The Energy Superhighway From Teeth to the Rest of the Body: Tooth-Meridian Relationships and Holistic Dentistry

Holistic dentistry likely makes 'perfect sense' when a person becomes 'aware' of it. I find it fascinating and ironic that I'm bringing 'the world wide web' my topic for our YOUsers at Lumigrate a website link created by Alison Adams, a fascinating dentist and naturopathic doctor in the United Kingdom (UK), which is citing traditional Asian medicine. Where in the world are YOU, dear YOUser? I hope somewhere nearby a provider experienced or willing to learn and become educated and then experienced with the energy superhightway that involves the mouth and teeth, and 'holistic dentistry'.

Fortunately, Lumigrate was founded in my years after moving to the 'banana belt' of central, western Colorado, and a dentist from Denver who is an avid golfer and wine maker had moved here just years prior to my arrival in late 2003/early 2004. Fortunately, he takes the time to speak at continuing medical education 'rounds', and fortunately I was in the loop and attended whenever he spoke. I dedicate this topic to ALL involved in continuing education no matter what industry; it's a thankless job, it's the first thing to 'go' in times of tight budgets, yet it was proven in occupational therapy to be the #1 factor in preventing 'burnout'. 

The saying 'You don't know what you haven't yet learned' comes to mind and to my fingertips or tip of my tongue often when I speak or write with/to people. Others will say 'you don't know what you don't know' which is a more simplified version. "Yet" is the key word, however. Whether or not YOU learn is up to YOU. It's that simple. I started learning about blood sugar and nutrition when I was a tweenager, and I was told I'd for sure be a diabetic when I was an adult. So far, I've avoided that label or diagnosis -- barely sometimes, and by a long shot others. My proactivity has paid off. 

Sometimes the medical consumer learns these lessons "the hard way", and in reflecting in time spent after assessing what could be done better in the future, realizes the error of their ways -- spending time on things other than learning about health and well-being and being pre-pared. We've all done it, even those of us who specialize in taking charge as patients. That's partly why we became specialists in our niche of health care, we recognized the importance based on personal experience. Please refer to Martine Ehrenclou's personal health history, which she relates in The Take-Charge Patient, as well as at her topic in the About the Lumigrate Experts forum.  I'll add a link to that, below, in the area where I provide a personal story to help tye this together for those who want a story. (Some people like stories, others 'just the facts'.)

It's so easy to not know something in the moment when you're at a medical appointment and not feel empowered to say 'I need to learn more about this first', and sometimes it's emergent and taking time to learn is not an option on the table. I was pleased to get the update from a woman who had been 'coerced' (her word) into getting a vaccination when she took her child to the county health department office. She herself had long-ago felt they were not right for her and her child but recent shifts had lead her to want her child to have one vaccine being recommended for school. And somehow her unwritten 'vaccine plan' for herself went out the window. And she was almost immediately having symptoms which evolved over about six months to a full blown energy and pain crisis. Fortunately, through finding he right provider for what was going on, which insurance supported, in addition to many other things which were wastes of time or other things helpful she paid for out of her own funds, wellness is restored, or relatively so. (If 80% of wellness is considered 'recovered', then it is a successful recovery at this time and presumably 100% can occur if more things go 'right' than 'wrong', more things that alleviate the 'load' on the body and genes than what burdens them down.  

We can't change the past, only the present and that will affect our future, so I trust people will take this information in as much as is warranted presently. And go from there.  

"Awareness" is the first step in learning about anything new, dental or otherwise; putting in the time and energy to become educated and 'proficient', ultimately, is the next step. That 'proficiency' part often entails being tested somehow, either with a practical application or online or paper/pencil testing. Besides time and energy, the third resource we have in our 3D world is money, and we all know how expensive 'dental work' can be. As I said, above, funding for education is often the first to go in professional environments; money has been what makes this world go-round for a long, long time. So it has been one of the primary 'resources'.

Once upon a time in 2009, I had a discussion with a higher up in an insurance company who thought that time and money were the only resources to be factored into equations; this was someone who never worked with people who had medical conditions affecting energy. You can have all the time everyone else has (24 hours in a day) and endless money and not be able to do anything if you don't have energy; I have had the blessing of getting to know of someone by knowing first-hand their advocate/life partner through my work with Lumigrate. To hear on a regular basis of someone who is without enough energy to hold up an electronic device to communicate with the outside world for many years is essential to my staying 'tuned into' the issue of the extremely chronically ill and fatigued community. They are the far end of the spectrum and the rest of us are somewhere else on that spectrum. At the OTHER end is the ideal of health and well-being which we light the path to at Lumigrate, per our slogan in our logo, as you see. 

I might hazard to say that 'pain' is another 'expense' that comes when the body goes out of it's natural state of well-being, and what can happen with tooth and mouth/jaw pain is one of the better examples to give, as most of us have experienced tooth pain. At the time of my childhood, the adults on my YOU model didn't know why I was getting so many cavities and canker sores. Today, I would hope 'we' would have figured it out, had we had the resources online that people have at their fingertips, even in the Colorado mountains where I grew up! (The area has been made 'infamous' by the show South Park, co-creator Trey Parker is a decade younger than I, if that helps you envision the transformation I am speaking of. If people are unaware today and have computer access, it's a matter of prioritization about their wellness if they're not up to speed on things relevant to well-being, in my opinion.)  More about my story, for those interested, below. 

I was searching on information about EMFs and the brain when I found the Natural Recovery Plan website, which is a fabulous, holistic website about 'fatigue', or some might call it 'exhaustion', and the various other conditions more specifically assigned to people with the various symptoms; I refer to them as the 'overlapping conditions'. The website is fascinating and when I found the tab about holistic dentistry with the interactive tooth meridian, I just had to have it at Lumigrate for our YOUsers .... here's the link: As I always encourage, PLEASE GO if you look below at the summary and overview that I provide at this topic and it piques your interest! There's a bunch of junk on the Internet, I hopefully streamline things for YOU, our YOUsers, by finding the good ones. I try to teach the Search tricks of the trade so that YOUsers become proficient and independent eventually, but I hope YOUsers always want to come home to Lumigrate and see what else we have. I hope our experts, many of whom actually 'know each other' through Lumigrate now, are a warm, welcoming, 'real' place on the Internet.

 

Welcome to this Video from ResourcesForLife.net.  By using The Meridian Tooth Chart we will demonstrate "How Tooth Decay Affects the Entire Body" -- We'd Like You to Discover the Connection Between Your Teeth and Your Health. 

 

A man goes to the dentist and says he has a terrible toothache. 

The dentist takes one look at the tooth, sees nothing wrong with the tooth, and says the symptoms are from having the intestinal system not in working order ("needs his intestines cleaned out"), so the man goes for colonic irrigation, and that takes care of the problem. 

 

Or someone goes to the dentist for his routine checkup and happens to have a sore hamstring at the time. This resolved after the dentist discovers and makes an adjustment to the alignment of one tooth.  These seemingly "fantastical stories" are just two from the career of David Hefferon, one of a small handful of holistic dentists in Britain. 

 

Each tooth is related to an acupuncture meridian, which is related to various tissues, organs and glands  of the body on that particularly 'energy highway' in the body. This connection is so apparent that your dental condition can be an indicator of what is going on in the body. 

 

If a person has a weak internal organ, the condition of the associated meridian tooth can make it considerably more problematic. 

 

The viewers are invited to go to Resources for Life dot net to play around with their free interactive meridian tooth chart, where you'll see that the teeth are associated with different parts of the body. 

 

• Meridian 
• Organs
• Glands
• Spine 
• Sense Organ
• Musculature
• Joints
• Other Relationships

 

There's no question that the overall health of your mouth affects your overall health. One example: if you have gum problems, you'll stir up the bacteria in the mouth every time you chew (or brush or have your teeth cleaned). This can have an impact on your overall health as seen with  heart disease, focal infections and certain other diseases.