"The terms oral health and general health should not be interpreted as separate entities. Oral health is integral to general health: Oral health means more than healthy teeth and you cannot be healthy without oral health." Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Resources. "Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General."
For the Health Professional
I wrote this for the many physicians and health care professionals who want to ensure they are diagnosing and treating their patients in the most holistic way possible. Doing so will not be possible unless you take your patients’ oral health into consideration when treating them for any existing health problem.
Because of the known affects of oral infections and mercury on the systemic body, it will be impossible for any treatment to achieve the results you seek, and those the patient desires and expects.
Bridging the Gap between the Medical and Dental Professions
The communication gap between the dental and medical communities began over 150 years ago when dentistry split from medicine and continues today. The result of this gap is that most patients and health professionals are unaware of the effects that oral health issues, particularly mercury from amalgam fillings, gum disease, and other oral problems can have on overall health. Vital and necessary information regarding this is not being shared between the two professions, and your patients are the ones who suffer for it. To not include the patient’s oral health status when examining and evaluating the patient’s health condition effectively prevents you from practicing whole body medicine.
Oral Health Issues Affecting Overall Health: What You Need to Know
Chronic Mercury Poisoning: What You Need to Know
As a health professional, I know you’d be concerned if you knew a patient was suffering from chronic mercury poisoning. It wouldn’t matter whether the source of exposure was occupational, environmental, or dental fillings. Given that information, I know you would encourage your patient’s to do what is necessary to determine the extent of the poisoning and initiate treatment to eliminate its source and remove the mercury that has accumulated in the body.
But did you know that mercury amalgam fillings are the number one source of chronic mercury poisoning, far greater than any other source, including seafood? If you’ve been under the illusion that mercury amalgam fillings don’t pose a health hazard, you'll see it in a far different light when you read my book, The Poison in Your Teeth: Mercury Amalgam (Silver) Fillings . . . Hazardous to Your Health. As you’ll discover, there is a simple, inexpensive, and objective fecal metals test that will alleviate any skepticism you or a patient may have.
The symptoms of chronic mercury poisoning are many and the health problems mercury can directly, or indirectly, cause, contribute to or make worse is extensive. To review them, go to www.dentalwellness4u.com/layperson/symptoms.html.
Silver Amalgam Fillings: A Major Source of Chronic Mercury Poisoning
In my opinion, the most damaging oral health issue that affects overall health is the chronic mercury poisoning that results from the release of mercury vapor from amalgam (silver) fillings. If you are unfamiliar, or unsure of its effect on overall health, my book explains how these toxic fillings affect the health and well being of everyone who has them or has been exposed to the mercury released by them, especially the fetus, nursing baby, and young child. It will also explain how devastating mercury is to the immune system and how the secondary (indirect) effects of chronic mercury poisoning on the immune system can, over time, be even more destructive to one’s health than its direct effects.
I know that the book will add to your existing knowledge base and will be an invaluable source of information for you and your patients. More information about this important subject is found on my website, www.dentalwellness4u.com.
In addition, my book Mercury Detoxification: The Natural Way to Remove Mercury from Your Body will provide information about how you can support your patients efforts to effectively remove accumulated mercury from the body.
Smoking Tooth Video: Mercury Vapor being Released from Amalgam Fillings
If you have any doubt that mercury vapor is released from amalgam fillings then I encourage you to view the video, Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas. This extraordinary video clear demonstrates that mercury vapor is released from amalgam fillings. There are many scientific studies that prove this, but it's one thing to read about it and yet another to actually see mercury vapor being released from these poison releasing fillings. The video can be seen on YouTube: Smoking Teeth Video. The short video also offers other evidence of the toxicity of mercury amalgam, silver, fillings and is well worth the few minutes of your time it takes to view it. Gum Disease: A Serious Infection of the Body
Are you aware that dental disease can have a serious effect on overall health? The long held belief that gum disease is a localized, minor disease of the teeth and gums has not withstood the test of time. It is a serious disease of the body. It may originate in the gums and teeth, but left unchecked, the destruction it can cause is definitely not restricted to the mouth. An increasing body of evidence now shows that gum disease can increase the risk of:
• Heart attack by as much as 25%
• Stroke by a factor of 10
• Respiratory disease
• Pancreatic cancer
• Digestive disease
• Preterm low birth weights
Gum disease can also make it more difficult to control diabetes and is now considered a factor in osteoporosis. It can also severely stress the immune system, lowering the body's resistance to other diseases and can actually reduce life expectancy.
Contributing Factor in Systemic Disease
The role of gum disease as a contributing and even causative factor in systemic diseases is not debatable. You cannot afford to overlook this relationship when treating a patient with any serious health problem. I know you are aware that any infection, especially such a serious and long lasting one as gum disease, will negatively affect the entire body.
But are you aware of just how serious it is? It has been estimated that if laid out flat, the infected area in a mild form of gum disease would cover the size of a postcard. In moderate-to-severe gum disease, the total infected area would cover an area the size of a standard sheet of paper.
Gum disease can be a very serious infection, one that not only involves the skin and soft tissue, but the underlying bone as well. I am certain that if the area of infection from moderate to severe gum disease were transferred to the head and neck, or any other part of the body, you would consider this to be an emergency situation and initiate immediate treatment. Yet this condition exists in tens of millions of Americans, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Do you know how many of your patients have this form of gum disease, or the extent and severity of it? I’m not going into further detail about the cause, treatment and prevention of gum disease, because everything you and your patients would ever want to know about this subject can be found in my book, Tooth Fitness: Your Guide to Healthy Teeth. Additional information is available on my website, www.dentalwellness4u.com.
Other Oral Health Issues of Concern
Along with amalgam fillings and gum disease, there are other oral health issues that can negatively affect systemic health, including:
1. Gum (periodontal) disease
2. Mercury amalgam silver fillings
3. Infected root canals
4. Cavitations (infected extraction sites)
5. Fluoride
6. Non-biocompatible dental materials
7. Other Diseases of the oral cavity
The impact of these oral health issues on overall health is determined by the seriousness and duration of each, and how many are present in the individual.
There is a strong possibility that a patient could be affected by one or all of the above oral health problems. For example, a patient could have periodontal disease (the most serious form of gum disease), suffer from chronic mercury poisoning, have an infection from a failed root canal, a cavitation infection, an allergic reaction to dental materials, and even fluoride poisoning—all present at the same time. Can you definitively say that none of your patients suffer any of those problems?
I have another question for you. How many of your patients are suffering from health issues related to degenerative diseases and a depleted immune system? I’d suggest a majority are and I strongly recommend you take appropriate measures to determine whether gum disease, amalgam fillings, or any of the other oral problems I've mentioned, are contributing to the cause or severity of those diseases.
Determining and eliminating the source or contributing factor to any health problem should always be included when treating any illness. Not doing so would jeopardize the success of the patient’s treatment and preclude the desired outcome. While there is no legal responsibility for health professionals to include the state of a patient's oral health as part of his/her total health assessment, I believe there is an ethical and moral one.
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