When I began studying Christian Science, I was very interested in its potential to remedy dental problems. Frankly, I had more eagerness than understanding. There is not space in this article to tell about all the healings I’ve had, or things I’ve learned. But I will share highlights of my journey.
I began by reading the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Reading it through a number of times, pausing often to imbibe the ideas, and allowing this spiritual perspective to sink into the bedrock of my attitudes, opinions, and beliefs, I was intrigued by this statement: “Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness.” (Caries is defined in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary as “a progressive destruction of bone or tooth; especially: tooth decay.”) I thought, If Christian Science can teach how to heal decay, that is something I can learn.
Mrs. Eddy continues on the same page, “The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind” (p. 162). I’d picked up all kinds of theories about teeth that conflicted with the spiritual truths I was reading in Science and Health. I had a lot to learn and to unlearn. Whenever I had a dental problem, I would let God lead me to temporary as well as permanent means. If I needed to go to the dentist, I did—even as I persisted in learning how to heal dental problems in Christian Science.
