- What Biological Dentistry Is and Does
Biological Dentistry is total dentistry. A conventional dentist is trained to look at your teeth, gums and oral tissues mainly in isolation. This sort of dentist is a kind of "mouth mechanic." Every so often, he or she will check the state of things and provide preventive maintenance such as regular cleanings.
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- Mapping Out Your Health Priorities
Your body is no mere machine. Nor is it just some collection of parts. It is an intricately made, unified organism; the physical manifestation of an individual life. It is a self-regulating system, built to heal itself under the right conditions. Thus, each of us becomes responsible for doing all possible to create the conditions of health.
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- Getting Rid of the Mercury: Frequently Asked Questions
Amalgam fillings – the so-called "silver" kind – are a mixture of silver, tin, copper and zinc powder blended with liquid mercury. Mercury, of course, is one of the world's deadliest poisons. Only plutonium is more toxic.
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- What You Need to Know about Mercury Amalgam Removal
Why doesn’t everyone with mercury fillings get sick? That a person can have them and not get sick tells us nothing about the fillings and everything about that individual’s constitution, immune response and ability to excrete toxins. Read More
- Root Canals, Cavitations and Focal Infections
When people go to school to become physicians, they are taught relatively little about dental concerns. After all, what are dentists for, right? Likewise, dentists are little trained in matters of systemic or total body health. Those are considered the natural concern of physicians.
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- Optimal Dental Restorations
What is the function of the tooth to be restored? What are the surrounding dental conditions? In light of these factors and the patient's unique biochemical make-up, which restoration materials would be most appropriate? The conscientious dentist must consider these sorts of issues in providing you with a healthy, attractive smile.
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- Options for Repairing or Restoring Your Teeth
Whether you’re getting old fillings replaced, broken teeth repaired or new restorations for decayed teeth, it’s vital that your dentist use only biocompatible materials. There are hundreds of restorations materials and cements available, and these can be combined in thousands of different ways. But whatever is used, it must be nontoxic, non-allergenic and appropriate to your unique body chemistry. Read More
- Why Your Jaw, Face, Head and Neck Might Hurt - and What We Can Do to Help
We regularly see clients in our office who have long histories of headaches and pain in the face, jaw, neck and shoulders. While many have sought help from numerous health care providers - both conventional and holistic - they have not found lasting relief. This is not necessarily because the practitioners were bad or providing useless therpaies. Indeed, the therapies often brought temporary relief. The problem is usually that they did not think of the dental perspective on chronic pain. Read More
- Inflammation: A Link Between Dental and Chronic, Systemic Illness
Inflammation is one of the most common symptoms of all. It is a factor in a whole host of disease processes, from periodontal (gum) disease to cardiovascular disease (CVD, or "heart disease"), diabetes to stroke, arthritis to cancer. It also plays a role across the range of autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) and Crohn's disease, as well as conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). What the holistic practitioner wants to do is not help a patient "manage" an illness by suppressing symptoms but work towards real cure by providing treatment that supports the body in its ability to heal itself. Read More
- Dealing with Dental Fear
Whether you experience dental anxiety, fear or all out phobia; whether your feelings are rooted in bad experiences or fear of the unknown; a good dentist will listen to you and work with you to discover the best way to deal with it so you can take good care of your teeth and get the healthy, attractive smile you want. Read More
- Supporting Healing through Ideal Eating
Good food and proper nutrition can go a long way toward starting and sustaining the healing process. We pinpoint specific nutritional strategies that target your unique biochemistry and health status. And of the best ways we've found for doing this is a method called Autonomic Response Testing (ART). Read More
- Eating Well for Good Oral Health
Eating a wide variety of whole foods, with emphasis on alkalinizing foods, can help ensure that you'll get all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that support strong teeth and healthy gums. While we need enough of all nutrients in oder to stay healthy, some are especially important to good dental health. Read More
- Partner with the Healing Process
The healing process is not always a smooth transition from illness through treatment to recovery. The removal of mercury fillings, cavitations, infected root canals and similar triggers of illness does not, alone, bring instant relief. As with all dental procedures, there are the normal biological processes of limited swelling, pain or discomfort, and inflammation.
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For Further Reading
Want to learn more about biological dental medicine? Mercury amalgam fillings and other health risks? Comprehensive holistic healing? Dr. Erwin recommends these books:
Breiner, M.A. (1999). Whole-body dentistry. Fairfield, CT: Quantum Health.
Casdorph, H.R., and Walker, M. (1995). Toxic metal syndrome: How metal poisonings can affect your brain. Garden City Park, NY: Avery.
Huggins, H. (1993). It’s all in your head: The link between mercury amalgams and illness. Garden City Park, NY: Avery.
Huggins, H., and Levy, T.E. (1999). Uniformed consent: The hidden dangers in dental care. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads.
Kulacz, R., and Levy, T.E. (2002). The roots of disease: Connecting dentistry and medicine. US: Xlibris.
Meinig, G.E. (1994). Root canal cover-up. Ojai, CA: Bion.
Stockton, S. (1998). Beyond amalgam: The hidden health hazard posed by jawbone cavitations. Clearwater, FL: Power of One.
Stockton, S. (2000). The terrain is everything: Contextual factors that influence our health. Clearwater, FL: Power of One.
Störtebecker, P. (1982). Dental caries as a cause of nervous disorders. Orlando: Bio-Probe.
Störtebecker, P. (1985). Mercury poisoning from dental amalgam: A hazard to human brain. Orlando: Bio-Probe. Williams, L. (2007). Radical medicine: Profound intervention in a profoundly toxic age. San Francisco: International Medical Arts.
Ziff, S. (1984). The toxic time bomb. Santa Fe: Aurora.
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