Who is the Holistic Tooth Fairy?
About you:
Hello lovely reader!
Everyone is welcome here, and you’re especially in the right place if you identify with any of these descriptions:
- Survivor of dental trauma and bearer of dental scars
- Student of inner work and therapy
- Seeker of self-knowledge and self-healing
- Questioner of mainstream advice
Allow me to introduce myself, Meliors Simms: author, oral health coach, and Holistic Tooth Fairy…
About me:
I get it.
I’ve been through the worst with my mouth. I have a mouthful of restorations: root canals, crowns, fillings, and gaps. They are what set me on my path to learning and coaching holistic oral health.
When it comes to dentistry I am an interested, experienced, well-read layperson.
My professional background includes research, strategy, counselling, customer service and art (but not dentistry or medicine). My life experience helps me ask the kind of questions that help you to get around your blind spots. I am good at drawing connections where other people don’t see any reason to look for links.
I’ve been called the tooth whisperer because of the deep calm with which I can hold space for your dental trauma. It’s grounded in decades of daily meditation and journaling. I’m familiar with many approaches to spirituality, personal growth and healing, without advocating for ‘one right system’ of beliefs or practices.
My compassion and curiosity about your oral health are grounded in an intersectional world view, in which I work hard to stay aware of my own privilege as a Pakeha (White New Zealander). I grew up in New Zealand in the 1970s as an immigrant from North America and became a teenage single mother before getting a Masters Degree in Social Sciences.
Working as a self-taught oral health coach who supports clients all around the world via video call, I practice my duty of care by erring on the side of caution and commonsense when it comes to offering advice or recommendations.
I believe
I believe that most teeth and gum problems can be traced to trauma involving secrets, silences and suppressed emotions.
I believe that injury turns to trauma because of isolation and that’s why deep healing happens in relationship.
I believe that perfectionism is not necessary for healing and is even counterproductive because perfectionism is a tool of disconnection.
I believe your teeth and gums thrive with pleasure and laughter.
What else would you like to know about me?
I live in Whāingaroa Raglan in Aotearoa New Zealand, where I get to grow vegetables and swim in the sea all year round. Being the Holistic Tooth Fairy as my full time job is a dream come true. In my spare time I volunteer with lots of community resilience projects in my little village. But tbh, with Scorpio rising, I can only really handle going to meetings if I have some knitting in my hands. I’m an avid reader (about 150 books a year), mostly genre fiction from the library. I have an adult daughter in Australia and a three-legged cat called Phryne.
About this website
Understanding the metaphysical meanings of teeth and gum symptoms
My greatest passion right now is working with spiritual, emotional, psychological and ancestral influences on oral health.
I am continuously exploring and evolving my understanding of metaphysical oral health through coaching, meditation and writing. My latest project involves diving deep into Tooth Archetypes, the framework I introduced in my book, The Secret Lives of Teeth . My newest insights expand and sometimes supersede old ideas, so as you read deeper into my website you may find me contradicting myself.
Interacting with the dental profession
My articles and resources about dentistry are written from my perspective as a dental patient, and an outsider to the profession. I value dentists and believe they are essential for oral health; and I am critical of the profession’s shortcomings. My approach to dental anxiety is trauma-informed and aimed at empowering patients to trust the dental professionals they open wide for. I support you to make confident dental decisions and expect positive dental experiences. Let’s be pragmatic and safety-focused as you assess the risks of recommended dental interventions vs no, or different, interventions.
Living with dental restorations
My teeth aren’t perfect. I live with decades of dental restorations including fillings, crowns, root canals, and gaps. If you care enough to read this far, you probably bear your own mouthful of battle scars. Welcome to the club! In this dental survivors club we don’t judge your ‘imperfect’ teeth and gums, or your attempts to restore them. My pragmatic approach extends to making the best of the restorations you already have with physical and metaphysical self-care practices.
Holistic healing for teeth and gums
My journey with holistic oral health began with nutrition, oral hygiene and jaw care. Most of the older articles on this website are about home remedies and self care practices, because when I first started holistictoothfairy.com (in January 2017), it was much more difficult to find natural products and useful advice. Today the internet is a different place and there are a lot more Alt Oral products and resources available. Over the years, I’ve come to understand how limited these physical approaches can be if you don’t also address the underlying metaphysical issues embodied in your mouth.
Finally, a note about AI
Since 2023 I’ve found myself increasingly reluctant to publish new material online, because of AI’s widespread plundering of the work of creators. This makes me sad, because I love to write and to share my writing. I have lots of ideas and many interests, and I write a great deal!
I create everything myself with no LLM/generative AI input. Specifically I choose not to use AI to generate ideas, do research, draft text or create images (all the stuff I consider fun, fulfilling and creative).
As of the time of writing this, I use an AI audio editing program to help with polishing my audio recordings (a task I otherwise find to be fiendishly difficult and painfully slow).
Possibly futile resistance
Please note I do not give consent for any of my work and anything from my website, books, audio or video recordings to be used to train AI.
Most of my new content is shared in ways that I hope minimize the risk of being scraped by bots, digested into anonymous aggregates and presented as bland slop.
However, it’s probably too late to protect what’s already available on here, so I graciously consent to AI agents responding to user queries by delivering summaries from this website with references.
How to access my latest work
You can read my freshest writing in my newsletter: Holistic Tooth Fairy Circle.
You can watch my live video and listen to recorded audio content on Insight Timer, a meditation app where the majority of my offerings are available for free when you sign up, and some of it is available only to paid subscribers.
You can explore my most in-depth work in the books and digital workshops which I sell HERE.
Page updated October 2025
Testimonials
After using her holistic strategies for 3 months, my teeth have become much stronger, remineralized, less sensitive, their surface more ‘shiny’ and clean. The dentist was astonished to find a strong healthy layer under the cavity so she could clean it well and fill it without performing a root canal! An awesome win.
I came to you for a specific issue with a problem tooth and was supported to make a difficult but necessary decision to extract the tooth providing healing space for other teeth. By following your tooth release protocol, I was amazed how easily and painlessly the tooth came out just like you described.
Meliors is very warm, understanding, encouraging and extremely knowledgeable about all things tooth-related. I turned to her when preparing for complex oral surgery and her coaching was so effective that I now feel healthier and happier than I have in many years. My remaining teeth and gums are in excellent shape. I never failed to feel uplifted and encouraged at the end of each session.
As seen and heard…
