extraction - regular or holistic/biological dentist?

[weliveintheforest]

Is there much difference in getting a tooth extracted by a holistic or biological dentist compared to a conventional one?

[MoonMum]

Hi, i just came across your post. i got two molars extracted (two root canals with gold crowns i wanted to get rid of). i felt so much better after it. dead teeth and root canals should come out of the mouth.
as far as i understand the narcotics used are different.
Holistic dentists also (supposed to) know how to clean the empty socket (important!)

from drhuldaclark.org
After extracting rotten or filled teeth, the dentist or surgeon needs to do two things before stitching up the wound: cavitation cleansing and amalgam cleanup.

Huggins Cavitation Cleaning

The tooth was held in the socket by soft tissues like tiny ligaments. Unless these are removed, too, they will decay and provide opportunity for bacteria to reside there. The sockets left behind should be carefully cleaned with special tools for this purpose.

This procedure has been taught in the past by Dr. Hal Huggins and many dentists are familiar with it. It is called cavitation cleaning. It prevents future infection and inability to heal at that site. In spite of such superior treatment of the socket, you may occasionally expect a bone fragment to reveal itself later. As it loosens and works its way out, infection and pain accompany it. Go back to the dentist. This could be a source of your pain elsewhere in your body if it is not removed.

While the new sockets are being cleaned, any old infected sockets (cavitations) should be cleaned out as well. The dentist can spot the obvious cavitations on the panoramic X-ray. Afterwards, each cavitation site also gets squirted with diluted Lugol's solution or straight white iodine or straight colloidal silver. Hidden cavitations (those that don't show up on the X-ray) can be cleared without surgery; we will discuss this soon.

Arechiga Gum Cleaning

The second task after extracting your teeth, and cleaning cavitations is to remove imbedded amalgam. This procedure has been developed by Dr. Benjamin Arechiga of Mexico. Each quadrant of your mouth needs an amalgam cleanup. The top of the gum line will be gray from absorbed mercury. It is easiest for you to have this done while extractions are being done. The dentist begins by cutting a straight line on top of the bony ridge of the j aw where teeth once were.

Next, he/she snips away 1/8 inch (3 mm) of the gum on each side of the incision. A ribbon, 1/8 inch wide and extending from the wisdom teeth to the closest front tooth is discarded. The remaining gum tissue stretches over the top easily and is sutured over. Surprisingly, the new gum tissue heals much faster than the old, mercury-saturated gums. You can count on your gums being healed in two to three days. The new gum tissue produces a strong even union, without small holes where food can get trapped. We call it the Arechiga technique, after the oral surgeon who invented it. While the dentist is cutting out mercury drenched gum tissue, the exposed bone can be cleaned of amalgam bits that are easy to spot now.

Holistic dental referral list from hulda clark:
http://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/h...t12may07.shtml

good luck!

[MyLilPwny]

Yes, there is a difference with at least one thing that I'm aware of. Conventional dentists do not acknowledge the existence of cavitations, which tend to form when a tooth is extracted and not all of the dead bone is removed and that spot forms a cavitation that becomes toxic and filled with bacteria. The conventional dentist will often times leave the dead bone in the jaw and not pull everything out. From my experience, I even had a difficult time finding a holistic dentist who knew what cavitations were. I had 6 teeth extracted by conventional dentists, many years ago (4 of them wisdom teeth). My holistic/biological dentist used the Cavitat scan to check for cavitations and 3 of my extraction sites are showing cavitations. So far, I only had one of them cleaned out (the one showing the worst infection) because its an expensive procedure, but the dentist had to go back in down beneath my gums, cutting away to reach the cavitation and remove the dead bone and clean out the infection. I wasn't even showing any symptoms of infection...yet (it would probably take a few decades for something to start going wrong in me), but I'm taking care of the cavitations as prevention.

[Mother Cake]

So is this something that should be done with all extractions? Or is it only an issue if the tooth is already decayed/filled/etc? It looks like I'll be having my wisdom teeth out, (ugh!) and I'd like to "do it right" the first time, rather than go through what the pp is going through later.

Hope it goes well for you, ThereseReich, hugs!

[weliveintheforest]

If there is no amalgam, and the tooth comes out cleanly, is cavitation still a concern?

[Mother Cake]

Anyone have any answers please? I have my consult tomorrow.

[MyLilPwny]

Originally Posted by Mother Cake

So is this something that should be done with all extractions? Or is it only an issue if the tooth is already decayed/filled/etc? It looks like I'll be having my wisdom teeth out, (ugh!) and I'd like to "do it right" the first time, rather than go through what the pp is going through later.

Hope it goes well for you, ThereseReich, hugs!

It has to be done with all extractions. I found this for you with some more information that explains it:

Routine dental extractions involve just the withdrawal of a tooth, intact or in pieces. As long as all of the bony tooth is removed, the extraction is considered to be complete. A most critical factor, however, in socket healing is not addressed by this standard approach. The periodontal ligament, which is the connective tissue attaching the tooth to the alveolar bone, is seldom removed as part of the extraction procedure.

See: http://livingnetwork.co.za/dentalnet...tion-protocol/

So when I had my cavitation surgery, apparently it was this periodontal ligament that the dentist had to dig in and remove so that the socket could heal.