Optimal Oral Health is just the FIRST step. so say the experts

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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"...?

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.