Providing the Information to Your Patients
If the dental office examination confirms the presence of amalgam fillings or gum disease, I suggest that you recommend my Mercury Detoxification book and provide the patient with my website address, www.dentalwellness4u.com. Doing so will allow him or her access to the information they will need to eliminate this disease. You will no longer need to worry about how to provide that information to the patient and will not have to take valuable office time explaining it to them. You cannot make choices for your patients, but you can provide them with instructive and credible information from which they can make their own decisions about these important oral health issues.
I also have the world’s largest listing of mercury free, holistic dentists. This will provide you with a source to refer your patients to and help you bridge the gap between oral and overall health. You can access the list by Clicking On, Mercury Free Dentists. A direct link to the database is found on my Home Page and you can refer your patients to it.
In addition, I'm compiling a list of Alternative Health Professionals and encourage you to list your practice with me. This service gives patients and dentists access to alternative health professionals who understand the important relationship of oral health to overall health. To get a listing Click On, Alternative Heatlh Professionals Listing.
Benefits to Your Practice
Providing this information to your patients will benefit your practice in the following ways:
• It will increase the treatment success rate for patients who take the necessary steps to eliminate gum disease and remove and replace mercury amalgam fillings. As long as your patients are suffering from an active oral disease or chronic mercury poisoning, any treatment you provide will be appreciably less effective. Note that at least 80% of the adult population has some form of gum disease and nearly 200 million have amalgam fillings. This could mean that a significant majority of your patients now suffer from it.
• It will be a practice builder. Your patients will appreciate the fact that you are concerned about their total health and have taken the time to point out the seriousness of mercury poisoning and gum disease. Few physicians take this whole body approach and provide this information to their patients.
• It will serve as a reminder. Patients will now understand that as long as they are being poisoned by mercury and have active gum disease (or other health harming dental problems), their existing health problems could be more difficult or even impossible to resolve. It will inform them that if they truly want to improve their health, quality of life, and life expectancy, they will need to deal with their oral health issues. It also puts them on notice that taking care of their oral health is their responsibility, not yours.
• It will fulfill your responsibility to your patients. You do not have a legal responsibility to provide your patients with information about oral health, but I believe you have an ethical and moral responsibility. Thus while I feel it would be a practice builder if you also made my books available to your patients, you will have at least addressed the issue of responsibility by pointing them in the right direction.
In Summary
You don’t have to become a dentist to deal with the negative affects of the above mentioned oral health issues on your patients' overall health. You don’t even have to provide the actual information most patients will need to help them prevent dental disease. But it is vitally important to make them aware of how these oral health issues can contribute to health problems and negatively affect their efforts to achieve optimal health and longevity.
I understand that you may be skeptical about the relationships between oral health issues and overall health. When I felt the same skepticism my response was to research this subject and be as objective as I could. The result of this research was Tooth Fitness: Your Guide to Healthy Teeth which offers the reader a choice between oral disease and oral health. I’m certain that once you read Tooth Fitness and review the reference articles on my website, you will understand just how serious gum disease can be to overall health.
If you are skeptical about chronic mercury poisoning from silver amalgam fillings, you owe it to yourself, your family, and your patients to learn everything you can about this subject. To that end, I recommend that you read Mercury Detoxification: The Natural Way to Remove Mercury from the Body and review the related material on my website. Since I’m confident that you’re much more concerned with facts than fiction, I also suggest reviewing the references in the books and on my website. I spent thousands of hours researching and writing about this subject and you can take advantage of my efforts.
In closing, I believe it is long past time to bridge the communication gap between the dental and medical professions and bring whole body health and healing into the 21st century. The mouth is an integral part of the body and what happens there will affect the entire body. I suggest that, as a health professional, you at least evaluate the available information I've presented and seriously consider that “Total Health Must Include Oral Health.”
In Health,
Dr. Tom
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