If you want to find out about holistic dentistry –
You have come to the right place.
We are Gigi and Merlin and have made it our mission to create this website where you can find out
All about Holistic Dentistry
The reason we initially wanted to find out for ourselves was that we thought that there must be a better way for dental treatment for our little son than what we had started out with.
Maybe you started out similarly as we did:
- We are taught to brush your teeth, when you were little
- We probably did not brush well enough because
- At some point we developed a toothache
- We went (or were taken by your parents) to the closest dentist
- The cavity was drilled out and filled and we did not think about it any longer
But then you might have met somebody (or read something) that caused you to question the validity of many of those things that you had accepted as facts. For example
- When the doctor gives you medicine, you take it
- The person in charge knows best
- However your dentist fixes your teeth and what he uses is fine
For us it was a chiropractor who opened our eyes to the possibility that not everything is as it looks, and that there are other options that might offer better solutions to a problem.
I remember that – many years ago in highschool – a friend brought in a medium sized glass bottle with – – – Mercury!
Yes, Mercury – and not little – at least a pound of it.
Our chemistry classes had made us smart enough, not to play with it directly and get it on our hands, but it was a fascinating material, a metal that sloshed back and forth in the bottle – and felt heavy nearly as lead, just liquid.
From handling instruction of CFL bulbs we later learned that this liquid metal was actually very poisonous but only when our chiropractor mentioned that this mercury made up about half of the so-called silver fillings we had in our teeth, we really started to question many of the accepted ‘truths’.
Becoming parents
When a new little human joined our family we got very busy.
So many new things to learn!
One of those was that even a two year old boy can have black marks on his teeth that looked like cavities.
We first started out acting similar to our parents – just find a dentist to have a look. We tried to do a bit better and followed a recommendation of a friend and found a pediatric dentist.
It was amazing – he even had child-sized treatment chairs!
Fortunately some of the ideas we had collected during our own time growing up, prompted us to interview this dentist before committing.
When we learned that he saw nothing wrong with the use of those so-called ‘silver’ fillings and that he would administer anesthesia even for the smallest procedure – we left in HORROR!
And thus our quest started that is now culminating in this website, because we believe that passing on the information we found can be helpful to you too.
We spent many hours studying whatever we could to find out about alternative ways of handling our teeth.
We want to take you along on this journey and hopefully save you some time to gain the same knowledge and insights so you can get the best options for your children and for yourself.
We will give you a complete picture, so you will get you information on those that mock alternative methods as well.