As I present the possibility of actually curing the disease that causes dental decay, Dental Caries, I am getting a strong message that most people don't think this could possibly apply to them, it inspired me to jot down a few reasons this is more urgent to your future than you may think.
Dental Caries was the leading cause of death in our nation about 200 years ago.
In the JADA, a couple of years ago, there was an article concerning the influence of dental disease has on the "Metabolic Syndrome" previously referred to as "Syndrome X . It basically said that missing teeth, bleeding gums and cavities contribute to stroke, cardiovascular disease, liver damage causing dyslipidemia (harmful levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL and LDL cholesterol), insulin resistance, renal disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and respiratory disease.
Besides these diseases were the risks from taking the medications of these diseases and having an adverse drug reaction . One recent article mentioned that if "adverse drug reactions" were classified as a "disease" it would be the fifth leading cause of death.
I discovered on the Internet on "Death rates for the 10 leading causes of death ........". Also considering that an oral infection has been also linked to spilling endotoxins into the blood stream and contributing to the overall level of inflammation as well as finding what are usually considered to be specific oral bacteria being found in the plaque in coronary arteries and heart valves, it seems that of these "10 leading causes of death", 9 of them are are still being influenced by Dental Caries. The only one not influenced by it is "accidents".
SO.. Dental Caries, a deadly killer 200 years ago seems to be still influencing 9 of todays leading causes of death and their respective prescribed medications raising the risk of "adverse drug interactions" (could be the 5th leading cause of death if they were classified as "diseases").
Getting a Caries Risk assessment and CariFree Screening having about 96% accuracy and costing about $12 and taking under 5 minutes to receive, seems to be a good decision.
So, why is this clinic not just overwhelmed with requests? I have found that most people, even though they have had "a cavity" may not realize that the disease that caused that cavity is not self-healing and is most likely still existing as a threat to a person's "risk level" of having more cavities.
A person who has not had cavities very recently (truthfully? the last 5 minutes) thinks it won't happen again and doesn't realize that with the incidence of dental decay in people before they are 45 years old in Utah, 99% have experience with dental decay,,,,,what are the chances of being at least a "carrier" of Dental Caries.
Due to it's "infectious nature" it is possible that a "carrier" can still be transmitting this disease to children and others without knowing it. It was reported in an article in the JADA that even a person who does not have "active Dental Caries" and who does not have any damage happening to their teeth, still cannot be safely classified as "low risk". It is because of the "Caries Balance" becoming a "Caries Imbalance"(contributing to dental decay) without the person even being aware of it due to what have been called "unexpected risk factors".
The author mentions such seemingly harmless "life stressors" such as leaving home for the first time to go to school, an illness, an automobile accident, illness or death of a loved one or pet, even a stressful argument with a spouse, a loss of a job etc etc. as sufficient stress to push a person into "at risk" or even "high risk".
This is not even taking into account the estimated large number of people who have "undiagnosed" disease. An "undiagnosed" case of Diabetes, Sjogrens, Gerd or a simple Bulemia could cause this increase of "Caries Risk" levels. The other reason given was the taking of a new medication. It seems to most people that even a simple muscle relaxant wouldn't have any effect on dental disease, or perhaps a blood pressure medication or even antihistimines for flu or a bad cold, but they do. (there are 3000 of these medications listed at http://www.carifree.com/. )
The frequency of returning to get a "Caries Risk Assessment and Screening" is:
1. Every 6 months for the average "low risk" patient. 2. Every 3 months for an "at Risk" patient and perhaps every month for an "extreme risk" patient....until a good, safe score is achieved and the person is "low risk".
So why is it absolutely recommended even for patients with "low Risk" to immediately begin the "prevention" and continue for the rest of their lives with regular risk assessments and a constant vigilance for unexpected risks.
Just consider this for a moment:
Dental Caries has been "pandemic" in the world for at least a couple of centuries.
It was the leading cause of death in our nation 200 years ago, and
today it is "epidemic" amongst toddlers, 78% amongst 17 year olds, 94% amongst those between 20 and 65 and moving into "pandemic" with our senior citizens.
The costs are accelerating at a government's predicted rate of 9% and are already $119 billion now with an estimated $167.3 billion in just the next 5 years.
It is 7 times more common than asthma for children, the most commonly experienced disease in the world and even though the demographics have changed a little, is considered on the increase world wide. It has proven to be deadly, destructive and expensive and it is just not worth the risk to try to ignore it or to discount it's influence and destructiveness.
Perhaps you should pass this information source to others around you. It would be a gift worth thousands or possibly tens of thousands of dollars they won't have to spend if they take our recommendations to "be cavity-free for life", not counting having better general health.
Hm? 801 643-1812
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Mothers transmit Dental Caries to their children and others. 1/2 price for cure until mothers day.
"Let's get back to the mothers and get them cured" would be the best strategy to eradicate dental caries (the disease that causes cavities) since they are the "primary source".
Articles from behavior scientists and even the American Dental
Association have published ways to motivate mothers of young children to do what it takes to not be the "primary source" of childrens' dental disease.
In a recent seminar on the internet concerning the "be cavity-free for life", it was stated that we have the same bacteria in a healthy biofilm as we do in a cariogenic (dental decay producing) biofilm. They just behave differently. Even those mothers who have and do not exhibit signs of active caries (yet) or possibly do not have active Dental Caries disease in their mouth at this moment, "cannot be classified as low risk". In other words every mother could be considered a "carrier". Even if all of the usual and customary risk factors related to snacking, diet, oral hygiene, fluoride and sealants etc are managed, there are risk factors that may catch a mother off guard and flip her into "high risk" to even "extreme risk" without her even knowing it. This is why a regular "caries risk assessment and screening" is necessary at least every 6 months for the entire life span.
What would be the risks that could catch an apparently "managed" patient off guard???
"Life Stressors" and "Medications".
Life Stressors: We all have challenges and we all have our ups-and-downs throughout life. Besides being sensitive to the usual risk factors, oral biofilm can begin to change into higher risk level with an argument with your spouse, automobile accident, new illness announcement for you or others ie. cancer, diabetes etc, loved one or pet dying, going away from home for the first time to school and other challenges in normal living experiences. Normally we don't relate these at all with the condition of our oral biofilm, but now we will have to be more aware of these types of changes. You may want to have a "caries risk assessment and screening" more frequently than "regularly" under these circumstances.
Medication: There is a list of 3000 medications that will contribute to "hyposalivation" or "xerostomia" called by most people...."dry mouth" http://www.carifree.com/. "Dry mouth" can produce even "extreme risk" even when it is undetected. It is estimated that 85% of people are not aware that they have this "hyposalivation" or "dry mouth".
You will see many very familiar medication names as over-the-counter analgesics or for flu or cold relief that could catch you off guard. You may be sensitive to dramatic changes with your oral biofilm with even one doctor-prescribed medication such as for Lupus, diabetes muscle relaxants or for high blood pressure not to mention just the diseases of : uncontrolled diabetes, sjogrens disease or bulemia that can cause dry mouth. It was estimated that people over 75 years of age have an average of 5 medications and the average number of medications for people in nursing homes as 8 or more. This may be the reason that we have witnessed what has been called the "Tsunami" of oral disease amongst senior citizens. It can happen at any stage of life!.
So. don't permit a false sense of security from traditional dentistry notions that dental decay is caused by sugar or poor oral hygiene and have a very bad surprise with the onset of a high risk to dental caries and dental decay to endure and pay for !
All mothers and prospective mothers (even primary care givers) should have a Caries Risk Assessment and Screening now. The "Caries Risk Assessment" is free of charge and 1/2 price for "treatment" of Dental Caries is available until mothers day, 2010......about one month.
Call us at 801 643-1812 for a short appointment or drop in at one of the open houses at 710 40th street, South Ogden.
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Articles from behavior scientists and even the American Dental
Association have published ways to motivate mothers of young children to do what it takes to not be the "primary source" of childrens' dental disease.
In a recent seminar on the internet concerning the "be cavity-free for life", it was stated that we have the same bacteria in a healthy biofilm as we do in a cariogenic (dental decay producing) biofilm. They just behave differently. Even those mothers who have and do not exhibit signs of active caries (yet) or possibly do not have active Dental Caries disease in their mouth at this moment, "cannot be classified as low risk". In other words every mother could be considered a "carrier". Even if all of the usual and customary risk factors related to snacking, diet, oral hygiene, fluoride and sealants etc are managed, there are risk factors that may catch a mother off guard and flip her into "high risk" to even "extreme risk" without her even knowing it. This is why a regular "caries risk assessment and screening" is necessary at least every 6 months for the entire life span.
What would be the risks that could catch an apparently "managed" patient off guard???
"Life Stressors" and "Medications".
Life Stressors: We all have challenges and we all have our ups-and-downs throughout life. Besides being sensitive to the usual risk factors, oral biofilm can begin to change into higher risk level with an argument with your spouse, automobile accident, new illness announcement for you or others ie. cancer, diabetes etc, loved one or pet dying, going away from home for the first time to school and other challenges in normal living experiences. Normally we don't relate these at all with the condition of our oral biofilm, but now we will have to be more aware of these types of changes. You may want to have a "caries risk assessment and screening" more frequently than "regularly" under these circumstances.
Medication: There is a list of 3000 medications that will contribute to "hyposalivation" or "xerostomia" called by most people...."dry mouth" http://www.carifree.com/. "Dry mouth" can produce even "extreme risk" even when it is undetected. It is estimated that 85% of people are not aware that they have this "hyposalivation" or "dry mouth".
You will see many very familiar medication names as over-the-counter analgesics or for flu or cold relief that could catch you off guard. You may be sensitive to dramatic changes with your oral biofilm with even one doctor-prescribed medication such as for Lupus, diabetes muscle relaxants or for high blood pressure not to mention just the diseases of : uncontrolled diabetes, sjogrens disease or bulemia that can cause dry mouth. It was estimated that people over 75 years of age have an average of 5 medications and the average number of medications for people in nursing homes as 8 or more. This may be the reason that we have witnessed what has been called the "Tsunami" of oral disease amongst senior citizens. It can happen at any stage of life!.
So. don't permit a false sense of security from traditional dentistry notions that dental decay is caused by sugar or poor oral hygiene and have a very bad surprise with the onset of a high risk to dental caries and dental decay to endure and pay for !
All mothers and prospective mothers (even primary care givers) should have a Caries Risk Assessment and Screening now. The "Caries Risk Assessment" is free of charge and 1/2 price for "treatment" of Dental Caries is available until mothers day, 2010......about one month.
Call us at 801 643-1812 for a short appointment or drop in at one of the open houses at 710 40th street, South Ogden.
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WHAT IF??? Patients were given ownership of their Doctor's office
I had been a regular dentistry guy happy to be doing family dentistry for 35 years until it was announced that Dental "Caries is both curable and preventable"....The "paradigm change" that established the "new Standard of care" for dentistry turned out to be a very shocking change for me. Just about everything I had been sincerely teaching my patients was discovered to be not true.(see article about "myths" by tapping this: http://www.carifree.com/)
came from the expert "traditional" dentists of the day. But with the advances that had been taking place at least since 2000, the new science made "myths" out of my most favorite patient education efforts. I trust good science, so I just dug in and got my mind around this new "modern" dentistry. Even though in a mild state of shock, I was delighted with the idea that this new announcement was very empowering to patients. From our "campaign office" for "eradicate dental caries in Utah in 2010" this cure was available without a "referral to the CureDontist" from their present dentist. They could just get an appointment or even just show up,unannounced,during one of the frequent open houses. Patients could have free access to this "cure" also from even the very remote places in the nation, from the internet.
So, really, what if the average dental practice of 1000 loyal patients was actually inherited by the very group of patients who called it their "dental home"..? huh? What would be your first two requests (demands) of your new candidates to be your next dentist?
I just asked my wife. She replied that s
he would request "quality".
I probed the answer.............so, perhaps the highest quality....................
implant and crown?.....after getting the original cavity which got recurrent decay, crumbled and had to be replaced with a crown, but the nerve died and the crown was weakened and lost from drilling the root canal access through the top and the root split and the root canal failed, causing the loss of the highest quality crown also,,,leaving a space, into which an "implant" which would be covered with a high quality crown would be placed. It's all "quality", isn't it? (this is called the "dentist-go-round").
So the new patients would ask for the "highest" quality dentistry, which would be NO cavities!, right? So , Dr. first candidate, we want to be "cavity-free for life".
I am going guess, that if it were me, I would ask also to eventually eliminate costs of maintaining this highest quality dental health...The reality would quickly set it, that even prevention is going to cost something, even if it is only pennies on the dollar as compared with paying for sickness, but if this were possible, even in the future, we,the new owners would want it.
I just reviewed a DVD produced around this very subject from a group called "Patients' Own" wellness association. It covered the "basics" and then presented "The Organization of Patients and the Money System". Ah-Ha !!..Even though this was made at least 5 years ago, still under the reign of "Traditional dentistry", it hit the bulls eye!
So,
coupling this patient owned "organization and money system"
with
"be cavity-free for life",
we may have stumbled upon the newest generation of health care system reform..........done by patients, themselves!, ........in a totally logical, ethical and effective way....achieve Optimal Oral Health and use the financial power--patients- already-have, and create the best and most powerful dental health system in the history of the world?!
After reading my blog about Optimal Oral health being the "first step", it seems that the very next step would be for patients to consider being "owners" of their own medical office. It would, then, seem logical to ask (demand?): to have "Optimal general Health",and since the new physician wouldn't be God, accept "the best health we could ever hope to have"........and possibly eliminate costs here also?
It would seem a dream. Guess what? It is already here. The only thing lacking is the first group of 1000 loyal patients to create the "prototype" to prove it to the rest of the nation. After actually achieving our requests (demands), we could get it copyrighted , patented or trademarked and allow everyone else to copy it and enjoy a higher quality of life on down the family line for many generations to come.
Keeping in mind that the thing that is better than insurance......not needing it!.
Regardless of where you live, you can be a part of this first group of patients, the "Charter group" of Patients' Own wellness association. We all will do everything we can to make this patient-owned facility at 710 40th street, South Ogden,Utah the first Patients Own wellness office! To those who actually dig in and achieve being "cavity-free for life" and Optimal general health, we want to then share with you the terrific benefits the patient-owners would have.
Call now: 801 643-1812 or email. www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com. I am looking forward to meeting you and invite you into this terrific adventure!
came from the expert "traditional" dentists of the day. But with the advances that had been taking place at least since 2000, the new science made "myths" out of my most favorite patient education efforts. I trust good science, so I just dug in and got my mind around this new "modern" dentistry. Even though in a mild state of shock, I was delighted with the idea that this new announcement was very empowering to patients. From our "campaign office" for "eradicate dental caries in Utah in 2010" this cure was available without a "referral to the CureDontist" from their present dentist. They could just get an appointment or even just show up,unannounced,during one of the frequent open houses. Patients could have free access to this "cure" also from even the very remote places in the nation, from the internet.
So, really, what if the average dental practice of 1000 loyal patients was actually inherited by the very group of patients who called it their "dental home"..? huh? What would be your first two requests (demands) of your new candidates to be your next dentist?
I just asked my wife. She replied that s
he would request "quality". I probed the answer.............so, perhaps the highest quality....................
implant and crown?.....after getting the original cavity which got recurrent decay, crumbled and had to be replaced with a crown, but the nerve died and the crown was weakened and lost from drilling the root canal access through the top and the root split and the root canal failed, causing the loss of the highest quality crown also,,,leaving a space, into which an "implant" which would be covered with a high quality crown would be placed. It's all "quality", isn't it? (this is called the "dentist-go-round").
So the new patients would ask for the "highest" quality dentistry, which would be NO cavities!, right? So , Dr. first candidate, we want to be "cavity-free for life".
I am going guess, that if it were me, I would ask also to eventually eliminate costs of maintaining this highest quality dental health...The reality would quickly set it, that even prevention is going to cost something, even if it is only pennies on the dollar as compared with paying for sickness, but if this were possible, even in the future, we,the new owners would want it.
I just reviewed a DVD produced around this very subject from a group called "Patients' Own" wellness association. It covered the "basics" and then presented "The Organization of Patients and the Money System". Ah-Ha !!..Even though this was made at least 5 years ago, still under the reign of "Traditional dentistry", it hit the bulls eye!
So,
coupling this patient owned "organization and money system"
with
"be cavity-free for life",
we may have stumbled upon the newest generation of health care system reform..........done by patients, themselves!, ........in a totally logical, ethical and effective way....achieve Optimal Oral Health and use the financial power--patients- already-have, and create the best and most powerful dental health system in the history of the world?!
After reading my blog about Optimal Oral health being the "first step", it seems that the very next step would be for patients to consider being "owners" of their own medical office. It would, then, seem logical to ask (demand?): to have "Optimal general Health",and since the new physician wouldn't be God, accept "the best health we could ever hope to have"........and possibly eliminate costs here also?
It would seem a dream. Guess what? It is already here. The only thing lacking is the first group of 1000 loyal patients to create the "prototype" to prove it to the rest of the nation. After actually achieving our requests (demands), we could get it copyrighted , patented or trademarked and allow everyone else to copy it and enjoy a higher quality of life on down the family line for many generations to come.
Keeping in mind that the thing that is better than insurance......not needing it!.
Regardless of where you live, you can be a part of this first group of patients, the "Charter group" of Patients' Own wellness association. We all will do everything we can to make this patient-owned facility at 710 40th street, South Ogden,Utah the first Patients Own wellness office! To those who actually dig in and achieve being "cavity-free for life" and Optimal general health, we want to then share with you the terrific benefits the patient-owners would have.
Call now: 801 643-1812 or email. www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com. I am looking forward to meeting you and invite you into this terrific adventure!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Optimal Oral Health is just the FIRST step. so say the experts
TAP ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE IT SO THAT YOU CAN READ THEIR STATEMENTS.
It is logical to think that Optimal Oral Health as promised in CariFree's promise ..."be cavity-free for life" would be only part of the entire ultimate wellness picture. Obviously, so do these credible people in this depiction.
The "Optimal general Health" will be a world class program that you will have a chance to access once you have shown success in the relatively simple "Optimal Oral Health". The combination of success in both has the possibly of being the predicted "wellness revolution"...?
Just tap this picture to enlarge it and the print will be large enough to read.
Any questions? feel free to call me at : 801 643-1812 or email me at www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com. Our future is bright!
Patients are at the Crossroads of history right now.
Patients are truly at the crossroads of history! This world pandemic disease, Dental Caries has been causing grief and expense for a couple of centuries. It is now time to eradicate it from 1. your life and your family 2. your community 3 the world at large (made possible with your example of success combined with the blog, facebook, twitter and good old word of mouth) as described in what I call the Surgeon General's treasure map.(2003, National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health) So............tap on this picture to enlarge it and you can read the dialogue. We hope you join this great "movement" to eradicate dental caries........period.
You will make a difference! Call: 801 643-1812 and get an appointment or meet us at our "Open House". The Caries Risk Assessment and Screening only takes about 5 minutes.
If you think you don't need this, you may be a "carrier" and may transmit Dental Caries disease to your children or others without even knowing. In 5 minutes you will know if you need "treatment" or just "prevention". The American Dental Association and the California Dental Association state that ALL patients have a Caries Risk Assessment. It may change your life.
Help the state wide campaign to "Eradicate Dental Caries from Utah in 2010" be successful, let us know if you don't have dental decay and at least confirm that you are not a "carrier" and don't have Dental Caries with a simple risk assessment.
ps. if you do have dental decay: Please. Cure Dental Caries disease before you have fillings or at least right away to prevent "recurrent decay" on your new fillings later.
You will make a difference! Call: 801 643-1812 and get an appointment or meet us at our "Open House". The Caries Risk Assessment and Screening only takes about 5 minutes.
If you think you don't need this, you may be a "carrier" and may transmit Dental Caries disease to your children or others without even knowing. In 5 minutes you will know if you need "treatment" or just "prevention". The American Dental Association and the California Dental Association state that ALL patients have a Caries Risk Assessment. It may change your life.
Help the state wide campaign to "Eradicate Dental Caries from Utah in 2010" be successful, let us know if you don't have dental decay and at least confirm that you are not a "carrier" and don't have Dental Caries with a simple risk assessment.
ps. if you do have dental decay: Please. Cure Dental Caries disease before you have fillings or at least right away to prevent "recurrent decay" on your new fillings later.
Understanding CAMBRA, chapter 6 "Caries Imbalance"
It is now obvious why you won't get your "balance" back until you get rid of the "disease indicators". The key to getting the "balance" to work for your best health and wellness is to "reduce the risk factors" and to "increase the protective factors" whenever possible.
As you will learn from other blogs, there are many more "risk factors" as are listed in this depiction and the "protective factors" can be more than is here, but the idea of keeping it in balance for "NO CARIES" is the goal.
Any questions? Read the other Blogs, take a look at http://www.carifree.com and then you can drop over to the "campaign headquarters" at 710 40th street, South Ogden and take a tour through the "gallery" of posters and educational materials and audiovisuals available., and then don't keep this "light under a bushel"........the world desperately needs this information. (see the blog: patients are at the crossroads of history) .
learning about CAMBRA, chapter 5
Remember how little information there was in the first graph? Now that I look back, I had been a reparative dentist for 35 years and almost everything prior to the "line of first detection" was unknown......and this is now the whole backbone of ethical practice of dentistry. So, don't let anyone try to excuse themselves from the ethical and logic of taking a careful look at this information (CAMBRA) and the ethics and just plain human compassion of passing it on to everyone.
So, by tapping this picture, it will enlarge and you can read the notations more clearly. The actual power point with its accompanying audio CD gives this a complete and very clear presentation which is much superior to this introduction here on the Blog.
The most important thing to notice on this depiction is that band of color where the parents have gone through cure and are now maintaining the "healthy biofilm"AND it stops at the "line of first detection of damage". In other words this is why you can enjoy being "cavity-free for life"is because you and the entire family (even circle of significant others?) are maintaining the healthy biofilm.
BEWARE: Due to unexpected risk factors that you may not even have imagined originally, you can throw your "caries balance" into IMBALANCE and YOU WILL NOT EVEN KNOW IT. This is why, for the rest of your life, regular Caries Risk Assessment is absolutely vital. What you don't know, can hurt you !
The next chapter 6 contains the "Caries imbalance" chart conceived by Dr. John Featherstone who is now the Dean of the highly prestigious UCSF. (University of California at San Francisco). He has received the highest award for scientific contribution to dentistry given to dental professionals and scientific researchers in the nation....the Ross award. This "Caries Imbalance" chart can give you a basic synthesis of all of this information in your mind. so ...see you at chapter 6.
Learning about CAMBRA , chapter 4
The unique additions to the graph are the comparisons of the costs of catching this early versus waiting too long and the disease has caused more and more serious "symtoms". Also, please note the suggested locations where "risk factor assessments" are recomended.
It may seem absurd to have your risk factor assessment even
before you are born !!
But, now that you have learned about your "source" of the disease, it makes perfect sense, yes?
It also would seem utterly absurd to have a "caries risk factor assessment" when a person is currently having frank cavities! An uninformed person might think that starting to cure the disease while the destruction is already in his mouth is not logical.....because to his way of uninformed thinking, doing the fillings is first priority (remember that in "traditional dentistry" or "old dentistry", doing fillings was thought to actually cure the disease or at least help cure it)
NOTE: It will be important, even when using the CAMBRA methodology to cure the disease, to get the cavities cleaned out and restored as quickly as possible. Why? Because they are getting deeper and bigger with every passing hour and the bigger and deeper, the more expensive.....even though placing fillings doen't have effect on curing Dental Caries, the disease that caused the decay.
So why begin to "cure" immediately. You already know the answer....it's because only 10% of your fillings are the ones that are irreversible and need surgery, but 90% are "reversible" and you will need to cure Dental Caries before your body can "remineralize" these incipient, reversible decalcifications called incipient cavities......So you actually start immediately with both approaches: fillings and cure.
So having a caries risk assessment at any time makes good sense because the sooner-the-better since disease progresses every minute, hour, day and month etc. Fortunately, now you don't have to be a victim of a seemingly out-of-control disease. You can stop it in its tracks!
This blog and these chapters are accessible through the world wide web, and can be easily accessed by literally anyone, anywhere, even if they don't have a computer. A library usually has computers that can access this valuable information. To have additional, very patient-friendly and interactively structured information go to http://www.carifree.com. There is valuable help there no matter what your level of understanding is at the moment. (just tap on this hyperlink and it will take you there immediately)
See you at the last chapter, chapter 5.
It may seem absurd to have your risk factor assessment even
before you are born !!
But, now that you have learned about your "source" of the disease, it makes perfect sense, yes?
It also would seem utterly absurd to have a "caries risk factor assessment" when a person is currently having frank cavities! An uninformed person might think that starting to cure the disease while the destruction is already in his mouth is not logical.....because to his way of uninformed thinking, doing the fillings is first priority (remember that in "traditional dentistry" or "old dentistry", doing fillings was thought to actually cure the disease or at least help cure it)
NOTE: It will be important, even when using the CAMBRA methodology to cure the disease, to get the cavities cleaned out and restored as quickly as possible. Why? Because they are getting deeper and bigger with every passing hour and the bigger and deeper, the more expensive.....even though placing fillings doen't have effect on curing Dental Caries, the disease that caused the decay.
So why begin to "cure" immediately. You already know the answer....it's because only 10% of your fillings are the ones that are irreversible and need surgery, but 90% are "reversible" and you will need to cure Dental Caries before your body can "remineralize" these incipient, reversible decalcifications called incipient cavities......So you actually start immediately with both approaches: fillings and cure.
So having a caries risk assessment at any time makes good sense because the sooner-the-better since disease progresses every minute, hour, day and month etc. Fortunately, now you don't have to be a victim of a seemingly out-of-control disease. You can stop it in its tracks!
This blog and these chapters are accessible through the world wide web, and can be easily accessed by literally anyone, anywhere, even if they don't have a computer. A library usually has computers that can access this valuable information. To have additional, very patient-friendly and interactively structured information go to http://www.carifree.com. There is valuable help there no matter what your level of understanding is at the moment. (just tap on this hyperlink and it will take you there immediately)
See you at the last chapter, chapter 5.
Learning about CAMBRA chapter 3
This chapter holds the key to understanding the value of CAMBRA and patient empowerment and independence this new information will give to people who were previously dependent on dentists to manage their Dental Caries using surgery and fillings.
For a person who wants to be able to cure Dental Caries and enjoy being "cavity-free for life, it is vitally important to know the source of this disease. When babies are born, they don't have bacteria in their mouth or throat. Within a short period of time they develop a "bacterial flora". If a child has a single cavity or starts to exhibit the early signs of damage to the surfaces of the teeth, it is from the infection in the mouth called "cariogenic biofilm" or "Dental Caries". So............the big question is.......WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
From results of DNA and Serology analyses, it was found that the "primary source" of Dental Caries in children is the mother. (or primary care giver). It takes very little to "innoculate" the child's mouth by the mother (who has Dental Caries disease obviously, or is a "carrier") from the child's age of 6 months to 30 months. Childrens' number one risk factor for Dental Caries are parents who have dental decay or are "carriers".
The earliest risk factor for a child is found even before birth.....in the infection carried by the parents, the mother primarily.
Now, turn your attention to the notation at the top about "Risk factors" are BEFORE "Disease" and the effects of damage to the tooth structure progresses to become the "Symtoms".
IF then, we can discover the "risk factors" before the disease causes damage (decalcification and decay) and manage them, we can actually avoid having to have fillings altogether! Eureka! we've found it ! The key to avoiding fear, pain and expense from a curable disease....risk factor identification and subsequent management of them. (CAMBRA)
A VERY IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: The band of color ranging from before birth to the end of "symtoms" is where 95%+ of the population of the earth will find themselves unless they find a dental health professional who will teach and apply the principles of CAMBRA, the "medical model" instead of the traditional "surgical model" of treating dental disease.
These chapters about CAMBRA could save you thousands of dollars and for many people, tens of thousands of dollars and literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the nation.! PLEASE ! DON'T KEEP THIS A SECRET FROM OTHERS AROUND YOU!!.
Now we progress to chapter 4 and some more solutions to the "silent epidemic of oral disease" which is curable.
d patient empowerment and independence this new information will give to people who were previously dependent on dentists to manage their Dental Caries using surgery and fillings. 
For a person who wants to be able to cure Dental Caries and enjoy being "cavity-free for life, it is vitally important to know the source of this disease. When babies are born, they don't have bacteria in their mouth or throat. Within a short period of time they develop a "bacterial flora". If a child has a single cavity or starts to exhibit the early signs of damage to the surfaces of the teeth, it is from the infection in the mouth called "cariogenic biofilm" or "Dental Caries". So............the big question is.......WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
From results of DNA and Serology analyses, it was found that the "primary source" of Dental Caries in children is the mother. (or primary care giver). It takes very little to "innoculate" the child's mouth by the mother (who has Dental Caries disease obviously, or is a "carrier") from the child's age of 6 months to 30 months. Childrens' number one risk factor for Dental Caries are parents who have dental decay or are "carriers".
The earliest risk factor for a child is found even before birth.....in the infection carried by the parents, the mother primarily.
Now, turn your attention to the notation at the top about "Risk factors" are BEFORE "Disease" and the effects of damage to the tooth structure progresses to become the "Symtoms".
IF then, we can discover the "risk factors" before the disease causes damage (decalcification and decay) and manage them, we can actually avoid having to have fillings altogether! Eureka! we've found it ! The key to avoiding fear, pain and expense from a curable disease....risk factor identification and subsequent management of them. (CAMBRA)
A VERY IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: The band of color ranging from before birth to the end of "symtoms" is where 95%+ of the population of the earth will find themselves unless they find a dental health professional who will teach and apply the principles of CAMBRA, the "medical model" instead of the traditional "surgical model" of treating dental disease.
These chapters about CAMBRA could save you thousands of dollars and for many people, tens of thousands of dollars and literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the nation.! PLEASE ! DON'T KEEP THIS A SECRET FROM OTHERS AROUND YOU!!.
Now we progress to chapter 4 and some more solutions to the "silent epidemic of oral disease" which is curable.
Learning about CAMBRA, chapter 2
In this chapter, there will be a huge motivation to take advantage of a very valuable piece of information that you may not have been aware of before. When we think of dental decay as implied or actually taught by a "Traditional" dentist, it will be from the paradigm of using the "surgical" approach to manage dental decay. As the understanding of just what is happening to teeth is expanded due to more and more scientific research and the development of better research methods as well as the technological development, this "traditional dentistry" has been replaced with the new "standard" of dental care, CAMBRA(Caries Management by
Risk Assessment).
Risk Assessment).
On this chart there is an area of "reversible" damage to the tooth structure called "incipient" decay that extends from the first stages of decalcification up to the "line of irreversibility". This actually represents about 90% of your total decay. (only 10% of the decay is "reversible" and needs surgery....fillings etc)
Once knowing this, you will be encouraged to know that this 90% can be "remineralized" or cured by a normal body process which also helps you heal broken bones. Minerals and medications used as directed by a preventive dentist or "CureDontist" will help you actually heal your cavities with medicine, NOT the drill!. (with pennies on the dollar cost !! in comparison with waiting until the decay becomes irreversible and then placing fillings instead )
BEWARE of advertisements that will lead you into thinking that this takes place whether you have the disease, Dental Caries, in your mouth or not. REMINERALIZATION ONLY WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER DENTAL CARIES HAS BEEN CURED.
In the next chapter 3 we will learn more about this methodology, CAMBRA.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Understanding more about CAMBRA, chapter 1
These chapters are an abbreviated introduction to the basics of understanding CAMBRA. In this caption, you will readily recognize that there is not much information about teeth in people's minds from the time of eruption of the new little teeth and problems that begin to be obvious. There is a point in time when the damage that Dental Caries disease is causing to the surface of teeth is not seen and then the earliest stages become obvious. On the xray there begin to appear little decalcified areas between the teeth. White spot lesions will sometimes appear on the smooth surfaces of the teeth. After these earliest lesions have developed and gotten deeper, they will pass a point at which this damage becomes "irreversible" and the method of protecting the tooth from continued damage in traditional dentistry is to resort to taking the decay out of the lesion in the tooth and placing inert fillings in the place of the enamel and dentin that had been destroyed by dental decay.
It doesn't take much time to find out that this becomes more and more expensive as the lesions are larger and deeper.
It doesn't take much time to find out that this becomes more and more expensive as the lesions are larger and deeper.
It won't take long to experience the "caries-go-round" as you return to need more fillings and that fillings that were previously placed might have to be replaced due to "recurrent decay" or just plain deterioration with passage of time. Great! You may not be as frustrated with this scenario as you will be when you realize that this was all "curable and preventable" with a very simple and economical "caries risk and management" program leading you to be "cavity-free for life".
Now to the next chaper and learn what will fill these blank areas of ignorance of just what is happening.
But you don't have to change your dentist !
The campaign to "eradicate dental caries in Utah in 2010" has an end goal of accomplishing just that and the best way to do that is to have as many people as possible helping to achieve that end goal....Each average dentist has about 1000 active patients more or less. The Surgeon General in 2003 mentioned where the source of the "national coordinated movement" that would get rid of the "silent epidemic of oral disease". He said it would start at the "grass roots"'; those who actually followed the simple directions and ended up curing dental caries and maintaining the cure would be called "role models of behavior change". Evidentally he thought that those who knew and trusted those individuals would like the same benefit. He was right, theoretically.
Some would also have good people in their inner circle of friends, family, etc. that would also want the benefits and the good news that dental caries could be prevented would travel down these naturally occuring pathways of relationships and eventually it would be spread nation-wide.
You will not be asked to change your dentists for a couple of reasons:
1. Your success would make you a "role model of behavior change" and what you would be doing to
achieve that is not even offered but in a very few offices in Utah. A CureDontist doesn't use shots, and drills to do dental restorations, only risk assessments and teaching cure and risk management. When you return to your dentist for any dental restorations you could share that you learned to "cure" the disease before doing any fillings and that you have confidence and respect for his ability to take care of those things for you now. Perhaps there are others in his practice who would also like to consider the "be cavity-free for life". This would be an excellent way to bring the whole message of the surgeon general;that besides optimal oral health, achieving optimal general health also was "intrinsic". This would help the spread of membership in the growing group of the Optimal health wellness association, Patients' own which will be a powerful movement for good in the health care field. There will be more information offered to those who actually value optimal health and achieve a level of success. You will want to hear this!
So, no competition here with your family dentist. In fact, we would encourage him to offer the same "Optimal health" to his patients also and free expert training is available for him from the sponsoring corporations.
2. I guess I covered the second reason. Your dentist probably doesn't even do "dental risk factor assessment" and management , so this is a choice to see a "specialist" to do his thing and then return to those who do restorations to do their thing for you. You'll have the best of both worlds with no challenge to long standing Doctor patient relationships. Besides, the sponsoring corporations are so interested in success to eradicate disease that it could be made even more worth your while to pass the information on to others and help them also save perhaps tens of thousands of dollars by being well rather than being sick and having to pay to get back to well again...........a personal consultation would be the best source of this opportunity to be part-of-the-solution for others besides yourself. Thanks. Good people are always welcome.
Some would also have good people in their inner circle of friends, family, etc. that would also want the benefits and the good news that dental caries could be prevented would travel down these naturally occuring pathways of relationships and eventually it would be spread nation-wide.You will not be asked to change your dentists for a couple of reasons:
1. Your success would make you a "role model of behavior change" and what you would be doing to
achieve that is not even offered but in a very few offices in Utah. A CureDontist doesn't use shots, and drills to do dental restorations, only risk assessments and teaching cure and risk management. When you return to your dentist for any dental restorations you could share that you learned to "cure" the disease before doing any fillings and that you have confidence and respect for his ability to take care of those things for you now. Perhaps there are others in his practice who would also like to consider the "be cavity-free for life". This would be an excellent way to bring the whole message of the surgeon general;that besides optimal oral health, achieving optimal general health also was "intrinsic". This would help the spread of membership in the growing group of the Optimal health wellness association, Patients' own which will be a powerful movement for good in the health care field. There will be more information offered to those who actually value optimal health and achieve a level of success. You will want to hear this!
So, no competition here with your family dentist. In fact, we would encourage him to offer the same "Optimal health" to his patients also and free expert training is available for him from the sponsoring corporations.
2. I guess I covered the second reason. Your dentist probably doesn't even do "dental risk factor assessment" and management , so this is a choice to see a "specialist" to do his thing and then return to those who do restorations to do their thing for you. You'll have the best of both worlds with no challenge to long standing Doctor patient relationships. Besides, the sponsoring corporations are so interested in success to eradicate disease that it could be made even more worth your while to pass the information on to others and help them also save perhaps tens of thousands of dollars by being well rather than being sick and having to pay to get back to well again...........a personal consultation would be the best source of this opportunity to be part-of-the-solution for others besides yourself. Thanks. Good people are always welcome.
An introduction to CAMBRA, Caries Management by Risk Assessment. Dentistry's new "Standard of Care".
CAMBRA: These first pages of the "CAMBRA Consensus Statement" are important to establish the credibility of this "standard" in dentistry from the importance and professional stature of those who are endorsing this consensus. (tapping this fiture twice will enlarge it enough to read it) As with first page, more of the most respected educators, scientific investigators and clinicians place their endorsement and approval on what this statement presents.
In 2007 a bold statement is made and endorsed by the deans and staff of major dental schools, some of the respected clinicians, lecturers and researchers in the nation.
As the quality and quantity of research findings accumulated, the previous statement by the US Surgeon General in his "National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health" that "safe and effective measures exist to "Prevent" ....Dental caries was superceded by the "CAMBRA Consensus" statement: Dental "Caries is both curable and preventable...."
The scientific findings which are the basis of this bold statement created a dynamic paradigm shift in all of dentistry. The basis of belief for "Traditional Dentistry" being the Plaque Theory basically proposed by Dr. Willoughby Miller in 1889 was reduced to "old dentistry" or "Traditional dentistry defined as 'drill-and-fill' dentistry" and the new standard was changing the methodology and attitude of using the "medical model" of analysis of risk factors to manage dental care rather than the treatment or "surgical" mode of managing dental disease.
For those of us well taught and practiced in Traditional Dentistry, reducing what we had been teaching for our entire careers to "myth" was a shocking experience. Even though we had not seen any change in the percentages of the population having dental decay for as much as 35 or more years, we still thought that doing fillings was helping managing disease. To actually be told that this approach had been considered "ineffective" had a ring of truth to it. To brush and floss our teeth to help control dental disease was compared to getting weeds out of our lawn by mowing the lawn....all you got was shorter weeds. It would take a careful chemotherapeutic intervention and "caries risk management"to make it happen based on the scientific breakthroughs of understanding about the dental "biofilm", specifically the "Cariogenic Biofilm" (causes dental decay). Even though we had fluoride taught to even be the panacea to dental disease, it was announced that it didn't have any significant reduction effect on dental caries.
May I invite you to see the power point production explaining CAMBRA and its relationship to "symptoms", "disease" and "risk factors", the "caries-g0-round" and a pictorial depiction of the overview of the very source of dental caries innoculated into a child's mouth and the progression into either cure or a cyclic experience with dental decay detection and it's expense.
I will be producing progressively more blogs in a chronological sequence to try to give you a brief introduction to understanding CAMBRA and giving you the foundation of "be cavity-free for life" that will change your life and the lives of all your family and friends for good.
Any questions as we go? feel free to call me at : 801 643-1812 or email me at: PatientsOwn@hotmail.com . Now on to the next chapter of CAMBRA....
The destructive "Until" principle
This little guy is who we call "the little doc". He has all sorts of information ranging from a 1 minute "git-r-done" session to the latest scientific research papers supporting the invitation to "be cavity-free for life". You could even ask to be a student in his "dental school for patients" OR NOT.
After 35 years of being a family and preventive dentist in the "traditional" dental field, I had one recurring statement that I think you need to hear about.
I call it the "until" principle.
for example: "doc, I've never had a cavity......until:
I got pregnant, I had diabetes, I took a job as a sheriff's deputy, I took just one medicine for a while, I got into a car accident, I got divorced, the dog died.............and on and on.
You can understand now why when in a discussion with people, they insist that they just don't get cavities and their children don't get any cavities , I get very concerned for them. They really wanted me to go away and didn't want to hear about a possible "until" principle or the "pants on fire" test to their statement.
It seems possible that with 99% of people up to the age of 45 experience dental decay in Utah (report from Dental Select in Utah Business magazine), they probably are, in their mind, that lone 1% that really doesn't get cavities nor their children either.........BUT NOT PROBABLE.
In an article by one of the most respected dental science researchers in the nation:
that even a person who does not have "active caries" or "any signs of damage" cannot be assigned a definite "low risk" category in light of the CAMBRA or Caries Management by Risk Assessment methodology.
She suggested that even in this unusually rare situation this confident patient will definitely be "until", they are subject sometime in their life to "life's stressors"such as the illness or death of a loved one, a car accident, leaving home for the first time, an argument with your spouse producing a disease susceptibility by upsetting the "Caries Risk Balance"(Dr. Featherstone, Dean of the UC at SF Dental School) pushing that person into "at risk" or possibly even "extreme risk" to Dental Caries needing immediate "risk assessment and management" intervention, possibly chemotherapeutic intervention.
OR
"until"events seemingly as as inocuous as taking medication(there are an estimated 3000 medications that will contribute to dry mouth-see www.carifree.com for the list) for the flu or a pulled muscle or high blood pressure ....... which silently caused a slowing down in saliva flow causing "hypo salivation" or an out-right "dry mouth" and the list of seemingly "safe" life experiences flows but
not "until" dental cavities occur as a big nasty surprise, will they listen to the warnings to gain the knowledge and ability to see and manage these future unexpected destructive "caries risk factors"....
I share these ideas with you because, as you will notice, this "until" principle can and will be in dangerous effect with changes which do not even include sugar, soft drinks, snacking or poor oral hygiene habits, even though these are definite "risks" that need to be managed. So be wise and don't get into lock-step with traditional dentistry thinking that these diet and hygiene risk factors or "soft teeth" are the only risk factors.
So, don't lulliby yourself into a "I never have cavities...." stupor, and play it safe. Make certain you are doing what it takes, and think like it will take to be and remain..."cavity-free for life"
Thanks for listening. Eradication of Dental Caries Campaign: 801 643-1812. Call the CureDontist before calling a traditional dentist. ("drill and fill"?)
"It's just one filling!" some valuable insights into this delusion
I have been a reparative dentist for 35 years and I've heard it all. One comment I hear is that the patient has had only one filling.
Really !?. How fortunate !?. It is going to be a nasty surprise down-the-road when you find out that the life span of a filling is about 12 to 15 years.....that's if it is not part of the 50% of dental restorations that get "recurrent decay" and has to be replaced earlier than expected..
So, it is like a mortgage on your tooth with probably a 65 year contract. Depending on your age when you get that filling, the average 20 year old could have to replace that filling possibly 4 to 8 times in his lifetime!
C.G. Sorensen D.D.S., "CureDontist"....... ("Be Cavity-free for Life".....a really good idea!)
Considering that costs of everything seems to double every 10-12 years, the last placement of that filling as an advanced senior citizen with no insurance and little money and possibly no transportation and not feeling very good........ could be looking at a $480 dollar filling that began at $20, and that's "only one" filling.
Along with the announcement that Dental "Caries is both curable and preventable....", comes the deeper understanding of the nature of the "Cariogenic Biofilm". The transition from a "healthy biofilm" to a "cariogenic biofilm"(one that contributes to dental decay) can happen rapidly and without warning to the "host" (you !). Certain "caries risk factors" can cause this to happen fairly easily and rapidly even to patients who "haven't had cavities", BUT it can take a lengthy and challenging "treatment" to get it back to being healthy again.
Most patients and an unnecessary number of their dentists haven't updated themselves from the simplistic description of the "traditional dentistry" and naively believe that somehow it will just take care of itself and cure itself on it's own with no effort from the patient.
IT'S NO WONDER WELL OVER 90% OF HUMANITY SUFFERS DENTAL DECAY FROM "DENTAL CARIES' DISEASE!!!!!.....AND CONTINUING TO BE WILLING TO PAY FOR DAMAGE TO THEIR TEETH FROM A CURABLE DISEASE!...INTO THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY AND INCREASING RAPIDLY...
So.....besides the replacements of this "one filling", if the Dental Caries disease that caused it is NOT overtly cured, there could be many more "only one filling" experiences in addition for the future.
Clear back in 2003, the US Surgeon General saw the situation clearly, thinking that the entire nation needed a "call to action" and a "wake-up call". (see the 2003 US Surgeon General's report "National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health", on the internet, free)
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