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Stephen A. Lawrence introduces readers to holistic dental care and its role in overall health.
Most people America would like to maintain healthy teeth and gums during their lifetime. While conventional dental care still relies on outdated treatment methods, including the use of toxic elements such as mercury and fluoride, this is not the way dentistry must be practiced, and more and more patients are beginning to realize that there are safer, more effective ways to care for their teeth and gums.
Holistic Dental Care: Your Mind, Body, and Spirit Guide to Optimal Health and a Beautiful Smile presents a positive, detailed, and easy-to-read argument for the benefits of a more open-minded, progressive, and integrative approach to dental care and overall health. Scientific studies suggest that our mind/body relationship, psychological function, physical activity, and the food we eat all affect us at biological levels, where our habits can alter our immune system and affect our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. When we get sick on any level, from an ordinary cold to a cavity or gum disease, it's usually because of some imbalance in our immune system, often triggered by chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and toxins.
Holistic dentistry addresses these issues by supporting a patient's comprehensive health. Holistic dentist Stephen A. Lawrence's new work introduces readers to safer, gentler, and more efficient way of treating their mouths and bodies, along with addressing their overall wellness. He offers a reader-friendly tour through how our body works, and approaches dental health through the lens of comprehensive wellness and summarizes current holistic dental healthcare ideas and products--to stop cavities and gum disease, rebuild teeth at home, and positively affect patients and those around them--as we strive to spread wellness worldwide. Considering the current explosion of green living all over America, the increased awareness of how toxins affect our health, and a rising interest in bettering our general quality of life through wellness and mindfulness, this work fills a gap in understanding how holistic dental health care can be part of an overall approach to healthier living now.
Author Notes
Stephen A. Lawrence, DDS, MDiv, is a licensed dentist in California and an ordained mitred archpriest in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. He has dedicated his career to helping people achieve and maintain optimal health and vitality. Over the course of his three-decade-long professional life, he has become one of America's leaders in the field of holistic dental health care and nutritional counseling.
David Tabatsky is a writer, editor, teacher, and performing artist. He is coauthor of Reimagining Women's Cancers and Reimagining Men's Cancers, author of Write for Life: Communicating Your Way Through Cancer, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul's The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love, and editor of Elizabeth Bayer's It's Just a Word. He was the consulting editor for Mario Thomas's New York Times bestseller The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn. His memoir, American Misfit, was published in 2017.
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Booklist Review
First-time author Lawrence, a holistic dentist and spiritual counselor, with assistance from coauthor Tabatsky, questions many commonly held ideas about oral health. For example, he thinks flossing is an ineffective way to fight gum disease and cavities and that silver-mercury fillings can lead to problems like headaches and memory loss. He also views fluoride as a no-no and suggests brushing one's teeth with plain baking soda to neutralize acids in the mouth. He likes foods rich in the amino acid arginine (spinach, soy, nuts, seeds, dark chocolate, seaweed) and dislikes gluten-filled refined flours in breads, muffins, and pastas because they stick to the teeth and cause decay. The book's three sections cover the physical body, the emotional body, and the spiritual body, and Lawrence may lose some readers when he writes about chakras, energy points in the body, and when he goes well beyond dentistry with such advice as Be an instrument of peace, love, and joy to all those around you. Still, Lawrence offers much to think about as he challenges mainstream dentistry.--Karen Springen Copyright 2018 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction-Holistic Dentistry: A Comprehensive Approach to Health and Wellness | p. 1 |
| Part I Our Physical Body | p. 9 |
| 1 Dental Healthcare 101 | p. 11 |
| A Path to Optimal Health and Vitality | p. 12 |
| A Brief History of Cavities and Gum Disease | p. 12 |
| The Three Bs: Bugs, Biofilm, and Balance | p. 14 |
| Dental Disease and Your Health | p. 19 |
| How Long Do You Want to Keep Your Teeth? | p. 21 |
| Great Teeth and Gums | p. 22 |
| What About-Flossing? | p. 27 |
| A Word on Electric Toothbrushes | p. 27 |
| Food | p. 28 |
| Tooth Picking, Soft Picks, Oil Pulling, and Diluted Bleach Mouth Rinse | p. 33 |
| Six Best Ways to Fight Tooth Decay | p. 38 |
| Caries Management Protocol | p. 41 |
| Adjunctive Therapies | p. 43 |
| Rebuilding the Teeth Naturally | p. 43 |
| Dentistry's Best Kept Secret | p. 44 |
| Rebuilding your Gums Naturally | p. 46 |
| What Can You Do Now? | p. 46 |
| 2 From Our Mind to Our Mouth: Holistic Dentistry and the Medical Health Connection | p. 49 |
| From Barbers to Bacteria: A Brief History of Dental Healthcare | p. 50 |
| Biology | p. 51 |
| The Discovery of Vitamin C | p. 53 |
| Vitamin C and You | p. 53 |
| Chemistry | p. 59 |
| Dental Fillings and Crowns | p. 60 |
| Metals in Dentistry | p. 61 |
| Root Canal Treated Teeth | p. 61 |
| Anesthetics in Dentistry | p. 62 |
| A Word on Fluoride | p. 64 |
| Chemicals in Dental Hygiene Products | p. 64 |
| Biochemistry | p. 65 |
| Partnering with Your Dentist | p. 65 |
| The Perils of Chronic Inflammation and Oxidative Stress | p. 67 |
| We Are One | p. 67 |
| 3 Nutrition: How "Friendly" Foods Affect Your Teeth and Gums | p. 69 |
| What Should I Eat? | p. 69 |
| Water | p. 70 |
| Fats, Sugars, and Proteins | p. 71 |
| Essential Amino Acids | p. 73 |
| Vitamins | p. 75 |
| Minerals | p. 77 |
| Essential Vitamins and Minerals | p. 78 |
| Recommended Diets | p. 78 |
| A Deeper Dive into Our Diet | p. 79 |
| Beware the Acid Attack! | p. 80 |
| What about Gluten? | p. 81 |
| Nutrition and Your Immune System | p. 82 |
| Dr. Wright's Recommendations | p. 83 |
| Rebuilding Your Teeth with Good Nutrition | p. 84 |
| Foods and pH Levels and Your Body | p. 85 |
| Final Thoughts | p. 86 |
| 4 Chakras, Meridians, and the Heart: How Matter and Energy Affect Your Oral Health | p. 89 |
| Physics and the World | p. 90 |
| Quantum Physics | p. 91 |
| Energy Levels and Your Teeth and Gums | p. 96 |
| Kirlian Photography | p. 97 |
| Exploring Chakras | p. 98 |
| Meridian Systems | p. 100 |
| Solutions | p. 100 |
| A Final Thought on Downward Causation | p. 102 |
| Part II Our Emotional Body | p. 105 |
| 5 Stress Busters: A Roadmap to Inner Peace | p. 107 |
| The Elephant in Every Room | p. 108 |
| Oral Stress | p. 108 |
| The Big Five | p. 109 |
| From Victim to Victor | p. 115 |
| 6 Love and Wellness | p. 117 |
| Make Your Own Toothpaste | p. 119 |
| How Your Choices Affect Your Emotional Health | p. 120 |
| The Big Choice | p. 121 |
| Forgiveness | p. 123 |
| 7 The Balance of the Universe and Your Teeth | p. 125 |
| Practical Tools to Keep Balanced and Healthy | p. 127 |
| Pets as Delegates | p. 127 |
| Play | p. 128 |
| Diet and Nutrition | p. 128 |
| Positive Thinking | p. 129 |
| Prayer and Intention | p. 130 |
| Blessings | p. 130 |
| Part III Our Spiritual Body | p. 133 |
| 8 Love and Healing | p. 135 |
| What Is Dis-ease? | p. 136 |
| Love versus Fear | p. 136 |
| The Concept of Free Will | p. 137 |
| Water and Life | p. 137 |
| Free Will before Birth | p. 138 |
| High and Low Spiritual Frequencies | p. 138 |
| Free Will Protection | p. 139 |
| Your Spiritual Toolkit | p. 139 |
| Protecting Yourself at Home and in Business | p. 140 |
| Everything is Connected | p. 141 |
| Establishing a Spiritual Connection | p. 141 |
| Making the Most of Your Spiritual Toolkit | p. 142 |
| Conclusion | p. 145 |
| Notes | p. 149 |
| Bibliography | p. 157 |
| Index | p. 163 |
| About the Authors | p. 171 |
