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The American Dental Association recommended 10 years ago, I think about 10 years ago, that a child should be seen by the time they have their first tooth. Now, I can tell you most children’s first teeth come in when they’re six months old. So that really shocked a lot of parents. “I have to take them to the dentist when they’re six months old?”
Most people think, “Oh my god, I just ate at Olive Garden and that’s it.” BUT let’s move beyond the diet. A lot of times people don’t realize how important it is to brush your tongue.
Dental cleanings are definitely absolutely necessary, but you have to keep in mind I’m a holistic dentist. So when you come in as a patient, I tailor it to what your needs are because holism and holistic dentistry is the realizing that the total body and the mouth is connected totally to the body and the body is connected totally to the mouth. And so those things need to mesh and work well together.
Cracks and holes in your teeth need to be repaired. Teeth cannot be open to the oral environment and be safe because bacteria can enter into the harder component. The harder component is on the outside—the M&M with the harder enamel shell—and then the soft chocolate on the inside is the dentin, and it’s a more damageable component of your teeth that bacteria can eat just like they’re eating a tub of ice cream. We don’t want that. And so cracks, stuff like that that are open to the tooth structure or the dentin need to be repaired.
The biggest request when patients come to me about holistic dentistry is “Is it going to cost me more?” And what you have to realize is that holism, a holistic dentist is about doing less is more, prevention is better. And what a holistic dentist is going to do is tailor your mouth to fit your body and your body to your mouth because your body and mouth are connected. And if your body is healthy and happy, your mouth is a lot of times healthy and happy.
Dental implants take a while for you to heal as you’re building, but everyone can be a candidate for a dental implant. The only reason a dental implant fails is that you have to make sure the bite is not too heavy on it. And that’s the dentist’s job, not the person’s job at all. And so there’s really no other—we joke that dental implants are 99.99999% successful because there’s really only that 0.1% of the time where the bite is too heavy or the occlusion is too heavy or you have cement around the tooth that damages it.
Tooth pain is primarily caused by:
Just a while ago, we talked about sensitivity. Now, pain is taking it up a notch. Sensitive—I’m drinking cold and I’m a little bit sensitive. That doesn’t alarm me. Any kind of time that you would use “my teeth are in pain,” then I say, “Wow, you need to see a dentist. It’s not normal for teeth to be in pain.”
Teeth whitening works. You can whiten teeth with bleach. Now, you’re thinking, “Oh, is this the same bleach I dump into my washing machine to make my white clothes whiter?” Actually, it’s somewhat the same, and that is a little frightening to a lot of people. Can we put bleach on our teeth?
I need to come clean with you about something that’s been weighing on my mind as a dentist who’s been practicing for 25 years. When patients come to me having read articles about how root canals can harbor infection, I understand their concerns—because those articles contain some truth.
I have patients who actually come from other holistic dentists or come from traditional dentists and I get a series of X-rays from those doctors that they’ve taken in the past, in the last year, and I’m baffled by how much radiation they put this patient through.
