Taking care of your teeth is one of the most important thing in your overall health. When there is not a big issue with your teeth, it's easy to forget you maybe are creating one with your poor choises, you did not even know.
One big issue is metal-free dentistry. Most of common dentists know very little about the risks of putting certain metals in peoples' mouths.
There is many good books to read on this subject:
Tooth Truth
by Dr. Frank J. Jerome
Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment : What You Can Do to Get Better, How Your Doctor Can Help
by Andrew Cutler Ph.D.
Uninformed Consent : The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care
by Dr. Hal Huggins
Each of our tooth has direct link to one of our body organs. Problem with one of our tooths means problem in it's related organ, sooner or later. Common bacteria in teeth finds it's way to the correlating organs as well. There are many well known correlations, which common dentists are not aware of. You better study yourself first some basics of holistic dentistry and be sure your dentist knows at least what you have studied. If he doesn't, you better find one who does, for your own sake. All metals are to be avoided placing permanently in mouth. Most dentists who doesn't know that there are dental plastics which are metal-free and there are dental plastics which contain metals to increase strength or give color. Everyone should choise metal-free plastic to not cause health related problems for the future.
Using bridges to keep a dead tooth in it's place or hiding metals under shiny new crowns are well known, continuously done methods, but those are simply methods that should be avoided in any cost. If you can choose between a teeth or severe drop of your overall immunity, which one to choose? We should avoid anything potentially harming our immunity. Instead, we should try to boost our immunity in daily basis.
We get a load of substance unfamiliar to our body each day. This load comes both orally and through our biggest organ, skin. We can somewhat control, what we put in our mouths. And we shall control. There is endless variety of stuff to be consumed orally and even longer list of ingredients they are made of. Not everything need to be cut in dust and recreate from scratch, how ever some might.
For example to avoid part of the daily substances strange to your body, you could prepare your dental hygiene products by yourself. That isn't difficult and doesn't take much time. It's your life and you take the best out of it. Making things by yourself tend to be fun as well.
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