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Craniodontics: Dental Orthopedics for the 21st Century

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Dr. Gerald H. Smith The term Craniodontics has been coined by this author to focus attention on the fact that use of dental orthopedics/orthodontics or any restorative dental procedure that directly changes the occlusion will affect the alignment of the 22 cranial bones (excluding the 6 ear ossicles). The effectiveness of dental orthopedics in expanding…

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Chronic Headaches Since Chidhood

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Tine O. is a 50 year-old female patient who suffered headaches since childhood. Tine flew in from Texas for a two day visit. The patient’s primary issue causing her life long headaches was an imbalance of her skull bones and occlusal (bite) distortion caused by four temporary posterior crowns which was being perpetuated the cranial…

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Natural Progesterone: Questions and Answers

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

John R. Lee, M.D. and Jerilyn C. Pryor, M.D. John R. Lee, MD, has successfully treated female patients with natural progesterone cream for over 15 years. Dr. Lee has defined the signs of progesterone deficiency for women over 35 years of age to include swollen breasts, depression, low thyroid, fibrocystic breasts, water retention, weight gain,…

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ALF (Advanced Lightwire Functionals) Reduces Orthodontic Relapse Factor

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Gerald H. Smith, D.D.S. Langhorne, Pennsylvania andHeather Ashton, LCT Fletcher, North Carolina Past orthodontic research by Schwarze, “Expansion and Relapse in long Follow-Up Studies”, concluded “… that orthodontically induced transverse sizes of the dental arches are very unstable.” The article further stated that, “the majority of patients showed a decrease of the transverse molar and canine…

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Warning: NutraSweet is a Neurotoxin!

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Appeared in May, 1992 Flying Safety Magazine In pregnancy the effects of Aspartame can be passed directly on to the fetus even in very small doses. Some people have suffered Aspartame related disorders with doses as small as that carried in a single stick of chewing gum. This could mean a pilot who drinks diet sodas…

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Bipolar Disorder: A possible dental connection

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith I was inspired to write this article after watching Jane Pauley’s appearance and promotion of her new book, Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue, on the September 3rd , 2004 David Letterman show. After listening to Jane describe her symptoms of bipolar disorder, I suddenly realized that what she was describing…

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U.S. Public Health Service (National Institute of Dental Research)

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

NIDR Study Shows No RelationshipBetween Fluoridation and Tooth Decay Rate By John A. Yiamouyiannis Data collected by the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) produced the largest and most extensive database ever used to determine whether there is a relationship between fluoridation and tooth decay. Released on June 21,…

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Deadly Immunity

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.first published in 2005 at Salon.com In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded…

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Potential Dangers of Hearing Aids

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

As we age, a major issue facing all of us is hearing loss. Unfortunately, little is being done to prevent the problem, and its resolution primarily focuses on treating the symptoms with hearing aids. One aspect of hearing aids that has eluded the attention of most health care professionals is the fact that hearing aids…

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The Dental Distress Syndrome Quantified

By Dr. Gerald H. Smith

Dr. A. C. Fonder The W. B. Saunder’s Medical Dictionary defines a syndrome as a complex of symptoms; a set of symptoms which occur together; the sum of any morbid state.1 Research has demonstrated that excessive dental distress routinely coexists with a pattern of chronic symptoms that are found throughout all systems of the body.2-21,31,32 These…

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