Dentist Blog

Lately, there's more and more of a buzz about alternative medicine in the United States. The United States is specified here because many countries that are considered a few centuries or so behind in technological advancement and general industrial development benefiting their entire nation are actually ahead of us in the use of alternative, mostly homeopathic medicine. We must understand that all medicinal remedies, at one point, came from the natural world. It's all we had. Everything we used to relieve pain, to boost health, to add nutrients, etc., all of it came mostly from plant life. Even the pills and other medicines given to us by our general physicians in this day and age had it's original form in plant life. This is where some people might say that we have stumbled. Today's medicinal remedies are synthetically manufactured, getting away from the more original plant-based form. This is true in almost all health care remedies or medicines, even dentistry to a certain extent.

So this begs the question, is there such a thing as alternative dentistry? Yes there is! What does that entail, then? I'll tell you! This approach to dentistry is based on holistic principles and therapies. Holistic dentists believe that the general health of the mouth is not separate from the general health of the person.

• The physical and mental state of the person will affect dental health, and vice versa.
• It recognizes that dental disease may be a cause or a result of other ailments.
• Diet is very important to oral health.
• Nutritional healing and diet control are important in the holistic approach to healing.
• Nutritional healing is based on the use of vitamins, minerals, herbs and food supplements.