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 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.

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)

Eradicate Dental Caries in 2010....Campaign....

Headquarters: 710 40th street, South Ogden, Utah 84317

801 643-1812 (toll free: 800 745-0159)

email: www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com or

www.clifford194070@gmail.com

We don't do shots, drilling, filling or extractions.....only cure of Dental Caries disease.

How many chickens in an egg? How many apples in a seed? How many avoided fillings in CURE?

This image with the dialogue gives a very time sensitive and urgent invitation to people to consider just how much of a "major historic event" that can take place if people will actually accept the invitation of world class dental wellness scientists and do what it takes to "be cavity-free for life". You can view this graph and even read the dialogue if you tap the picture twice until it enlarges enough to read the dialogue. Not many times do we get to be a part of such a momentous happening in our lives or in the history of mankind. I will be happy to send an attachment of this graph with dialogue via email, if you contact me. Please take the dialogue seriously and pass it on to others so that we actually could see the eradication of dental caries as depicted on this graph with the extreme downward plunge rather than the continuing path upwards to ad an additional increase to our dental expenditures of $47.4 billions in addition to the $119.9 we probably will have this year. You may call me at : 801 643-1812 or email me at " www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com or at the end of this post.



...........................................................THE END IS COMING................................................................

This really is ominous to one of two ways: (depending on what patients choose!)

1. The end of the centuries-long pandemic, deadly and very expensive disease, Dental Caries.

AND
the END of out-of-control $billions per year increase in expenditures for dental care and the establishment of empowerment of patients to choose independent, patient controlled, wellness over the dependence on treatment oriented, drill-and-fill dentists and dental insurances or government subsidy schemes.( eradicating dental caries in the nation will have at least three financial boosts:

1. No cavities...........no fillings..........no expense for fillings.........no more "recurrent decay" on existing restorations.(estimated to be on 50% of restorations placed by dentists). This alone should reduce the annual expenditure for dental care by 50% to possibly 75%). Dental health maintenance with "be cavity-free for life" will obviously be very affordable for everyone.

2. Arresting the increases in dental expenditures for the future.(just between 2010 and estimated costs for 2015 are $47.4 billion dollars-INCREASE-not counting the continuance of each yearly amount adding to the increase!...ie: 2011, next year:-$119.9 billion PLUS the estimated $9.4 billion dollar INCREASE=a whopping $129.3 billion just next year! This is "sticker shock" big time and we'd be heading towards $167.3 billion in just 5 more years.

3. A person who is "cavity-free for life" will soon find out that adding the insurance middle man expense to the small amount of "prevention" costs won't make any sense and dental insurances will be destroyed by attrition. This will make a significant reduction in costs also.

OR

2. be part of a "patient default"society,(continue to be indifferent and do nothing) and continue on up the estimated dizzy climb towards the $167.3 billion dollar federal government estimate of dental care expenditures in 2015.....and on and on into the future..(as probably estimated by the federal government, again).

Beware: This scenario will probably invite government "mandates" to protect the thumbsuckers from themselves since they won't do anything on their own dragging the rest of us into a very bad situation.!!
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It is becoming increasingly obvious, that this is NOT a spectator sport!

The Fireman and the Curedontist

The CureDontist and the Fireman have many things in common.


Fireman: put the fire OUT before moving in new stuff into your house.

Curedontist: Cure the Dental Caries disease before you
have any new restorations placed. (NOTE: it has been announced by dental health scientists that "recurrent decay" will happen on about 50% of restorations placed by dentists: the reason is that they placed the fillings in the mouth without first curing Dental Caries, the disease that caused the cavities in the first place)

Fireman: My job is to assist you to avoid fires altogether NOT to have to constantly fight preventable fires.

Curedontist: My success and goals are to help you and
your family be-cavity-free for life and to enjoy Optimal
general health.

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For your next regular dental check up: Try the Curedontist. He doesn't get paid for cavities, but his success is when you are "cavity-free for life" and enjoy "Optimal general Health"

C.G.Sorensen, D.D.S. CureDontist
801 643-1812 www.clifford194070@gmail.com or www. PatientsOwn@hotmail.com

You deserve to be cavity-free for life
Your children deserve to be cavity-free for life