Holistic dentistry

The holistic dentistry is a nonconventional Médecine which claims to take account of the Patient in its globality, its totality. The term “holistic” comes from the old Greek “ holos ” which means “all”. The holistic dentistry does not consider the Dent as a Organe isolated from the remainder of the body but like an alive element in permanent interaction with the individual on multiple levels. Whereas traditional dentistry stops at the physical level, that of the palpable matter, holistic dentistry takes into account two other levels: energy dimension and psycho-emotional dimension.

Holistic dentistry is not recognized like a dental speciality and does not rest on any proof of documented effectiveness. It is very far from scientific dentistry and can have harmful consequences, the holism is a legitimate concept which became a marketing term for the charlatanism.

Physical plan

Dentistry

The physical level is that of body, palpable, mechanics. To look after on this first level implies to treat the tooth like one does it in traditional dentistry by restoring the tooth by a bandage, an obturation, a crown, etc a holistic dentist is thus before all a good expert on the technical plan. However, even by achieving the necessary technical act, the holistic dentist takes account of the globality of the body. He is conscious in particular of the incidence of the dental occlusion (manner whose teeth are geared) on the posture by the means of the muscular chains which traverse the body of the head to the feet. A distorted or deviated occlusion is reflected by a gimlet of the posture. Conscious of this reality, the holistic dentist takes care not to pose obturation or of dental prosthesis in surocclusion (i.e. too high) which can have a negative incidence on the posture of the patient.

Orthodontics

The orthodontics which forms integral part of the dentistry can and must also be approached in a holistic way. The holistic orthodontist or functional is conscious that any dental displacement affects enormous occlusion and thus on the posture. A treatment of holistic orthodontics is concerned with total incidence of the mechanical forces applied to the teeth to move them. This form of orthodontics which one can describe as ecological opposes moreover to the extractions healthy teeth, considered as a mutilation incompatible with a respectful vision of the globality of the human being.

Energy plan

Bonds tooth-bodies

Energetics is the more subtle plan where the tooth interacts with the remainder of the body by a whole of circuits: nervous connections, biochemical reactions, electromagnetic fields and other subtle energy circuits described in traditional medicines, such as for example the meridian of Acupuncture. The existence of these circuits, highly-strung person or others, explains the incidence of the dental Pathologie S on certain bodies. About nervous connections, it should be known that the Nerve trigeminal which innerve the dental system is reflexogenic of the organization. This characteristic explains a great number of disorders remotely generated by a damaged or badly neat tooth (problems Cutané S, Tendinite S, etc).

Choice of materials

Conscious of interaction of the tooth with the vitality of the body, the dentist energetician takes care to employ the most biocompatible possible materials. The part of holistic dentistry that is dental energetics was popularized by the controversies on toxicity of the dental Amalgame or “leading with mercury”. The holistic dentist avoids employing leading and prefers to him nonmetal materials like the resins (or composite S) and the Céramique, the material most neutral existing to date. However, holistic dentistry is not limited to withdraw amalgams and to replace them by resins. Many of other products and toxic materials, employed in conventional dentistry, are banished therapeutic arsenal of the holistic dentist. Generally, the use of metals, of which much is harmful, allergisants, even Cancérogène S (Nickel, Béryllium, Chrome, Cobalt, Titane) and who corrode in contact with the Salive, must be reasoned and to be made has minimum . Holistic dentistry banishes the most toxic metals and must abstain from associating certain metals between them (noble alloys with cheap alloys) in order to avoid the generating phenomena of plurimetallism of a chronic intoxication. Moreover the bandages employed to seal the roots after devitalisation must be most natural possible, without chemical additives such as derived Formol are, Antibiotique S, Anti-inflammatoire S, Colorant S, etc With the traditional specialities, often saturated with chemicals, the holistic dentist prefers the essential oils and the Aromathérapie.

Psycho-emotional plan

Psychic antenna

To be truly total, holistic dentistry must include the psychic or emotional level. Indeed, at the gifted human being of self-awareness, the Psychisme is in the middle of the pathological process as well as of cure. Connected by the Nerve trigeminal directly to the Brain and of the same embryologic origin as this one, the tooth is an antenna of psychism. Body related to the word, the tooth is a privileged place of Somatisation of the not expressed emotions and unvoiced comments. Thus the holistic dentist knows that the patient who is installed on his armchair is carrying a history, of one lived. It is also conscious that, for a great part, it this is lived, generally unconscious, which conditions the reaction of the patient to a given treatment. Indeed, the tooth, crystalline body, engramme lived, memorize it in its structure. Each tooth is a powerful resonator of the emotional states in connection with one period of childhood and a field of precise life. To treat a tooth, it is to press on a key of the keyboard of unconscious with variable reactions and sometimes surprising for the patient and the expert.

Language of the teeth

In the holistic vision, the dental problem (dental carie, washing away, etc) is not only the consequence of external factors (Sucre S, Bactérie S) but also the expression of an interior discomfort, the translation of driven back or blocked emotions which find a discharge system by somatization on the level of the dental body. From this point of view, each dental problem becomes a message to be included/understood, transmitted by the body, vector of the unconscious one. The comprehension of the direction of the tooth reached and the awakening of the emotion blocked to release it participle with the therapeutic process in which the patient must take an active share.

Specific tools and techniques

Aromathérapie

Replacement of the irritating or toxic specialities by the essential oils employed for their properties anti-inflammatory drugs, healing or disinfecting.

Morathérapie or biorésonance

The technique calls upon a specific apparatus and makes it possible to detect a tooth behaving like a pathogenic dental hearth (tooth devitalized, infected, sealed with a paste or a toxic material). The morathérapie also makes it possible to test the tolerance of a product or material before inserting it in mouth. The Morathérapie gets busy to measure the intensity of the galvanic current resulting from association in metal mouth of various natures. It is also employed to rebalance the energy Système of the body.

Neuralthérapie

The technique consists in injecting a Local anesthetic, either to test the causality of a tooth in a remote pathology, or to raise an energy stopping (defect of Cicatrisation after an extraction).

Muscular tests

The tests employing the measurement of muscular resistance are used to check the compatibility of occlusion with the posture. They are also used to test dental materials, with a less large reliability however than the apparatuses of Biorésonance.

Chinese pulse

Certain dentists who control the perception of the Poul in Chinese traditional energetics obtain this manner of information on the toxicity of materials and the products employed or to detect a pathogenic tooth.

Listen of the patient and his reactions

The listening of the patient, his behavior, its reactions to a treatment plays a particularly important part in holistic dentistry. It is the patient and his reactions which guide the treatment, essentially personalized, more than one technique or a standard protocol. For as much, the holistic dentist is not a Psychologue. It is neither its role nor its formation. The dentist can suggest tracks with the patient, to in no case to replace a psychotherapist. He belongs above all to the patient to deal with himself by readings, a personal work or to be made help by a specific therapeutist if the need is felt some.

Symbolic system of the teeth

By offering a grid of reading based on fundamental prototypes, the Symbolique of the teeth gives to the patient the possibility of contacting the emotional problems hidden behind the dental problem. For the dentist, it is a therapeutic tool complementary to the traditional and energy care, which enables him to switch its patient in the right direction. The significance suggested by the symbolic system of the teeth is not an end in itself but the starting point of a work personal to carry out only or accompanied by a psychotherapist. It is up to the patient to adapt the direction of the dental problem from which he suffers in order to translate it by his own words, words which will help it to contact the emotional root of sound badly.

Abuse and drifts in holistic dentistry

Like any approach, holistic dentistry knows excesses. More especially as this approach is not officially recognized and that its exercise is not regulated. It is thus necessary to be particularly vigilant because name “dentistry holistic” could not be with it only a pledge of quality. In the name of holistic dentistry, certain experts, preach the systematic extraction of the teeth devitalized with the reason which they would represent a chronic source of auto-intoxication and a permanent septic hearth. It is an excess. This practice leads to irreversible, very detrimental dental losses for the posture, the quality of chewing and the oral comfort of the patient. This systematization is moreover contrary with the spirit of the holistic dentistry whose therapeutic solutions (with the service of the conservation of the dental body and not of its extraction) are adapted on a case-by-case basis. Before managing of it to extract an irreplaceable body that no technology is currently able to equalize (a dental Implant is not worth a natural tooth), it is initially appropriate to remove all the other sources of intoxication: pastes of canal obturation toxic, metals of any nature (nickel, Béryllium, chromium, tin, titanium, etc) whose multiplication generates a plurimetallism with the frightening consequences.

Reference books to go further

Works on the holistic vision of the tooth

Works on holistic dentistry

Works on the significance of the teeth

External bonds

Of the articles for professionals on holistic dentistry on the site Dentisfuturis
Site of French Association Pedro Planed on functional orthodontics
Biodenth, site on holistic dentistry bound for the health professionals
Holodent, site dedicated to holistic dentistry and with the language of the teeth
Extrait from the site of the ADC (Canadian Association Dental) which poses a critical glance on nonconventional dentistry

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