Reversing Alzheimer's Disease

Common Complaints

Mercury poisoning and toxic chemicals cause Alzheimer’s sufferers many common medical and mental problems. Following is a listing of several conditions routinely seen in these patients:

1. Irritability
2. Inexplicable explosive behavior.
3. Endogenous depression:
4. Emotional Instability.
5. Low stomach acid
6. Candida overgrowth
7. H-pylori (Helicobacter pylori)12
8. Excessive belching and flatulence
9. Putrefaction, parasites, flukes13, fungus, etc.
10. Malnutrition
11. Chronic fatigue
12. Leaky gut syndrome
13. Food allergies and chemical sensitivities
14. Loss of the ability to control weight.
15. Poisoning of the liver
16. Dry flakey skin
17. Abnormal white cell blood count ranging from 10,000 to 22,000 mm³
18. Discoloration of the genital organs. Sometimes men report gray discoloration
    of the penis, testicles and gray arm pits. Women may notice the insides of the
    lips of the vulva are gray. All of the above areas should be light pink. In people
    with white complexions gray discoloration is definite confirmation of mercury
    toxicity. During mercury detoxification all of the above areas eventually become
    light pink.

The subclinical signs of mercury poisoning are as follows:

1. White spots on the finger nails (zinc deficiency). In pregnant women
   white spots on the finger nails most often signify calcium deficiency.14
   (Important endnote)
2. Hangnails (Folic Acid deficiency)
3. Inability to remember dreams (B-6 deficiency)
4. Cracks or holes on the tongue dentists call Geographic tongue. (B-3 and
   B-Complex deficiency)
5. White growth on the tongue (Candida overgrowth)
6. Frequent urination suggests mercury toxicity. It is also a marker for
   diabetes. 
7. A tendency to be exhausted, depressed, irritable, exhibit short term
   memory problems, explosive outbursts of unexplained anger and impaired
   decision making capability and sometimes, incessant unfocused chatter
   (due to low level chronic mercury poisoning, Candida overgrowth, electrolyte
   imbalances, food allergies, leaky gut syndrome and chemical sensitivities)

There are many other subclinical signs of mercury poisoning, but these are the complaints that I most often hear from persons seeking information about short term memory loss.

The Park-Davis Continuing Pharmacy Education Course lists the early warning signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in the following manner:

Compare Park-Davis symptoms with the above symptoms of chronic low level mercurial poisoning.

Caution

I would like to enter here a few words of prudence about the rapid and random removal of mercury fillings. There is a report from “Amalgam og Skydom” (Dental Amalgam and Disease) Oslo, Norway, 1993, by Dr. Harald J. Hamre that states If the patient is seriously ill, they are strongly advised against removing more than one or two small fillings at a time, with an interval of four to six weeks (multiple sclerosis, eight weeks) between amalgam removal sessions. Removing all amalgam in a very short time is well tolerated by most healthy people, but has repeatedly led to devastating long-lasting or even permanent disease in sensitive individuals. The rationale behind the above statement stems from sudden alterations in the body chemistry from replacement of mercury-silver fillings, and changes in the electrogalvanic balance in the mouth that could affect brain and immunololgic functions (which is another reason biocompatibility testing is so important). A significant amount of mercury vapor is released when mercury-silver fillings are removed. The absorption of this vapor can result in a medical crisis for the neurologically impaired person.

Finding the Right Dentist

Before we begin: The most logical approach to dental treatment is no tooth is worth saving if it damages your immune system. If I were looking for a dentist, the first thing I would do, is call Dr. Hal Huggins (719) 548-1600 or the Well Mind Association (206)-547-6167 in Seattle,WA. If the patient is seriously ill, there is a very narrow margin for error in removing and replacing mercury-silver amalgam fillings. Dental detoxicologists and many mercury free dentists have specialized training to reduce the chances of permanent disability. It is the patient’s pocketbook that pays the bill and is the patient who will suffer the consequences of iatrogenic disease. If there was ever a time for the patient to take charge his or her own recovery program, this is it! For a preview of the quality of dental work you can expect, have your teeth cleaned before spending a dime on x-rays, or allowing the dentist do any other work. It is unusual to find a skillful hygienist working for a incompetent dentist. If the hygienist takes the time to carefully clean the patient’s teeth, he or she is working for a dentist who demands high standards and will do excellent work himself.

If the patient is seriously ill, and the dental office cannot answer these questions correctly, leave. Find another dentist. Some dentists claim they can safely place root canals22. Researchers report the bacteria on an extracted root canal tooth is so toxic, that if a dentist were to scrape the surface of enough root canals (in the area that would normally be below the gum line) to collect one cupful of toxin it would be enough poison to kill every person on the earth. I do not know how to be more explicit than that, but this issue is too important not to make “the second effort.” If I had any chronic disease that my physicians could not determine the underlying cause for, especially mental problems, I would get rid of every root canal and cavitation in my mouth as-well-as every mercury-silver amalgam filling, down to the smallest tattoo and amalgam fragment within the gums and in the jawbone. I would insist on a biocompatibility blood test before allowing “any dental materials” to be inserted into my mouth. Dentists who ignore materials biocompatibility testing do not seem to understand that, after a persons immune system has been compromised, especially Alzheimer’s sufferers, they are treating a patient who can be allergic to almost anything. Cerebral allergic brain-fog and brain-fag reactions are involved in the Alzheimer’s disease process and seventy per cent of all the materials that dentists use can cause allergic response in sensitive people. Don’t jump from the frying pan into the fire. Do it right, or don’t do it at all.

Disease Induced From Root Filled Teeth

In the early 1900s Dr. Frank Billings16 introduced the focal infection theory17 that 95 per cent of all focal infections in the body came from decayed teeth and infected tonsils. The National Dental Association18 appointed Dr. Weston Price, a dental researcher, and a team of 60 scientists and physicians to do a study that proved bacteria and toxins within dentin tubules19 of teeth and cavitations20 (areas of bone necrosis21) of the jawbone spread throughout the body. The method by which the bacteria and toxins migrated was not determined and the theory was eventually discounted. With the discovery of penicillin,22 further interest in the project waned. This paper presents the first reproducible evidence of how these bacteria and toxic debris migrate.

As an anecdotal aside to my comments about Dr. Price’s work, I have been told about a woman who had a breast tumor. Oncologists (cancer specialists) do not like to operate if there are signs of other infection. Her physician asked the woman to have an abscessed tooth taken care of before surgery. Immediately after the dental appointment, while lidocaine was present in her system, the woman had a Thermograpy x-ray that revealed a thin white line extending from her tooth, down her neck, through the tumor in her breast and on down into her stomach. In light of the discovery, her physicians decided not to operate. Four months later the tumor disappeared. That was the first time direct connection to disease following an acupuncture meridian was clinically observed and was an immeasurably important observation for western medicine. Every tooth has a separate acupuncture meridian running though major organs in the body.23

24There is now evidence proving the anatomical existence of the acupuncture meridian system. In the book Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Richard Gerber reported on the following research. “Radioactive technetium 99m was injected into the acupoints of patients, and the isotope’s uptake was followed by gamma-camera imaging. De Vernejoul found that the radioactive technetium 99m migrated along classical Chinese acupuncture meridian pathways for a distance of 30 cm (11.81 inches) in four to six minutes. Injections of the isotope into random points on the skin, and deliberate venous and lymphatic channel injections, were unable to demonstrate similar results, suggesting that the meridians are unique and separate morphological pathways.”

25Research into the nature of the classical acupuncture meridian system was carried out in the 1960s in Korea by a team of researchers led by Professor Kim Bong Han.26 Kim injected radioactive P32 (an isotope of phosphorous) into a rabbit acupoint and, through microautoradiography, discovered that the P32 was taken up along a fine duct-like system of tubes (approximately 0.5 to 1.5 microns, in diameter) which followed the path of the classical acupuncture meridians. Tissue adjacent to these ducts or near the acupoints injected showed negligible uptake. When P32 was injected into a nearby vein, little to none was found in the meridian system, which demonstrated independence of the vascular and meridian networks. French researchers Pierre de Vernejoul,27 et al., have confirmed Kim’s findings in humans by injecting radioactive technetium 99m into acupoints on the skin and following its uptake with gamma-camera imaging. The substance migrated along the meridian pathways for a distance of 30 cm in four to six minutes. Random injections did not show similar results.

Kim’s histologic studies of the ductile system in rabbits showed it to be divided into a superficial and a deep system. The deep system was further divided into four subsystems. The first of these systems, the internal duct system, was free-floating within the vascular (blood) and lymphatic vessels and penetrated the vessel walls at specific entry and exit points. A second set of ducts, the Intra-External System, was found along the surface of the internal organs and a third series ran alongside the outside of the blood and lymphatic vessel walls-the external duct system. These ducts also appear in layers of the skin, called the superficial duct system, and are familiar to acupuncturists. The fourth series of tubules, the neural duct systems were found in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Continuity of these systems occurs due to the interlinking of their terminal ductiles. The terminal ductiles also interconnect directly with all cell nuclei of the tissues. Spaced along the ducts are special small corpuscles, which, in the superficial duct system, also correspond with the acupoints and meridians.

Kim severed the meridian going to the liver in a frog and noted subsequent icroscopic changes in the liver tissue. The hepatocytes (liver cells) enlarged and their cytoplasms became very turbid. Results were confirmed by repeat experimentation. Within thirty minutes of severing ducts serving the peripheral nervous system, reflex time was prolonged by more than 500 per cent for more than 48 hours.

Fluid extracted from these tubules showed high concentrations of DNA, RNA, amino acids, hyaluronic acid, sixteen types of free nucleotides, adrenaline, corticosteroids, estrogen, and other hormones at levels far different from ordinary blood levels. Compared to blood, there was twice as much adrenaline in the meridians and ten times as much in the acupoints.

As well as providing a flow of hormones and nucleotides to the cell nuclei, the meridians also are a type of electrolytic, highly structured fluid system. Electrical skin resistance drops twenty-fold at the acupoints.28 Dumitrescu, using electronographic body scans, found that the changes in the brightness of the body scans at the acupoints preceded illness. Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom of Stockholm feels that the bioelectric circuits in the body are part of an undiscovered circulatory system.29 Dr. Robert Becker discovered30 that the Glial cells in the brain and Schwann cells that surround the nerves in the rest of the body are semiconductors and have a direct correspondence with the acupuncture meridians.

Dr. Weston Price, an ADA researcher, demonstrated that by breaking off a small piece of a root canalled tooth from a person who died, let's say from heart disease, and implanting the fragment under the skin of a rabbit that it would die of heart disease within ten days. He reimplanted the tooth under the skin of as many as sixty rabbits and they all died of heart disease within ten days. If the decedent had cancer of the liver the rabbits all died from cancer of the liver. Whatever disease killed the patient killed the rabbits. If researchers implanted a piece of healthy tooth the rabbit expelled the tooth through its skin, dissolved it or encapsulated the fragment within a protein shell and lived a normal life span. At the time, almost 60 years ago, the missing piece of the puzzle that could not be identified was how the disease migrated from the jawbone throughout the body. Dentists who did root canals spurned Dr. Price's research. They threw common sense out the window because Dr. Price was standing on their wallets and the theory was eventually discarded. During this time Penicillin was discovered and everyone assumed that Penicillin would kill infection in root canalled teeth and in the jawbone. It does not. Whatever else they thought is incidental. According to Medline I and Medline II there are 1462 research papers concerning infected teeth and focal infection (disease in other parts of the body) from 1966 through July of 1997.

During my treatment for Alzheimer’s, I had 20 cavitations removed from my upper and lower jawbones. These areas of chronic inflammation, infection, cellular disruption and electrical alteration, exist in bony cavities in the upper or lower jawbone. Often these are seen where teeth have been extracted, and most likely originate from remaining infected tissue left over after tooth extraction.

After tooth extraction, the socket frequently covers over with a thin layer of bone that appears normal to most dentists. However, inside is a cavernous area lined with dead bone cells, dead fat cells, fibrin slugging, delaminated bone, polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs), dead blood cells and bacteria colonies.

Most root filled teeth, when extracted, have a small sac of infected tissue attached. The bone around the cavity must be throughly cleaned out to allow healing with normal bone tissue. There can be dramatic effects when root canals and cavitations are removed. In one unusual case, a physician recovered from AD in two hours by removing 13 root canals. Dental detoxicologists, the dentists who specialize in the proper removal and replacement of mercury-silver amalgam fillings, say mercury-silver amalgam fillings, cavitations and root canal infections, are connected to more than 200 specific diseases.34

Cavitations are extremely difficult to visualize on x-rays. No cavitations were observed on the x-rays of the jawbone. The dark areas are infected. In the insert a dentist has placed a dental drill in a cleaned out cavitation to illustrate how deep some cavitations are.

Looking at sick people

• 94% of all wisdom tooth sights are infected
• 96% where periodontal scaling taken place is infected

Cavitations can be caused from clots and bruises. Most cavitations (jaw-bone infections) originate from root canals or sloppy dental housekeeping, e.g., the dentist does not completely clean up infection or thoroughly remove the periodontal ligament that attaches the tooth to the jawbone. All dry sockets will become infected. It is blood that causes regrowth of solid bone. Introduction of streptococcus bacteria and closing off of O² causing aerobic bacteria to become anaerobic bacteria will cause cavitations within ninety days.

There are no safe dental materials to prevent infection in root canals. There never will be. It is the procedure itself that causes infection and disease to migrate from the jawbone through acupuncture meridians throughout the whole body.

A Revolutionary Diagnostic Device called Cavitat had been invented. The Cavitat is an acoustic sound-wave diagnostic instrument that provides a 3-D image of the interior of the jawbone of suspected osteomyelitis sites ( infection). The Cavitat was designed for the needs of surgeons who require a more positive method to identify and accurately locate necrotic lesions, which are far more prevalent than were previously suspected.

In clinical tests with over 600 patients, the Cavitat performed without a single false positive or negative and has indicated iscehemic osteonecrosis in detail. Following the successful detection by the Cavitat, a significant number of patients have undergone the indicated surgery to remove these lesions. These patients have begun to recover from long-standing systemic illnesses

This device will be pivotal in altering present dental paradigms. The Cavitat represents the dental future and will propel this profession into the 21st Century. Christopher J. Husssar, DDS, DO.

The Cavitat is an indispensable tool for anyone who is addressing or is considering addressing lesions in the bone. Scott R. McAdoo, DDS

It would be difficult to exaggerate the detail and accuracy with which the Cavitat reveals osteo-necrosis in the jaw. It provides not only dental but systemic health benefits not previously available. Boyd E. Haley, Ph.D.

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The relationships between mercury-silver fillings, acupuncture meridians, oral electrical galvanism, root canals, cavitations, heavy metal toxicity and chemical sensitivities are complex and not totally understood by the dental community. What is apparent is that dental students need more in depth training about the oral cavities connection to chronic disease than our dental schools have been providing.