Dr. Vi Ho

05/29/2026

05/25/2026

24 qt pot
1. 4 chicken breast (~4-5lbs), beef bones( 8lbs) 1 daikon, 3-4 onions, ginger
fill water all the way up
-add in 1/2cup of sea salt, 1/2 cup of rock sugar
-cook for ~10 hrs

2. remove chicken breast, onion, daikon,ginger. leave beef bones
3. refill water up to edge
4. add half of 1/3 cup of sea salt, half of 1/3 cup of rock suga( if eat next day bc it will get saltier, if like saltier or eat immediately add a full 1/3 cup of salt and likewise for sugar
-cook for another 6-10 hours

5. 1 hr before serving, add spice
-spice: handful of star anise, 5-6 small sticks of cinnamon, 5 amomum costatum, 1TBSp of cumin granule, 1 TBSP of coriander seed, 1 tsp of cloves

6. add 1 TBSB of mushroom powder right before serving

remove beef bones once done, water level should be about 2 inches below edge

05/16/2026

Healing Dentist Kitchen Recipe: Dua Chua — Vietnamese Pickled Mustard Greens

This is one of the most probiotic-rich healing dishes in Vietnamese cooking — and almost nobody outside Vietnamese culture knows about it.

What makes this healing:
— Mustard greens: rich in antioxidants and antimicrobial plant compounds
— Rice starch water: feeds fermentation bacteria naturally, deepening the probiotic healing profile
— Natural salt fermentation: no vinegar shortcuts — this is real lacto-fermentation

My grandmother made this constantly. She never called it a probiotic. She called it something every meal should have.

A healthy oral microbiome needs this kind of diversity — not just supplements.

Recipe:
3.8 lbs mustard greens
6.5 L of water ( some of this is from the washing of 1.5 cups of dry rice)
6.5 tbsp of pink salt
6.5 tsp of sugar
1 yellow onion
1 bunch of green onion
Wash and cut up mustard greens into 2 inch pieces. Place them in the glass jar along with onion wedges and green onion segments. Combine the remaining ingredients and bring to a soft boil so that everything is completely dissolved. Let cool completely and pour into the glass jar. Let the fermentation begin! You can start enjoying it as early as 4 days or when the greens turn yellow. Stir it up a couple of times during those days. You can store on the counter or fridge after 4 days.
Save this — this one is worth making.

Eat Well. Heal Well. Smile Well.

05/11/2026

Most dentistry focuses on reducing harmful ones. Fewer conversations happen about supporting the beneficial ones.

Traditional Vietnamese cooking understood this intuitively. Fermented dishes like Dua Chua — pickled mustard greens — were part of daily eating, not a wellness trend.

This week I am going to show you the healing ingredient secret behind that fermentation, and exactly how to make the dish itself.

05/06/2026

I am going to be honest with you about something. I do not use commercial mouthwash. As a healing dentist I stopped a long time ago. Here is why.Commercial mouthwash kills indiscriminately. Good bacteria, bad bacteria, everything in its path. Every time you use it you are disrupting the oral microbiome — the ecosystem of over 700 bacterial species that your mouth depends on to stay healthy, fight infection, and heal. Traditional Vietnamese meals always came with a plate of fresh herbs. Without exception. It was never optional. It was never decoration. Thai basil. Perilla. Vietnamese coriander. Fish mint, Vietnamese balm. Mint. Each of these herbs contains natural antimicrobial compounds that work selectively — supporting the beneficial bacteria your oral microbiome needs rather than destroying everything indiscriminately. The younger generation is growing up without this plate. They do not know the names of these herbs or why they were always on the table. They are reaching for processed food and commercial products instead of what their culture already knew. This tradition needs to come back. As an integrative endodontist what I know is this — the microbial environment around a root tip is not created in my clinic. It is created at your table, every single day. The herb plate that traditional Vietnamese culture served at every meal was quietly maintaining that environment long before modern dentistry had language for it. This is integrative endodontics in practice. Put this plate on your table. Teach your children the names of these herbs.

05/05/2026

My kids are learning something most adults were never taught. Real healing ingredients. What they do. Why they matter. My grandmother taught me this way. Now I teach my children the same way.Follow The Healing Dentist if you want your family to eat for healing. .viho

04/29/2026

Healing Dentist Kitchen Recipe: Lemongrass Healing Jelly
Ingredients:
1.5 L of water
1 bag of jelly powder (10 gr) Dragon brand from Nguyen Long
150 gr sugar
2 full stalks of lemongrass
Toppings:
Basil seeds, honey, lime
Juice
Most people have never seen lemongrass used in a dessert. In Vietnamese cooking, we use every ingredient where it heals best — not just where it is expected.

Ingredients and why they heal:
— Lemongrass: antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, supports the oral microbiome
— Agar: plant-based gel from seaweed, supports digestion and gut microbiome
— Lightly sweetened with natural sweetener — no refined sugar
— Completely plant-based, gluten-free, and visually stunning

Full recipe PDF in my bio

This is Vietnamese healing in dessert form. My grandmother would serve something like this after a meal — not as an indulgence but as a continuation of healing. As The Healing Dentist I love that the most unexpected dishes often carry the deepest healing wisdom.

Eat Well. Heal Well. Smile Well. .viho

04/27/2026

Most people know lemongrass as a cooking ingredient. Very few know what it actually does inside your body.

Lemongrass contains citral and other natural antimicrobial compounds studied for their effects on oral bacteria — not by eliminating everything indiscriminately like commercial mouthwash does, but by supporting the balance of beneficial bacteria your oral microbiome actually needs. to stay healthy.

Traditional Vietnamese cooking has understood this for centuries. Lemongrass shows up in savory dishes, healing broths, teas — and on Wednesday in something that will completely surprise you. A healing dessert. Golden lemongrass jelly. than only see you when something breaks.

As an integrative endodontist the oral microbiome is something I think about in every single treatment. The microbial environment at the root tip directly affects how well a patient heals after endodontic treatment. What you eat every day shapes that environment. Lemongrass is one of the ingredients I cook with consistently because of exactly this. Follow so you do not miss Wednesday. Free healing ingredient guide → link in bio Full series → Healing Dentist Kitchen on YouTube — link in bio. Follow The Healing Dentist — prevention through food, not just treatment.


Eat Well. Heal Well. Smile Well.🇻🇳 Sả không chỉ để nấu ăn — nó chứa các hợp chất kháng khuẩn tự nhiên giúp cân bằng vi khuẩn trong miệng. Thứ Tư tôi sẽ làm thạch sả — món tráng miệng ai cũng bất ngờ.

04/24/2026

Patients who care about whole body health ask me about root canal inflammation every day. I hear that concern. It comes from a real place.

As an integrative endodontist my goal is always to save your natural teeth — because natural teeth mean better chewing, better nutrient absorption, and better overall health. But I also believe in strengthening the body naturally through the process.

Every single morning I take a turmeric black pepper extract from Global Healing. Here is why: — Curcumin is one of the most studied natural anti-inflammatory compounds that exists — Black pepper increases curcumin absorption by up to 2000 percent — Curcumin has been studied specifically for reducing post-procedural pain and inflammation including after root canal treatment — Inflammation does not just affect your mouth — it shows up on your skin your gut and throughout your whole body. I also use turmeric in a homemade face mask because the anti-inflammatory benefits work from the outside too. Same ingredient. Same healing principle.

I am an integrative endodontist. I believe clinical expertise and natural healing belong together. Saving your natural teeth is always worth it. And supporting your body through the process is always part of the plan.

Free healing ingredient guide → link in bio Full series → Healing Dentist Kitchen on YouTube — link in bio


Well. Heal Well. Smile Well.