Why Dental Work and Infections in the Mouth can be the Roots of Disease

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Why Dental Work and Infections in the Mouth can be the Roots of Disease

 

 

 

By Lina C. Garcia, 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.

 

We will be providing more articles and information at our Dental Corner.

 

 

 

 

 

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