Articles by Dr. Erwin

• 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. Read More.
  
  
• Mapping Out Your Health Priorities
  Think about a time when you had to make a big decision about something. Changing careers. Moving to a different city. Investing money. You probably spent a lot of time thinking through the pros and cons of each choice you could make and the risks of each action you could take: What if the new career doesn’t work out? How would you support yourself and your family? What if your investment fails? Are you prepared to take the loss? 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. Read More.
  
  
• 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. Read More.
  
  
• Optimal Dental Restorations
  Say you want to build something: a chair, a patio, a house. If it’s going to last and serve its intended function, you’ll have to do a lot of evaluating and planning before cutting a piece of wood or hammering a single nail. How will the object be used? In what sort of environment will it be situated? What building materials are most suitable? 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. Read More.