The following
was originally published in: Health & Happines:
A Newsletter for Better Living
Volume 4: No. 2
By
Gerald H. Smith, D.D.S. - Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA
A new
era in dentistry is rapidly emerging as a result of the
process of intelligent evolution. The transition between
the purely mechanical phase (drill and fill) to the highly
evolved biologic phase of dentistry has occurred slowly
(over the past 150 plus years). As dentistry moves into
the 21st century, it is providing a coupling of high tech
materials, integration of techniques, and diagnostics with
scientifically based research.
Biologic
dentists are focusing on biocompatible materials and their
influence on the immune system, nutritional support for
maintaining oral health, focal oral infections from root
canaled and bone sites from previously extracted teeth,
energy disturbances to the whole body, and the direct influence
of the three dimensional relationship of the way the teeth
mesh together to the stability of the spine and low back.
The
inception of an organized biologic concept to the practice
of dentistry had its origin in the late 1800's when the
National Dental Association recognized the harmful effects
of mercury fillings and mandated non-use by its members.
This warning has finally been recognized and acted upon
by several foreign countries that have either banned the
use of mercury fillings or are in the process: Sweden, Germany,
and Austria.
The
next major contribution occurred in the 1930's when a dentist,
Weston Price, teamed up with an anthropologist, Francis
Pottenger to document the link between tooth decay and bad
bites to the processing of food (as presented in their well
documented book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration). This
as well as other research provided the basis for biologic
dentistry to utilize nutritional concepts in the treatment
of oral disease.
The
1940's witnessed the unheeded dental and medical communities'
scientific warnings of the dangers of fluoride. After dismal
results and many painful lessons 98% of Western Europe have
banned the use of fluoride in their drinking water. Many
other major countries have followed in their footsteps:
Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, India and China.
The
third major discovery involved focal infections from root
canaled teeth and cavitational problems (residual infections
in the bone following tooth extraction) placing a burden
on the body's immune system with direct targeting of organs.
Additional discoveries that span the era of the 1930's to
present, by numerous researchers have helped link the distress
from imbalances in the craniosacral system and teeth. This
latter connection will prove to be one of the most important
discoveries in the history of dental medicine.
This
evolutionary transition has awakened a new consciousness
and infused a high level of excitement among biologic dental
practitioners worldwide. Biologic dentistry offers the dentist
a golden opportunity to practice at the highest professional
level and the patient the chance to resolve their health
issues.
Edward
Arana, D.D.S.
(As
written for the Holistic Dental Association's Web site)
Biological
Dentistry can be categorized as dentistry with a conscious.
A consciousness of how the treatments of the teeth and jaws
will affect the health of the individual and how it will
affect the immune system. Will it be congruent and health
enhancing or will the treatments be health stressors to
the individual.
In
the past only lip service was paid to the biocompatibility
of materials used in dentistry. The material's compatibility
was judged on a general basis and not on an individual basis
that is required for biocompatibility.
The
most tragic example of misstated biocompatibility is organized
dentistry's position of advocating a known poison -MERCURY-
in amalgam fillings just because it has been used for 150
years! In doing so, dentistry has been misled and the truth
obfuscated concerning the fact that mercury does indeed
cause ill effects when placed as an implant in the body
even to the point of denying that a filling in a prepared
tooth cavity is not an implant.
Mercury
and other heavy metals from dental fillings contribute to
all chronic disease states as do multiple chemical sensitizing
exposures. From environmentally ill patients there is clinical
evidence that the heavy metals from dental fillings and
multiple chemical exposures act synergistically to intoxicate
and stress the patient, thus causing disease.
Biological
Dentistry is an emerging new field of Probiotic (supporting
life) dental medicine. It has been developing in Germany
over the last 25 years. It is now being taught and practiced
in the U.S., Austria, Germany, England, France, Switzerland,
Australia, Taiwan, Sweden, and Colombia.
Biological
Dentistry is aesthetic, relatively nontoxic and individually
biocompatible. It utilizes physiologic and electronic methods
to locate chronic areas of disease that are difficult to
locate by current standard methods. Incorporated in this
field of biological dental medicine are the time proven
healing methods of homeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, physical
therapy and herbology.
The
more modern sciences of neural therapy, hematology, immunology
and electro-acupuncture are also incorporated. These methods
are in addition to the many scientific disciplines, which
encompass the field of clinical dentistry. The curative
measures of biological dentistry are applied in accordance
with the patient's natural abilities of regulation, regeneration,
and adaptation and self-cure.
Biological
dental treatment removes the stress burdens that conventional
treatment may induce. The first area of concern in biological
dentistry is the toxicity of metals and their release from
the fillings and replacement appliances (metal partials
and crowns that have nickel) used in dentistry. These metal
ions dissociate from their masses to diffuse, migrate and
become absorbed in the tissues altering the electrochemical
character of the immune system concomitantly changing the
ratios and populations of the blood cells (decreased while
count) and the cells of the immune system. In addition,
these migrating metal ions stop or alter the function of
the body's enzymes.
The
next area of biological concern is the extent and character
of the direct electrical currents generated by the disassociation
of dissimilar metals in an electrolyte media (fluids and
tissues of the human body). This is called "oral
galvanism." These currents carry disruptive metal
ions to the opposite poles in these oral galvanic batteries.
How much oral galvanic power is necessary to change organic
function, to change membrane permeability, to interfere
with the power of thought or recall, or to initiate degenerative
change? We just don't know! But we do know that it does
change from electronegative to electropositive.
Is
it possible that these metallic energy sinks are acting
as blockades in the meridians or bioenergetic circuits associated
with the teeth? Can these blockades cause dysfunction in
their respective organs, endocrine systems, vertebrae, muscles,
nerves and nerve reflexes? It is and it does!
Should
we view current existing dental restorations as toxic scars?
With mercury amalgam implanted in the teeth, most definitely.
With gold and other metal restorations for again a certain
percentage of people again most definitely and with composite
cements on an individual basis, again most definitely. With
just about any restorative material used in dentistry there
will be blockades by the body if the immune system is still
functional because the tooth is an open and dynamic living
organ. Biological Dentistry is concerned with treatment
and therapies that cause the least disturbance to the immune
system.
The
next area of concern in Biological Dentistry is that of
hidden or residual infection to include areas of necrosis
and chronic inflammation. Collectively these areas are called
"Dental Interference Fields or Foci."
This is dentistry's most ignored area for meaningful and
effective therapeutic contributions in resolving chronic
disease. A focus or dental interference field is a diseased
change in the soft connective tissue containing un-processable
material causing the local and general defense reactions
to be in a continuous state of active conflict. This can
lead to abnormal distant effects far removed from the original
source and is most often chronic in nature.
Biological
Dentists utilize materials reactivity testing to individualize
the biocompatibility of dental materials used in the reparative
and restorative aspects of dentistry. A materials reactivity
test is made from the patient's blood serum. It is a qualitative
antigen-antibody precipitin observation type test. It indicates
what materials may be suitable for the patient to utilize
in the restorative aspect of his dental treatment. W.J.
Clifford, M.S. developed this test. The other types of testing
for the individual biocompatibility assessment for suitable
dental materials are electrodermal testing as advocated
by Reinhold Voll, M.D. and Fritz Kramer, D.D.S. and Applied
Kinesiology muscle testing as developed by George Goodheart,
D.C.
Using
all the knowledge and skills of probiotic dental medicine,
biological dentists strive to provide individual biocompatibility
testing, aesthetic, comfortable, functional and enduring
dental artificial replacements. Biological dental treatment
has the possibility of a stress reduction so great the patient
loses all or many of their distressing chronic disease symptoms,
which encompasses many pathological conditions.
Biological
Dentistry is the great contribution that Sir William Osler
meant when he said, "The next great advancement
in medicine will come from the dentists." Biological
Dentistry will, out of necessity, become the dental medicine
of the 21st Century.
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A Biologic
Approach to Root Canals
Conventional
dental procedures offer a technique which does not take
into account biocompatibility of the filling materials,
potential injury to surrounding tissues due to the caustic
nature of medicaments used and high percentage of residual
bacterial contamination. According to research by Dr. Boyd
Haley of the University of Kentucky, 75% of root canal teeth
have residual bacterial infections remaining in the dentinal
tubules. These lingering infections produce toxic wastes
that enter the blood stream and can affect any part of the
body. A dentist, Weston Price, brought this information
to light in the 1940's. Unfortunately for patients and the
dental profession his scientific documentation and views
were pushed aside. To date there is no acceptable conventional
therapy to resolve this issue.
Conventional
dental root canal therapy uses several materials that are
not compatible:
* Gutta
perch: used to seal the main canals after the nerves are
removed. Gutta perch has cadmium, which is a toxic material.
* Eugenol
based cements: this material is used to cement the gutta
perch cones into the enlarged canals. Eugenol has an acid
pH were as the living tissues that surround the root have
an alkaline pH.
* Clorox
and hydrogen peroxide mixture: this combination is used
to "sterilize" the inside of the main
canals, which housed the nerve. Clorox and hydrogen peroxide
both will injure tissue.
A biologic
approach to root canal therapy is less injurious and more
biocompatible than standard procedures. Also a non-invasive
test is now available to determine if any existing root
canaled teeth are contaminated with bacteria and a potential
source for medical problems. This test is now available
at our office. The cost is $85 plus $35 for the office visit,
postage and handling.
Biologic
dental root canal therapy uses materials, which are biocompatible:
* Biocalex
6.9: this material is made from calcium oxide and zinc oxide;
both are bactericidal and the material has an alkaline pH
that similar to the surrounding tissues.
* Sanum
remedies: these are homeopathic remedies from Germany that
work like antibiotics but without any damaging effects.
Colloidal silver: this solution is used instead of Clorox
and hydrogen peroxide. Colloidal silver is capable of killing
over 650 different forms of bacteria, viruses, Candida,
and molds.
* Bio-frequencies:
this technology was used in the early 1930's and was extremely
effective in destroying bacteria, viruses, molds, fungus,
Candida and parasites.
Our
preliminary research has shown that this approach is the
only effective means that has a chance of resolving long
standing residual bacterial infections in old root canaled
teeth. There is no drug, homeopathic remedy, vitamin or
mineral that can effectively kill these tiny bacteria that
live in the small tubules that make up the root. Only the
use of bio-frequencies has the capability of penetrating
the surrounding bone and root without any damage to tissues.
The number of treatments needed to treat this infection
depends on the severity of the contamination level. A protocol
of eight treatments is recommended. Each treatment takes
approximately 75 minutes and costs $50. per session.
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Garlic:
contains germanium, a mineral that has both preventive and
curative effect on cancer. It also has sulfhydral groups
which bind to heavy metals like mercury, cadmium, aluminum.
It works like a diruetic, antibiotic, antispasmodic, stimulant,
expectorant, and digestant. Successfully used for high blood
pressure, asthma, gas, colds, and intestinal parasites.
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Dental
Foci of Infection or Irritation
When
teeth become inflammed because of trauma, fracture, decay
or contaminated with bacteria, the tooth becomes a focus
of infection or irritation. In the 1930's, a dental researcher,
Weston Price, implanted infected teeth into healthy rabbits.
The rabbits came down with the same medical symptoms as
those of its host. The rabbits exhibited heart, kidney,
lung or other similar symptoms as manifested by the host.
Dr. Price concluded that the toxins produced by the infected
tooth found there way into the blood stream and was capable
of causing disease within specific organs.
In
the 1940's, the medical and dental professions both recognized
such problems as valid and provided the basis for recommendations
of tooth removal. In recent years a French medical/dental
physician and researcher, Agnes Koubie, discovered that
even a tooth whose pulp became inflammed from routine dental
drilling could serve as the source for far removed arthritic
type pains. If the distant pain resolved after injecting
a local anesthetic around the offending tooth, Dr. Koubie
concluded that the tooth was the underlying cause.
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Cilantro:
A Powerful herb That Works Like A Chelating Agent
Chelating
agents are substances that bond to other substances. In
nature sulfur has the ability to bond to toxins and heavy
metals like mercury, cadmium, lead, aluminum and others.
Animals instinctively seek out sulfur to heal themselves.
When a dog gets sick it will eat grass. The young blades
of grass possess high sulfur content and serves to neutralize
toxins.
Cilantro
is an herb that is commonly used in Thai, Vietnamese, and
Mexican dishes. In addition to its culinary benefits, it
has recently been discovered to be a powerful chelating
agent. Yoshiaki Omura, MD, director of medical research
at the heart Disease Foundation and president of the International
College of Acupuncture in New York, reported that after
finding he had been heavily exposed to mercury, he accidently
discovered that when cilantro is taken in a slightly cooked
form it causes a massive secretion of mercury in the urine.
Dietrick
Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D also recommends cilantro as the best
means to remove mercury from the brain. His clinical research
has found that 5 grams (teaspoonful) a day is the minimum
dose. Cilantro can easily be prepared by finely chopping
one heaping teaspoonful of fresh cilantro and placing it
in either chicken soup or boiled water and allowed to steep
for twenty minutes. One can sip the tea through out the
day.
