very traumatic since his tie is very close to the muscle and the surgeon ended up just burning a massive scar into the base of his tongue and making my son petrified of dentists.
You don’t realise how much we use our tongue to keep our teeth clean throughout the day until you see someone with a tongue tie as attached as my sons.
Anyways, my sons adult molars are finally making their way down slowly but it is causing a few issues as the left over rotten teeth are getting pushed out.
We have a good diet (paleo for him) but the dentist is always banging on about us ‘obviously’ feeding our son excessive fruit or sugar foods even though we don’t. I’ve been to 3 dentists and they all accuse us of poor diet even though we don’t do fruit juice (except once a week as a treat he gets a fresh made juice from the markets) and I’ve never fed my son dried fruit and rarely packet foods.
In any case, this abscess has caused quite the stir w my sons face swollen to look like a chipmunk and even a black eye.
On the first day of swelling I gave him hourly:
Clove oil, peppermint oil and bicarbonate mouth wash
Ferrum phos
Hepar Sulphuris
Cold compress
Panadol to help sleep (once at night)
second day repeat
Plus zinc and liposomal C
third day repeat and upped the liposomal C to 4x doses for the day.
Fresh garlic crushed w coconut oil and put on the abscess 4x for the day
My poor boy still has the swelling and black eye so I am taking him to the dentist.
We don’t have a holistic dentist where we live and every time we go (which is only ever for emergency care), no matter who we see, we get the same bullying tactics trying to push fluoride on us and not believing that our diet is good - my son eats a little bit of organic spelt bread - apart from that, good fats (butter, ghee, coconut oil), home made bone broth in our cooking, grass fed organic meat, home layed eggs, veg and a bit of fruit. He has the best diet of any kid we know.
I also have a course of amoxicillin in the fridge that was prescribed ages ago but we never took. My son has never had antibiotics but when I look at him he is in so much discomfort and we are doing all the natural things we can to help him but he has been up since 3am sitting in the shower. He’s gone back to bed now but I think I will give him the course of antibiotics :(
I’m not sure what to do for him. We do have some very good gut flora capsules so I guess I’ll give him a 30 day course of them to help heal his gut from the damage the penicillin will do?
we have the ‘heal tooth decay’ book and have followed all the protocols since he was a toddler. It seems his teeth are a weak point despite doing ‘all the things’
Apologies if this is a bit all over the place but it is 4:30am and I’ve not slept much for a couple of nights playing nurse.. and researcher!
I’m open to advice
We tried getting the tongue tie lasered but it was very traumatic since his tie is very close to the muscle and the surgeon ended up just burning a massive scar into the base of his tongue and making my son petrified of dentists.
You don’t realise how much we use our tongue to keep our teeth clean throughout the day until you see someone with a tongue tie as attached as my sons.
Anyways, my sons adult molars are finally making their way down slowly but it is causing a few issues as the left over rotten teeth are getting pushed out.
We have a good diet (paleo for him) but the dentist is always banging on about us ‘obviously’ feeding our son excessive fruit or sugar foods even though we don’t. I’ve been to 3 dentists and they all accuse us of poor diet even though we don’t do fruit juice (except once a week as a treat he gets a fresh made juice from the markets) and I’ve never fed my son dried fruit and rarely packet foods.
In any case, this abscess has caused quite the stir w my sons face swollen to look like a chipmunk and even a black eye.
On the first day of swelling I gave him hourly:
Clove oil, peppermint oil and bicarbonate mouth wash
Ferrum phos
Hepar Sulphuris
Cold compress
Panadol to help sleep (once at night)
second day repeat
Plus zinc and liposomal C
third day repeat and upped the liposomal C to 4x doses for the day.
Fresh garlic crushed w coconut oil and put on the abscess 4x for the day
My poor boy still has the swelling and black eye so I am taking him to the dentist.
We don’t have a holistic dentist where we live and every time we go (which is only ever for emergency care), no matter who we see, we get the same bullying tactics trying to push fluoride on us and not believing that our diet is good - my son eats a little bit of organic spelt bread - apart from that, good fats (butter, ghee, coconut oil), home made bone broth in our cooking, grass fed organic meat, home layed eggs, veg and a bit of fruit. He has the best diet of any kid we know.
I also have a course of amoxicillin in the fridge that was prescribed ages ago but we never took. My son has never had antibiotics but when I look at him he is in so much discomfort and we are doing all the natural things we can to help him but he has been up since 3am sitting in the shower. He’s gone back to bed now but I think I will give him the course of antibiotics :(
I’m not sure what to do for him. We do have some very good gut flora capsules so I guess I’ll give him a 30 day course of them to help heal his gut from the damage the penicillin will do?
we have the ‘heal tooth decay’ book and have followed all the protocols since he was a toddler. It seems his teeth are a weak point despite doing ‘all the things’
Apologies if this is a bit all over the place but it is 4:30am and I’ve not slept much for a couple of nights playing nurse.. and researcher!
I’m open to advice
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You are an attentive, loving, well informed parent. Sounds like your son has a pretty good diet, especially compared to other kids!
