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Excerpted From the Writings of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D., edited by Eve Greenberg, LPC, CN, Explore Staff Reporter and Director of the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology

The Three Components of Lyme Disease

Lyme disease has three components, which should be recognized and addressed with treatment:

Component #1: The presence of spirochete infection and co-infections

The co-infections are bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic.  Since the spirochetes paralyze multiple aspects of your immune system, the organism is without defenses against many microbes.  Many — if not most — of the co-infections are really a consequence of the spirochete infection and not truly a simultaneously occurring “co-infection”.

Component #2: the illness producing effect of microbial exo- and endotoxins produced by the host in response to microbial trigger

Most of these are neurotoxins.  Some appear to be carcinogenic as well; others block the T3 receptor on the cell wall, etc.  Decreased hormonal output of the gonads and adrenals is a commonly observed toxin mediated problem in Lyme patients.

Central inhibition of the pineal gland, hypothalamus and pituitary gland is almost always an issue that has to be resolved somewhat independently from treating the infection.

Furthermore, biotoxins from the infectious agents have a synergistic effect with heavy metals, xenobiotics and thioethers from cavitations and NICO lesions in the jaw and from root filled teeth…

Component #3: The immune reactions provoked by the presence of both toxins and microbes (there are three sub-possibilities, which have to be recognized and addressed).

Your immune reactions are largely depending on factors such as genetics, prior illnesses, mental-emotional baggage, early childhood traumatization, current exposure to electromagnetic fields, food allergies and diet, socio-economic background, marital stress etc.

Many researchers today believe that NICO lesions, like periodontal disease, is the focus of various infections which may spread throughout the body and have systemic effects.  In the last few years, some of the most surprising medical news has been the discovery that bacteria from the mouth appear to be very influential in causing various heart, liver, kidney, and immune problems.

Researchers from New York University found that certain bacteria from the mouth may be related to preterm delivery and low birth weight according to a study in the Journal of Periodontology.  The presence of specific bacteria and combinations of bacteria in periodontal pockets also appears to be responsible for the relationship between periodontal disease and acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a new study published in the Journal of Periodontology.

Dr. Weston Price was a prominent dental researcher leading a medical research team on the relation between root-canal teeth and chronic health conditions.  Through a long series of well documented clinical cases and experiments his team found that root-canals accumulate bacteria that give off extreme toxins sufficient to cause serious health conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular conditions, arthritis, neurological conditions, kidney conditions, etc.  Dr. Meinig, one of the founders of the endodontic association has reviewed the research of Dr. Price and others and is in agreement with their findings.

Many doctors and dentists through their experience with patients have reached similar conclusions.  They have had large numbers of patients who have had such health conditions significantly improve after treatment of root canals or cavitations along with other detoxification measures.  A collaborative study by the North Carolina Institute of Technology using advanced tests developed by Affinity Laboratory has demonstrated the mechanisms by which cavitations can cause cancer.

Modern experiences also support this theory.  Dr. Issels, a German physician, recommends extraction of root canal teeth as part of his protocol for terminal cancer patients.  Over the last 40 years with 16,000 patients, he has observed a 24% total remission rate.

Dr. Florian Kubitzek, a physician and dentist in Munich, Germany, uses the CT scan to study the teeth and jaw.  His scanning technique has been invaluable in diagnosing jaw abscesses below the teeth that have been inadequately treated by standard dentistry.  Conventional dental X-rays have entirely missed the jaw abscesses known as cavitations.  Kubitzek treats many cancer patients who have dental caviations as a collaborative approach in the overall treatment of metastatic and primary cancer.

Dr. John Diamond (MD) says that all patients with breast cancer that he has tested had “root-canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian.”

Other clinics that treat cancer have similarly found that most of their patients with cancer have root-canalled teeth or cavitations and that treating these is an important part in success at treating cancer.

Research and clinical cases have found cavitations to be related to many chronic health conditions which have improved after cavitation treatment, including cancer, congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular problems, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune conditions- perhaps related to cavitations major effects on the immune system.

If you have a joint implant or mitral valve prolapse, your dentist must prescribe an antibiotic before any dental treatment.  Why?  Because bacteria from the mouth can spread through the blood to cause serious problems elsewhere in the body.  There is growing evidence that the toxins from NICO lesions do the same.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

Cavitations commonly cause adverse health effects, and many thousands of cavitations have been treated.  They are commonly tested or biopsied by labs having the expertise to provide these services, and virtually all that have been tested or biopsied were found to be associated with dead, necrotic tissue and extreme toxicity.  The types of conditions that cavitations have been most commonly related to are atypical facial neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, chronic sinusitis, phantom toothache pain, and headaches including migraines.

Dr. Breiner, DDS, and others recommend two primary methods of treatment for their patients.  First is a procedure where special homeopathic medications called Sanum remedies are injected into the cavitation site, and then a modified form of infrared light or low level laser light therapy is applied to the area.  In some cases the light therapy alone has been sufficient to resolve the problem.  This is often successful in cases related to smaller cavitations with primarily poor blood flow or bacterial toxin effects.  Cavitations have also been treated successfully using oxygen/ozone therapy.  Although cavitations are very common, they should only be treated surgically if there is indication of a relation to pain or chronic health effects not resolved by other means.  There are various ways to assess this.

If this method is not successful, the alternative is to surgically open the area and clean the remaining ligament and resultant debris from the bone.  Every biopsy of bone material he has collected from cavitation surgeries has shown osteonecrosis, or dead bone material.  In all studies reviewed, the majority of those undergoing surgery for NICO pain had significant pain relief after surgery.

Clinical experience indicates that delays in treatment can lead to further infections, and the majority of patients have long term pain relief.  However as much as 30% may have reoccurrence or new cavitations that lead to reoccurrence pain.  Prior to bone marrow biopsy the average NICO patient has been in pain for 6 years (up to 32 years), usually diagnosed as atypical facial neuralgia/pain, but also diagnosed as trigeminal neuralgia, chronic sinusitis, phantom toothache/pain, and various headaches, including migraine headache.  However treatment has also been successful at eliminating rheumatoid arthritic pain.

French and German oral surgeons have developed an alternative method of minimally invasive cavitation surgery.

Due to the  nature of the mechanisms related to cavitation formation, it is not uncommon for cavitation sites that are treated to become re-infected or to accumulate other toxins that can cause a relapse of symptoms.  Such cases may require retreatment using either surgery or other options.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

Research has demonstrated that virtually all root canals result in residual infection due to the imperfect seal that allows bacteria to penetrate.  The most commonly used material in root canals is gutta percha, which is soaked in chloroform and heated.  But when the chloroform evaporates and the gutta percha cools, there is significant shrinkage in all such root canal fillings, which allows entrance of bacteria.  A condition that commonly occurs with root-canalled teeth is a radicular or periapical cyst or apical periodontitis, which is a pocket of bacterial inflammation that often forms in the gums at the tip of root-canalled teeth due to bacteria inhibiting the tooth.  These are the most common type of cysts that form in the gums and can also be a factor in formation of caviations in the neighbouring jawbone.

Once established, non-mutans streptococci, enterococci and lactobacilli appear to survice commonly following endodontic root-canal treatment of teeth with clinical and radiographical signs of apical periodontitis.  Large scale tests found cavitations under or located near approximately 90% of root canal teeth scanned in both males and females of various ages from several different geographic areas of the United States.  The general population could be somewhat different from this sample as the sample was not a random sample.  In tests of 745 randomly chosen root-canalled teeth at a dental school, done at least 1 year prior to test, 33% were found to have apical periodontitis.

The toxins given off by these bacteria are often even more toxic than mercury.  The bacterial toxins from root-canalled teeth and associated cavitations can cause systemic diseases of the heart, kidney, uterus, immune, nervous and endocrine systems.

A useful and commonly used test to assess the cause of toxic related chronic health conditions is the urinary fractionated porphyrin test, which measures the degree that toxic exposures have blocked digestive enzymatic processes necessary to the function of the body, by looking at the level of various waste porphyrins in the urine caused by these blockages.  The level of such toxic related porphyrins in the urine of people with chronic conditions including Parkinson’s have been found to decline in some patients after cavitation treatment (or amalgam removal).  This is also been found for many cases of Lupus and MS.  Lupus symptoms are often associated with blockage and resulting high levels in urine of Uriporphyrin, while MS is more commonly associated with high Coproporphyrin.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

One study of cavitation incidence involved an analysis of 112 randomly selected dental patient charts who had been tested for cavitations, with patient age ranging from 19 to 83 years among 40 males and 72 females.  The cavitations were tested for using exploratory drilling.  Cavitations were found at approximately 75% of all extraction sites examined.

The most commonly extracted teeth, the third molars (‘wisdom teeth’), produced CVs that were found by clinical exploration in 313 out of 354 extraction sites (88%).  Cavitations were found in 35 of 50 second molar extraction sites (70%), and for first molars, 60 of 73 extraction sites showed cavitations (82%).  They were found in 441 of the total number of 517 molar extraction sites explore (85%).  For the maxillary non-molars, CVs were found in 72 of 123 extraction sites (58%), and for mandibular non-molars, 23 of 51 extraction sites were affected (45%).  For all non-molars, the cavitation rate was 55%, representing 95 of 174 extraction sites.  Note that the cavitations found were not all related to pain or known chronic conditions, and dental patients who had been tested for cavitations is not the same as the general population, so the general population likely has a somewhat lower cavitation incidence.

Bob Jones is the inventor of the CAVITAT – an ultrasound instrument designed to detect and image cavitations that has been approved for testing for cavitations by the FDA after undergoing FDA clinical trials.  He found cavitations of various sizes and severity in approximately 94% of several thousand wisdom teeth sites scanned.  He also found cavitations under or located near over 90% of root canal teeth scanned in both males and females of various ages from several different geographic areas of the United States.  Note again that the population being tested for cavitations in these trials is not the same as the general population, which might have a somewhat lower incidence of cavitations.  But its clear that the occurrence is very common.

Confirmation of cavitation necrosis and toxicity is commonly by 2 or the leading labs in the U.S. with technology for performing such tests, the Maxifillio Center in West Virginia and the Affinity Laboratory in Kentucky.  Analysis typically finds clear evidence of chronic intraosseous inflammation – often with dense marrow fibrosis or non-resorbing necrotic bone flakes with very little healing or new bond formation.  It has also been found that these lesions often spread to other areas to initiate further cavities.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

The results of recent research of Dr. Boyd Haley (former Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky) show that ALL cavitation tissue samples he’s tested contain toxins, which significantly inhibit one or more of the five basic body enzyme systems necessary in the production of energy.  These toxins, which are most commonly likely to be metabolic waste products of anaerobic bacteria (bacteria which don’t live in oxygen), may produce significant systemic effects, as well as play an important role in localised disease processes, which negatively affect the blood supply in the jawbone.

There are indications that other types of toxins also accumulate in cavitations, and when these combine with certain chemicals or heavy metals (for example, mercury), much more potent toxins may form.

High levels of mercury are commonly found in some cavitations and in general in the jawbone of those with mercury amalgam fillings and to have significant local and systemic effects.  Mercury is known to be extremely toxic and to commonly cause chronic adverse local and systemic health effects.  Yeast and fungi have also been found to accumulate in cavitations, and to have significant systemic effects.

Accurate tests for cavitation-related bacterial toxins have been developed by the Affinity Laboratory in Kentucky, based on research by Chemists from the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry.  The toxins released by anaerobic bacteria in cavitations have been found to be extremely toxic, and to have major effects on necessary body enzymes and the immune system.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

Inside a cavitation, bacteria flourish and deviant cells multiply.  Cavitations act as a breeding ground for bacteria and their toxins.  Research has shown these bacterial waste products to be extremely potent.  Cavitations can also cause blockages on the body’s energy meridians and can exert far-reaching impact on the overall system.  Investigation has revealed that some cavitations are reservoirs of huge amounts of mercury and other toxic substances.  Cavitations may be a source of low level or high level stress on the entire body.

Article from The Natural Recovery Plan: Dental Cavitations and Health

A root canal is a treatment used to repair and save a tooth that is badly decayed or becomes infected. During a root canal procedure, the nerve and pulp are removed and the inside of the tooth is cleaned and sealed. Without treatment, the tissue surrounding the tooth will become infected and abscesses may form.

“Root canal” is the term used to describe the natural cavity within the center of the tooth. The pulp or pulp chamber is the soft area within the root canal. The tooth’s nerve lies within the root canal.

To completely sterilize the entire inside of a tooth as part of the Root Canal procedure may will be impossible.  When a dentist removes the bulk of the nerve from the root canal, he cannot treat the countless tubules with the dead nerve tissue that remains.  This dead nerve tissue is often infected and remains in teeth that have root canal therapy.  The dentist removes about an inch of infected nerve from the tooth, but all of these untreated and possibly infected tubules remain in the tooth.

Drilling causes trauma and inflammation in tooth nerve and bone.  This leads to high fluid pressure in hard tissue which cannot expand, choking off oxygen and blood flow, leading to pain or death of nerve and bone.  Drilling also causes cracking of the crystalline enamel leading to decay and future dentistry.  Normal teeth cleaning cuts and ruptures the immune membrane leading to infection inside the gum tissue, which spreads throughout the body.

This infection is the threat that Dr. Weston Price found could challenge one’s immune system and contaminate one’s body to the point of causing illness.  The dentist could clean and fill the main root canal but the dentist cannot treat about 3 millions of nerve fibrils microscopic tubules. With toxic contamination going through the body of the tooth from the nerve in the root canal to the surface of the tooth, the toxins escape from the tooth into one’s body.

By Mark A. Breiner, DDS

As discussed last month, ozone (O3) is bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal.  The head is a breeding ground for all of those.  Thus O3 would be a wonderful adjunct to our arsenal of treatments.  This month I would like to discuss various applications of O3 in dentistry.

Bacterial Infections

Any bacterial infection can be effectively treated with O3.  Rinsing and gargling with ozonated water is effective for sore throats, ulcerations, abscesses and periodontal problems.

In the dental office irrigating pockets with O3 water and O3 gas is highly beneficial.  Used in this manner, O3 not only helps arrest the progression of the disease but also helps prevent tooth decay.  For some patients a custom tray that fits snugly over the teeth and gums can be made.  O3 is then passed into the tray for a period of time every few months to help maintain periodontal health and prevent decay.

Teeth

O3 also serves as an excellent wash for teeth just prior to restoring them.  It is similarly beneficial when a tooth nerve has been exposed.  In the case of a nerve exposure, use of O3 water followed by O3 gas will often prevent the nerve from dying, thus preventing a root canal or extraction.

If a root canal is being performed, the use of O3 will maximize one’s best chances for success.  By success, I mean that the tooth will not cause any systemic problems.  Remember teeth are made up of millions of tubules.  The bacteria in these tubules give off potent toxins that can travel throughout a person’s body and cause many health problems. (See my book, Whole-Body Dentistry, for more on this topic).  Rinsing the canals with O3 water during treatment, followed by O3 gas, permeates the tubules and disinfects the tooth.  Follow this with injections of O3 gas around the root of the tooth and the odds will increase that the tooth will be “tolerable”.

I would recommend periodic testing with EAV (Electrodermal Screening – see my book, Whole-Body Dentistry, or previous newsletter on this topic) to see if indeed the root canal is being well tolerated.  If it is not, then O3 gas can be injected around the tooth, and then reassessed.  This approach would also be appropriate for a tooth that had previously had a root canal and which did not test well.

Dental Surgery

Irrigation of a surgical site with O3 water will speed healing and help remineralize the bone.  Thus, O3 water would be helpful for extractions, cavitational surgery, and implant surgery.

TMJ

Some practitioners find injection of O3 gas into the temporomandibular joint to be very therapeutic.  Research is showing that a number of TMJ problems are associated with bacteria, viruses and fungi.  These cause an inflammatory reaction resulting in TMJ pain.  O3 gas not only kills the organisms, but reduces the inflammation and stimulates new cartilage growth.

Cavitations

Cavitations (holes in bone) frequently occur in the jawbones at the sites of previous extractions, especially in the area of the wisdom teeth.  Cavitations may have systemic effects.  Often surgery is done to clean out the area.  One of the problems with the cavitational lesion is that it spreads into surrounding bone via small channels, and the infection can then move far from the original site.  Surgically, it is virtually impossible to clean out the entire infection.  One must get the major lesion and through use of homeopathics, various nutrients, light therapy, etc. encourage the body to take care of the rest.  All of these approaches together may or may not be enough.

Ozone therapy greatly increases the odds of healing cavitations – without surgery.  Because O3 kills the bugs, enhances the immune system, promotes remineralization of bone, etc.  O3 gas injected directly into the cavitational site has remarkable effects.  What is really incredible is that the gas will follow the infection.  For example patients having an infection into the lower right wisdom tooth area, may report feeling a funny sensation in the jaw, sometime even as far away as the left wisdom tooth area.

When treating cavitations with O3, there is a protocol; it is important that the lymph system be functioning optimally.  Thus there usually are certain things done in conjunction with injection into the cavitation to help ensure success.

Sinus Infections

In my experience, many patients have a chronic problem in the sinuses.  Often a postnasal drip (PND) will offer a clue; however, sometimes there is no PND and the sinuses may appear OK on x-rays.  Nevertheless, with energetic testing the sinuses will test positive for bacterial and often fungal problems.

Breathing O3 as it filters through olive oil along with treatment of the lymph system can often promote resolution of the sinus problem.  Remember, it is very irritating to the lungs to breathe ozone – the ozone must first go through olive oil before breathing.

Mouth Lesions

Ozonated olive oil can be made by passing O3 into the oil over a 24 hour period.  The O3 oil has many uses; one of which is as a salve for the gums.  While, not very tasty, it does deliver the O3.

Any type of ulcer or hepatic lesion can be helped by a combination of O3, and O3 water, and O3 olive oil.

For “cold sores” ozonated olive oil will speed recovery.

For apothus ulcers or any kind of ulcer, rinsing with ozonated water will accelerate healing.  The ozone will also help with the pain.

As you can see, ozone, when used properly and in proper amounts can have a wide range of beneficial applications.

Unfortunately, ozone is not approved for use in this country.  It is widely used in Europe and South America.  However, an Institutional Review Board has been created to allow some practitioners to use ozone as part of a study to demonstrate ozone safety and effectiveness.

Article by Mark A. Breiner, DDS

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