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Imagine being sick. No, imagine someone you would die for being sick. Plus the disease they have is incurable. You would do anything for them and let them do anything that might help them, including spending their last dime – which might also be your last dime.

From what I can tell, you can accomplish this goal with “Dental Revision” – not the curing goal – but the giving their bank account a-completely-cleaned-out-bill-of-health goal. While I am not a dentist or even a scientist, I am someone who has people I would die for to save their life. At some point I might have to make decisions while being emotionally challenged. I will need to make a decision using all the evidence I have at my disposal. While a dentist, medical doctor or scientist might help guide me and you, we will be making the final decision.

I will want to believe in a cure. But that belief in a medical cure should have some bearing on what is proved to a large extent. Otherwise the potential for being drawn to the snake oil psychic who dabbles in hoodwinkism becomes much easier.

The basic premise I see in Dental Revision as a solution to currently “incurable diseases” like ALS and cancer is that since we cannot cure the disease with “other methods” we might as well try something else because people will pay for it.

Dental revision is based on some notion of toxic elements in our bodies often related to mercury found in dentistry materials. Dental mercury is bandied about as dangerous by some without a lot of empirical evidence that there is a danger in the amounts found in fillings or what might leech out. Often the supporters of the dental mercury poisoning concept latch onto a belief that even it is not seen in “most large studies” specific people have this “m-spot” (or weakest link) in the mouth where the mercury vapors seep into.

Much of their belief in “bad dental mercury” is based on anecdotal “proof” such as “Bob who is a great friend of mine says his son was helped a lot by this great herbal remedy that also has helped his rid his neighborhood of unicorns”. The other way they muddy the water is with emotional pjeudoscience is by refuting the results of a study with comments from a person who has the disease or is the parent of someone with the disease. While I would have wanted to believe my mom in a situation like this, she was not a scientist. Her emotional investment should be suspect. If she did not believe in blood transfusions for example, I would think most doctors would have been suspicious of her as well.

Another common example of flight from proven reality is pjeudoscience “framing”. Framing the issue with very little proof or using an authority figure with a few initials after their name to offer some credibility to throw you off base. Nearly an “Oh Yah” type defense. The supporters of always changing concept of “natural dental health or overall wellness care” start with the real scientific study that confirms the opposite of what they believe (which makes it seem like they are being fair) and then use one or maybe a few doctors to refute the study with their own anecdote, an old study or one puny study from some supporter of holistic dental health research firm. Then if that does not work – the government is trying to cover it up.

While this might be a dental mercury conspiracy by the establishment, I posit that there is at least as much evidence that there is a conspiracy coordinated by “supposed” health care professionals of bogus medical cures. These pseudo-scientists, complementary and alternate medicine dentists and doctors could have some answers and put forth ideas with merit but they should not be given total authority over your reality.

Here are some things to do when considering your choices for body and dental health cures.

1. Alternate between belief and disbelief enough to research both sides. When dealing with medical cures, keep belief focused on your God and not in the person who might have a doctorate in happy time medicine and a snake oil bottle covered with 21st century marketing.
2. Complement your belief in complementary medicine with a healthy dose of research reality. Death is inevitable and so is the appearance of charlatans when you are looking for a way out of it.
3. Just because dentists and doctors don’t have all the answers does not mean they are wrong. When you hear of a cure that is outside of the normal boring scientific, medical realm, take at least one moment to consider it might be pjeudoscience (no empirical evidence to back it up) and that even someone with a doctorate could be seeing UFOs and tracking Bigfoot on his/her time off.

Even very smart people are fooled when their emotions and ignorance (in specific areas) open a door to fantasy and false hope. Science and medicine is not perfect. Sometimes it will fail us. One year a therapy is promoted and the next year it is proven ineffective. But imperfection is no reason to leap off the bridge of reason.

Make sure you avoid using weak claims and personal anecdotes to make your decisions about dental health or medical care. Just because “traditional care” does not have an answer does not mean someone else has it. Make sure their claims are based on more than thin research and the “it has been around a long time” proof. Astrology and psychics have been around a long time too – mostly because we continue to pay for it. Professionals and people using emotional pjeudoscience should be dealt with very cautiously. If you have never heard of this “amazing dental or medical cure” before, it makes sense to find out why.

Plus if anyone were able to cure these terrible diseases and afflictions without a clue about good science, it would be me. After being abducted by a Tri-lateral Commission spacecraft, seeing all their info on JFK’s 2nd and 3rd assassination and how they faked the moon landing, and getting thoroughly educated on quantum Physics by Elvis, I have more on the ball than anyone except maybe George W. and Jenny McCarthy.

Dental Blog Commentary by RAC

BELOW I have noted various sources for dental revision, mercury toxicity, and alternate dentistry and health methods. In no way is this information complete or in any specific hierarchical order, but it is very interesting where it can take you. I developed these website sources by simply searching for various cures related to dentistry. Then each medical or dental health website I visited took me to another site, which took me down another rabbit hole of “how can this be true if the evidence is being reduced to what people need and want to believe?”

The concepts alternative and complementary dental and medical health professionals present can be very convincing at first but the gaps in their evidence and logic are at the very least confusing. Think of medicine as if it was developed from a book over 2,000 years old or from ancient Chinese dude with a needle fetish. As if we want scientists who have not evolved beyond bloodletting and shaman incantations treating us. “Take your stinking laws of science from me, you damn dirty apes of logic and reason! The evolution of science will kill us all!”

Others are traditional establishment, government, and scientific websites, which you might determine are also not reliable because you live in a country where evidence-based reason is unpatriotic and where too many people still believe in the round earth theory. I have also provided some sites where dentists, scientists and skeptics throw in their logic. If you want to refute them, make sure your personal, emotional and/or authority figure anecdotes and non-peer reviewed by a true believer evidentiary studies (which are as thick as a nano-particle– which only science can measure) are also spell checked by the Discovery Institute.

Other websites are very disturbing in how they give people a false hope including personal stories that end in a lot of expense but no cure. They go to these sites that supposedly offer what science-based medicine can’t but only see the positive and do not recognize the confusing meanderings of pjeudoscience logic. There is one way to find out what is NOT going on right on THEIR sites however. You can dig deep enough – in many sites to see how much evidence they have and as well as how much they really believe in it: just look for their disclaimers. They might say the government forces them to display it – but if the government issued license many of them tout had a legitimate, provable value – their disclaimer would NOT totally contradict almost everything they have stated throughout the site!

Here are the body and dental health links...

• Re: I had a full dental revision 1 yr ago
  from site… “There is an excellent book DR. Tom Levy wrote called Curing the Incurable- it's about vitamin c and it is actually an EXCELLENT chelator, but sometimes in larger amounts. I was taking up to 15 grams a day without bowel tolerance. Some people can handle 40 grams etc. depends on the individual. The vitamin C flushes are REALLY REALLY important, as are the detox baths, baking soda or Epsom Salts.”
• Dental Revision – personal diary from an ALS patient
  from site… “My ‘dental revision’ was done by Dr. Nunnally in Marble Falls, Texas. Dr. Nunnally was diagnosed with ALS himself and could barely walk about 1 1/2 years ago. Turns out he had mercury poisoning and as soon as he had a dental revision began to improve.”
• A window of hope for man with ALS - includes dental revision
  from site… “He's been trying a variety of treatments that might slow the effects of the disease or even offer relief or assistance.Acupuncture, physical therapy, dental revision to remove mercury, special protein diets and vitamin C infusions have all been tried.”
• The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Presents our Top 20 Logical Fallacies
  - A Primer for making decisions for what might be dental pjeudoscience
• Dental Materials and the Mouth, Biocompatibility
  from site… “You are the only one who knows what is the proper choice for you, based on health status and life style, expectations, finances and time.”
• Jess Clifford, founder of Clifford Consulting and Research, continues this month on the important topic of dental materials testing.
• CMRT dental testing - Clifford Consulting and Research
  Question on their FAQ page about why they don’t publish a complete listing of all dental products and their component parts and combined testing rankings…
• Do you have Mercury Poisoning?
  from site… “These dentists need to be boycotted.”
• The "Mercury Toxicity" Scam: How Anti-Amalgamists Swindle People
• Twenty-Five Ways to Spot Quacks and Vitamin Pushers
• Mercury Silver Fillings – weakest link – the mercury-spot or m-spot
• Chelation of Mercury for the Treatment of Autism
• Autism Causes: Some Vaccines Still Contain Mercury
• Robert Walker – courses - The Chiro-Dental Approach to Healthcare
• Dr. Stephen Barrett: The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America
  from site… “In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Dr. Barrett defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the responsibilities of the healthcare consumer, whether or not CAM is growing in mainstream healthcare, and the types of people who are susceptible to CAM claims.”
• Chiropractic Dentistry
• How Not To Get Banned – Chiropractic Dentistry
• Your Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Practices
  Accurate information about chiropractic is not easy to get. Most publishers, editors, and broadcasters are unwilling to examine this topic in depth and to publish critical information. As a result, most reports reaching the public express what chiropractors would like people to believe. This Web site will enable you to deepen your understanding. If you decide to seek chiropractic care, it may also help you find a suitable practitioner.
• Child's Amazing Brain Finds Reality Cure - 10 year old Emily Rosa debunks therapeutic touch
  from site... "I became interested in testing Therapeutic Touch because I really didn't know if nurses who do Therapeutic Touch were telling the truth about their ability to feel the "human energy field." One day, my mother, who is a nurse, was watching a video on nurses who practice Therapeutic Touch, and I wanted to find out for myself if they could really do it. The Scientific American Frontiers show said that I had gotten the idea from my parents. This is not true. I thought of the idea myself. At the time, I also needed to think of an experiment for my science fair at school, and this was it. Thank you for your question. Emily."
• Established under the Bylaws of the International College of Applied Kinesiology, the International Board of Examiners is solely responsible for all diplomate examinations given within ICAK.
• Dr George Goodheart, Founder of Applied Kinesiology
• Applied kinesiology – Wikipedia definition
• Applied Kinesiology: An Effective Complementary Treatment for Children with Down Syndrome
• Disclaimer - Townsend Letter, the Examiner of Alternative Medicine
  From site… “Hence, information presented may not be proven or factually correct.”
• Applied Kinesiology; an indispensable tool in Holistic Dentistry
  from site… “He found that there were five principle factors that might disturb the function of a muscle. …addressed by applying methods of Cranial-Sacral & Myofascial release therapy, massage of reflex points, nutritional therapy, or acupuncture.”
• Snake Oil Science
  From site… “He describes his acupuncture research in great detail. It involved patients with pain from dental surgery. Also from site… “Even more fascinating, patients who thought they got real acupuncture reported much more pain relief than those who thought they got the sham, regardless of which they actually got!”
• Research in Acupuncture: An Oxymoron?
  from site.. “If we can't precisely define our terms, however, how valuable is the research that studies them?”
• Still no evidence acupuncture works
• If acupuncture works, does it matter if we know how it works?
• Acupuncture - Recent Scientific Studies
  from site… “CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture reduced neck pain and produced a statistically, but not clinically, significant effect compared with placebo. The beneficial effects of acupuncture for pain may be due to both nonspecific and specific effects.”
• Be of high moral and ethical character, dedicated to the furtherance of classical Homeopathy in Dentistry.
  from site… “Homeopathic books which were published in the 19th century and early 20th century are still in effective use today because symptoms were reported in patient language‚ not doctor language.”
• Homeopathy – Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine?
  from site… “The skeptics never point out such facts, possibly because they know so little material science.”
• Homeopathy was devised by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann 1755-1843
  from site… "Homeopathy's principles have been refuted by the basic sciences of chemistry, physics, pharmacology, and pathology. Homeopathy meets the dictionary definitions of a sect and a cult — the characteristics of which prevent advances that would change Hahnemann's original principles. Most homeopathic studies are of poor methodological quality, and are subject to bias. Homeopathic product labels do not provide sufficient information to judge their dosages.
• Chirodontics: Health is not a destination, It is a journey!
  from site “…join in on the new treatment paradigm for the 21st century.”
• The material presented by ICNR…
  from site… “No claim is made that such products, techniques or devices will cure or improve any health condition.”
• Quantum Testing methods
• Reversing Cancer - International Center for Nutritional Research, Inc.
• QNC - Quantum Nutrition Concepts
  From the site… “An example could be multiple sclerosis vs. Alzheimer's. They both could easily have their origins in a mercury toxicity problem. It's just that one person's weakest link is not the same as another person's.”
• Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia definition
• Natural dentistry and silver mercury dental fillings
  from the site… “Then to top it off, there are a range of other neurotoxic metals and chemicals that add fuel to the fire. What the mercury starts, something else finishes.”
• A Quantum leap for treating tooth decay
• Dental biothermophotonics
• DR MB DeJarnette teaches Mind Language
• One of the pioneers of chiropractic, Dr. Bertram DeJarnette, dies…
• Applied Kinesiology - from cancer.org site… Scientific/medical name(s): None
  from site… “Treatment that is based on applied kinesiology has occasionally resulted in harm, including at least one death, due to wrong diagnosis or treatment selection. Relying on this diagnostic method alone, and avoiding or delaying conventional medical diagnosis and treatment, may have serious health consequences.”
• American Cancer Society Operational Statement on Complementary and Alternative Methods of Cancer Management
  The American Cancer Society is sensitive to the growing public interest, in particular, those living with cancer, in information about alternative and complementary methods. The American Cancer Society acknowledges that more research is needed regarding the safety and effectiveness of many of these methods.
• Guidelines For Using Complementary and Alternative Methods
  From site… “People with cancer might consider alternative and complementary methods for a number of reasons:
  
  • to relieve the side effects of mainstream cancer treatment without having to take more medicine
  • to find a less unpleasant approach that might have few side effects
  • to take an active role in improving their own health and wellness
  because they prefer alternative theories of health and disease, as well as alternative treatments”
• Osteopathic Soft Tissue Technique
  Osteopaths most often use soft tissue technique to diagnose conditions such as cancer, acute injury and wounds. The osteopath may use deep pressure to work on connective tissues, massaging the muscle into relaxation.
• Discovery Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank conducting research on technology, science and culture, economics and foreign affairs.
  -- when you have run out of reason and logic – they can discover something else for you to base your reality on

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