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Update from 13 days post Cavitation Surgery

Posted by PattyLA on Jun 16, 2012 in Adrenal, Cherries On Top, Dental, healing | 9 comments

This is just a quick update on my experience with Cavitation Surgery. To read more about it go to Cavitations and My Dental Health as well as Cavitation Surgery: My Experience At about 10 days post op my tooth pain significantly decreased. I don’t know if it was just enough time or because I began taking a probiotic called Prescript-Assist that was recommended to me for bone healing. Within 24 hours of starting it I was significantly better. I ate some raw zucchini that a friend offered me and was not in horrible pain from the first bite like I had been eating much softer foods just 24 hours previous. I still avoided raw veggies as a rule but that was much better. 12 days post op I put some dried cherries in my mouth without thinking and didn’t notice...

Cavitation Surgery: My Experience

Posted by PattyLA on Jun 6, 2012 in Dental, St Louis | 20 comments

If you don’t know about cavitations you may want to read my previous post Cavitations and my Dental Health. When I was learning about cavitations one thing that I did not learn was about how the surgery to deal with them worked. I have no idea how typical my experience is but I assume that it isn’t that outside of the procedures that other dentists who do this surgery follow. When I first had my cavitat exam done the technition who did that told me that the surgery is “no big deal”. The Dr. just opens up your gums, scoops out the rotten bone and sews it back up again. According to her it was not nearly as traumatic as having a tooth pulled. Well the only times that I have had teeth pulled I have been under general anesthesia so I...

Cavitations and My Dental Health

Posted by PattyLA on May 31, 2012 in Cherries On Top, Dental | 23 comments

I keep trying to write a comprehensive blog post about dental health but I make them too broad and get bogged down in the details so instead I will write about my own current dental health and try to keep from getting too big. I see a holistic dentist who understands about the importance of removing dental amalgams safely. In fact that is why I started to see him in the first place. I wanted someone who understood the risks involved in having and removing mercury from the mouth. At this point I still have most of my amalgams. I got 6 of them over 20 years ago as a teenager when I had braces. Not nearly as many as some people but still far more than zero. When my younger daughter was a infant my dentist noticed decay...