OUR bodies make use of electricity for many of their functions. This type of electricity involves the movement of a part of the atom (ion) into the cells. This, known as active potential, enables us to stand, read, react to pain, and so on. But what if we unnecessarily create electricity with materials placed in our mouth permanently?

There are common types of metals used in dental work, such as crowns, amalgam fillings, and dentures. These metals, when placed in the mouth, sit in a medium of saliva, which turns the mouth into a charged battery. We call this charge galvanic toxicity. Common signs and symptoms of galvanic toxicity are a metal taste in the mouth, an electrical charge with utensils and insomnia. Occasionally, a person can have a toothache only because there is gold and amalgam in their mouth. The “shocking” sensation is really coming from the battery they have created.

Additionally, such electrical charges can have a detrimental effect on decayed teeth. You see, teeth have roots with main canals and thousands of side canals, and contained in those sides are miles of nerves from the main canals. However, they do not have access to the microscopic side canals, which have dead nerves left behind in those spaces.

Anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to survive, thrive in the side canals, growing and excreting toxins from digesting necrotic tissue that leads to chronic infection. Blood supply and lymphatics that surround those dead teeth drain this toxicity and allow it to spread throughout the body. This toxicity will invade all organ systems and can lead to a plethora of diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, cancers, musculoskeletal diseases, irritable bowel diseases, and depression.

The following is an actual case study from my office, detailing a patient’s initial dental visit. She related a three-year history of breast cancer treated conventionally. Three years later, her cancer recurred, and she decided to seek alternative treatment rather than conventional treatment. She sought therapies for a period of five months from two well-known physicians practising these therapies. She then followed up with my office to get a complete dental exam and diagnosis.

I took her history and examined the patient. I discovered that since her diagnosis of cancer, all the physicians, conventional and alternative, failed to ask or even consider her dental history as a necessary part of her treatment or the possible association or connection to the root of the disease. It is not surprising that conventional physicians do not consider dental history as being associated with any disease process, but it is certainly absurd that alternative physicians fail to even consider it.

Upon my examination, there were several acutely infected teeth, a root canal and severe gum disease that were totally missed. Certainly, the conventional therapies and the alternative therapies that this patient received will most likely fail as this patient continues to harbour infection in her mouth that has chronically compromised her immune system and has weakened her overall ability to eliminate toxicity and to heal as a whole.

The toxicity that continues to thrive in her mouth is being carried by the blood and lymphatic system to all areas of her body and is contributing to her inability to fight cancer. So, it’s important to look at the situation as a whole and the mouth as an essential part of our health and its contribution to disease.