Improving Overall Health Through Dentistry

Since 1978, the Holistic Dental Association has been providing support and guidance to practitioners of wholistic and alternative dentistry, as well as informing the public of the benefits of holistic dentistry for their health and well-being. Our purpose is to provide information and guidance to those persons seeking to participate in their own health care and to help in the continuing education of practitioners who have a desire to expand their knowledge and awareness. Continue Reading >>

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INFRARED SAUNAS FOR DETOXIFICATION

Toxins such as sodium, alcohol, nicotine, cholesterol and carcinogenic heavy metals (cadmium, lead, zinc, nickel) accumulate in the body during modern daily life. The body eliminates most toxins naturally by sweating. infrared Heat therapy stimulates the sweat glands that cleanse and detoxify the skin. The heat simply speeds up the body's natural process.

BODY POLLUTION
How to maintain your health and vitality through internal cleansing. Continue Reading >>

Avoidance of Toxic & Unhealthy Exposures

In a moderate number of cases, but certainly not all, disease is caused or contributed to by toxic exposures. These toxic exposures often involve low-level, long-term exposure that is not identified by the patient or healthcare practitioner. In such cases, the victim of the exposure is happily living his or her life not recognizing that slow poisoning and damage is occuring. Such damage often results in or contributes greatly to a number of chronic and debilitating diseases.

It has long been known that removal of exposure to toxic substances is an important part of holistic healing. A positive way to look at the gradual process of removing toxic and unhealthy things from your environment is that, at minimum, you will be significantly improving the long-term health prospects of yourself and your family! Beyond that, it is often found that removing exposures significantly improves health and eliminates symptoms and even some chronic diseases (that are often said to have "unknown causes"). Continue Reading >>

Dental Spa

Just as it exactly sounds, Bangkok Smile Dental Spa is a unique dental practice that offers the combination of high quality dental service with the specialized relaxation of spa services and treatments. Can you imagine that visiting the dentist might one day be regarded as a treat, a pleasant session in which you’re pampered by personal attention before a little relaxing laser tooth whitening , root canal or surgical work? Dental Spa is your choice.

As well as dental treatment, a range of other treatments, such as massages, aromatherapies , hydrotherapies and facials are available, all against a backdrop of relaxing mood music and images. There’s a serious medical purpose behind this, beyond the need to get more people through the door and more income for the practice: there’s good reason to think that a relaxed patient is one who suffers less and whose treatment is more effective. Continue Reading >>

About Dr. Weston A. Price

In the early 1930s, a Cleveland dentist named Weston A. Price (1870-1948) began a series of unique investigations. For over ten years, he traveled to isolated parts of the globe to study the health of populations untouched by western civilization. His goal was to discover the factors responsible for good dental health. His studies revealed that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth are the result of nutritional deficiencies, not inherited genetic defects. Continue Reading >>

Natural Dental Health

“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 Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, in Oral Health America: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2000

The renouned German physician Dr. Reinhard Voll estimated that nearly 80% of all illness is related entirely or partially to problems in the mouth. The reason the teeth are such a threat to health is that, in addition to their connection to every organ and gland in the body, they can harbor infections without symptoms. There's no pain or discomfort. Yet, there may be chronic infection eroding the body's immune response-wearing out the immune system. This infection is very difficult to detect. Few people today have escaped the problems of dental cavities and gum infection. About 98% of Americans have some areas of diseased gum tissue in their mouths, over half of these are also experiencing a progressive "bone loss." Fortunately, cavities and pyorrhea (gum disease and bone loss) are both 100% preventable and reversible.

The mouth is a hostile environment. It's warm, moist, and full of nutritient-laden saliva, decaying teeth, and soggy gums, which makes it a haven for bacteria. Teeth are subject to sudden changes of temperature created by extremes such as coffee and ice cream. Mechanical stresses challenge the mouth in the form of a combination of hard and soft foods. It is attacked chemically by foods that are highly acidic and highly alkaline with overtones of salinity and sugar. All these conditions provide corrosive influences, necessitating artificial replacements supplied by the dentist.

Mercury amalgam fillings are the major source of mercury exposure for the general public, at rates six-times higher than from fish and seafood. Continue Reading >>

Alternative and Holistic Medicine

Alternative and Holistic Medicine

Health is more than just the absence of disease. A wide variety of nutritional, herbal, mind-body and bodywork disciplines are often gathered under labels like alternative, holistic, complementary or integrative medicine. These kinds of therapies can be beneficial, but often have not been scientifically tested. It's a good idea to keep your physician informed of any alternative supplements or techniques you're using. Continue Reading >>

Mercury Detoxification Procedures: Amalgam Fillings

By Dr. William G. Drew

Mercury is linked to the most degenerative diseases known to man. In many cases these diseases are iatrogenic - i.e. diseases caused by inappropriate medical / dental treatment.

Mercury is the second most toxic metal known to man; second only to plutonium. But regardless of ranking, mercury has proven to be the most devastating to the health of mankind through its ability to induce diverse, degenerative diseases. In terms of its toll on human suffering, no other metal comes close. Many common medical and mental problems are known to be linked to, if not caused by mercury toxicity.

The majority of mercury that accumulates in our bodies comes from the "silver" amalgam fillings in our teeth. But mercury can be picked up from numerous other sources including artificial flowers, ammunition cartridges, various chemicals including aldehydes, acetic acid, acetone (as in finger nail polish removers), alcohols (as in spirits and rubbing alcohols), chlorine (as in drinking water and chlorine bleaches), disinfectants, cosmetics, Q-tips, dental appliances, dary cell batteries, dyes, electroplated products, felt hats, gold, inks, vapor lamps, mirrors, pharmaceutical products (drugs), pottery, prints, radio tubes, storage batteries, thermometers, wood preservatives, and others. Continue Reading >>

Chemical & Heavy Metal Cleanse Starter Kit $149.85 [ learn more ] The Chemical & Heavy Metal Starter Kit was designed by Dr. Group for individuals that are new to the cleansing process, or are simply looking for an easy-to-perform, cost effective cleanse program. The Heavy Metal Starter Kit is comprised of LIFE Detox Foot Patches™, NDF Plus™, and Quantum Zeolite™.

Looking for a caring, compassionate dentist who you can trust to deliver the finest in dental care? At our office, you'll experience the highest standards in dentistry - delivered in a relaxed and supportive environment.

Our dentists take a holistic approach to the care of your teeth, considering your overall health and personal well-being in any treatment. We take time to explain all aspects of your dental health so that you can feel confident of your decisions, as we believe the ultimate choice in selecting treatment rests with each patient. Continue Reading >>

Cavity-Fighting Candy? Give Me a Gummy Bear!

By Theresa Tamkins

I admit I was a bit skeptical when I read the news that gummy bears could fight kids’ cavities. In a new study, researchers fed kids candy at school and found that the chewy little critters cut down on cavity-causing bacteria.
Granted, the bears were sugar-free. But in place of the sugar was low-calorie xylitol, a sugar alcohol sweetener, which can cause diarrhea if consumed in large quantities (our diabetes blogger Sean Kelley found that out the hard way after scarfing down a box of sugar-free Christmas candy).
I had another potential objection: What message does this send to kids? First we tell them candy is bad for their teeth, but now it’s good—eat up! So I took my concerns to Kiet A. Ly, MD, the lead researcher on the study published in BMC Oral Health. Read More

Holistic Oral Care

Increasing evidence surrounding the potential human and environmental hazards of conventional dental techniques has sparked a flurry of alternatives within traditional dental practice.

Holistic dentistry promotes preventative oral care and maintenance, and an environmental commitment to reducing waste and using non-toxic materials.
The holistic dentist eschews the use of mercury and silver-based amalgam fillings and traditional x-rays, which create waste chromium and require other hazardous processing chemicals, in lieu of safe, biocompatible filling materials and digital imaging. Continue Reading >>

Chemical & Heavy Metal Cleanse Starter Kit $149.85 [ learn more ] The Chemical & Heavy Metal Starter Kit was designed by Dr. Group for individuals that are new to the cleansing process, or are simply looking for an easy-to-perform, cost effective cleanse program. The Heavy Metal Starter Kit is comprised of LIFE Detox Foot Patches™, NDF Plus™, and Quantum Zeolite™.

How You Can Detoxify with a Well-Researched "Mercury Magnet"

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The 3 1/2 Year Success Of Root Canal Cover-Up

The Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation was organized on September 11, 1965, in order to make Dr. Weston A. Price's monumental work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration available to the public. This book clearly demonstrated to the world that human physical degeneration was basically a nutritional problem. The book made Dr. Price famous.

During the last 31 years, the Foundation has reprinted Nutrition and Physical Degeneration eight times, in order to meet the growing interest in his work.

The Foundation has also had custodial care of Dr. Price's vast dental research data. Documenting his incredible accomplishments are 220 articles, which can be found in the dental and medical literature, along with two additional books. Unfortunately, until recently, Price's dental research remained unknown.

Much of Price's research is contained in two monumental volumes entitled Dental Infections Oral & Systemic and Dental Infections and the Degenerative Diseases. While these works have long been in the PPNF library, it was only just four years ago that the Foundation became aware of their importance. These volumes have moldered in obscurity because Dr. Price's research was suppressed and buried over 70 years ago by the autocratic action of a minority group of dentists and physicians who refused to accept the focal infection theory. Continue Reading >>