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Holistic Dental Care: Your Mind, Body, and Spirit Guide to Optimal Health and a Beautiful Smile
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 While conventional dental care still relies on outdated treatment methods, including the use of toxic elements such as mercury and fluoride, this is not the way dentistry must be practiced, and more and more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. --Daniel Vicario, M.D., ABIHM, Medical Director, Integrative Oncology Program, San Diego Cancer Research Institute Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego President, American Dental Council
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. --Daniel Vicario, M.D., ABIHM, Medical Director, Integrative Oncology Program, San Diego Cancer Research Institute Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego President, American Dental Council
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185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2018
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June 24, 2019
"In this book, I am sharing ideas from a collection of great thinkers, philosophers, sacred writings, current science, and some little known truths. Since we are always learning, the process of wellness is constantly changing and evolving as we add new knowledge and expand our awareness.
"This began in earnest for me during a biology course at the University of Michigan, when my professor said something I will never forget.....he said,'I have taught you a lot of facts and ideas this semester, but in the next 20-30 years most of that will be proven false. Most of these ideas will be replaced with new ideas and facts, which will be taught to the next generation. You must continue to learn, be open to new ideas, new facts, and new ways of thinking. Always question the present theories, seek truth, be ready to change your thinking for new truths."
"This began in earnest for me during a biology course at the University of Michigan, when my professor said something I will never forget.....he said,'I have taught you a lot of facts and ideas this semester, but in the next 20-30 years most of that will be proven false. Most of these ideas will be replaced with new ideas and facts, which will be taught to the next generation. You must continue to learn, be open to new ideas, new facts, and new ways of thinking. Always question the present theories, seek truth, be ready to change your thinking for new truths."
June 5, 2019
The author seems to make some dangerous recommendations (saying that antibacterial supplements don't hurt "good" bacteria) so it is hard to take his other claims seriously. For example, he is big into irrigators but I'd be worried they'd push gum pockets open or push food deeper into them. If he hadn't said other questionable things I'd value his word on irrigators more.
July 15, 2021
Love and Light Dentistry. Interesting to read another holistic dentistry philosophy but it wasn't particularly my style. Still it exposed me to a few other topics that I am curious to look into: toothpicking as flossing, Perio Aids, the Body Type Diet, applied kinesiology, Map of Consciousness.
From time to time, claims are made without evidence or explanation. One of them was that root beer is one of the beverages that best helps for building the teeth, even more than water does, based on the comparative "erosive potentials." It seemed like a lot of things are thrown out there too like if the reader would already know about it. Like when applied kinesiology was talked about, I wasn't sure what the paragraph meant.
I like reading about different perspectives for the sake of it and I did like how the author talked about how a holistic examination of one's (dental) health is like causation in quantum physics. I wished there was more of the technical dental care in the book, but that just isn't his perspective on dental health.
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"In our real world, it is not particles, atoms, and elements that create and change the world. It is our choosing. Cause comes from the top. Our atoms, DNA, or chemical reactions do not ultimately control us. We are controlled, changed, and transformed by our intentional choices. We are not automatic subjects to our DNA or “inherited” diseases in our families. We can co-create our own health and consciously choose balance and health over illness and disease. Transformation starts above and comes down through our choices, not up from our cells, DNA, and family history."
From time to time, claims are made without evidence or explanation. One of them was that root beer is one of the beverages that best helps for building the teeth, even more than water does, based on the comparative "erosive potentials." It seemed like a lot of things are thrown out there too like if the reader would already know about it. Like when applied kinesiology was talked about, I wasn't sure what the paragraph meant.
I like reading about different perspectives for the sake of it and I did like how the author talked about how a holistic examination of one's (dental) health is like causation in quantum physics. I wished there was more of the technical dental care in the book, but that just isn't his perspective on dental health.
***
"In our real world, it is not particles, atoms, and elements that create and change the world. It is our choosing. Cause comes from the top. Our atoms, DNA, or chemical reactions do not ultimately control us. We are controlled, changed, and transformed by our intentional choices. We are not automatic subjects to our DNA or “inherited” diseases in our families. We can co-create our own health and consciously choose balance and health over illness and disease. Transformation starts above and comes down through our choices, not up from our cells, DNA, and family history."
April 6, 2022
I enjoyed the book but he did quote the Masaru Emoto study about water which is considered pseudoscience as the study has never been replicated. I am one who does believe words carry meaning with them regardless of what science can show, however, If I were writing a book I would be careful to cite this study as fact to prove my own point. Other than that I have followed a lot of his principles about tooth and gum care and feel a lot better about my teeth and their longevity.
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November 23, 2018Too many scare tactics for my taste at the start of the book. Given the title I thought I would be reading something more uplifting.
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