Great Teeth for Life

Dental Health / Health for Life. 1--- Health / Dental Health starts BEFORE conception 2--- Dental Disease [tooth decay / gum disease] is PREVENTABLE 3--- The MOUTH as a ‘barometer of health’ 4--- The facts on how to prevent MOUTH CANCER 5--- The latest on the AMALGAM DEBATE. 6--- The latest on the FLOURIDE DEBATE 7--- Nutrition and AGEING. ‘An enormous number of phobias are built up around visiting the dentist, and certainly an image Still persists of the dentist as driller-filler. By small lifestyle changes, visiting the dentist could be much less traumatic. By preventing the disease developing, the treatment which is most feared will, in the majority of cases, will simply not be required. The holistic practitioner, of whatever specialisation, looks at the individual as a whole person. Each part of the body is seen in relationship to the rest of the body, and any diagnosis is seen in terms of the body as a whole, and how treatment will benefit the patient both physically, spiritually and mentally. No part of the body is studied in isolation. By relating disease in the mouth to an imbalance in the body, the mouth becomes ‘a barometer of health’’ [ EXTRACT FROM MY FORTHCOMING ‘DENTALLY FIT’ ] As long ago as the 1930’s Dr Weston Price studied numerous isolated peoples who were still living on natural diets, far from the influences of western civilisation. Before they encountered modern foodstuffs such as white flours and sugars, they were healthy, happy and dentally very fit with wide jaws, wide dental arches and little tooth decay. Within a generation, however, the situation had drastically changed, and the younger, growing generation, without exception, had altered behaviourally and physically, displaying tooth decay, narrow dental arches[crowding] and poor skeletal structures. Unfortunately we all living in an increasingly polluted and toxic environment and the conditions found by Dr Price cannot be easily reproduced. Today I sincerely believe, that to remain healthy and flourish, we need to pro-actively involve ourselves in holistic preventative lifestyles. I shall outline why the mouth is such an important ‘organ’ and how we can all benefit from holistic dentistry. My lecture is dedicated ‘to those who have suffered through ignorance’ Dr Brian Halvorsen BDS LDS RCS FRSH is a published author in this field, his first book ‘The Natural Dentist’ was published in 1986 and his new book ‘Dentally Fit’ will be published in 2008. Brian is a founder member of the British Dental Nutrition Society and the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology [IAOMT] and the Mercury Free Society. He also set up CPD Dental TV and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Brian founded the Prestwood Dental Health Centre where he specialises in Amalgam [mercury] free dentistry. Nutritional advice related to oral health issues. Detoxification and Chelation advice Safe Amalgam removal,---- Protocol of IAOMT