The Whole Point Of Our Career Should Be To Stop Full-Mouth Rehab: Tif Qureshi On Lifetime Dentistry

Yeah, which is really

what it comes down to.

And then the counter-argument to all of this is, if the tongue's in the right position and...

the body is working optimally in terms of nasal breathing.

If those two things were resolved, would you still need retention? If the tongue's in the right place, is that not...

And the mouth is shut? It's a good

question.

It's a good question.

I'm not sure I'm totally able to answer that question.

I think I can theorise it a little bit.

But I'm not sure we've got quite enough data to support that.

Also... fundamentally is the jaw big enough to begin with because also it's about shuffling things around to make them fit rather than had the jaw actually if you wait too late

if

you don't encourage growth from an early stage in the child exactly and if there wasn't anything inhibiting the growth of the jaw either which gets back to this potential nutrition thing but you know you've got lots of theories about which I actually do you know I'm believing very much about sort of what children are eating going from

potentially eating you know carrots and meat and whatever at an early age as soon as they can and

crunchy things uh to just like you know inhaling bags of yeah whatever that's going to be a factor um i think there's you know some evidence talking about you know breastfeeding whether they do or they don't and i appreciate that's quite a touchy subject it's not it's not an easy one to deal with uh the other one is and let's get controversial now shall we um i think we is is crowding a nutritional deficiency um it's been postulated but it no one really ever wants to talk about it um and for example uh you know even mentioning his name sometimes it brings a heckles up in some parts of depression but i can imagine whose name you're going to mention western price yeah yeah and if you kind of read the book cover together um while you can sit and argue that oh it's not scientific and there's no studies done in this sort of way that we would normally do Charles Darwin didn't really do anything that scientific either to be fair because a lot of it was observational and it's a lot of stuff that's like okay that kind of makes sense but I think one of the most remarkable parts of reading that book which I would recommend every dentist reads it's actually astounding book is that wherever so he so just people who don't know i should give back man a dentist from the 1920s 30s very rich american dentist used to travel the world i think came back from came from a rich family travel the world and he noticed whenever he traveled the world that every people in these countries who didn't have as much money in america or whatever didn't eat as well everyone seemed to have all their teeth and their teeth are all straight okay and whereas in america everyone was kind of getting tooth decay and starting to get fat and all that kind of stuff, okay, and putting weight on it, et cetera, et cetera.

So then he decided just to go around the world and he visited numerous countries, like 14 different countries, multiple, you know, he went to spend time with tribes and in all different regions where he went to with the Inuits, he went to Australia with the Aborigines, the, uh, areas of america or the american indians were where there was no contact with um even parts of switzerland in the mountains where there was no contact again with kind of western food

and

so unsurprisingly he found wherever people were weren't eating western food they're eating their natural diet so stuff that they dug out the ground pulled off the tree or or killed um hardly anyone had tooth decay or gum disease and they didn't even clean their teeth okay so that's like one subject in itself you know why is that happening we can maybe discuss that the really fascinating bit was that he noticed that wherever, again, there was no Western food, the children all had straight teeth.

And within one generation of the children, the parents starting to eat and the children starting to eat the kind of white powder, processed-type, high-carb, refined-carb diets, There's 50% malocclusion.

So that can't come from just eating soft food over many, many years, etc, etc.

Okay, it might be the children eating soft food to begin with.

He postulated that it was a nutritional deficiency.

He called it a lack of fat soluble vitamin.

He called it activator X, which is subsequently turned out to be vitamin K2.