Customer Reviews
Avg. Customer Review:
An eye opener on metals in the mouth!, March 10, 2002
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Reviewer: Eleanor
Lebrecht from Fort Wayne, IN United States |
This book is to the point on how your health is affected by your
dentistry. Thank God there are more and more dentists who won't implant
mercury/amalgam into a thier patient's mouths anymore. Some dentists are
replacing the amalgam with composite and that can be even better when if it
is done correctly. (Hal Huggins Protocol)
Dr. Jerome tells all and adds more to the story, explaining how you can lose
your quality of life with root canals and other metals in the mouth.
A quality-of-life saver book.
25 of 25 people found the
following review helpful:
A call for reform worth reading if you have any teeth left., August
6, 2001
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Reviewer:
archimedes_tritium from Pasadena, CA USA |
The author makes the point that once a person dies, their teeth may last
thousands of years. Yet, while alive and part of an nutritional/immune
system, most people are hard-pressed to keep them from rotting out of their
mouth within a few years -- and think this is normal.
He lays out the chronology of most people's progressive dental
deterioration; the first fillings at 8-12, progressing to crowns in
20's-30's, root canals and bridges in 30's-50's with subsequent extraction
and dentures in old age. There is nothing left, after having marched
arm-in-arm with the state-of-the-art dental care ... and thinking this is
normal, despite folks in other parts of the world living life with a set of
choppers the likes of which most dentists never even see.
The author lays out the realities and falsehoods behind each common
dental procedure, as well as a dental care profession that has managed to
isolate itself from the rest of medicine. This permits denial that the
procedures and materials used in dentistry usually result in chronic
infections and toxicity that have far-ranging, degenerative health
consequences all over the body.
The latest thing is radioactive composite fillings "that show up better
on x-rays". Banned from glowing wrist-watches, but OK for implantation in
your mouth (the levels are "safe").
The good news is you don't have to wait the generation or two it will
take for the policy-making ADA dental leadership (whose egos and prestige
are at risk if the last century of treatment methods are recognized as being
erroneous and harmful) to die off and reform to set in.
Tooth and gum rot can be arrested and dental health improved by changes
in behavior and diet. It's your choice: have the Mountain Dew for breakfast
every day, gradually destroy your dental health while setting yourself up
for a lifetime of futile, painful dental work that will only establish a
range of other chronic infections and diseases ... or don't.
The book lays out the information you need to manage your own dental
health and find a dentist more concerned about your health than toeing the
party line.
It's remarkable how advances in medicine are thought of as a major
benefit of modernity. Yet, considering what's going on with cancer,
dentistry, AIDS, in which politics, ego and perpetuating institutions are
more important than solutions, perhaps this time will be looked upon even
less favorably than when "leeching" was common. At least back then, it was
lack of knowledge. Nowadays, the errors are due to perversity; the knowledge
exists but is disregarded to perpetuate human power and dodge responsibility
for error. Who is living in the Dark Ages?
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Reviewer: A reader
from Indiana |
While reading this book I found myself alternately furious with my past
dentists and the dental work I've had done, then relieved that I stumbled
across this book before making any more uninformed decisions. The Tooth
Truth contains truly groundbreaking information. In my opinion, this should
be required reading for anyone who steps inside any dental office.
Reviewed by Kate Lin of The New Times, January 31, 2001
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Reviewer: Kate Lin
of The New Times from Seattle, WA USA |
Dentistry has never been at the top of my list of things I would like to
learn about in this lifetime. In fact, for most of my life, dentistry has
been on a different list: "Things I would prefer not to know." But while
ignorance is bliss, ignorance can also be costly. The costs come in the form
of declining health and money spent for dental treatments that aren't in
one's best interest.
Tooth Truth provides some shocking and disturbing information about the
current practice of dentistry. By the end of the book, I could see why Dr.
Frank Jerome, D.D.S., states in his introduction, "This book is a warning to
every person that there is much danger every time they enter a dental
office." The dangers include almost every aspect of dentistry, from
treatments recommended to the materials used.
Dr. Jerome states, "It is common knowledge among dentists that over 95
percent of all dental treatments are optional." It is important, therefore,
that the patient have the information to discern which of these treatments
might be beneficial and which might not. Tooth Truth is a book for the
consumer, a dental primer, providing an understanding of dental techniques
and materials so that informed decisions can be made when your dentist makes
recommendations.
For most people, the normal course of action is to accept a dentist's
recommendations, have the treatment done, and then forget about it. In
contrast, Tooth Truth provides a broader perspective, letting us know the
consequences of a particular treatment ten years later so that we can decide
whether or not it is wise to have a particular treatment in the first place.
For example, if you know that crowning a tooth increases the probability
of needing a root canal later, then you might choose not to have a tooth
crowned. Dr. Jerome explains how damaging it is to remove all of a tooth's
enamel in order to crown a tooth. Furthermore, we learn that twenty percent
of all crowned teeth die. Once the tooth dies, most dentists will want to do
a root canal.
Rather than having a tooth crowned, Dr. Jerome suggests either a
composite filling or an onlay. An onlay is bonded to the top of the tooth
and allows more of the enamel to remain intact. An onlay is far less
damaging to the tooth than a crown, yet dentists are less likely to suggest
this option. Dentists are taught that they need to "do more crowns to
increase practice profitability."
In fact, in quite a variety of areas, dentists do not seem to take into
account the toxicity of the treatment being recommended. An example of this
is the continued use of mercury in fillings. Dr. Jerome explores the use of
mercury in dentistry and discusses its toxicity. Mercury is poisonous to the
body, and has been proven to cause birth defects.
In addition to the health threats that mercury poses, the disposal of the
mercury-containing amalgam is a noticeable threat to our environment. The
mercury-containing amalgam filling is considered hazardous waste before it
is put in your mouth, and it is also considered hazardous waste if the
filling is ever removed from your mouth. (Yet, somehow it is considered safe
while it is in your mouth!) A newspaper reports that 25 percent of the
mercury in the air in Denmark comes from crematoriums. Mercury enters the
sewers from dental offices and contaminates the environment. Some dental
offices in Europe are required to use mercury separators on their sewer
lines, but there is no such requirement in the United States.
As it turns out, it is actually quite common to find toxic elements in
dental materials. Porcelain, for example, commonly has radioactive material
added to help give it luminescence. Nickel, which is carcinogenic, is
commonly found in braces and crowns.
In addition to toxic materials, dentists frequently recommend toxic
procedures as well. An example of this is the root canal. Since the
philosophy of dentistry is to "save every tooth," root canals are frequently
recommended in spite of the fact that root canals are a heavy burden on the
immune system. According to Dr. Jerome, the acute infection in the tooth may
subside, but a chronic infection continues and the bacteria continue to
produce toxins.
In contrast to the "save every tooth" philosophy, Dr. Jerome's philosophy
is "no tooth is worth damaging your immune system." Dr. Jerome recommends
having the tooth pulled rather than leaving the dead tooth in your mouth. In
addition, he discusses the importance of properly cleaning the tooth socket
after a tooth is extracted.
Those who are familiar with Dr. Hulda Clark's books (The Cure for All
Cancers, The Cure for HIV and AIDS, etc.) will recognize this philosophy. In
fact, it was through Dr. Clark's books that I first learned about Dr.
Jerome, as Dr. Clark interviews Dr. Jerome in all of her books. Because of
this connection between Drs. Jerome and Clark, I assumed that Dr. Jerome's
new edition of Tooth Truth would have the same dental recommendations as Dr.
Clark's latest book The Cure for All Advanced Cancers [see The New Times,
September 2000 issue for review].
As it turns out, they have different recommendations in the area of
fillings. Dr. Clark recommends laboratory-processed composite inlays (cured
according to the procedure in The Cure for All Advanced Cancers so that no
toxins can seep), while Dr. Jerome uses the composite Visiofil. This is a
major difference in recommendations, and Dr. Clark devotees will want to
take note of this difference.
However, in spite of this difference, Tooth Truth contains a wealth of
information that can benefit everyone. Such technical distinctions and
details may seem like too much information for the average dental patient,
but, given the current practice of dentistry, it is no longer advisable that
we blindly follow a dentist's recommendations. For the preservation of our
health, it is essential that we become informed consumers in the area of
dental care. Tooth Truth provides the details of dentistry to help us make
those informed decisions. |