Holistic Dentistry vs Conventional Care
Holistic dentistry vs conventional care – understand the differences in philosophy, materials, diagnostics and treatment planning for whole-body health.
Open Wide. Now Smell The Neem.
Oral health • Natural medicine • The future of the practice The dentist’s chair is the most reliably terrifying seat in civilian life. There is a particular kind of dread that belongs exclusively to the dental waiting room. The laminated leaflets. The faint chemical reek of someone else’s anxiety. The receptionist who smiles at you […]
How To Be Relaxed At The Dentist
Dentistry is one of civilisation’s quieter absurdities: a profession devoted entirely to persuading otherwise rational adults to recline backwards under a blinding lamp while a stranger rummages about inside their skull with a collection of instruments that would not look out of place in a medieval locksmith’s toolkit. The whole arrangement is so faintly sinister […]
The Tooth Is Not Just A Tooth
Dentistry, that small, brightly lit principality of the human body, has spent the last decades busily polishing its credentials. We’ve invented ever more baroque filling materials, perfected the art of embalming dead teeth with root canals, and installed zirconia implants like tiny kitchen worktops. Dentists now have training courses for everything except, it seems, remembering […]
Filling Me Softly
The Dirty Secret of White Fillings Dentists are the only people allowed to ask you questions while operating power tools inside your face. And, like actors in arthouse films, they come with a preference, gold, silver, or white? No, not jewellery or political donors, but fillings. You sit in the chair, your mouth clamped open […]
Root Canals: A Bit Like Plumbing, But In Your Mouth
Root Canals: Just the words have a medieval whiff to them, like leeches or trepanning. They sound vaguely torturous, suspiciously clinical, and yet, every year, dentists the world over perform nearly 60 million of them. That’s a lot of drilled-out, hollowed-in, filled-up teeth. Half the world’s population has at least one. It’s practically a rite […]
Gum Dis-ease
. Chapter 3 explains Why You Get Gum Disease . Gum Disease, also known as Periodontal Disease or Gingivitis isn’t a mysterious condition that strikes without warning. The first signs of gum disease are easy to diagnose and, contrary to popular belief, often already originate in the teenage years. No matter how old you are, […]
Tooth Decay Starts From The Inside
Chapter 2 shows WHY tooth decay starts from the inside
The Living tooth
Chapter 1 provides a list of all tooth parts and a short video clip into the structure of a tooth.
How You Avoid The Dark Side Of Dentistry
Discover Helen Butler´s thoughtful view on dentistry while we`ve been on Tom Evans´s workshop “Author´s Re-Treat”. Get inspired!
Go for the real smile
Spiders, they keep appearing all around me, crawling over my book. Their eight legs clattering along. Weaving their intricate webs of lies and deceit and so we weave. We spin those webs, casting out our thoughts and feelings. Catching our prey within it. Like the venus fly trap. We send out our scent into the night. Attracting all the honey and when we do and we get one that sniffs a bit too close, then bang, we snap shut and we keep a tight hold. No way are we letting go of the prey.
