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The Importance of a Healthy Mind and Proper Sleep

In the last three issues I ad dressed the fact that controlling chronic inflammation can not only radically improve your health and slow aging, but literally save your life.We covered some foods and...

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Are Children Getting Enough Good Sleep?

It seems the further we stray from our natural environment and let society dictate our habits, the more health problems we encounter. Something as simple as the invention of the light bulb has...

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Pain is a Symptom: The Cause Must be Diagnosed

It is quite tempting for both the doctor and patient to treat pain symptoms with medication rather than trying to get to the root of what is causing the pain in the first place. It’s much easier to...

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Diagnosing TMJ Pain

Sometimes life will guide you… if you let it. More than thirty five years ago, being frustrated by my referrals to others for TMJ treatment, I attended a year long training to better my understanding...

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Hormones Rule

I recently attended a most interesting and informative medical meeting. It was like going into the future of medicine and seeing what the best doctors will be doing in the next 20 years. The course was...

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HEADACHES

I have great news. I just finished writing a book about what it takes to achieve optimal health and how to demand optimal healthcare. The book entitled WHY, The Question that Could Save Your Life, is...

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Dentinstry Must Not be Limited to the Oral Cavity

A famous writer, Maurice Meaterlinck, who wrote around the turn of the 19th century, made a statement that applies profoundly to the attitude of the medical establishment to Alternative Medicine. “Each...

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Are You Laughing Enough?

Probably not. The major cause of this jaw dysfunction, as my jaw TMJ/TMD practice has experienced, is STRESS. We are living in very stressful times. The economy is slowly recovering and family life has...

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OSA Must be Dealt With

Untreated and undiagnosed Sleep Apnea is not only a major cause of death, it can greatly affect the quality of life, even for children. It has taken far too long for obstructive sleep apnea, a.k.a....

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Our Magnificent Immune System: How Can we Save it?

Whether or not you’re Godly or Atheist, I think we can all agree that man did not create man. One thing man did create was arrogance. In a chapter in my book, Why?, entitled “Left Brain vs. Right Brain...

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Your Own Departmant of Defense: Your Immune System

Just for comparison, let’s pretend that we are building a supersonic fighter. When several of the parts come in they don’t meet specifications. Due to a lack of titanium several were made of aluminum....

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Healthcare Providers Must Change!

When one completes medical school, upon graduation he or she should never feel they have all the knowledge they need, but just enough to be able to learn. Science has not touched the incredibly vast...

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OSA: IT MUST BE DIAGNOSED & TREATED

Many of us are unaware that we might suffer from OSA (obstructive sleep apnea). Many know they have OSA and have sought help only to be given a CPAP that they can’t tolerate. Until recent years,...

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Holistic Frustration

In my book, WHY? The Question That Could Save Your Life, some of the many factors faced by those practicing alternative medicine are explained. I have been treating TMD, temporomandibular dysfunction,...

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Just Mail-in Your Head

Just Mail-in Your Head and We’ll Send it Back with Perfect Teeth It sometimes appears that this simplicity would be the most beautiful and desirable dental practice achievable. No need to study the...

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Milk: The Deadly Poison

This is the title of a book by Robert Cohen, first published in 1998. This book is quite accurate in its scientific investigation of one of our many corrupt cover ups that occur in our government and...

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Have Americans Become One Big Bad Experiment?

In my book, WHY, The Question That Could Save Your Life, I point out how our leaders have become demagogues. Their goal appears to be motivated more by greed than by serving the people, wanting to own...

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Egos Do Not Belong in Medicine

Around 1900 a famous author, Maurice Maeterlinck, made a profound statement which, I am sorry to say, continues to prevail. “Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to...

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The Hypocrisy of Evidence-Based Medicine

  Last month I attended a very informative conference of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. In my book, Why: The Question That Could Save Your Life I spent some time exposing “evidence...

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Dental Sleep Appliances Work… When made Properly

Throughout the medical and dental professions there are numerous courses given by suppliers of various devices for treatment of many medical problems, including Obstructive Sleep Apnea. After a two day...

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