I recently returned from the March 2016 meeting of the International Academy Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) held in Orlando this year. The IAOMT is a clinical and research group of Phd, M.D., D.D.S. and others interested in the advancement of scientific truths as applied through clinical treatment protocols. I was “blown away”. I saw simple manipulation of the lower jaw in it’s relative position to the skull. Within minutes, that adjustment eliminated all visible life long symptoms of Tourettes Syndrome.
I saw a woman in her 40’s, whose body was unimaginably twisted and could hardly walk, have the relationship of her mandible to skull adjusted. She immediately stood up and walked without any signs of an abnormal gait, something she had not done for years. I learned the role vitamin K2 has in the systemic causation of dental cavities. We studied the correlation of heavy metal removal with the consequent reversal of various diseases. Of utmost interest were the lectures on the biochemistry of mercury toxicity and its removal from the body with resultant reversal of very significant pathologies.
Lectures on the fundamentals of biological dentistry are exciting, informative and always provoking. These researchers are a vanguard of where future normals will be in clinical medicine and dentistry. The more I learn … the less I know. The absolutes of today become not so absolute tomorrow.
The words of sociologist Marcell Truzzi “Unconventional ideas in science are seldom positively greeted by those benefitting form conformity.” This concept, coupled with the saying. “If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.” This produces a real barrier to our best well being.
Andrew Weil M.D. said, “ I think the best of medicine is the gentlest treatment that produces the maximum healing response.” I am sure I agree!
Yesterday, I received a group email from a high school classmate who offered, “just checking to see if any of you are on the fence, will be coming to the 70th birthday picnic? This will probably the last get together for our class unless someone else picks up the gauntlet.”
Anytime the expression “the last” is used, I get just a little anxious. I have grown to dislike “absolutes” of anything. After 40 years practicing clinical dentistry, I have learned absolutes often turn out not to be absolute. For example, I very much enjoy learning. I seek every opportunity I can to learn . Recently, within one week I heard equally creditable authorities lecture in complete opposition to each other on integral concepts within dentistry. Each labeling the other as harmful and dangerous. Each with equal creditability. Each with equal fervent. It is no wonder the masses can b confused…So can the academic centers.
The only absolute that I know today is “The more I learn…The less I know.”
But the only thing a Doctor can do is to keep learning!
