PART TWO: GETTING WELL AGAIN
dentist will be delighted to answer this question. It puts the
dentist into the class of a select few who aim at perfection in
their practice.
Dr. J: If you choose a dentist who does not understand the
importance of these questions, you could end up with new
problems. Find the right dentist first even if you must travel
hundreds of miles. There are 6,000 to 10,000 dentists who
should be able to help. Some can do part of the work and refer
you to a specialist for the rest. Five hundred to one thousand of
these dentists can do it all.
Dr. C: What is the treatment for cavitations?
Dr. J: To prevent a cavitation from forming in the first
place, you clean the walls of the socket very carefully at the
time of tooth extraction. They must be free of rough edges and
bits of tissue; one must use tweezers to carefully remove every
tiny bit that might still be stuck. For old cavitations that have
become sealed into the jawbone, the simplest way is to make a
small access opening. The cavitation is flushed with antiseptic
then cleaned using hand and rotating instruments. Then it is
flushed again. They heal and fill with bone with few problems
for the patient. Larger ones may require a second treatment.
Dr. C: I recommend squirting in a dilute solution of
Lugol’s iodine to sterilize the socket instead of commercial an-
tiseptic. Six drops in a quarter cup of tap water gives enough
solution to clean up several cavitations or sockets.
Dr. J: US dentists use standard antiseptics on just salt wa-
ter. Why not stay with that?
Dr. C: Nothing is as effective as iodine. We are dealing
with very vicious bacteria here, not just Staph, which is friendly
by comparison. I often detect six varieties of Clostridium bacte-
ria, and assorted Streptococci. They have very tough shelled
capsules, or spores, inside them. The capsules survive even
when the microbe dies. Later the capsules hatch again. But io-
dine kills the capsules, too. Tooth bacteria infect tumors; that’s