I've never seen a set of teeth walk into my office without a body attached. I've never seen anybody walk into my office without emotional attachments. And I've never seen someone with poor eating habits and a stressful lifestyle without the eventual manifestation of physical consequences.
So, in my practice of Health-Centered Dentistry, I find it important to learn as much as I can about your lifestyle and eating habits. I then share with you what I know about the interrelationships of your physical, emotional and dental health based on your profile. This information allows me to be a better dentist for you.
We all have different paths in life that create different tastes. That's why there are more flavors than chocolate and vanilla. So I believe each patient is an individual with individual needs. How I treat you and what I do for you depends on the bigger picture of who you are, not just what your teeth look like.
While mercury has been used in dental 'silver' fillings for over 160 years, its use has always been filled with controversy. There has never been a dental filling material so long used and so long opposed. Even when it was introduced to the United States in 1834, physicians called mercury 's use in tooth repair malpractice. Yet, this obsolete, unhealthy and ugly filling, the mercury amalgam, is still with us.
Mercury is dangerous, more poisonous than lead or arsenic. Dental 'silver' amalgams are composed of mostly mercury. They release mercury vapor into the body 24 hours a day. And, although more than a dozen new filling materials have been shown to be superior to silver-mercury amalgam, it is still the most often used material in dentistry.
The whole idea behind healthcare is to seek the best possible method of treatment at all times. Change is natural and necessary. What has been done in the past is not always the best for the future. By educating the dental consumer, I believe they can make a difference so that wise, knowledgeable choices may be made.
Today, there is overwhelming evidence that using mercury fillings in dentistry is second-rate at best, extremely toxic at worst. Because of the threat mercury poses to our health and the health of our planet, it clearly has no place in the future of dentistry.
Periodically dentures need to be re-aligned or re-adjusted to fit your mouth. When you visit our practice, you can drop off your prosthetics in the morning for repairs and pick it up the same afternoon.