Posts by Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Virginia Coomer is a 77-year-old female who was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and was treated with the drug digoxin for the past ten years. When Virginia was first referred to my office she could hardly walk to the treatment room. When she finally did make into the room she was huffing and puffing and…

JM suffered with facial pain for twenty-two years despite extensive medical, dental, chiropractic evaluations and even surgical intervention. JM’s saga began in her twenties, when she had seventeen crowns fabricated to restore her posterior teeth. The dentist who performed the restorations was competent from a mechanical perspective, that is, the anatomical crown forms, porcelain shade…

BeverlyAge: 27 years-oldC.C. Facial pain and post occipital headaches for past 10 years Patient’s pain problems started at age 17 years with conventional orthodontic treatment. Traditional mechanics of braces does not take into account the direct effect the forces created by the wires and elastics used have on the skull bones and dural membrane system…

This case clearly links a distant area that was directly affected by a dental focal infection. Such infected teeth produce thiol ethers, which are extremely poisonous compounds that have a sulfhydryl group (SH). These sulfur groups bind heavy metals like mercury. Many patients suffer systemic medical problems that have their origin from infected teeth and…

Author of Reversing Cancer: A Journey from Cancer to Cure It is estimated that 70% of all medical illnesses are directly or indirectly caused by human intervention in the dental structures (teeth and jawbones). This includes: impacted teeth, infected root canalled teeth, new and recurrent decay around old fillings, cysts, bone infections in areas of previously…

The concept of most people and many health care practitioners, including most dentists, is that the dental complex has little or no direct impact on the rest of the body. Revelations brought to light during the past fifty years have documented just the opposite. Doctors of chiropractic, osteopathy and a handful of innovative dentists and…

MT is a 64-year-old Caucasian female who works as a medical transcriptionist. In 1974, a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was made. At the early age of 30, she presented clinical symptoms of swollen knees. Through the years, her condition gradually worsened until she experienced severe painful joints throughout her body. MT’s medical treatment included the…

Dental / Skeletal / Toxin Connection This patient lives in Europe and flew in for a two-week dental visit. Case Report: S.W. is a 35-year old female patient that presented with the following chronic symptoms: Head feels like it was unscrewed, and then put back on her shoulders again, but with such a twist that gives…

J.S. bruxed or ground her teeth on a regular basis. The traditional concept is that bruxism is due to emotional stress. Patients who present a chief complaint of bruxism to their dentist are most often offered two treatment approaches: The first approach focuses on “removing the tooth interferences” which cause the muscles to tighten up.…

Susan was referred to my office for an unusal cluster of symptoms that had defied conventional medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, physical therapy, cranial and dental treatment for the past three years. Susan described her chief symptoms as a “twisting”, pulling sensation on the left side of her face, left side of her neck, shoulder, arm and…