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.

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)

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