UNDERSTANDING JAWBONE CAVITATIONS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DISEASE

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From a friend:

 

I know it will require some surgery and who know what else, and I've finally

come to terms with that. But I need to find someone who I can trust and knows

what they're doing. I've had a few s along the road who've just taken my

money and made it worse! Anyway, here's to finally turning the corner and

getting rid of this increasingly painful dental/sinus/mouth condition.

 

 

UNDERSTANDING JAWBONE CAVITATIONS & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DISEASE

© 2002 Suzin Stockton

 

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 CAVITAT™ 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 CAVITAT™. 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 CAVITAT™ 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

CAVITAT™ 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. See the CAVITAT™ website for more information:

http://cavitatmedtech.homestead.com/