📖 The Dental Diet

The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health by Dr. Steven Lin

July 08, 2025

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Dental disease—as we know it today—appeared only after the Industrial Revolution, when processed foods became prevalent in modernized society. Our mouths were healthy for thousands and thousands of years, but this changed remarkably once the industrialized food system was introduced.

— Dr. Steven Lin, The Dental Diet

Think brushing and flossing are enough? Think again.

Dr. Steven Lin’s The Dental Diet makes one thing clear: if you want strong teeth and real health, you need more than just a great toothbrush (but that doesn’t hurt too); you also need to improve your eating habits.​

SMARTEST TAKEAWAYS
Outsmart Cavities and Gum Disease

1️⃣ Your Teeth Are Built in the Kitchen: Cavities and crooked teeth aren’t just bad luck—they’re symptoms of a nutrient-starved diet. Lin shows that the modern menu is wrecking our jaws and smiles. The fix? More real food, less processed junk.

2️⃣ The Mouth Is Mission Control: Your mouth is the front line for your immune system. Feed it right, and you fight off disease before it starts. Feed it wrong, and you’re inviting inflammation, decay, and even chronic illness.

3️⃣ The Dental Diet: Load up on fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, K2) from eggs, butter, and leafy greens. Get minerals from bone broth, seafood, and organ meats. Embrace fermented foods for a healthy oral microbiome.

Dr. Steven Lin is a board-registered dentist, writer, and TEDx speaker with work published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The British Dental Journal. He has also written for MindBodyGreen and About.com.

INSIGHTFUL EXAMPLE
A Dentist’s Aha Moment

Dr. Lin noticed that even kids who brushed and flossed still ended up with crooked teeth and cavities. The real problem? Diets full of processed food and missing key nutrients. His research into traditional diets revealed that nutrient-rich foods—not genetics or better brushing—were the secret to strong jaws and healthy teeth.

BOOK FACTS
The Dental Diet

  • First Published: January 9, 2018

  • Print length: 344 pages

  • Listening length: 7:57

  • Ratings: 4.5 Amazon, 4.2 Goodreads

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