Byron Dental CentreA holistic approach to dental health and well being
Conscious Dentistry
What is Holistic?
The basic philosophy of all holistic practice is that everything in the body is connected meaning we take into account the whole body in the context of healing.
What is Conscious Dentistry?
Conscious Dentistry often referred to as Holistic Dentistry is concerned with:
- the health of the mouth (teeth, gums, and jaw) and its impact on the health of the body
- the health of the body and its impact on the health of the mouth
Why choose a Holistic Approach?
By choosing a holistic approach with a Conscious Dentist you are making a commitment to having a healthier mouth and a healthier body.
My aim as a Conscious Dentist is to provide you with the best preventive dental program. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that:
- your teeth, gums, jaw bone and jaw muscles are free of disease and infection
- the dental filling materials used are compatible with your body
- the dental treatments performed do not impact negatively on your body
- your body is functioning optimally to minimise the risk of dental disease
The Holistic v’s the Traditional Model
The Traditional medical model is based on identifying symptoms, diagnosing disease states and performing treatments to remove the symptoms.
The Holistic Health model is based on identifying the stress patterns creating the symptoms and performing treatments to aid the body to establish balance and optimal health.
Your personal degrees of balance, health and wellbeing can be measured by the flow of energy through the acupuncture meridians.
As a Conscious Dentist, in my practice I utilise both models as they compliment each other to achieve results that surpass each model on their own.
The Whole Health Program
The Whole Health Program involves assessing your current dental health and treating it with a combination of conventional dental (fillings, extractions, crowns and bridges etc) and holistic treatments. (Kinesiology, Kinesiopathy, EAV testing, dental acupuncture, nutritional programs for health and detoxification and Energetic Healing)
How can an Unhealthy Body cause an Unhealthy Mouth.
The Holistic model recognises that stress affects our health and wellbeing, and can exist in various forms.
- Emotional - negative emotional stress and reactions in life
- Mental - negative attitudes and beliefs we develop in life
- Nutritional / Biochemical - our ability to nourish (utilise, uptake and digest) ourselves adequately with nutrients from food and supplements
- Structural / Biomechanical - our ability to achieve and maintain a good posture, healthy spine and body alignment from head to feet
- Environmental / Lifestyle - other external things that may effect us eg: pollution,
electromagnetic radiation
In an ideal sense if we could resolve these stresses or live free of them we would naturally exist in a state of harmony of Mind, Body and Spirit.
However the truth is that most of us have accumulated stresses that remain unresolved causing imbalance to our body with the potential for disease to manifest.
This can be in the form of dental disease eg: decayed, broken, worn down, infected teeth / gum disease, jaw joint and muscular imbalances.
Emotional stress can contribute to teeth clenching and grinding resulting in worn down, damaged teeth and infected gums as well as stress and strain being activated in the jaw, head, neck and facial muscles.
Poor Nutrition can lead to biochemical imbalances in the body causing tooth decay and or gum disease.
Postural and Structural imbalances associated with the skull, spine, pelvis, feet, and other joints and muscles of the body can affect the stability of the jaw joint and biting function of the teeth.
How can an Unhealthy Mouth Cause and Unhealthy Body?
In the context of dental health and dentistry there are a number of stress patterns that can affect the body. These dental stresses are:
- Emotional - Fear, anxiety and any negative emotional reactions to dentistry and dental procedures. Apart from making the procedures uncomfortable it can cause you to delay dental work needed.
- Mental - Negative attitudes and beliefs about dentistry and dental treatments.
- Structural / Biomechanical - poor alignment of the teeth can have a negative effect on the jaw, skull, spine and musculature of the body and be the cause of many related complaints such as headache, neck and shoulder pain.
- Material Toxicity / Biochemical Compatibility - The dental materials used can affect the health of the body negatively (eg; mercury in dental amalgam).
- Bacterial Infections - infections in the mouth can create infections in the body eg: chronic long standing gum disease, chronic infections from root canal filled or dead teeth.
- Electromagnetic - metals in the mouth can create harmful electric currents that can disturb the nervous system and the energy flow in the body. It is therefore preferable to avoid or minimise the combination of metal filling materials in the mouth.
Body / Teeth / Dental Disease Connection
All the teeth align with specific body parts by way of a connection to the acupuncture meridians used in traditional Chinese medicine.
In addition to the Traditional means of disease spreading around the body namely blood and lymph circulation there is also a means for energy imbalances to move around the body via these meridian pathways.
My primary goal as a Conscious Dentist is to eliminate the dental and body stresses and create a healthier mouth and healthier body.