Guest guest Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 " Par Scott " <parufus Re: Digest Number 1839 - dental implants Mostly heard about it from other practitioners. There was a period of time where I worked with a lot of teens and was doing a lot more cranial work, and there was definitly a pretty consistent clunkiness to cranial rhythms in people with braces or a recent history of braces. I've been told some of this can be reduced substantially with braces that don't cross the midline, but I never felt patients before and after, so I don't know, and I had an opinion about it before I started so I'm hardly an impartial observer. I tried regular cranial protocol (Upledger) and working with individual teeth with sometimes gratifiying results. Does anyone have interesting TCM dental anecdotes, I've alwasy been fascinated by teeth... No major anecdotes, I'm usually discouraged when a patient tells me they have had a root canal done, personaly i think id rather have the good doctor pull it and put in an insert, though i have'nt personaly gotten beyond my own squeemishness about filling in one of my gaps, Having a deficiency of molars on my left side for chewing I'm slightly paranoid that my tmjoint might start acting up but its going on 7 years and no obvious changes showing up, craniosacraly i'm probably a bit skewed. The bridge thing seems kind of creepy shaving down the adjoining good teeth to attatch the thing, though I've heard there are ways around that......sorry no more dentistry talk, Imade up an herbal mouth wash once out of Chinese herbs it was pretty nasty but there was one chinese herb that I forget now but it made the mouth tingle a bit like ecchinaccea does. Bai Xian Pi maybe? It made for a nice counternote to all the bitter herbs. I also had a student in herb prep class make up a toothpowder out of bentonite clay baking soda plus mo yao and some Rou Gui powder. I think she found it in a western herbalist book with herbal spa recipes. It works quite nicely. I might consider bentonite clay to be similar therapeuticaly to Fu Long Gan as far as them both being a form of medicinal clay. I will have to try adding some other chinese herbs and see if I can improve on the basic recipe. warm regards to all Matt Ferguson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I had impacted wisdom teeth removed a bunch of years ago, and treated myself with strong herbal teas at the time - a little valerian for pain, and a mouthwash made of rosemary to keep my sockets clean. When I went back to the dentist a week later for a checkup, he said he'd never seen anyone heal so quickly, and without a trace of infection. At the time, I was only self-taught about Western herbs, so that was what I used. Worked! Matt Ferguson <mfergyson wrote: " Par Scott " <parufus Re: Digest Number 1839 - dental implants Mostly heard about it from other practitioners. There was a period of time where I worked with a lot of teens and was doing a lot more cranial work, and there was definitly a pretty consistent clunkiness to cranial rhythms in people with braces or a recent history of braces. I've been told some of this can be reduced substantially with braces that don't cross the midline, but I never felt patients before and after, so I don't know, and I had an opinion about it before I started so I'm hardly an impartial observer. I tried regular cranial protocol (Upledger) and working with individual teeth with sometimes gratifiying results. Does anyone have interesting TCM dental anecdotes, I've alwasy been fascinated by teeth... No major anecdotes, I'm usually discouraged when a patient tells me they have had a root canal done, personaly i think id rather have the good doctor pull it and put in an insert, though i have'nt personaly gotten beyond my own squeemishness about filling in one of my gaps, Having a deficiency of molars on my left side for chewing I'm slightly paranoid that my tmjoint might start acting up but its going on 7 years and no obvious changes showing up, craniosacraly i'm probably a bit skewed. The bridge thing seems kind of creepy shaving down the adjoining good teeth to attatch the thing, though I've heard there are ways around that......sorry no more dentistry talk, Imade up an herbal mouth wash once out of Chinese herbs it was pretty nasty but there was one chinese herb that I forget now but it made the mouth tingle a bit like ecchinaccea does. Bai Xian Pi maybe? It made for a nice counternote to all the bitter herbs. I also had a student in herb prep class make up a toothpowder out of bentonite clay baking soda plus mo yao and some Rou Gui powder. I think she found it in a western herbalist book with herbal spa recipes. It works quite nicely. I might consider bentonite clay to be similar therapeuticaly to Fu Long Gan as far as them both being a form of medicinal clay. I will have to try adding some other chinese herbs and see if I can improve on the basic recipe. warm regards to all Matt Ferguson Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, including board approved continuing education classes, an annual conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I've had the same reaction from my dentist, he can't believe how well healing occurs after dental work with herbal medicine. On Jan 23, 2004, at 11:07 AM, wrote: > I had impacted wisdom teeth removed a bunch of years ago, and treated > myself with strong herbal teas at the time - a little valerian for > pain, and a mouthwash made of rosemary to keep my sockets clean. When > I went back to the dentist a week later for a checkup, he said he'd > never seen anyone heal so quickly, and without a trace of infection. > At the time, I was only self-taught about Western herbs, so that was > what I used. Worked! > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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