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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.
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