Why there must be more determinants of dental health
... than simply diet and bacteria
From extensive studies such as those carried out by dentist Weston A. Price (as well as simple observation) it is obvious that sugar and bacteria play an important part in dental health and disease. But they are not the only determinants.
Otherwise it wouldn't be possible that some people with "bad" oral hygiene habits and a diet full of sugar and white flour never know a cavity while others with excellent hygiene and diet have a mouth full of cavities.
And even if immunity to tooth decay were explainable by a specific salivary composition (as I have read), how come that caries bacteria frequently attack just a certain tooth while leaving the neighbouring teeth alone - in spite of being up close and personal with them?
This only makes sense if one assumes that there is an underlying energetic weakness of that particular tooth which renders it less able to defend itself against such attack.
This of course is indeed the view of healing approaches such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and several dental researchers who attribute dental decay and other oral issues to emotional resp. energetic factors. In fact, some of them such as French dentist Estelle Vereeck even go into great detail in how they connect the lesions affecting specific teeth to equally specific types of trauma related to our upbringing and present circumstances...