Finding a biological dentist is difficult!

I have tried several times.

Online, at one time, I could not get away from a site coming out of India.

Beautifully designed, the site seemed to have complete control over the terms 'wholistic dentist', and 'holistic dentist', at least, on Google.

(I did not know to try at the time for 'biological dentist'...and, Google is reputed to reach only about 10% of the whole Internet).


This site required one to state the specific (traditional?) treatments needed, by ticking off very technical terms on a list.


THEN, and only then, the site would give the searcher a list of dentists on its books who had subscribed to their services.

I don't remember there being an over-abundance of names and addresses of dentists.

Besides feeling frustrated, I felt this was the most arrogant website I had ever seen, or could imagine.

I could not see how the average Joe could choose the services needed, in technical terminology, in the first place.

I mean that the public was reduced to the 'hunt-and-peck' style of self-diagnosis...just to find a dentist who likely wasn't of the same mind, at all.


More recently I have seen pictures of dental procedures performed on the streets (literally!) of poor urban neighborhoods. I doubt these were in North American or European cities.


When I was searching nearer to home, I began with the dentist I was currently using.

Boy, was he aggitated at what I was asking for...replacement of metal Amalgam fillings!

He hopped up and strode angrily around his offices, finally giving me an estimate of his price to do this...$3,000, all nicely typed.

When next he was actually working in my mouth, he gave the comment that there WAS no suitable material for replacing metal Amalgam fillings, that dentists were between a rock and a hard place.

Immediately, his assistant piped up, "Except 'tooth'" (which, of course, patients must grow themselves).


They didn't realize, also of course, the next reasonable question a client could ask...If you can't find a suitable substance to fill with, why drill?

We all know the answer to that one.



I then, like everyone else, began asking everyone I knew in the alternative health care field, who they knew.

I got three names of dentists to ask. I ended up with a fellow in a nearby town, who answered tentatively...something to the effect that he would use 'alternative' methods, if he could.

I stayed loyally with him for a while.

On one occasion, when he couldn't alleviate or understand pains in one cheek...except to give me a prescription for general pain tablets...his older lady assistant caught me up in the hallway, and suggested it might be facial neuralgia.



I could go on and on about my dental history, and experiences with dentists, and perhaps surprise you, but I'll leave it that I now control any pain with whole cloves, and that I am wise enough to recognise real 'trouble' with infection in myself. No way would I allow myself to become 'ill' from dental difficulties.

(You may read that any way you like.)


And, given the access to 'science' in this modern world, I cannot understand why hundreds of thousands of dentists haven't yet figured out better ways to oral well-being.

I am still re-reading 'my favorites', because someone 'fixing' my computer rearranged them alphabetically, to find the CureZone comment on how a senior woman saved the last of her teeth.

I remember also that someone suggested that new tooth material is created when the exhaled breath meets saliva.

We should read the 'dental' forums on CureZone, thoroughly, I believe.

Good luck!

Sincerely,

Fledgling