Something hurts? Fix the tooth.Gums bleed? Buy better toothpaste.Bad breath? Find a stronger mouthwash.Missing tooth? Replace it. We have somehow managed to turn dentistry into a form of plumbing. Then you are sent home to carry on pretending that the mouth has nothing to do with the rest of you. Which is odd, because the […]
Holistic dentistry vs conventional care – understand the differences in philosophy, materials, diagnostics and treatment planning for whole-body health.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
. 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, […]
Chapter 2 shows WHY tooth decay starts from the inside
Chapter 1 provides a list of all tooth parts and a short video clip into the structure of a tooth.
