There is a connection between Lyme disease and dentistry, and San Diego Dentist Association members understand it. These dental experts are aware that a wide range of symptoms is diagnosed as Chronic Lyme Disease, rightly and wrongly. This umbrella term covers a lot of ground and includes many infections that attack the body as it fights Lyme infection.
The Lyme organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, attacks the body and generates an imbalance in the body’s natural ecosystem, making it easier for other health issues to flare up and for other bacteria and viruses to infect you and cause symptoms. Along with the Lyme organism, those with Lyme disease are commonly attacked by babesiosis, bartonella, ehrliciosis, and other bacteria that can be transmitted by ticks and sometimes other insects or animals.
The result of these multiple infections is a long list of symptoms that may not appear to be related, including disorders of the cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, neurological, and other body systems. As the body tries to fight off these infections, the immune system can respond in unpredictable ways.
Your immune response can understandably create havoc in your body, and this response escalates as a condition continues, eventually impacting all kinds of tissues of your body. Such a chronic immune response may go undiagnosed because doctors can’t put a finger on the primary cause. As your immune system concentrates on resolving the primary problem, other health problems can happen while your immune system is too strained to fight them off. Meanwhile, the doctor or dentist may get distracted by the Lyme disease diagnosis and allow other treatable conditions to go undiagnosed and therefore untreated. These other conditions can even include diabetes and heavy metal toxicity.
Replacement Of Toxic Mercury Fillings
One key to symptom improvement in those with a diagnosis of Chronic Lyme Disease is eliminating the possibility of heavy metal toxicity through mercury filling replacement. SDDA dentists support those with Lyme infection and chronic symptoms by working to identify other important contributing factors to the problems our patients face. Working with you and your doctor, we can help you formulate ways to get over your symptoms and get on with your life.
Our dentists take a holistic, biocompatible approach to dentistry that takes into account our patients’ whole bodies, not just their mouths. Each treatment offered by SDDA dentists is non-toxic, chemical-free, and doesn’t work against the body and its healing efforts.
One treatment that helps many patients with vague or undefined symptoms is toxic mercury filling replacement. These old silver fillings shed metals every day, but they can be replaced with modern composite material for beautiful fillings and other restorations that match natural teeth color and last as well as metal fillings. Getting rid of toxic metals could help reduce your symptoms.
Let Us Help You Achieve Better Health
Each of the treatments offered by SDDA dentists is customized to the individual, and the dentists never take actions that harm patients or cause unnecessary pain or discomfort. After speaking with you and taking a medical history, these dentists can help you make smart decisions to support – not work against – your overall health.
This approach is centered on nourishing and respecting the patient while taking actions that ensure your body’s immune system can fight as well as possible for itself to restore the natural order built into your body. This non-toxic approach benefits a range of other health problems as well by reducing or eliminating symptoms and supporting the body’s natural processes for optimal life.
Everyone deserves a healthy, symptom-free life. Working with SDDA dental professionals as well as informed medical professionals and taking the right actions yourself, you can experience fewer symptoms from Chronic Lyme Disease and the conditions related to it for your best life ever.