My Kingdom for this Knowledge

This is what bad sockets look like.  They drain yellow goop downwards.
These are crowded too close together and the nerves are probably constantly pinched.
2 front top teeth, drain down on 7 bottom teeth.
Look at how perfect they are otherwise.

This seems to be a thing, the crowding pinches the sockets.
My bad left bicuspid was lodged between two others, got pinched every time I chewed.
But it always looked perfect.  It never got a cavity.  And even though I had nine years of orthodontia,  my dentists never even noticed it - (Yeah, it would have been nice if they had pulled the bad tooth instead of the four others they chose to extract.)
Nobody ever mentioned it- even the hotshot high-tech dentist when I was 45 and had my entire mouth overhauled to alleviate my excruciating head pain...
That nerve started twitching when I was four years old.  Which is about the time I started sleepwalking.
It had stopped hurting by the time I was 17.  The suicidal ideation started around then.
And even though it was tweaked my whole life and the socket was basically an open sore in my mouth, I couldn't feel it and it didn't fall out until I was 53 and my Arizona dentist pushed it to the side and out of the trap.
It took two more years to figure out how to heal the wound though...

That tooth was like a railroad spike jamming into my ulcerated upper jaw my entire life.
A little Benzocaine probably could have diagnosed and solved the acute problem before I ground down all my other teeth, my entire head was affected, and my metabolism was shot.

It's a really nice tooth.  I'm having it silverplated.  It's my reward for not killing myself.

(for the record, I don't know whose teeth these are, but the right side upper and lower molars are toast, and this person definitely has auditory phenomena.  Probably both hearing loss and tinnitus or hallucinations.   But the dentist is marketing having the front ones straightened.)

(and just for some bonus irony, whitening yellow teeth with hydrogen peroxide makes the gums dry out and more prone to infection)

Further Adventures in the Loss of Sensory Perception

My kingdom for some reliable pain sensation...

Ordinarily, my mouth doesn't hurt.   My cheeks or eyes or neck or shoulders hurt when my teeth are bad- but not my mouth.

Last Friday I finally had a gum abscess between my crowns that was painful enough to need emergency treatment.  But I couldn't get to the dentist until Monday. So I went and bought Benzocaine liquid (Anbesol).   Put it on there for three days and (insert many florid curse words here) the septic pocket healed.

So I skipped the dentist and I put it on my slow healing tooth socket.  The one I have been nursing for two years.  And it healed in two days.   Because Irony.

So then I swabbed it on the gumline of my upper teeth.   And all my eye and cheek wrinkles relaxed. Ten dollar botox.  No shit.
So that gave me the idea of mapping every tooth, which I still need to diagram.

Lidocaine has many of the same properties as Benzocaine, so I decided to put some cream on a sore on my arm that wouldn't heal.  You know, one of those painless sores that ends up cancerous....  I have tried everything I could think of in the last year- antibacterials, antivirals, aloe, hemp oil, vitamin d, vitamin e, steroids, coal tar oil...

I applied it at midnight.  It was half the size and disappearing rapidly at 7am.
I put benzocaine on it the next night and it's shrunk by half again.  (forgot to take pictures, sorry!)
I have also put Anbesol on my psoriatic toenails.   Nothing has helped those either.    Until now.
Fingernail experiments are next.  

The research says these two are only mildly effective for bacterial control.   In petri dishes.
But it seems to keep those infected nerves from firing- and triggering the inflammation sequence- whether you can feel it or not- and allows the long term healing process to function.

Seriously.....  I am never-ever-ever going to get over this experiment.   This could change everything.

My mind is racing-
I think swabbing Benzocaine in old folks mouths might be an effective treatment against Alzheimer's.
It also helps break up throat biofilms, dearest strep zombies...
Pretty sure Chloraseptic spray would work to rapidly subdue most psychotic episodes.
But I will be writing more about that and more later.

In the meantime, do know that some people (especially children) have dangerous reactions to Benzocaine, and that you should test yourself with one drop at first.   And don't ever overdo it.
I also recommend taking out the stick and using a swab instead.  Much more precise.
Start with squishy molars or canine teeth.
I am working on mapping my face pain, so you can know which teeth to try next. (here you go)

Keep calm and restore your epithelial integrity.
Best wishes for a rapid and dramatic recovery.   

CHA-CHING CHA-CHING CHA-CHING!!!!

(While you are considering the efficacy of this treatment, please notice that I strung a whole sequence of descriptions and interactions together in this post.  I haven't been able to do that in months... I feel SO much better it's astonishing.)

Yo Dentists

Face Reading 101
Meet Bruce Pardo.  He is Mental Dental Patient #1

His facial distortion is caused by apical peridontitis of the upper canine teeth or the bicuspids behind them. (yellow stars)  The teeth are probably perfect, no cavities, but they don't fit in the jaw properly and are loose and infected in the sockets.

This tends to cause clenching and grinding.  That tweaks the infraorbital nerve up to the nose. (white boxes)
And causes sleep deprivation.   And vivid dreaming.   And visual hallucinations.
And closes off the nasal sinuses and tear ducts.
And promotes cumulative bacterermia.
And the resulting metabolic dysfunction, frustration and rage.

He became very obsessed with murdering his family in a most dramatic fashion before he committed suicide.
Just thought you might want to know.

Dear Suicidal/Homicical Men

The reason we break up with you is because you have gotten obsessive and weird.
The reason you are obsessive and weird is because your teeth are rotten.
Your head is Toxic.  Please- stop spending your money on guns and go to the fucking dentist!

Honestly, if I were in charge I would make a National Department of Male Dentistry.   Make you people register and get checkups like they do for car emissions.

Zombie Tourism

A Mexican Town Is Giving Americans Something Donald Trump Can’t: Affordable Dental Care

Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric doesn’t worry the 600 dentists in Los Algodones or the US “dental refugees” they treat, many of whom voted for Trump. “We’re helping the United States take care of the people they are not able to.”

Yeah, this shit is fractally annoying.
All the Olds who move down here at retirement do this.
They have put off dental care all their lives.  So they go to Mexico and get their entire mouths renovated.  And introduce lots of bacteria into their bloodstreams.   And then a few months later they have heart attacks and Medicare pays for a shitload of stents and a decade or two of follow up cardiac care.

See the Vortex.

The Crux of the Biscuit

The painful truth about teeth

You can work full time but not have the money to fix your teeth – visible reminders of the divide between rich and poor.

But the absolutely gobsmacking truths about teeth are:

1. If they are bad, the nerves are dead and there usually isn't any pain.   So you ignore them until you are septic.
2. Too Much invasive dental treatment does just about as much damage to the immune system and brain as complete neglect.  It directly introduces oral microbes into the bloodstream.

Ultimately, this is the fundamental problem in medicine:  Separation of Dental and Body protocols.

It's Not Rocket Science

The enormous pop-up clinic trying to bridge America’s health divide

Dr Joe Smiddy, one of the long-time volunteer doctors on site, has seen similar scenarios play out for patients here, time and again: “Once they lose their teeth, or they have unsightly teeth, they lose part of their own marketability. They have trouble finding a job,” he says. “Course, when they lose their job, they lose any healthcare they might have had. And then you can have substance issues where people are self‑medicating with tobacco and street drugs for what is real pain and real anxiety.”

As I Was Saying

Woman dies in parking lot of Southfield Dental Care after removal of her teeth

The 46-year-old patient, April Walters, had respiratory illnesses, sarcoidosis, COPD, diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure, and she was also on oxygen. None of those conditions were life threatening, still she died due to some cause yet to be discovered. The family of April is seeking reason behind her death, soon after the dental appointment.

Money Quote:

Dr. Rabban only removed 16 teeth instead of 18 and told Cutright to take her sister to see a doctor and get her heart checked out.

This lady was chronically ill and now is dead because the medical establishment separates dental work from all other care.

Expensive Holes in his Head

Story Three:

About 15 years ago, I had occasion to consult with a fancy Upper East Side dental surgeon who specialized in cosmetic work. The circumstances are unimportant, though he did notice that I was getting older and might want to consider implants or veneers since he said I had made my teeth considerably smaller over the years by grinding them. An occupational hazard, I guess.

The dentist was momentarily called away, and when he returned to the conference room where I waited, he had a set of teeth molds in his hand.

“Do you know what these are?” he asked with a smirk. Then, without waiting for an answer, added: “Donald Trump’s teeth.”

The dentist said Trump would come to the office every six months or so complaining that his veneers weren’t white enough.

“I tell him that if they are too white, they won’t look real,” the dentist said, as I recall, “but he won’t listen. So he picks a shade, and I make them about one-quarter as white as the shade he selects, and he goes away happy.”

Yes....  as I said....
Not only is trauma or infection or neglect able to cause this acute systemic response- many of the treatments actually trigger and compound the pathology.     

Treatments like full mouth reconstruction and tooth whitening.... 

Oh holy hell....
Ben Carson Loses A Tooth At South Carolina Campaign Stop

His veneers are falling out of his head.

 

Weaselspeak

Dental group defends mercury fillings amid mounting evidence of risks 

Washington attorney James Turner, who has represented consumers in a 23-year campaign to ban mercury fillings, believes the dental association’s advocacy on these issues has been motivated at least in part by an unspoken economic interest: to “avoid enormously costly product liability suits” by patients sickened from mercury exposure.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article53118775.html#storylink=cpy

Money Quote:

"The ADA owes no legal duty of care to protect the public from allegedly dangerous products used by dentists. The ADA did not manufacture, design, supply or install the mercury-containing amalgams. . . . Dissemination of information related to the practice of dentistry does not create a duty of care to protect the public from potential injury."
- American Dental Association response to a patient lawsuit

Yeah, those are the people who "approve" toothpaste.   That's clearly meaningless too.

A not-so Offhand Hypothesis

I have noticed this for a couple years-   I have now seen enough examples to state it publicly.

Fibromyalgia is not an independent illness:  it is an adverse effect of chronic dental infection.
The toxins invade the nerves in the jaw and filter down into the neck and shoulders.
Eventually the nerves in the mouth die and stop hurting, but the ones down below still cause pain.

My own experience convinces me-
Shoulder twitching and pain is a sign your teeth need fixing.

Invaders Eating His Head

I watched Going Clear last night.   It was fractally disturbing.
So many sad, sick people- made slaves to their anxiety.

This was the worst part:   L Ron Hubbard's teeth.   And perpetually saggy face.

He should have let go of the cans and looked critically in the mirror.

Reality Based Dentisty

Study finds 'no-drill' dentistry stops tooth decay

A University of Sydney study has revealed that tooth decay (dental caries) can be stopped, reversed, and prevented without the need for the traditional 'fill and drill' approach that has dominated dental care for decades.
The results of the seven year study, published today in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, found that the need for fillings was reduced by 30 to 50 per cent through preventative oral care.

"For a long time it was believed that tooth decay was a rapidly progressive phenomenon and the best way to manage it was to identify early decay and remove it immediately in order to prevent a tooth surface from breaking up into cavities. After removing the decay, the affected tooth is then restored with a filling material—this process is sometimes referred to as 'drilling and filling'.
"However, 50 years of research studies have shown that decay is not always progressive and develops more slowly than was previously believed. For example, it takes an average of four to eight years for decay to progress from the tooth's outer layer (enamel) to the inner layer (dentine).
"That is plenty of time for the decay to be detected and treated before it becomes a cavity and requires a filling."

Yes, Ellie Phillips wrote a book about this in 2010.
But ignoring symptoms and drilling and filling is so much more lucrative....  those dentists have boat payments you know...

Just Following Protocol Sir

Most Vets Don't Qualify For VA Dental Care. So These Dentists Are Giving It For Free

After years of neglect, William Bell’s teeth had deteriorated to the point that he looked liked he had been “smoking meth every day for years.” And though the U.S. veteran had kidney cancer, diabetes, PTSD and depression, he wasn’t “disabled enough” to qualify for dental care through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“I was trying to get my teeth worked on for three years. They wouldn’t do it,” Bell, who served three tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan before retiring in 2013, told The Huffington Post. “I can get major surgery done, but I can’t get my teeth done.”

That is as backwards as it gets.    
See the Matrix.

The Root of the Problem

Billions 'have untreated tooth decay'

Prof Wagner Marcenes of Queen Mary University of London led an international team of scientists analysing 378 studies involving some 4.7m people between 1990 and 2010.
Their global survey suggests 2.4bn people have untreated tooth decay in their permanent teeth and some 621m children have untreated decay in milk teeth.
According to UK data, a third of the population had untreated dental decay in 2010. In Lithuania, one of the hardest-hit countries, the proportion was more than double this, at 68%.

He said: "It is alarming to see prevention and treatment of tooth decay has been neglected at this level.

Note he does not say "surprising".

The Source of the Vortex

Physician-dentist collaboration recommended in diabetes care

The researchers note that more older people visit a dentist than a primary care physician (in 2011, about 58 percent of those aged ≥65 years visited a dentist versus 38 percent who visited a primary care doctor). Diabetes has several oral manifestations and dentists can potentially identify patients with diabetes who are at risk. Patients could be placed on a recall program as a preventive measure, providing an opportunity for monitoring. Periodontal examinations can also be used to identify people with diabetes, with 92 percent accuracy seen in one study involving 506 dental patients. Dentists should also be trained to recognize patients at high risk for diabetes. Dentists and their auxiliary staff can also provide guidance for patients and help them attain glycemic control.

It is absolutely inexcusable that this is not already standard protocol.

Bad Stuff

The Science of Why Toothpaste Makes Food Taste Funny

Because it's a floor cleaner.

As I was saying

Why Don't We Treat Teeth Like the Rest of Our Bodies?

Dental care is excluded from most insurance plans for a bizarre and antiquated reason, and millions of people suffer as a result. 

Gotta flag this quote:  "It’s not like antibiotics or insulin."

So backwards it actually makes me dizzy just thinking about it.

"Non Communicable" Diseases

Severe periodontitis: Sixth most prevalent health condition in the world

In 2010, severe periodontitis was the sixth most prevalent condition in the world affecting 743 million people worldwide. Between 1990 and 2010, the global age-standardized prevalence of severe periodontitis was static at 11.2%.

Apparently those numbers have never been calculated before.  Puts them in the top ten.

The most prevalent conditions, as established by the World Health Organization: iron-deficiency anemia, hearing loss, migraine, low vision, asthma, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis (OA), and unipolar depressive disorders.

Not to put too fine a point on this- but all of those can be caused by chronic periodontal infection.   Which is communicable dammit.

Nobody Could have Predicted

Crest 'microbeads' might cause gum disease
Dentists say it gets trapped under people's gums

Shoppers Ditching Colgate Total Amid Triclosan Fears