I let the long post through from Caryn Stockwell bikerchick even though some of it isn’t great unschooling advice.

Dental treament is likely screwy. Everyone who is in business is in business to make money. So politicizing it and demonizing dentists isn’t going to help a single human anywhere in the world. But because dental theories do change, I don’t mind some other ideas being out there.

Please, anyone, everyone, don’t believe anything you’ve only read once, especially in a forum like this, or on facebook. In all my life I’ve never seen as big a flood of falsehood and nonsense as I’ve seen in 2016 so far. The second worst was 2015. Next year should be worse.

BE CAREFUL what you get excited about or fearful of. Be thoughtful.
Read a little. Try a little. Wait a while. Watch. Not just about unschooling.

-=- Current dental practices actually end up destroying the remaining tooth and underlying bone structures, creating further damage to the human body and causing an eventual loss of all teeth-=-

This is incorrect, as to eventual loss of all teeth. For people born in the 1920s (in the U.S.) LOTS and lots lost so many teeth that dentists pulled the remaining teeth and created full dentures. VERY few people born in the 1950’s and 60’s have full dentures, compared to their parents and grandparents. For millenials, it’s plainly too soon to know. Beliefs WILL change again, and then change again. So don’t be duped by any extremists, and don’t believe everything you read.

-=-The majority of dentists are not working to heal teeth or educate the public on oral care, they are in business to make money.-=-

Quite damning of people who learned a trade and got a job and have families to support. “In business to make money” seems so cold and evil, there.

-=-Use toothbrushes with soft bristles made from activated charcoal, bamboo bristles (available on Amazon) ... these are much gentler on teeth and will not erode the enamel from the tooth surfaces like conventional bristles will. If you must use toothpaste, switch to one that is 100% natural with ingredients that are beneficial to the human body ... Twin Lotus makes a good one with activated charcoal (also on Amazon). -=-

Those are not “in business to make money”? Is Twin Lotus not a corporation? If they discover that their product isn’t as great as they’re advertising, will they send money back all over the world and apologize, or won’t they dodge and weave to defend the company from loss?

My strongly held belief about most things is that no one knows for sure, knowledge grows and changes, but that stress and fear are always harmful.

People live when they live. If they need medical treatment, when and where they live will determine what might be happening to them. Nobody lives in the future. I doubt there will be a future in which humans know everything perfectly. So far that hasn’t happened, and what’s recommended in one country isn’t the same as across an imaginary line. So ANY freak-out or self-righteous fright will hurt more than help.

Avoid buying into other people’s fright or assuredness or sales pitches.
Check other sources, calmly, Know that it will all change by the time your children are grown.

Sandra