Did you know the mouth was part of the body?

by barbara sklar
www.trancndental.homestead.com

Did you know that the mouth was connected to the rest of the body? Since I've practiced as a Independent Registered Dental Hygienist for the past 7 years, I let my patients in on this secret. For 31 years prior to this opportunity I always believed like everyone else that Dentistry and Medicine were separate and that the mouth didn't belong to medicine. Doctors and Dentists are separate. Dentistry was was less then!!

It is amazing how important the mouth is to our overall health. Digestion starts right here with the stimulation of the salivary glands.How about chewing? What do you think the throat and the esphogus must feel when a huge piece of meat goes down without being chewed? What about the gastric juices having to burn that up or a fat piece of unchewed meat getting stuck in the intestines.

I believe it is time that we start looking at Dentisty in a wholistic way. We need to realize that there is more to the mouth and the teeth then we have been told over the years. There is more to just drilling and filling or cleaning and scraping.

We need to look at the mouth as it relates to the organs in the body. We need to look at the energy points and meridian lines that go into the teeth. There is an energetic connection that flows through the body and the teeth and mouth are part of that flow. We need to look at how poisons are put into our body with improper dental materials. How antibiotics are distributed to patients indiscrimately.

Perhaps there is a reason that people get headaches when the jaw is out of alignment. How about looking at our mouths in a whole new way. What about natural toothpastes-non with sodium laurel sulfate which is poison. What about aromatherapy instead of antibiotics.What about hypnotherapy instead of anesthesia? The mind is very powerful so why not use it.

This article that I am writing is no more than to raise the reader's consciousness in regards to Dentistry taking a more wholistic approach. Be open to that possibility. I don't believe it is necessary to be anal in the oral. We have choice.