It is interesting that we generally regard and treat teeth as if they
were dead and separate from the rest of the body.
We clean them, drill
holes in them and extract them: but as a culture we are shockingly ignorant
about our mouths.
Yet we grow two sets of teeth and they have some powers of
self healing. The gums and supporting bony jaw have an ability to
regenerate, and it is for this reason that treating oral problems can be very
successful. With our holistic view of peoples’ health we can see that the
condition of a person’s teeth and jaw indicates their skeletal health status:
it’s the place where your bones come to the surface. Also teeth are very
indicative of your stress levels. You grit your teeth, clench them, grind them,
bite off more than you can chew, get your teeth on edge – all these expressions
denote emotional difficulties, and we take that into consideration in
treatment.
Soft tissue – gums – are
usually easy to treat. We can restore bleeding gums, those that leak septic stuff, those
with pyorrhoea and gingivitis, and the rate of success here is about 95%.
Receding gums are more difficult, although we can stop further erosion. Deeper
down, we can clean out abscesses without the need for repeated antibiotics, and
are having some success with re-growth of the bony jaw; but this is a slow
process
Chronic oral problems are often as a result of modern
living, where high stress levels are replacing malnutrition as a causative
factor and hence our homoeopathic reference books are inadequate on this
subject. We are interested in pursuing knowledge of oral diseases as
very few therapists work in this field, and we have been delighted with how much
we can achieve. Once a tooth has been extracted you can never have it back, and
even with all the miracles of modern dentistry there is still nothing better
than your own healthy mouth.
