Integrative Health Blog

The Dangers of Leaving Missing Teeth Unreplaced 

Your teeth serve many functions.  Obviously they are critical for chewing and esthetics but more importantly if teeth are not replaced especially posterior or back teeth, that empty space will allow neighboring teeth to drift into the space formerly occupied by the extracted tooth.

Without replacing that missing tooth the neighboring teeth above and to the sides will move into that space altering the way your teeth come together.  That altered bite changes jaw alignment, blood flow to and from the brain as well as alters the nervous system function throughout the head and neck.  Bite changes will eventually disrupt the TMJ or jaw joint.

What are the options for tooth replacement?

What do you know about oral cancer?

One person dies every hour from oral cancer in the United States and the mortality rate has remained unchanged for more than 40 years.  The death rate associated  with oral cancer is high not because it is hard to discover or diagnose, but because the cancer is discovered late in its development.   Often oral cancer is only discovered when the cancer has spread, most likely to the lymph nodes in the neck.           

The oral cavity includes your lips, gums, tongue, area of your mouth under your tongue, the roof of your mouth and the lining of your cheeks.  The throat begins at at the soft part of the roof of your mouth and continues back into your throat.  It includes the back section of your tongue as well as the base where the tongue attaches to the floor of your mouth.

Symptoms of mouth or throat cancer can include:

Mark McClure DDS

Did you catch this posting on Mercola.com  “97% of terminal cancer patients previously had this dental procedure”?

The answer is root canals. 

Biological dentists have been concerned about root canals and patient’s health ever since the Father of Biological Dentistry, Dr. Weston Price, performed his now famous root canal experiment. Dr. Weston Price implanted root canaled teeth from patients with known pathologies (like cancer) and observed the same pathology growing in the implanted rabbit. That means a rabbit implanted with the root canal teeth of a patient with heart disease would then develop heart disease! A coincidence? If it happened once maybe, but he demonstrated many times the same results with the same tooth and many different rabbits.

Root Canals May Harbor Bacteria

We acknowledge the intense controversy within the biological dental community concerning the safety of root canal therapy. Even the conventional dental community is beginning to acknowledge that there may be long term health issues attributable to retaining dead teeth in a person’s mouth. Of course their interest is to replace the root canal with an implant, not necessarily a new found understanding that root canaled teeth are incubating sources for many pathogens and a continuous flow of toxins as well as the tremendous stress to the neuro-immune system. Both the toxin release and the neuro-immune stress on your body from dead root canal teeth may be the root causes for many chronic health problems- and affect your overall health status.

Michelle Janbakhsh DDS

Bob Johnson DMD

Laurie DeRosa RDH

Tom Baldwin DDS

Bob Johnson DMD

Laurie DeRosa RDH

Mercury Amalgam Fillings
Recently the Dr. Oz show featured Dr. Joseph Mercola D.O., discussing the dangers of "silver" mercury amalgam fillings, which contain 50% mercury:

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/dr-mercola-s-radical-cures-pt-2

The biological dentists at NIHA have been aware of the possible dangers of mercury amalgams, or fillings, for over 30 years and have not used these toxic materials in our "mercury free, mercury safe" practice since then. Biological dentists respect that the mouth is an integral part of the entire body, and use biocompatible dental materials so that dental treatments impact the rest of the body as little as possible.