Cavitations of the Jawbones

"Cavitations" is an old idea that has been brought back and is getting a lot of attention. In "holistic" practices many patients are being told to have surgery, or to extract teeth because of diagnosed cavitations - or because of fear that a cavitation might develop. Is this based on science or is it just hype? Here's some basic info about it to help you decide what's right for you.

Let me briefly tell you my story. When I was about eight a dentist told me I would lose all my teeth. I didn't but it might have been better if I had. Several years of phantom toothache around my mouth mostly at night culminated in tingling around my groin just after university. This lasted for two years but went away mysteriously when I developed food poisoning in Egypt. Some years late it returned to my right calf but disappeared after Ayervydic baths in Sri Lanka.

Then 5 years ago came the big trauma when I inhaled drain cleaner fluid. This threw my entire body out.I burned froze and sweated producing a chemical smell. Conventional medicine couldn't find anything but alternative therapists found plenty including multiple allergies to just about most things. Instinctvely I felt the problem came from my mouth. After treatment from a bad dentist who made me worse, I found one of the 12 alternative dentists in Britain. He is the first in Europe to get a Cavitat scan and Bob Jones came over. He described my scan as one of the worst he had ever seen affecting all four quadrants and going down well below the nerve on the lower jaw. My dentist went to America on a course and showed my scan to Wes Shankland who described it as the worst he had seen. 2 biopsies from Prof Bouquet have not fully explained the cause. He described it in the first as ischemic sclerosis while on the second there was a small area of necrosis. I suspect osteo myalitis but my dentist feels that I should be bedbound if this was the explanation. I suspect that I have a certain resistance since I have had it since childhood if not birth.

I have had four operations so far and they have helped but not completely solved the problem. I am still multi allergic and nerve endings are affected though not so much as before. I suspect I may need full extraction to recover completely though I am having the worst area treated next month and a whole range of alternative practitioners say this should make a considerable difference.

I hope this helps

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The following article appeared and I find it interesting. Thought you might, too. I think it's important to keep in mind that the insurance industry is not geared to look out for the patient's best interests necessarily. It is a business that looks out for its own "bottom line". So the motivation behind this article is suspect. On the other hand the reporters probably did try to write as honest an article as they could, since they would just as much like to nail the insurance industry as a sweet "scoop" of a story .... so, the truth, as it often is, is probably somewhere in the middle of what is said in this article.