Understanding Jawbone Cavitations & Their Relationship to Disease

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Understanding Jawbone Cavitations & Their Relationship to Disease

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Nineteen Hundred and ninety three was the year in which two critically

important books, It’s All in Your Head by Hal Huggins, DDS and Root Canal

Cover-Up

by George Meinig, DDS, were released. For many, an awareness of the problems

posed by the use of mercury-containing dental amalgam (“silver†fillings) as

well as root canal procedures, began with the information contained within these

books. We learned that these dental practices could be the root cause of many

seemingly unrelated systemic (whole body) problems. Now, less than a decade

later, we’re beginning to (re)discover that iatrogenic (physician-induced)

illness in the dental arena is not limited to mercury and root canal treatments.

The public is just beginning to become aware that systemic illness in the form

of “focal infection†stemming from the mouth can exist even in the absence

of

amalgam and root canal fillings. A “focus†is a walled-off area of

concentrated toxins and necrotic (dead) and/or infected tissue. Oral focal

infection is

often silent in the sense of producing no local symptoms, but it can affect

any organ in the body once toxins gain systemic access.

 

Where focal infection is concerned, the chief initiating factor appears to be

trauma to the jawbone. Such trauma may be physical, bacterial and/or toxic in

nature. The most common initiating physical trauma seems to be tooth

extraction as it is commonly performed. Most of us lost our wisdom teeth (3rd

molars)

early in life, either because they were causing a problem or because it was

feared that they might. Ironically, extracting a wisdom tooth to prevent

problems may end up causing problems instead. Often dentists (including oral

surgeons) do not take the time when extracting a tooth to make sure all of the

ligament that holds the tooth to the bone is removed, nor do they routinely

remove a

portion of the bone (which may be infected) that lines the socket. The result

is that remaining portions of the ligament (which no longer serves a function)

form a barrier to healing by interfering with blood flow to the area.

Although the extraction site appears to heal properly, it is not uncommon for

actual

holes or pockets to form beneath the surface of the gum. When aerobic bacteria

(those requiring oxygen) get trapped in such an anaerobic (no oxygen)

environment, they change form and give rise to the production of extremely

potent

toxins. The hidden hole in the jawbone, a cavitation, has thus become an

invisible incubation chamber for microbes, whose toxic waste products weaken the

entire body.

 

When our bodies are young and vital (as they were when most of us lost our

wisdom teeth), the immune system is likely strong enough to seal off the

cavitation site from the general circulation. As we age, however, and accumulate

more

stress to the body (in the form of injury and illness), immunity tends to

decline, and the silent infection in the jawbone spreads via the blood and lymph

systems. Bacterial toxins circulate in the same manner and tend to settle in

organs of greatest weakness. Any disorder in the body can therefore originate

in the jawbone, even though there may be no pain or discomfort there. The teeth

above a cavitation site are, however, eventually affected, for they are dying

a slow death due to insufficient blood supply.

 

The information about focal infection has been known in medical circles for a

long time but has been buried, obscured by prevailing medical teachings that

do not recognize the truth of focal infection. A growing number of progressive

dentists and doctors have become aware in recent years of the damage caused

by standard tooth extraction and other routine dental procedures. These

pioneers have sought to both avoid and correct such damage by using proper

extraction

technique, avoiding root canal procedures and treating existing jawbone

cavitations surgically. Surgical removal of the dead (necrotic) bone is an

essential component in eradication of the oral focus and a necessary condition

for

healing to occur.

 

The challenge for the dentist treating a jawbone cavitation site is locating

it and gaining information about its properties (size, depth, etc.). None of

the diagnostic tools traditionally used in medicine and dentistry (including

x-rays) were designed for this purpose and therefore are not particularly useful

in this regard. There has been a clear and pressing need for an effective and

safe imaging system capable of giving more detailed and precise information

about jawbone cavitations.

 

Thanks to the pioneering efforts of Bob Jones of Aurora, Colorado, this

longstanding need is now being met. Bob took an avid interest in dental problems

in

1992, when he discovered that his own life-threatening neurological problems

were the result of mercury toxicity, root canal treatment and jawbone

cavitations. Once confined to a wheelchair and given only six months to live,

Bob’s

longstanding and severe symptoms subsided following mercury amalgam removal,

extraction of root canal filled teeth and cavitation surgery and extensive

detoxification (to rid the body of accumulated poisons). Even before his

recovery,

he set out to develop an instrument designed to detect jawbone cavitations. As

a design engineer with a background in sonar technology, Bob was convinced

from the onset that such an imaging device could be developed using sonography

(sound waves). He worked diligently over a period of eight years to make his

vision of a perfected CAVITATâ„¢ the reality it has now become.

 

Bob’s computerized imaging system, the CAVITAT™, was engineered to show only

bone, no soft tissue, just the opposite of what other ultrasound devices used

in the medical field do: show soft tissue and no bone. The sound waves travel

readily through bone that has a good blood supply, and the result shows up on

the computer screen as a three dimensional color-coded (in this case, green)

image. Where a cavitation is present, the sound waves will be unable to

penetrate the air-filled space; in this case, the image displayed on the screen

is

red. When the bone is in the process of dying, and blood supply is present but

limited, the image displayed will be yellow or orange. The 3-D images

displayed on the computer screen (one for each tooth site) can be rotated and

viewed

from all angles, giving the dentist detailed information about the condition of

the jawbone, information which can be an invaluable guide to a successful

surgery.

 

I have seen first-hand the results of this technological breakthrough, for my

own long-standing health problems improved immensely after successful jaw

surgery made possible by the CAVITATâ„¢. I started writing about jawbone

cavitations in 1998, when my book, Beyond Amalgam: The Hidden Health Hazard

Posed by

Jawbone Cavitations, was released, but up until the CAVITATâ„¢ came on the

market

in early 2001, I’d had very poor bone healing from previous surgeries (because

the surgeons were unable to determine the extent of the necrosis and therefore

unable to remove it all). The advent of bone sonography offers real hope both

for dental patients and those chronically ill individuals whose conditions

may have their roots in a silent jawbone condition. Based on my experience, and

given the prevalence of jawbone cavitations, I believe a CAVITATâ„¢ scan should

be a standard part of every routine dental exam or every annual physical exam

due to the systemic problems that can stem from these cavitations.

 

Susan Stockton, MA ©