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Holistic, Alternative Medicine is Usually Wrong

As a general rule, when I'm writing for our dental blog, I try to keep my personal feelings out of it; "....just the facts, ma'am," as it were. But when it comes to pseudo-science and pseudo-medicine, as I discussed recently in my article Can Cavities Be Cured? and Do Silver Fillings Poison You?, it's hard to stay purely objective and informative, because it's not easy to keep my cool in the face of total BS. And today I'm going to talk about that BS a little, but I promise I'll keep my cool while doing so. BTW - I do apologize in advance to any grammar purists out there, because I'm going to use a lot of quotation marks in this article. ;-) Why Real Science Matters To be honest, I'm not really sure why people have so many problems with genuine science and research in medicine, and why they spend so much time looking for "alternative" medicine solutions. I think that is has to do with the rather normal human desires to avoid pain and to find the easiest possible solution. Heck, I don't like pain either, and I would ideally like the easiest possible solution, too, but the problem is, in medicine and science, those usually aren't how things work. The foundational principles of science are simple yet profound: It must be measurable It must be testable It must be repeatable It must be falsifiable (this is really a critical one that is often misunderstood). This means that there must be a way to determine if it's false or incorrect. In other words, if you can't consistently do the exact same thing and get the exact same results, then you falsified it - you proved the idea was wrong. [...]

Can Cavities Be Cured?

I’ve seen a lot of posts and articles recently about whether or not dental cavities can be “cured,” with various holistic dentistry advocates pushing alleged cures such as colloidal silver, coconut oil, and some other stuff. We don’t see many people in our practice with these questions, but since it’s out there, I think it wise to address the issue head-on. Bear in mind – this article will pull no punches and might seem a bit offensive. My apologies in advance, but I am definitely getting on my soapbox here. 🙂 Update: I’ve written a new article that discusses the research that is asked about in the comments. There are ongoing studies into how to stimulate tooth growth with lasers, create gels of minerals and enzymes that could build new enamel, and more. As of 2016, however, any such research is at least a decade away from being available. You can read more here: Why Dentists Can’t Cure Cavities or Regrow Enamel. Holistic Dentistry Is a Scam and Hoax No sense in beating around the bush, eh? I’ll just get straight to the point and give you what I honestly believe, and tell you that there is virtually nothing espoused by “holistic” dentists that has ever been proven to be worth more than the paper it was printed on or the Internet space it took up. This holds true for the idea of “curing tooth decay,” too, as espoused on such junk “science” sites as NaturalNews.com or WellnessMama.com. Plain and simple, it’s true that Holistic, Alternative Medicine is Usually Wrong. But getting specifically to the question about “curing” dental cavities, this post was largely inspired by this wonderfully thorough article that debunks the idea of [...]