Painless Dentistry Integrative Care - David A Francis DDS

Did you catch the terrific article Dr. Mercola posted last week on the science of the relationship between positive emotions and health? (If you didn’t, go check it out now. We’ll wait for you.)
Yet all too often in such discussions, oral health tends to get overlooked – even as we know that negative emotions such as chronic stress can cause trouble in this area, as well....

Nearly 80 years ago, Weston Price showed how oral health and development both suffered when traditional diets were replaced with Western ones, loaded with refined sugar and flour.
For most of those 80 years, mainstream dentistry dismissed those findings, accusing Price of shoddy research methods and fitting evidence to preconceived conclusions....

A root canal tooth is a dead tooth. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on inside it.
Though the tooth is sealed at the top, what’s in the tooth is free to escape through the roots and enter the circulatory system – including any pathogens remaining within the tooth and, more importantly, their metabolic waste....

There was an interesting – and troubling – study some years ago which found that after 20 years, your average mercury amalgam “silver” filling can lose up to 95% of its mercury content.
While the lead author assured that “what’s left is in a form unlikely to be toxic in the body,” he and his team didn’t appear to ask one critical question: Where did all of that mercury go?...