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Why Dental Work and Infections in the Mouth can be the Roots of Disease
By Lina C. Garcia, D.D.S., D.M.D.
The teeth are a large part of the puzzle of health and disease. There are a number of scenarios in which the teeth and the way dentists work with the teeth can play a role in disease. The purpose of this article is to describe these different scenarios.
Metals
There are common types of metals that are being utilized in dental work such as crowns, mercury fillings and implants. These metals, when placed in the mouth, are sitting in a medium of saliva, which turns the mouth into a charged battery. We call this charge "Galvanic Toxicity."
The Brain is a collection of millions of nerve fibers that is essentially a battery emitting electrical charges throughout the body.
The Galvanic Toxicity in the mouth is bombarding and over-stimulating the brain.
Common signs and symptoms of Galvanic Toxicity are a metal taste in the mouth, an electric charge with utensils and insomnia.
Root Canals
Bacterial toxicity is another root of disease. Teeth are similar to other organ systems in the body in that they also acquire a blood supply, lymphatic and venous drainage, and nervous innervations. Root canals are dead teeth. It is one, if not the worst, source of chronic bacterial toxicity. If the heart or liver or any other organ in the body dies, it will have to be removed otherwise bacteria and necrosis sets in and the patient can die, but teeth are commonly left dead in the body.
Teeth have roots with main canals and thousands of side canals and contained in those side canals are miles of nerves.
When dentists perform a root canal, they remove the nerve from the main canals, however they do not have access to the microscopic side canals, which have dead nerves left behind in those spaces.
Anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to survive, thrive in these side canals to grow and excrete toxicity from digesting necrotic tissue that leads to chronic infection. Blood supply and lymphatics that surround those dead teeth drains this toxicity and allows it to spread throughout the body.
This toxicity will invade all organ systems and can lead to a plethora of diseases such as autoimmune diseases, cancers, musculoskeletal diseases, irritable bowel diseases, and depression to name just a few.
Gum Disease
Gum disease is another vehicle in which bacteria can spread throughout the body. Classic signs of gum disease are bleeding upon brushing or flossing the teeth, red and swollen gums, and bad breath.
The following is an actual case study from my office in which I saw a patient who presented for an initial dental visit. She related to a three-year history of breast cancer treated conventionally. Three years later, her cancer recurred and she decided to seek alternative treatment rather than conventional treatment. She sought therapies for a period of five months by two well-known medical physicians practicing these therapies and they released her. She then followed up with my office to get a complete dental exam and diagnosis.
I took a thorough history and examined the patient. I discovered that since her initial diagnosis of cancer three years ago, all of the physicians, conventional and alternative, failed to ask or even consider her dental history as being a necessary part of her treatment and/or the possible association or connection to the root of her disease.
It is not surprising that conventional physicians do not look at the dental history as being associated to any disease process, but it is certainly absurd that alternative physicians failed to even consider it!
Upon my examination, there were several acutely infected teeth, a root canal and severe gum disease that were totally missed.
Certainly, the conventional therapies and the alternative therapies that this patient received will most likely fail as this patient continues to harbor infection in her mouth that has chronically compromised her immune system and has weakened her overall ability to eliminate toxicity and to heal as a whole.
In reality, the toxicity that continues to thrive in her mouth is being carried by the blood and lymphatic system to all areas of her body and is contributing to her inability to fight the cancer.
We must look at our patients as whole beings and the mouth as a very important part of our overall health and to the contribution of disease. As a physician, conventional or alternative, or a dentist we must include in our patient history a complete dental assessment knowing that it is a common area that harbors disease.
Most conventional dentists fail to associate the above conditions with chronic problems.
Our mission is to change this consciousness and work with our patients as a whole and provide treatments that focus on the above problems.
Six Common Dental Procedures That can Harm Your Health, and How Environmental Dentistry can Help
By Lina C. Garcia, D.D.S., D.M.D.
Conventional dentistry and conventional dental practices have certainly helped a great number of people enjoy good dental function for many years now. And if that's the case, why should anyone be interested in seeing an environmental dentist rather than a conventional dentist?
What is an environmental dentist, anyhow?
Environmental dentistry, in a nutshell, respects the fact that the mouth is an integrated part of the entire body, and that it should always be viewed and treated in this respect. The primary aim of environmental dentistry is to resolve a given patient's dental problems while impacting the rest of the body as little as possible.
Unfortunately, even though many patients leave the office of a traditional dentist chewing much better than before they went, a significant negative medical impact on the rest of their body will result from what was done in the dentist's office.
The negative medical impact of conventional dentistry can come from any of a number of sources.
The most common ones are:
Mercury-Amalgam Fillings: Commonly known as silver fillings or just amalgam fillings, these fillings should really be called mercury fillings, since mercury has been and remains a full 50 percent of the content of these fillings.
Conventional dentistry long asserted that the amalgamation process rendered the mercury non-toxic by the chemical reaction that was supposed to be taking place.
In our environmental practice we also take precautions and follow a protocol to minimize patients' exposure to mercury upon its removal.
Other Toxic Dental Materials: Unfortunately, conventional dentistry continues to evaluate new dental materials primarily, and sometimes exclusively, by their mechanical characteristics. Little thought is given, even today, in trying to evaluate whether a given material will have a long-term adverse toxic effect on the patient.
Environmental dentists use biocompatible materials that will not adversely impact a patient's immune system. Stainless steel and other metals continue to be used in the mouth even though they have been well-established to have a cancer-causing effect when used elsewhere in the body.
Root Canals: Root canal-treated teeth are proving to be almost always infected, and the toxins that have been isolated from them are often incredibly potent. Some researchers claim there is a strong relation between the presence of root canals and the development of cancer and heart disease. It appears that the longer root canal-treated teeth stay in the body, the more the immune system becomes compromised.
Cavitations: Pockets of gangrene in the jawbone are often found at the sites of previous extractions by conventional dentists. These toxins are essentially the same as those found in root canals, being the product of aerobic mouth bacteria being forced to live in an anaerobic environment. Most traditional dentists still think cavitations do not exist, even though they have been shown to be extremely common, especially at the sites of wisdom teeth extractions.
Implants: Currently, implants continue to be done without biocompatibility testing, and they are often started at extraction sites where cavitations are already developing. Autoimmune diseases seem to be often aggravated or even initiated by implants.
Periodontal Disease: Not enough emphasis is put on how severely the infection in the gums of the periodontal-disease patient impacts that patient's long-term health. Heart disease is clearly the result of such disease in many patients. Repeated surgery and antibiotic courses are not the first choices of environmental dentists in treating this condition.
We recognize that the mouth and its contents can have a huge impact on a patient's health and the way in which it is approached can either support our health or do the opposite. We have to understand that we function as a whole and as doctors, we must pay attention to the whole and work with other disciplines in order to create continuity for our patients.
Traditional Osteopathy is one excellent medical discipline that works well synergistically with environmental dentistry, as it is an approach to the patient that is based on health rather than disease. This is not a therapy, but rather a medical treatment.
The Traditional Osteopath is taught the art of medicine in addition to a unique hands-on treatment that supports the whole patient on all levels that include the body, the mind and the spirit. This is not manipulation, massage therapy or craniosacral therapy. It is a simple but detailed regimen that works individually with each patient using very subtle approaches and requires a minimum of 10 to 12 years of post-doctoral training to practice.
Here at The Optimal Wellness Center, we integrate these principles with all of our patients and work diligently with a treatment plan that includes nutrition, lifestyle changes, perceptual training, and a lot of reading in addition to the above treatments.
Our commitment is to shift to a new medical and dental paradigm--one that will integrate the human being as a whole and not as mechanical parts.
Our purpose of the Wellness Center and our Web site is to educate our patients, physicians and dentists to make better and wiser choices for themselves and their loved ones.
In subsequent issues of Dr. Mercola's newsletter we will explore these issues and many others related to biological dentistry and your overall health.
Yours in health,
Dr. Garcia
Dr. Garcia's Dental & Osteopathy Practice Wellness Center:
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