Explain how calcium works.
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.