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Good summary about dentistry. Archive.

Thanks, Misty.

We practiced this kind of dentistry for the last 10 years I was in practice in my centre in KY.

This was one of the reasons my medical license was
revoked.

Keep up the good work!

Namaste`

Walt

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From: "Misty L. Trepke"
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Subject: [S-A] [SimpleLiving] Some Important Facts About Dentistry

> Comments?
> Misty L. Trepke
> http://www.searching-alternatives.com
>
>
> Some Important Facts About Dentistry
> http://www.toothwisdom.net/
>
> One of the self-evident goals of dentistry is to help people save
> their teeth. When measured by this "yardstick", dentistry has been
> successful - most of us have more teeth than our parents did at a
> similar age. Nevertheless, the materials and techniques used to save
> teeth are a direct assault on our health. Our amalgam fillings are
> 52% mercury, which is poison, pure and simple. Root canal fillings
> produce the most toxic organic substance known to man. Approximately
> 95% of all extracted teeth result in cavitations. Cavitations are
> unhealed, toxic, avascular (without a blood supply) holes in the
> jawbone caused by improperly extracted teeth. There is
> a "Matterhorn" of evidence to support the contention that nearly all
> the chronic degenerative diseases and nearly all of the autoimmune
> diseases can be laid at the feet of dentistry. The website you are
> on will show only a partial list of sources that document these
> serious indictments of the dental profession.
>
> Health-conscious dentistry (HCD) is simply dentistry that endeavors
> to do no harm to the patient. It's fine to save teeth, but if the
> materials the dentist uses, or the techniques he employs to save
> teeth, result in undermining the health of the patient, then the
> patient has not been done a favor. Knowledge of the subjects
> discussed on this website should be a goal of all dentists who claim
> to care about their patients.
>
> ROOT CANALS
>
> A "root canal" is a procedure that a dentist uses to allow a patient
> to keep a dead tooth in his or her mouth. The fallacy with this
> concept is that the body doesn't like dead things in it and will
> try, sometimes desperately, to get rid of the dead thing.
> Notwithstanding, the fact that it may be "handy" to save a tooth
> for "dental convenience", it does not change the fact that
> root canal treatments can devastate the human immune system. "Root
> canals" cause:
>
> Suppression of the immune system
>
> The creation of an "interference field" on the meridian that the
> particular tooth is on (meridian - a channel of energy that flows
> between different tissues, organs and structures) .
>
> The production of the most toxic organic substance known to man.
> Root-canal fillings can cause serious side effects. Dr. Weston price
> is recognized as the greatest researcher that the dental profession
> has ever produced. Dr. Price, after observing many patients with
> crippling degenerative diseases not responding to treatment,
> suspected infected root canal-filled teeth to be the cause. He then
> embarked on a 25 - year-long study to see if his suspicions were
> correct. This study was done during the first 3 decades of the 20th
> century! However this information was not shared with us when we
> were dental students so we had a big void in our dental
> education where root canals are concerned. Dr. Price devised a
> testing method which disclosed the presence of infection in a tooth
> which otherwise seemed to be healthy - that is, the implanting of
> the root canal filled tooth under the skin of a laboratory animal.
> He found that when the root-filled tooth of a patient with a
> degenerative disease was extracted and imbedded in an animal, that
> animal would develop the patient's disease. He did this in over 5000
> animal studies and the results were consistent.
>
> In the beginning, Dr. Price did not know just where the infection
> was hiding in the tooth, only that a patient's illness was rapidly
> transferred from his root-filled tooth to laboratory animals in case
> after case. Dr. Price was able to culture the bacteria in root-
> filled teeth and trap their toxins, reproducing a disease in a
> rabbit by injecting the cultured material into the animal. Dr. Price
> discovered a wide variety of degenerative diseases to be
> transferable to rabbits, such as endocarditis and other heart
> diseases, kidney and bladder diseases, arthritis, rheumatism, mental
> diseases, lung problems, pregnancy complications, almost any
> degenerative problem - and after extraction of these teeth, a large
> percentage of patients recovered from their illnesses.
>
> When sound, uninfected natural teeth were implanted in animals, no
> adverse health effects were experienced. This vitally important
> research was forced underground, and has remained virtually unknown
> since its 1923 publication. Millions of people are ill, suffering
> from degenerative diseases for which the medical profession is at a
> loss regarding cause and treatment; the degenerative disease problem
> continues to bankrupt our people and country.
>
> Today we know that the toxins made by the bacteria that live by the
> billions in root-canal teeth contain the most toxic organic
> substance known to man - thio-ethers. Thio-ethers are 1000 times
> more toxic than botulism toxin, which used to be considered the most
> toxic organic substance. So from a practical standpoint, one would
> be well-advised to worry less about anthrax and instead, focus on
> root canals which are much more likely to cause you personal harm.
> In addition to thio-ethers, other severe toxins from these
> root-canal bacteria include thio-ethanols and mercaptans which have
> been found in the tumors of women who have breast cancer, draining
> through the lymphatic system down the cervical chain of lymph nodes
> and ultimately in to the breast tissue. Besides being harbored in
> root canals, these dangerous bacteria also take up residence in
> cavitations which result from most extracted teeth (see
> Cavitations). Thus one can get a "double-whammy" from the root
> canals and the cavitations.
>
> A tooth is basically comprised of 3 layers. The enamel (what we see
> when we look at another person's teeth, the hard, white attractive
> outer layer of the tooth), the pulp (a tiny island of soft tissue at
> the center of the tooth - the same place in a tooth that a core
> would be in an apple - the so-called "nerve"), and the dentin.
> Dentin accounts for about 90% of the tooth. When looked at under a
> microscope, dentin has a very specific structure. It is made up
> of "jillions" of incredibly tiny tubules that radiate outward from
> the pulp to the outer edge of the tooth.
>
> If one could some how take each of one of these "jillions"
> of "tubules" in a front tooth and lay them end to end, they would
> stretch for 3 miles. These dentinal tubules are like tiny pipes
> that radiate outward from the pulp to the outer surface of the
> tooth - kind of like spokes of a wheel (if you think of a cross-
> section of a tooth). The centers of these tubules are filled with
> living protoplasm. The protoplasm in these tubules has no blood
> supply so it depends on the blood vessels in the pulp for it's
> nourishment or sustenance. Once a "root-canal" is done to a tooth,
> the pulp is gone (sacrificed) - which makes a root canal tooth a
> dead tooth - an expensive, dead tooth. Now the protoplasm in these
> miles and miles of dentinal tubules dies, and these tubules become
> a "dandy" place for bacteria to hang out.
>
> They have "free eats" on the dead, decaying protoplasm in the
> tubules. These tubules are 1 to 1.3 microns in diameter- big enough
> to accommodate bacteria, but too small to allow entry of white blood
> cells (which are the body's principal way of controlling excessive
> bacterial populations). Now your root-canal tooth becomes a
> bacteria factory. The bacteria now are cloistered away from the
> body's defenses and thus have free reign to proliferate. Existing
> inside the tooth, these bacteria have no access to air so they
> mutate into the anaerobic form - the kind that can live in the
> absence of air. When the bacteria mutate, their metabolism changes
> so that they give off waste products that are incredibly toxic.
> These toxins include thio-ethers, thio-ethanols, and mercaptons.
>
> Is It "Wisdom" to Extract Healthy Teeth?
>
> Our forefathers, those born before about 1920, didn't have trouble
> with their wisdom teeth and there were no oral surgeons. The
> condition of "impacted" wisdom teeth was essentially unknown. The
> skulls of ancient tribes from all over the world show no such
> problem...
>
> Current studies conclude that literally billions of teeth have been
> removed unnecessarily, which has made a comfortable living for a lot
> of oral surgeons-nine out of ten American teenagers (who have dental
> insurance) fall prey to this operation. The cumulative cost of
> wisdom tooth extraction is estimated to exceed "that for any other
> surgery," says Dr. J.F. Tulloch, reporting in the Journal of Dental
> Education.
>
> One of the arguments given for removing the wisdom teeth is that
> they can push the other teeth forward over the years, forcing the
> incisors (front teeth) to overlap. There is virtually no evidence to
> support this assertion. The front teeth tend to drift forward, at
> least into middle age, whether or not the wisdom teeth have been
> removed. This natural crowding cannot be prevented by extracting the
> third molar (wisdom) teeth.
>
> The surgery is not without its problems. It's certainly not a benign
> procedure and can cause some serious complications such as
> infection, "dry socket," nerve damage, temporary or permanent
> anesthesia of the lip, lingual nerve damage, numbness of the tongue,
> and damage to the adjacent teeth.
>
> One Michigan study found that more that 10 percent of all wisdom
> tooth extractions cause complications. Other complications mentioned
> by these authors included persistent bleeding, damage to the gums,
> and jawbone loss (which may affect the support of the adjacent
> second molars).
>
> Even when a molar is causing a problem, extraction should be the last
> resort. From the standpoint of the oral surgeon there is only one
> course of action: take it out. This is often unwise as cleansing the
> area, trimming the gum, and treating any infection may be all that
> is necessary. In other words, treat it as you would any other
> infected tooth.
>
> A 1991 report in the New York Times concluded: "If surgeons removed
> only those wisdom teeth that actually caused problems.the nation
> would save at least $150 million a year in medical expenses with no
> ill effects. And tens of thousands of people, mostly teenagers,
> would be spared the aches, pains, and complications that can result
> from the surgery."
>
> Action to take: If a dentist recommends removal of wisdom teeth that
> are not causing any problems, ask him to show you the X rays and
> explain why the surgery is necessary. After he shows you with a lot
> of scientific scary stuff, such as, "you may need emergency surgery
> later so it's best to get them out now" and "the extraction is more
> difficult if you are older," get a second opinion from a dentist who
> doesn't do surgery. Since only 30 percent of wisdom teeth become
> impacted, 70 percent are being extracted unnecessarily.
>
> Fluoridation - Why The Controversy?
>
> Controversy surrounding the fluoridation experiment has persisted
> for half a century. Japan and all of the continental Europe have
> rejected the idea for reasons of safety and medical ethics.
> Experiments in poor countries produced such harmful results that
> they were quickly halted. Why does fluoridation continue to receive
> vigorous government and professional backing in the English-speaking
> nations?
>
> Fluoride Facts in Brief
>
> Fluoride has never received FDA approval and does not meet the legal
> requirements of safety and effectiveness necessary for such
> approval.
>
> Fluoride is a pharmacologically active substance unrelated to water
> purification. There is no possibility of obtaining individual
> informed consent for medication with this experimental drug when it
> is placed in a public water system. For these reasons, fluoridation
> violates the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics and human rights.
>
> In over 50 years of testing, it has never been demonstrated that
> fluoride is effective in preventing tooth decay.
>
> A world wide decline in human tooth decay has occurred at the same
> rate in populations exposed to elevated fluoride levels and in
> populations not exposed to elevated fluoride levels. This
> spontaneous decline in tooth decay has been superstitiously
> attributed to fluoride.
>
> Fluoride is an accumulative protoplasmic poison rated at or above the
> toxicity of lead.
>
> LEAD Toxicity Rating: 3-4 FLUORIDE Toxicity Rating: 4
>
> 3= moderately toxic 4=very toxic (Toxicology of Commercial
> Products,
> 5th Ed. 1984)
>
> Under U.S. Law (under the EPA)
>
> Maximum allowable LEAD in drinking water: 0.015 mg./liter
>
> Maximum allowable FLUORIDE in drinking water: 4.0 mg./liter*
> *Over 350 times the permitted lead level
>
> Medical research shows that hip fracture rates are 20- 40 % higher in
> localities with fluoridated water.
>
> Epidemiological analysis shows that bone cancer rates in young males
> are 80-600% higher in fluoridated localities.
>
> The fluoride dose prescribed by doctors and the dose administered
> without prescription to everyone in community drinking water is
> expected to cause dental fluorosis in 10 % of children. Actual
> Public Health Service figures show that 30% of children in
> fluoridated localities have dental fluorosis, and 10 % of children
> in Non-fluoridated areas now have fluorosis.
>
> Fluorosis is malformation of tooth enamel characterized by
> discoloration and brittleness.
>
> Since there is no limitation or monitoring of the use of fluoridated
> water in food processing, many processed foods contain high
> concentrations of fluoride.
>
> Concentrations of fluoride in toothpaste are 500-1500 parts per
> million. This fluoride is absorbed through the lining of the mouth
> and deposited in the body like ingested fluoride. One to two
> brushings can yield a dose of 1milligram fluoride.
>
> Ingested fluoride is deposited in bones as well as teeth. X-rays show
> abnormal bone structure in children with dental fluorosis.
>
> Fluorides are used in the biochemistry laboratory to stop enzyme
> activity. Fluorides have the same effect on enzyme activity in the
> human body.
>
> The chemicals injected into public water supplies to elevate
> fluoride levels and raw industrial waste. The chemicals most
> commonly used are sodium silicofluoride and hydrofluosilicic acid,
> toxic by-products of phosphate fertilizer production.
>
> Fluoridated water increases corrosion and leaching of lead from
> water mains and plumbing.
>
> Fluoride levels in the sewer effluent of fluoridated water systems
> are not monitored or controlled. It has been shown that fish are
> killed by fluoride emissions at and below the levels probably
> emitted in sewer effluent.
>
> The ADA Misinformation on Mercury
>
> The American Dental Association continues to remain in denial about
> the toxicity of mercury. Dr. Murray Vimy is one of the leading
> mercury researchers and he has provided a detailed chronology
> documenting how mercury has been clearly established as a
> contributing factor for periodontal disease.
>
> The news release by the American Dental Association (ADA) dated June
> 13, 2001 contains a very significant error. The ADA President Dr.
> Robert M. Anderton is reported as saying,
>
> "There is no sound scientific evidence supporting a link between
> amalgam fillings and systemic diseases or chronic illnesses."
>
> Yet this is well known in the published, peer-reviewed dental
> journals that mercury leaks directly from amalgam into adjacent oral
> tissues causing periodontal disease (gum disease).
>
> Critical Fact #1: In 1957, Zander (JADA 55:11-15)
> reported "materials used in restorative dentistry may be a
> contributing factor in gingival disease."
>
> Critical Fact #2: In 1961, App (J Prosth Dent 11:522-532) suggested
> that there was greater chronic inflammation around amalgam sites
> than non-amalgam areas.
>
> Critical Fact #3: In 1964, Trott and Sherkat (J CDA, 30:766-770)
> showed that the presence of amalgam correlates with gingival
> disease. Such disease was not present at contralateral amalgam free
> sites.
>
> Critical Fact #4: In 1969, Sanches Sotres et al (J. Periodo.
> 140:543-546) confirmed Trott and Sherkat findings.
>
> Critical Fact #5: In 1972, Turgeon et al. (J CDA 37:255-256)
> reported the presence of very significant erythema around amalgam
> restorations that was not present at control non-amalgam sites.
>
> Critical Fact #6: In 1973, Trivedi and Talim (J. Prosth. Dentistry,
> 29:73-81) demonstrated that 62.5% of amalgam sites have inflammatory
> periodontal tissue reaction.
>
> Thus, as early as 1973, a case can be made that the presence of
> dental mercury-amalgam results in chronic inflammation and bleeding
> in the gingival tissue adjacent to it; in other words, in situ
> amalgam produced chronic Gingivitis.
>
> Critical fact #7: In 1974, Freden et al. ( Odontol. Revy, 25:207-
> 210) showed that gingival biopsy material from sites not adjacent to
> amalgam had 1-10 mcg mercury/gram of tissue (mean=3); whereas,
> gingival biopsy sites near amalgams contained 19-380 mcg
> mercury/gram of tissue (mean=147).
>
> Critical Fact #8: In 1976, Goldschmidt et al. (J. Perio. Res.,
> 11:108-115)demonstrated that amalgam corrosion products were
> cytotoxic to gingival cells at concentrations of 10-6: that is,
> micrograms/gram of tissue.
>
> Critical Fact #9: in 1984, the year of the NIDR/ADA Workshop, Fisher
> it al (J Oral Rehab, 11:399-405) reported that at amalgam sites
> alveolar bone loss was very pronounced and statistically significant
> as compared to control non-amalgam sites! In other words, in situ
> amalgam produces chronic Periodontitis.
>
> This suggests that placing mercury fillings leads to a dentist-
> induced disease, periodontal disease, which the same dentists then
> treat. This is iatrogenesis.
>
> Thus, for the ADA to conclude "there is no sound scientific evidence
> supporting a link between amalgam fillings and systemic diseases of
> chronic illness" is incorrect.
>
> Periodontal disease is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in
> Man, and mercury fillings contribute significantly! Such statements
> by ADA spokespersons suggest that the ADA and its advisors may be
> knowingly disinforming the public through the media or they lack an
> understanding of the research about mercury release from amalgam
> published in their own journals.
>
> Murray J. Vimy DMD Clinical Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine,
> University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada, July 4, 2001
>
> DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
>
> Dr. Vimy is one of the top mercury researchers in the world and his
> comments to the ADA press release are most informative. You can
> review the article I published with Dr. Klinghardt earlier this year
> for further information on mercury detoxification.
>
> Thanks to Jeff Green of Citizens for Health for sending this very
> interesting timeline regarding the dental use of mercury.
>
>
>

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