Thank you so much Janey for helping create awareness of such an important issue and for sharing my dental journey - a 'ticking time bomb' indeed. A pandemic in itself. I am a visionary, a connector of people, and I never lose hope of my dream for around 6 years of co-creating a much needed new era of non-toxic dentistry for the UK ... and it would not be a space of gas lighting and exploitation of people when they are often at their most vulnerable. Get the right team and anything is possible is my belief!
Thank you Janey, great article. It's so sad that we're only just beginning to realise how complex and inter-connected the human body is. You can't just remove one part and expect there to be no knock on effects. I believe in the future we'll look back at dentists today as barbarians. Removing healthy, living teeth just to make "room in the mouth" for braces and orthodontic treatment will seem absurd to future generations, once the importance of teeth are understood. If you can hang on to your natural teeth, you simply must at all costs. If you have had a root canal and therefore come to the conclusion that the safest long-term option is to have the tooth/teeth extracted, unfortunately ceramic implants are currently very expensive, running into the thousands of pounds per tooth. I have two upper molars that have had root canals, and a quote from a biological dentist to extract and put in two ceramic implants was over £9,000! But the thing is, you can't really just extract and not replace. If you leave a gap in your teeth, your remaining teeth start to shift about as they all lean on each other and having all of them in place basically keeps the whole thing stable. Remove one and leave a hole will cause the neighbouring teeth to lose their support and start to shift around which causes its own set of problems. Not to mention that once the root of the tooth is no longer in the jaw bone because you've pulled it out, the body starts to think that the bone in that area is no longer necessary so you start to get bone loss. That's when you can get the situation that if you've had a tooth extracted a while ago and not had an implant put in straight away, after a while there won't be enough jaw bone left in the root site to support an implant. Basically, your mouth health is extremely complicated and yet absolutely vital to the whole health of the body. I'm in a real quandary as to what to do exactly with my root canal treated teeth. I want them out desperately, and yet it will cost me a fortune to have implants put in. But simply leaving the gap in my teeth and in my jaw-bone is not a viable option. And dentures just give me the creeps. I can't psychologically get my mind to accept that as an option yet. Do you have any recommendations for a really great biological dentist in the UK (preferably London)? Are you in a position to share what you've actually done, i.e. what solution you've come up with to remove/replace your root canal treated teeth?
You're quite right re keeping teeth and not leaving gaps. I had to have bone grafts. Sadly my 'solution' was not simple, what I can say is that it almost bankrupted me and with huge regret I have ZERO recommendations for a UK biological dentist, despite charging a fortune, having fancy premises et al and looking amazing on paper they have literally botched people up (please read Jenny's story in my blog) I know of one who seems authentic but doesn't do the complex work such as cavitation surgery etc. The only hope for the future is to bring together some people with integrity who want to excel at what they do and actually learn the skills. There needs to be an overhaul of it all, when you read in Jenny's fundraiser that the British Dental Council does not require sight of a dentists' insurance (the 'biological' dentist who botched her up was already under review and was working without insurance) you realise that there are huge problems! Please consider donating to Jenny's fund, I know it will be put to good use.
Thank you, Janey. I presume those toxic teeth need to be extracted. Is there a safe solution for filling the gaps, apart from dentures? Drilling metal posts into the bone of the jaw for implants sounds like a huge risk to me.
There are huge issues with implants especially Titanium, which are so often infected. (my husband had 3 implants which were hugely infected (dentist said all fine!) Dentists rarely test people for allergies yet huge numbers are allergic to it. (its worth getting a Melisa test for metals) The safest implants are Zirconia - be mindful they also vary in quality. Apparently 'dentures' have come on a long way, and are v lightweight and comfortable, I would hope there may be more advances soon - one things for sure in my opinion, the common view of 'saving the tooth' often means 'massively compromising general health'
Thanks, Janey, you've confirmed my concerns. I don't need a denture yet but with at least two root canals (possibly a third), three crowns and a bridge, I have a feeling there are things grumbling under the surface. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I heard about this many years ago. Do we ever really know what the dentist is doing??
Exactly! We tend to have blind faith, but its MUCH too important not to understand!
Thank you so much Janey for helping create awareness of such an important issue and for sharing my dental journey - a 'ticking time bomb' indeed. A pandemic in itself. I am a visionary, a connector of people, and I never lose hope of my dream for around 6 years of co-creating a much needed new era of non-toxic dentistry for the UK ... and it would not be a space of gas lighting and exploitation of people when they are often at their most vulnerable. Get the right team and anything is possible is my belief!
Thank you Janey, great article. It's so sad that we're only just beginning to realise how complex and inter-connected the human body is. You can't just remove one part and expect there to be no knock on effects. I believe in the future we'll look back at dentists today as barbarians. Removing healthy, living teeth just to make "room in the mouth" for braces and orthodontic treatment will seem absurd to future generations, once the importance of teeth are understood. If you can hang on to your natural teeth, you simply must at all costs. If you have had a root canal and therefore come to the conclusion that the safest long-term option is to have the tooth/teeth extracted, unfortunately ceramic implants are currently very expensive, running into the thousands of pounds per tooth. I have two upper molars that have had root canals, and a quote from a biological dentist to extract and put in two ceramic implants was over £9,000! But the thing is, you can't really just extract and not replace. If you leave a gap in your teeth, your remaining teeth start to shift about as they all lean on each other and having all of them in place basically keeps the whole thing stable. Remove one and leave a hole will cause the neighbouring teeth to lose their support and start to shift around which causes its own set of problems. Not to mention that once the root of the tooth is no longer in the jaw bone because you've pulled it out, the body starts to think that the bone in that area is no longer necessary so you start to get bone loss. That's when you can get the situation that if you've had a tooth extracted a while ago and not had an implant put in straight away, after a while there won't be enough jaw bone left in the root site to support an implant. Basically, your mouth health is extremely complicated and yet absolutely vital to the whole health of the body. I'm in a real quandary as to what to do exactly with my root canal treated teeth. I want them out desperately, and yet it will cost me a fortune to have implants put in. But simply leaving the gap in my teeth and in my jaw-bone is not a viable option. And dentures just give me the creeps. I can't psychologically get my mind to accept that as an option yet. Do you have any recommendations for a really great biological dentist in the UK (preferably London)? Are you in a position to share what you've actually done, i.e. what solution you've come up with to remove/replace your root canal treated teeth?
You're quite right re keeping teeth and not leaving gaps. I had to have bone grafts. Sadly my 'solution' was not simple, what I can say is that it almost bankrupted me and with huge regret I have ZERO recommendations for a UK biological dentist, despite charging a fortune, having fancy premises et al and looking amazing on paper they have literally botched people up (please read Jenny's story in my blog) I know of one who seems authentic but doesn't do the complex work such as cavitation surgery etc. The only hope for the future is to bring together some people with integrity who want to excel at what they do and actually learn the skills. There needs to be an overhaul of it all, when you read in Jenny's fundraiser that the British Dental Council does not require sight of a dentists' insurance (the 'biological' dentist who botched her up was already under review and was working without insurance) you realise that there are huge problems! Please consider donating to Jenny's fund, I know it will be put to good use.
Thank you, Janey. I presume those toxic teeth need to be extracted. Is there a safe solution for filling the gaps, apart from dentures? Drilling metal posts into the bone of the jaw for implants sounds like a huge risk to me.
There are huge issues with implants especially Titanium, which are so often infected. (my husband had 3 implants which were hugely infected (dentist said all fine!) Dentists rarely test people for allergies yet huge numbers are allergic to it. (its worth getting a Melisa test for metals) The safest implants are Zirconia - be mindful they also vary in quality. Apparently 'dentures' have come on a long way, and are v lightweight and comfortable, I would hope there may be more advances soon - one things for sure in my opinion, the common view of 'saving the tooth' often means 'massively compromising general health'
Thanks, Janey, you've confirmed my concerns. I don't need a denture yet but with at least two root canals (possibly a third), three crowns and a bridge, I have a feeling there are things grumbling under the surface. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thank you for explaining this Janey. I’ve had holistic friends say they were bad but never actually why. Bless you x