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"WISDOM AND WISDOM TEETH While on her way to the oral surgeon for the extraction of her wisdom teeth, twenty-one-year-old Fiona felt anxious and fearful. Even though these reactions are completely normal, she knew they were bubbling up from her subconscious fears and they would not serve her well. So she pushed herself to shift her intentions as she walked into the office. As difficult as it was to switch gears, her new mind-set was to be curious and adventurous rather than stressed." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"For decades, major dental organizations and journals have criticized the removal of wisdom teeth that are symptom-free. 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.)

"Most of us have had our wisdom teeth pulled due to this jaw deformation, and those teeth are also needed for such intense chewing. Victoria's answer to these time and dental dilemmas is the Vita-Mix machine since a cheap blender's blades would go dull after just two weeks on this diet. The reason for using a Vita-Mix rather than a juicer is that we need the fiber that juicing eliminates. Chimps eat 300 grams of fiber a day, while the average American consumes only 10-20 grams. Though the usual recommendation for humans is about 30 grams a day, Victoria believes we need at least 70 grams." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Sergei even regrew some teeth, and his wisdom teeth grew in perfectly straight. They have also another book: Fresh: The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook. Most amazing was the improvement in the children's academic performance. Formerly below average in school, the two kids were able to complete two school years in one year after going 100% raw. High school then became boring, so they went on to college. When I attended one of the Boutenkos' workshops, Victoria said that Valya was taking 27 units in one semester ?which is a double load! ?while also working 20 hours a week." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"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. Could the need for so much remedial work on a body part crucially involved in an activity as critical to our survival as eating reflect a design defect in the human body, some sort of oversight of natural selection? This seems unlikely." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"An additional four teeth, the wisdom teeth, emerge in early adulthood to bring the total to thirty-two. There are several kinds of teeth (incisors, canines, premolars, and molars), but each has the same basic structure. The part of the tooth that is visible above the gum line is the crown; it is covered with a layer of hard enamel to protect the tooth. Despite its indestructible appearance, enamel cannot heal itself once it has been injured or has become decayed. The next layer of the tooth under the enamel, dentin, is also a hard material, but not as hard as enamel." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"I had a friend who needed her wisdom teeth taken out. This is a good example of when surgery can be a wonderful thing for our health. The surgeon expertly removed her wisdom teeth. When she came out of the surgery the doctor said that she would be in excruciating pain in about three hours after the anesthesia wore off and immediately wanted to prescribe Vicodin. I told the doctor, "She doesn't take drugs." He said, "Well, she is going to be in excruciating pain." I said, "Well, is there anything she can take for the pain other than drugs?" He said, "Well, she can take Tylenol or Advil." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (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.)

"The surgeon expertly removed her wisdom teeth. When she came out of the surgery the doctor said that she would be in excruciating pain in about three hours after the anesthesia wore off and immediately wanted to prescribe Vicodin. I told the doctor, "She doesn't take drugs." He said, "Well, she is going to be in excruciating pain." I said, "Well, is there anything she can take for the pain other than drugs?" He said, "Well, she can take Tylenol or Advil." I pointed out that these were drugs as well. The doctor thought for a minute and realized that they in fact were." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Caused by a kind of bacteria, whooping cough has largely been eradicated in the United States through a program of vaccination, which is begun when infants are just three months old. wisdom teeth Four molars, two on the upper jaw and two on the lower jaw, that are the last teeth to emerge in the mouth. fa These teeth are associated with wisdom because they appear during the late teens or early twenties, when a person is physically matute. Often, the wisdom teeth may not rise above the gum line, but remain impacted in the jaw, causing inflammation." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Our jaws have become so narrow that even after extracting our wisdom teeth, we still need to wear braces.13 Our jaw muscles have become too weak to thoroughly chew rough fiber. Several times I have heard recommendations from my dentist to be more gentle on my teeth, and not to bite firm fruit, but rather to grate my carrots and apples. In addition to these compromising conditions, many people have lots of fillings, false, or missing teeth. All of these obstacles make chewing greens to the necessary consistency virtually impossible." - Victoria Boutenko, M.A., Green For Life (Get the book.)

"Spain, reports that many diseases can be caused by the wisdom teeth, which have a relationship to almost all organs of the body. When wisdom teeth are impacted, Dr. Adler points out, they press upon the nerves of the mandible (the large bone that makes up the lower jaw), which can result in disturbances in other areas of the body, including stammering, epilepsy, pain in the joints, muscle cramps, depression, headaches, and heart problems. Poor dental health can also affect sexual vitality and the reproductive organs, according to Michael Gerber, M.D, H.M.D, of Reno, Nevada. " - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Often, the wisdom teeth may not rise above the gum line, but remain impacted in the jaw, causing inflammation. If this impaction occurs, or if they pose a threat to other teeth, the wisdom teeth may need to be removed. withdrawal symptoms A wide range of physical or emotional disorders, including nervousness, headaches, and insomnia, that occur when an individual who is addicted to a substance (such as drugs or alcohol) stops using the substance. x-ray A photograph or image obtained through the use of X-rays." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"The first thing I noticed on Mary's Panoramic X-ray were her impacted wisdom teeth. Since that area of the mouth relates to the peripheral nerves, I thought it might be causing the problem. I tested this theory with Neural Therapy - to create a change in the electrical potential of this area. I injected a drop of procaine over each wisdom tooth. Sensation in the soles of her feet came back immediately. She was stunned, and immediately decided to have the wisdom teeth removed. patient a second Procaine injection - directly into the itchy scar (presumably to deaden the itching effect)." - Robert C. Atkins MD, Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health (Get the book.)

"The Shipibo use combinations of tobacco leaves and the pith of the stems of Brugmansia suaveolens as a plaster to threat aching wisdom teeth (Arevalo V. 1994, 259*). In India, tobacco leaves are crushed together with the leaves of Erythrina stricta Roxb. (cf. Erythrina spp.) and Desmodium caudatum (cf. ayahuasca analogs, soma) to make a paste that is applied to the skin to treat ulcers (Jain and Borthakur 1986, 579*). In German folk medicine, tobacco was smoked, burned, or chewed to treat toothaches (cf. incense)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Jon Levine, Newton Gordon, and Howard Fields at the University of California in San Francisco studied postoperative pain in fifty-one men and women undergoing surgical removal of impacted wisdom teeth. The patients consented to postoperative treatment with either morphine, a placebo, or naloxone (which might increase pain). After they had their wisdom teeth removed under standard anesthesia, the patients spent several hours in a recovery room, where the experimental drugs were administered and pain was measured." - Robert Ornstein, David Sobel, The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy (Get the book.)

"When wisdom teeth are impacted, Dr. Adler points out, they press upon the nerves of the mandible (the large bone that makes up the lower jaw), which can result in disturbances in other areas of the body, including heart problems, stammering, epilepsy, pain in the joints, depression, and headaches. He adds that the upper wisdom teeth can cause calcium deficiency, resulting in muscle cramps. Root Canals as a Cause of Illness The late Weston Price, D.D.S., M.S., F.A.C.D." - Burton Goldberg, Alternative Medicine Guide to Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Another patient that I worked with was a typical 20 year old college male, who had crowded dentition and his wisdom teeth constantly gnashing at the insides of his cheeks. Which is where he developed cancer. He started a wise nutrition program and used resfrained medical therapies and survived his brush with cancer. This continuous repair process of DNA is like a high speed bullet train that is easily derailed. Cancer is the resulting frain wreck. We need to get these DNA repair mechanisms working properly in the cancer patient." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Consequently, we find it increasingly common today for people to have impacted wisdom teeth. I feel if a wisdom tooth is impacted, meaning that there is no room for it to come in, then it should be removed as soon as possible. If it can be removed before the roots are fully developed, it is an easier procedure for both the dentist and the patient. A panoramic X-ray at around age 18 will readily determine whether there are wisdom teeth and whether there is adequate room for them." - Robert C. Atkins MD, Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health (Get the book.) "Adler also found that the wisdom teeth did not have to be impacted to cause problems. Even when a wisdom tooth is fully erupted and in normal position, the space between the wisdom tooth and the body of the lower jawbone, called the ramus. which goes up toward the temporomandibular joint, is often inadequate. This causes stunted root development, which is evident on x-ray. Evaluation of all wisdom teeth, with EAV and neural therapy, is extremely important and must not be forgotten. Dr." - Robert C. Atkins MD, Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health (Get the book.) "Adler demonstrates through case histories and photos, the resolution of many recalcitrant systemic problems just from the extraction of wisdom teeth. Dr. Adler calls them "irritating thorns" that caused problems by irritation to the major nerve that runs inside your lower jawbone, called the mandibular nerve. Via feedback signal, this irritation to the mandibular nerve can create a variety of systemic reactions. Some of the problems resolved by the extraction of wisdom teeth include severe eczema, gastritis, loss of speaking voice, sciatica, heart problems, and many others. Dr." - Robert C. Atkins MD, Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health (Get the book.)

"Caused by a kind of bacteria, whooping cough has largely been eradicated in the United States through a program of vaccination, which is begun when infants are just three months old. wisdom teeth Four molars, two on the upper jaw and two on the lower jaw, that are the last teeth to emerge in the mouth. fa These teeth are associated with wisdom because they appear during the late teens or early twenties, when a person is physically matute. Often, the wisdom teeth may not rise above the gum line, but remain impacted in the jaw, causing inflammation." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

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