Smile Yourself to Health by Dr. Cameron MacLean
Who reading this article would enjoy better energy and improved sustained health? My bet is everyone. Even if we enjoy good health, most of us are short on energy from time to time, deal with various levels of background aches and pains or perhaps sensitivities to foods or environment. Believe it or not oral and dental health can directly affect all of these areas. The mouth is a physical and energetic focus of the human body. We all have the experience of being energized by a dazzling smile, our own or one incoming. With our mouths we take nutrition, emote, connect intimately and even sense our whole body’s well-being. A dry mouth is often telling us that some of our vital energy is being used in a more critical area. Foul breath often points beyond the mouth to toxicity or sluggish digestion. Each tooth resides on an energy meridian, mapped out in Chinese medicine thousands of years ago, connecting with different organs, glands and bodily functions. I have several friends in the integrated medical community who claim that a quarter of all disease starts in the mouth. I always want to take a detailed medical and dental history because of this. In dental school students are endlessly taught to save teeth at all costs. Often the materials used to repair teeth are themselves toxic and would never be approved as new materials, but because they have been used for over 150 years are accepted and even defended. Very little is said about how the mouth affects other organ or energy systems. In my 25 plus year career, I have had hundreds of reports from my clients that their health had significantly improved after having toxic root canal teeth extracted. When fighting serious disease such as cancer oral health should be carefully evaluated.
implants are put in. Having done many of these I can say I’ve never been thanked more for anything I’ve provided in dentistry. We are fortunate that there are more and more options for both tooth replacement and for the materials used in natural teeth for restoration. A big esthetic advancement has been in the area of new stronger porcelains such as lithium discilicate. This has made metal free dentistry not only possible but almost the norm.
If someone has many toxic teeth and wants them extracted it brings up the question: how important is chewing? If I am asked that question I always say, “it’s as important as breathing.” Fortunately there have been huge advances in tooth replacement. There are two elements on the periodic table (Titanium and Zirconium) that appear to be universally accepted by the human body in that “osseo-integration” occurs when they are placed inside bone. This may be because of a similar “electromagnetic resonance” to the minerals that make up bone. As with many advances this integration phenomenon was discovered by accident. In the 1950s in Sweden a titanium screw integrated into a rabbit’s leg and that started all of the developments of titanium implants we now see.
Restoring our mouths to perfect function and great esthetics is now possible while respecting the body’s sensitive connections. Enjoy your new “biologic smile!”
Today there are many dental implant solutions for replacement of one or more teeth. A relatively new solution call “All on Four” for people with failing teeth or dentures uses only four implants per arch to support full arch bridges that look and feel like real teeth. This procedure utilizes “same day loading” meaning the bridge is placed on the very day the 11
March 2012