Holistic Dental Care

Stephen A. Lawrence introduces readers to holistic dental care and its role in overall health.

Most people America would like to maintain healthy teeth and gums during their lifetime. While conventional dental care still relies on outdated treatment methods, including the use of toxic elements such as mercury and fluoride, this is not the way dentistry must be practiced, and more and more patients are beginning to realize that there are safer, more effective ways to care for their teeth and gums.

Holistic Dental Care: Your Mind, Body, and Spirit Guide to Optimal Health and a Beautiful Smilepresents a positive, detailed, and easy-to-read argument for the benefits of a more open-minded, progressive, and integrative approach to dental care and overall health. Scientific studies suggest that our mind/body relationship, psychological function, physical activity, and the food we eat all affect us at biological levels, where our habits can alter our immune system and affect our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. When we get sick on any level, from an ordinary cold to a cavity or gum disease, its usually because of some imbalance in our immune system, often triggered by chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and toxins.

Holistic dentistry addresses these issues by supporting a patients comprehensive health. Holistic dentist Stephen A. Lawrences new work introduces readers to safer, gentler, and more efficient way of treating their mouths and bodies, along with addressing their overall wellness. He offers a reader-friendly tour through how our body works, and approaches dental health through the lens of comprehensive wellness and summarizes current holistic dental healthcare ideas and productsto stop cavities and gum disease, rebuild teeth at home, and positively affect patients and those around themas we strive to spread wellness worldwide.Considering the current explosion of green living all over America, the increased awareness of how toxins affect our health, and a rising interest in bettering our general quality of life through wellness and mindfulness, this work fills a gap in understanding how holistic dental health care can be part of an overall approach to healthier living now.

Stephen A. Lawrence, DDS, MDiv, is a licensed dentist in California and an ordained mitred archpriest in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. He has dedicated his career to helping people achieve and maintain optimal health and vitality. Over the course of his three-decade long professional life, he has become one of Americas leaders in the field of holistic dental health care and nutritional counseling.

David Tabatskyis a writer, editor, teacher, and performing artist. He is the co-author ofReimagining Womens Cancers andReimagining Mens Cancers, author ofWrite for Life: Communicating Your Way Through Cancer, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the SoulsThe Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love,and editor of Elizabeth Bayers Its Just a Word. He was the consulting editor for Marlo ThomassNew York Times bestsellerThe Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn. His memoir,American Misfit, was published in 2017. Please visitwww.tabatsky.com and www.writeforlife.info.

Introduction Holistic Dentistry: A Comprehensive Approach to Health and Wellness
Part One: Our Physical Body
Chapter 1 Dental Healthcare 101
Chapter 2 From Our Mind to Our Mouth: Holistic Dentistry and the Medical Health Connection
Chapter 3 Nutrition: How Friendly Foods Affect Your Teeth and Gums
Chapter 4 Chakras, Meridians, and the Heart: How Matter and Energy Affect Your Oral Health
Part Two: Our Emotional Body
Chapter 5 Stress Busters: A Roadmap to Inner Peace
Chapter 6 Love and Wellness
Part Three: Our Spiritual Body
Chapter 8 Love and Healing