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"His mother explained that her son had gone to the dentist at his commander's request to have the tooth pulled before leaving for the Middle East. But Colby had suffered what is called a dry socket, in which the hole left when a tooth comes out does not heal. The excruciating pain can last for weeks. Colby had started taking one of the painkillers before his tooth was pulled. Five days after a dentist pulled the tooth, the soldier went to the emergency room, where a doctor prescribed a second drug. Two days later another dentist gave him the third prescription." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In addition to cleaning teeth, dental hygienists are trained to evaluate the teeth, gums, and mouth for abnormalities. 'Dentist: A specialist with a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Medical Dentistry (DMD) degree. (These degrees and training are the same.) Dentists can treat periodontal disease as part of overall dental care. • Dermatologist: A medical doctor who has been trained in diagnosing and treating skin diseases." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Also, consult a dentist who specializes in mercury-free dentistry. Dr. Huggins' website, www.hugnet.com, has a wealth of information on all dental-related areas of concern. Nickel Nickel is worthy of special mention because, although it is one of the most durable metals, it is also one of the most carcinogenic metals in the world. Yet it is often used as a main component, over 70%, in making crowns, bridges, braces, and partial dentures." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Endodontist (endodontologist): A dentist who specializes in root canal procedures, diagnosing and managing oral/facial pain, and other clinical procedures related to the dental pulp (soft inner tissues of the teeth). 'Oral surgeon: A dentist with special training in surgery of the mouth and jaw. 'Otolaryngologist (also known as otorhinolaryngologist): A medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating ear, nose, and throat diseases and disorders. 'Periodontist: A DDS or DMD specializing in diagnosing, treating, and preventing gum disease." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Five days after a dentist pulled the tooth, the soldier went to the emergency room, where a doctor prescribed a second drug. Two days later another dentist gave him the third prescription. The label for each of these drugs comes with a warning against driving because each one can make people dizzy and drowsy. Some patients become sedated. These effects were clear in one simulated driving test that found that young people talking codeine went off the road more and had nearly ten times the number of collisions as people not taking the drug." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Price, a Canadian-born dentist, of all things, who became preoccupied with one of those glaring questions we can't even see anymore. Much like heart disease, chronic problems of the teeth are by now part of the furniture of modern life. But if you stop to think about it, it is odd that everyone should need a dentist and that so many of us should need braces, root canals, extractions of wisdom teeth, and all the other routine procedures of modern mouth maintenance." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"PART TWO How to Get Unclogged Chapter 4 Tests You Need Amiddle-aged dentist with a family history of cardiovascular disease and sudden death made an appointment after one of our lectures. He wanted a full screen of his blood—all the New Cardiology risk factors. The results revealed a high degree of coronary artery calcium buildup, high Lp(a), homocysteine, and fibrinogen. The dentist was distraught when he heard the news. "How do we get rid of this plaque? I'll do anything," he said. Unfortunately, we can't scrape it off like we would do with dental plaque." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "To find a dentist near you who uses this method, visit the Web site of the International Dental Health Foundation (members.aol.com/idhf/) or www.drpaulhkeyes.com. When you call, be sure to confirm that the dentist uses nonsurgical anti-infective periodontal therapy. Finally, don't forget our heart-friendly supplement CoQIO. It is also excellent for combating gum disease. Those with gum disease will benefit dramatically by taking 300 mg daily." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Your dentist is an able diagnostician of oral cancer. But the problem is that we don't always see a dentist often enough. The elderly, at high risk of developing oral cancer, go to a medical doctor six times more often than they go to a dentist. Statistics show that half of those age 65 or older have not seen a dentist in five or more years. For those age 65 or older who wear dentures, more than 70 percent have not seen a dentist in five years or more. In every 100,000 persons, 7.5 will die from oral cancer. Probably because more men than women chew tobacco and drink, the breakdown is 5." - William L. Fischer, How to Fight Cancer & Win (Get the book.)

"T Removal of dental mercury or silver fillings should be performed only by a biological dentist. See www.iaomt.org to find a biological dentist. longer isolated himself at home, hut became an engaged member of his family and community. While this area of genetic testing and nutrigenomics (see chapter 2, page 37) is new, and more research is needed to help us refine our understanding, new doors are opening onto an entirely new era of medicine—one that no longer focuses on the disease, but on the person and that individual's uniqueness." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"This neglect might owe to the fact that Price was a dentist, and more of an amateur scientist in the nineteenth-century mode than a professional medical researcher. It might also be because he could sometimes come across as a bit of a crackpot—one *"Modern Civilization, Nutritional Dark Age: Weston A. Price's Ecological Critique of the Industrial Food System," 2005. of his articles was titled "Dentistry and Race Destiny." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, of course, you'll want to contact your dentist. If the root canal has become infected, green tea may help prevent further damage. Polyphenol extracts from four different Japanese green teas (ordinary, refined, coarse, and roasted) were assessed for their antibacterial effects against twenty-four different strains of bacteria found in infected root canals. The researchers The Ideal Plaque Fighter In an article in the Dental Clinics of North America, Dr. Michael Bral of the New York University College of Dentistry outlined nine qualities of an ideal anti-plaque agent." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"We may not enjoy visiting the dentist, but we go in the hope that life will be more enjoyable later. At other times we may worry about the future, creating much discomfort for ourselves, because we unconsciously assume that our worrying will help us avoid future sources of discomfort. The same principle lies behind our more altruistic actions. We may give up all sense of personal gain and devote time to helping others feel better, perhaps putting ourselves through considerable inconvenience or hardship. But we do it because, at some deeper level, it makes us feel better." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"It may be worth a visit to the dentist to be sure that an underlying infection or gum disease isn't the cause. There are many causes of bad breath, most of which can be rectified through diet or natural treatments. What are the causes of bad breath? • Poor dental hygiene causes bad breath. This would result in mouth bacteria from tooth decay, gum disease or not brushing and flossing properly. Flossing removes decaying food particles from the teeth and prevents gum disease. Both the teeth, gums and tongue need to be brushed on a regular basis." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Recently I declined a root canal and had the removal of a molar, which took one and one half hours. The dentist was obviously fatigued and he admitted to me that it was one of the most difficult extractions he had ever experienced. On arrival at home, the anesthesia was still present. I started 600 mg of bromelain three times daily and did not have either pain or swelling of the face, which greatly surprised the dentist. The anti swelling properties of this natural product seem to be substantial for a myriad of problems, which cause swelling and inflammation." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Although the recommended exams most probably won't do you or your child any good, they certainly will be good for the dentist or orthodontist. From my experience, doctors—and dentists, especially—get very defensive about the regular checkup. I've known dentists to refuse to see patients in emergencies because the person hadn't been in for a regular checkup within the past six months! Of course, this attitude gives doctors and dentists the right to play the big game in medicine, Blame The Victim." - Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.)

"A good resource on self-care (without the dentist) for healthy teeth can be found on the Internet at www.mizar5.com. Wear loose-fitting clothing made from natural fibers. Avoid synthetics —nylons, acetates, et cetera, as these interfere with the body's electrical balance. When possible, expose your skin to sunshine for brief periods each day. Vitamin D, manufactured by the action of sun on the skin, is needed for health. Avoid tanning lotions because they clog pores; instead, you can use hemp oil. It thoroughly penetrates the skin and contains a natural spf of 15." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Huggins' own research and experience as a dentist. He has spoken extensively around the world since 1973 on the dangers of mercury amalgams, root canals, and cavitations. Because he has made these warnings public, he is less than popular with many of his colleagues in general, and with the American Dental Association in particular. The quote at the beginning of this chapter seems quite apropos with respect to Dr. Huggins. Some of the facts that have been learned from the research and experience of Drs." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"MY DENTIST" 1303 S. Longmore, Suite 1, Fiesta Professional Building, Mesa, AZ 85202, mydentist4@aol.com TERRY J. LEE, DDS. 602.956.4807 4210 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018, errandsG@aol.com WALTER J. CLIFFORD, DDS. 719.550.0008 FAX. 719.550.0009 Performs allergy testing for dentists to help them select the correct safe dental materials. B.2b INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ORAL MEDICINE (IAOM) 407.298.2450 Michael Ziff, DDS - Executive Director Marsha L. Vetter, Ph.D., M.D. Aristo Vojdani, Ph.D., M.T. Walter A. Ward, Jr., M.D. Laurence S. Webster, M.D. Alan N. Weiner, D.O., C.C.N. Ronald R." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"There wasn't any unnecessary care when Deamonte Driver's mother tried to find a dentist who would pull out her son's abscessed tooth. The notion that we are getting too much treatment is made all the more difficult to grasp by the soaring achievements of twentieth-century medicine." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "His single mother had been trying for weeks to find a dentist willing to take Medicaid payments to care for her two sons. Then the family lost its Medicaid coverage and Deamonte died, because his mother couldn't afford to pay for an $80 extraction. His brain infection cost the District of Columbia $250,000. The Institute of Medicine recently estimated that about eighteen thousand Americans die prematurely each year, simply because they lack health insurance." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Once again, the vagaries of the term widespread pain in the textbook definition of fibromyalgia led my patient's physician (and dentist) to guess wrong. The tender points depicted in the figure on page 60 make it seem as if FM is a disease of muscles from the neck down. This is not the case. Forty percent of patients with FM also have pain in their face or mouth when muscles of the face or mouth vvnai i^uLiois miuw auom ivieuitaiiy unexpiameu iiines.ses area are compressed." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Burkitt in Africa, Robert McCarrison in India, Samuel Hutton among the Eskimos in Labrador, the anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka among Native Americans, and the dentist Weston A. Price among a dozen different groups all over the world (including Peruvian Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Swiss mountaineers) sent back much the same news." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"On the third day of the diet, I went to my dentist to get my wisdom teeth removed, one per week for four weeks. After doing some surgery and removing the first tooth, the dentist gave me two prescriptions to take, an antibiotic and a painkiller. I told him that I was on a diet that recommended not taking drugs while doing it, and actually defended this position. He pressed me and said that an infection could spread from the gum to the heart and kill me. I knew someone who had died in this manner, so I acknowledged that this was a valid point." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"To illustrate the key difference between awareness and consciousness, let's take the example of a well-known experiment in dentistry. A dentist gave his patients an inert, placebo pill and told them that they were receiving a painkiller. They then had a tooth drilled, which should have hurt but didn't. They were responding to the idea of a painkiller rather than the pain of the drill. They were aware of the drill (the event) but unconscious of the pain. Here we see encapsulated the entire difference between consciousness and awareness." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"In the months following Justin's death, his father, Gary Cheslek, a dentist in Vicksburg, agonized privately over what kind of terrible father he must have been, wondering to himself, how do you miss that your son is suicidal? Then a small article in the local paper piqued his interest. It concerned a patient who had suffered withdrawal symptoms coming off Paxil, one of the drugs Justin had taken. "Imagine my horror and relief the first time I typed 'Paxil and suicide' into a Web search engine and there was over 4,000 hits," he would eventually write in a letter to a plaintiff's lawyer." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"If you currently have amalgam fillings, please don't rush to your dentist and have them removed. Unless you have a biologically trained and certified dentist, the removal process can be far more dangerous than leaving them in. This is exponentially more important if you are in poor health. To find a biologically trained dentist in your area, go to the web site of The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, at www.iaomt.org. WHAT SHOULD WE DO? ¦ Testing is essential to determine personal toxicity. Find a practitioner who is trained in Biomedical Analysis and Clinical Nutrition." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"To protect yourself, any time a dentist recommends having your wisdom teeth removed, get a second opinion from another dentist. If wisdom teeth are impacted, infected or are causing other teeth to shift, surgery may be necessary. But many times they will not cause any problems, and you can save yourself a lot of time, money and pain." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"A visit to your dentist could be deadly—unless you know what to look out for. 11. Cleansing Your Liver and Blood. Our liver is the primary filter of our body. Over time we so abuse it and so overtax it that illness is the inevitable result. Our blood is filled with many impurities including everything from an overabundance of artificial fats to toxic heavy metals. These must be removed for optimum health. 12. The Immune System. In many ways, your immune system is the most awesome system in your body, easily rivaling your brain in terms of complexity, subtlety, and self-awareness." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Like Sam Rudolf, dentist Ron Manheim also became addicted to Xanax prescribed by his psychiatrist. Wholly unlike Sam, Ron had a long if intermittent history of drug abuse and dependency before he saw the psychiatrist. His growing problems with alcohol abuse led to his making the appointment. The doctor's notes from the first visit indicate that Ron was painfully honest with him about his drug and alcohol problems: For past year, he has had alcohol problem—he gets paranoid when drinking, loses control of behavior, and may drink himself into stupor. Probably some trouble with drugs." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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