What are the causes and symptoms of periodontal diseases?
Is Calcium Gum Treatment an Alternative to Gum Surgery?
My gum pockets are really deep and it's hopeless. Can you help me?
Do other dentists do Calcium Therapy, and where is one near me?
Why does my root canal hurt? I thought it was dead.
Will my insurance cover the Calcium Therapy?
Causes and Symptoms of Periodontal Diseases
The causes of periodontal disease listed under four areas of concern. If one or more of the four causes are present for extended periods of time, periodontal disease will set in. These causes may be complex, however, they are understandable and manageable. The Calcium Treatment of periodontal disease is most gratifying and almost monthly we discover more about the value of the Calcium Methods.
Four Areas of Concern:
Lack of clean teeth and gums..
Missing teeth that have not been restored.
The bite (occlusion) of dental restoration.
Remember, gum disease is the result of something deeper than the infection and surgeries do little or nothing to eliminate the CAUSES. So, the disease returns. This is why gum surgeries have no place in periodontal treatment. Even the most severe periodontal infections can be alleviated through non-invasive therapy.
Common Symptoms:
a. Bleeding gums upon brushing.
b.. Continual bad breath or bad taste in the mouth.
c.. Red, puffy, sore gums around the teeth.
d.. Sore, hyper-sensitive teeth.
e.. Constant collection of tartar (calculus) or stain
f.. Rapid shrinkage of the gums
g.. Unending dental problems
A more recent Cause/Symptom has become excessive dental care, cleaning appointments, pocket measuring, gum surgery, and harsh dental products. Calcium Therapy is safe and more economical. We know how uncomfortable gum problems can be. That's why we ask you to consider this alternative.
Why do you say that Calcium Therapy is all about Common Sense?
Calcium Gum Treatment : Alternative to Gum Surgery
Calcium Therapy is a non-invasive, non-surgical alternative to gum surgeries.It is rapid, safe, and cost effective treatment for virtually any gum infection. It strengthens the teeth and bone. There is no pain to the treatment. The calcium materials reduce bleeding, soothe sore gums and sensitive teeth, and control bad breathe.
For over three decades thousands of patients have benefited from the "Calcium Method of Periodontal Therapy." People like it, it is cost efficient, and the therapy prevents lifelong dental problems. We also take a preventative approach with regular treatments, monthly, or a few times a year. These are easy, fast, safe, economical, and the results are remarkable. Calcium doses are measured, placed in the problem area, and monitored. A no-nonsense Self-care Kit is also available.
- In-office Treatments are intense, local treatments of the infection around the teeth and their supporting structures. At the outset the treatment can be used as immediate relief of discomfort or a diagnostic tool to find the deeper causes. One quick treatment will last a week or more.
- In-Home Self-care Kit is a mild, full-mouth experience of the Calcium Treatment and a gauge of the severity of the infectious condition present. The kit is also available for personal use as a long-term maintenance therapy. The Kit contains the C-Z Toothbrush, the Oral-Cal Mouth Rinse, and the Calcium Carpule System. These are mild treatments of the teeth and gums that will last several months.
- Monthly or Quarterly Therapy are considered when the periodontal tissues more superficial "Alveolar Bone" of the jaw is gone, but the deeper jawbone has been destroyed. The extended Calcium Treatments infuse chemically free calcium and zinc directly into the soft tissues and bone. It has become very clear that after several months of sustained therapy there is remarkable improvements in what others term "hopeless" cases.
When the body needs calcium, it goes first and foremost to the soft, vascular bone of the mouth to get it. Calcium is taken from the "alveolar" bone around the teeth because it is a perfect resource when the body needs calcium. Any way we can help restore calcium to this "alveolar" bone benefits the entire body.
- Bone Loss: Alveolar Bone & Jaw bone.
The alveolar bone surrounds and supports the teeth, along with the periodontal ligament that connects each tooth to the bone. This unique alveolar bone is a delicate, porous vascular bone around the tooth's neck and to the middle of the root. This fragile alveolar bone develops in our youth and gradually recedes with age. The loss of alveolar bone usually becomes apparent in our 20s and 30s, and the more sensitive root surfaces of the teeth begin to be exposed. For many people this exposure makes for very uncomfortable teeth, especially when the alveolar bone recedes too rapidly. Any tampering with the thin, vascular gum tissues covering the alveolar bone is risky, unwise and disastrous. When teeth are removed this alveolar bone fades away quickly, leaving only the deeper jawbone to hold the other teeth in place. Alveolar bone will not grow back and cannot be manufactured, yet. And it is quite obvious that periodontal surgery (shaping, lifting, scraping, gliding, grafting, sliding, curettage, planing, etc., etc.) will guarantee rapid, permanent loss of the alveolar bone, the very tissue needed to heal the gums and support the teeth. However, we know that one essential chemical that sustains or stimulates the repair of bone is CALCIUM.
In fact, the Calcium Therapy for periodontal infections not only heals the gum tissues, but also preserves more alveolar and jaw bone.
My gum pockets are really deep and it's hopeless. Can you help me?
Yes. Stop letting anyone measure your gum pockets. You may have deep pockets around your teeth, however, if your condition is not "hopeless." Measuring gum pockets only spreads infection all over your mouth and tells the dentist almost nothing. Stop letting anyone measure your gum pockets, and you will improve. There are much better ways of determining your condition. A long time ago clinical researchers found pocket depth is not a dependable
Do other dentists do Calcium Therapy, and where is one near me?
Dentists need to be trained in it. Dental schools in the USA will not teach their students about Calcium Therapy and organized dentistry here has not allowed its publication. The Calcium Therapy Institute was started to train dentists, to share our discoveries with people who can listen, even over the Internet, in Europe, India, England, and Mexico. There are several dental offices in the USA providing the Calcium Therapy: in the Midwest, California and New England. We refer people as we can, send self-care dental products around the world from here in Omaha, NE where patients come in almost weekly from all over the country and others. We also arrange weekend appointments for patients from distant places.
Why does my root canal hurt? I thought it was dead.
The bite on that tooth may be too severe. This can be adjusted easily. It could be the root itself is defective. Calcium treatments usually correct this, but, if the root is broken, it may need to be extracted. This isn't easy to determine, even with x-rays. Teeth with root canals are not fully dead. So, long ago we designed a root canal therapy using calcium materials that enables the dentist to re-fill the root canals. The is an advantage over many root canals filled with materials that cannot be removed. Then the tooth has to be extracted. Root Canal THERAPY is a series of treatments until healing is complete, not a one shot deal.
Will my insurance cover the Calcium Therapy?
Insurance companies are accepting more of these non-surgical treatments but not all the time. We help insurance companies understand what is being done for their policyholders. The success rate of the Calcium Therapy is so high, so rapid, and the cost so reasonable that most patients are less concerned with insurance coverage.
How do you use the calcium/zinc stuff?
The calcium materials do have zinc in them, These two elements are essential for most biological reactions of body tissues. The compounds we have designed are applied to the teeth and gum tissues of the mouth. Within seconds they are picked up by the teeth, gums, ligaments and bone. The application is timed-release for almost seven days for a low-level, slow, gentle, continuous absorption of the free calcium and zinc. In this sustained environment, normal healing will occur very rapidly. Some of this stuff has been used other ways in dentistry for 100 years.
Twenty-five years ago it became apparent to us that we dentists should think of the periodontium, that is, the gums and the tissues supporting the teeth, as the periodontal "window" into the body. That is, a physiological window into the vascular system, even more immediate than the digestive system, as when nitroglycerin is held under the tongue to ward off heart problems. The periodontal tissues absorb it instantly and the heart's response is immediate and effective. Likewise, this is the case with absorbable chemicals that are held in the mouth for any length of time.
This is certainly the case with this long-term calcium therapy of the periodontium. When we present this concept at a dental conventions it is met with confusion, as if the periodontium were not a highly active and integral part of the body's biological system. Obviously the periodontium is, and we can choose to look into it as a "window" with access to the vascular system of the body.
We have long known that the monthly calcium periodontal therapy certainly helps the periodontium without side-effects. The patients benefit from regular, consistent, low-level doses of calcium, and may have significant, positive benefits in the prevention of osteoporosis.
One of the most common comments from Calcium Therapy patients is that they feel better, and that makes sense. So does the Peridontal "Window."
Although this concept was presented to a renowned physicians in the field of osteoporosis, the treatment of choice for this crippling disease remains: drink milk and don't fall. Recent medical research indicates that chewing aspirin at the onset of a heart attack (severe chest pains and radiation of pain down the left arm) can prevent the attack enough to get emergency care. This would seem to be primarily due to the uptake of the aspirin by the oral tissues (the periodontium), just like placing nitroglycerin under the tongue for the same reason. Our contention was, and remains, that there are other chemicals like calcium and zinc that can be introduced into the body in a very rapid, efficient and safe fashion utilizing the Periodontal "Window".
This arena of research is wide open and quite plausible for dental as well as medical inquiry. Think of insulin for diabetics, nicotine to combat smoking dependency, other cardiovascular conditions, and more. There may be many chemicals that can be incorporated into these compounds that will sustain their active properties over long periods of time in a mild dosage, and enter the blood stream by way of the highly vascular periodontium.
