RATIONALE: Dental Surgery vs Dental Medicine

Historically, dentistry has been preoccupied with drilling holes in teeth and scraping at germs ('scrapeodontics': dental picks, toothbrushes, string, etc…). This represents a surgical approach, and mostly addresses damage after it has occurred.

We place major emphasis on analyzing and defeating these infections. We use advanced technology (biochemical and microbiological testing; antimicrobial and laser therapy), and advocate non-surgical and laser micro-surgical methods as first-line treatment choices. We are killing germs and creating the best possible healing environment. This represents a more medical approach, and is interceptive or preventive, rather than surgical.

Also, historically, using some strange, contrived and amazingly foolish reasoning, infections anywhere in the body, except the mouth, are considered serious medical health concerns. Somehow, the mouth is defined as not part of the body; ALL in spite of the fact that it is the major entry port for nutrition, breathing, communication and diseases.