Making healthy choices in life is more vital and yet more challenging than ever.   Today, we're exposed to more environmental toxins, depleted nutrients, and damaged genetics than we were just a few short years ago.   As a result, many of us need to fight hard to stay healthy, and we expect the healthcare system to help us navigate modern hurdles.   But has the healthcare system evolved to meet our current needs?

Natural remedies were once common knowledge.   Today they're a lost art, or worse, old wive's tales replaced by pharmaceuticals aimed at reducing symptoms.   Dentistry is no exception to this trend.   The industry has forgotten that dental health comes from within.   The modern convenience of superficial remedies has made biology nearly obsolete.   Is this really helping us?   I think it's time to go back to a natural approach.

Today, popular belief would explain cavities away as normal.   Needing a new filling every once in a while might not seem like a "big deal".   Perhaps you've experienced something similar with gum disease and the need for repeated "deep cleanings" every few years.   This perpetual cycle of disease and treatment has become the norm for dentistry.   It's disheartening, and our healthcare really needs to be enhancing our health instead of covering up symptoms.

Conventional dentistry focuses mostly on dental esthetics and dental function.   So if it looks good and chews well, then it's a job well done.   That's great, but what if that dental work has an unrecognized and negative effect on our health?   We all deserve to be thoroughly informed with respect to all health disciplines whether it's western, eastern, functional, or allopathic.

It's important to recognize that dental diseases like cavities and gum disease are signs of a deeper issue.   Treating these signs (with endless dental work) may fix the problem on the surface but fails to address the cause.   This is why it repeats.   The key to health is a deeper look into the forgotten causes of disease (a functional view).   A comic strip once joked about a lesson learned in medical school where, "A cured patient is a lost customer."   We can do better.

The truth is, cavities and gum disease are not normal or random parts of life.   They are neither natural nor a result of "bad luck" or "bad genes."   It's a myth that "everyone gets cavities" or "everyone's gums bleed," and it would be a mistake to trivialize these signs and their causes.   Cavities and gum disease warn us about physiologic and metabolic problems like vitamin deficiencies, mineral imbalances, hormonal imbalances, pH imbalance, restricted airways, toxins, oxidative stress, or gut dysbiosis.   Treating the teeth holistically requires an awareness of those deeper issues, their interconnectedness, and their effect on health and dental health.   The wonderful result of overall health is that cavities and gum disease magically disappear.

With biological dentistry, our purpose is to create an opportunity where together we can understand these important connections that have been hidden from traditional view.   This is why our focus is on education.   With knowledge comes the ability to control cavities and gum disease, prevent them, and finally eradicate them.   Because, if you have dental problems, you may also have nutritional and immune problems that are causative factors in almost all other systemic disease like heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes.   Shedding light on this connection is fundamental to our mission and critical to achieving the bliss of happy longevity that we all strive for.

Biological dentists and patients know the value of true health.   Together we are trying to make biological dentistry the new norm.   You shouldn't have to worry about exposure to toxins like mercury, fluoride, or BPA.   You shouldn't feel like you're "in the dark" about cavities, gum disease, autoimmune disease, or any disease.   You should not have to worry about whether your dentistry is compromising your health.   Biological dentistry makes no compromises.   It focuses on the true causes of disease — both dental and systemic — and helps address them by putting control back in your hands.   In this way, it's an entirely deeper and more comprehensive approach to the connection between the mouth, the mind, and the body.

The younger one starts on this journey, the greater the opportunity to learn and preserve health.   This is why we love to see children and provide a healthy start. But regardless of your age or dental history, it will be our genuine joy to help you course-correct your dental destiny and guide you on this life changing journey no matter where you currently are on this path.   Simply call us to learn more or setup your first Biological Consultation, and we'll help you unlock your body's potential. It's fun, it's easy, and it's uplifting.

For more information, you can read about the specifics in biological dentistry or about its philosophy.