There is a whole person attached to every tooth

There is a whole person attached to every tooth

The effects of diseased teeth on the body have been known since Sumerian and ancient Egyptian times. Today, however, official university medicine and dentistry tend to dispute them or regard them as exceptions, although there is now sufficient basic research to demonstrate and explain, for example, the phenomena of so-called focal effects, that is, the influence on the body of chronic inflammation in the dental, oral and maxillofacial region. Naturally, this also applies to chronically inflamed sites, such as scars, in other regions of the body, which can likewise sustain symptoms far from the site of inflammation.

It is astonishing that, today, the strongest impetus for integration into holistic medical thinking should come from a more mechanistically oriented discipline such as dentistry.

It is therefore to the credit of holistic dentistry that it draws attention to the connections between the teeth and the rest of the body.

These are not one-way streets, but reciprocal relationships between the jaw region and the body, including psychological and emotional ones.

For example, someone suffering from lovesickness will often have inflamed gum pockets around a lower wisdom tooth if it has not fully emerged from the jaw because of a lack of space.

Inflammation around the upper front teeth that refuses to heal often indicates a relationship problem.

Likewise, a frontal migraine can be triggered by a focus at one of the front teeth, which are somatically associated with the urogenital region. Conversely, chronic kidney inflammation or prostatitis, for example, can sustain symptoms in the front-tooth region that cannot be explained locally.

An incorrect jaw position can also cause a wide variety of symptoms, such as headaches, back problems, pelvic misalignment and even a functionally shortened leg.

Thus, there is always a whole person attached to every tooth.

In this sense, holistic dentistry views the human being as a hologram with so-called somatotopies — representations of entire systems — and reflex zones through which diagnostic conclusions can be drawn and therapeutic measures taken.

The best-known example is the representation of the human being on the feet, the so-called foot

reflex zone, through which foot reflexology massage can influence the entire body and thus the teeth as well. But the auricle of the ear is also particularly suitable for this, especially for the dentist.

Indeed, every acupuncture point can itself be regarded as a “structural hologram” (Rossaint), through which the therapist can consciously connect with the “knowing field” (Uhlsamer, Hellinger) or “morphic field” (Sheldrake) — in this case particularly in relation to the patient — in order to make diagnoses and carry out treatments.

The relationships mentioned above can then be identified and checked by muscle testing, or kinesiology, as a bioenergetic regulatory method.

It also serves to determine which dental materials an individual tolerates or does not tolerate, and to identify medications that are effective or that damage the immune system.

In the psychological and emotional sphere, it is the best means of communicating with the patient's unconscious or subconscious to determine the background and “causes” of illness and/or stress, including in the dental, oral and maxillofacial region.