Oral diseases and disorders in and of themselves affects health and well-being throughout life.
– US Surgeon General’s Report 2000
Are you suffering from one dental trouble after another? Would you like a natural glow to your face, high energy, great sleep, vibrant health, strong teeth, aging well, and low healthcare costs?
Here’s one secret you may not know: A structurally impaired mouth can choke your overall health – but a structurally sound mouth is a natural solution for a host of medical, dental, and mood symptoms.
How do you know if you have a structurally sound mouth? That’s why you need a mouth doctor.
A healthy mouth is much more than healthy teeth. Dental schools train dentists to be good tooth doctors. But what if you have jaw clicking/popping, snoring, mouth breathing, sleep apnea, teeth grinding, aches and pains in your head-jaws-neck-shoulders?
The mouth is the gateway into the body and a major health driver. Most people know that eating healthy is key to staying healthy. But what happens when your mouth is structurally deficient and/or misaligned, i.e. structurally impaired?
An Airway-centered Mouth Doctor™ (AMD) is a dentist with additional training to evaluate your mouth structure in relation to your total health. An AMD has the necessary knowledge and skills to redevelop a structurally impaired mouth using a painless oral sleep appliance (mouth piece) to help
An Airway-centered Mouth Doctor™ can free your body from the tyranny of poor sleep from weak jaws, a bad bite, a choked airway, and medical/dental/mental and financial consequences stemming from a structurally impaired mouth.
An Impaired Mouth can eat, drink, talk, smile, but it harms whole body health by interfering with ABCDES: alignment, breathing, circulation, digestion, energy, and sleep.
Impaired Mouth Syndrome is a collection of medical, dental, and mood symptoms that often has big financial consequences, as described in my book Six-Foot Tiger Three-Foot Cage.
Good form means good function, so poor infrastructure means poorer health. The mouth is strategically located above the digestive tract, below the brain case, and atop the spine. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation must first free the tongue from the throat. So does a good night’s sleep.
Your body pays a heavy price for living with an impaired mouth and sleeping with a choked airway: recurring pains and fatigue, premature aging, and oxygen deficiency that can kill teeth, heart, brain, and life quality alike.
Big as the mouth is to total health, do you have a mouth doctor? Many patients live with seemingly diverse symptoms without know they have Impaired Mouth Syndrome.
The mouth is much more than teeth. These patients needed a mouth doctor long ago:
RK, whose key issues were “anxiety most of my life, ongoing dental sensitivity and bone loss under my teeth, which gives me more anxiety,” and a history with dentist who had “not been helpful.”
KM, whose symptoms included “ (A) low back pain after extraction of failed root-canaled tooth, (B) swelling persisting under jaw months after said extraction, (C) pain in my right neck, shoulder and arm, and (D) uneven gait creeping up on me over the years.”
NR, who complained that “nobody has been able to help me with” issues such as (1) 10+ years of chronic fatigue “sometimes non-functional;” (2) jaw pain neck, back, and knees x 10 years; (3) poor vision with lots of floaters; (4) “terrible sleep,” waking up with jaw aches in morning; (5) sleep interrupted 2-5 times each night; (6) “every day is a real struggle from feeing winded and fatigued;” and (7) TMJ since age 16.
YC, whose wish list included solutions to (1) CPAP mask dependence, (2) reliance on anxiety medication, (2) inability to lose the 15 pounds overweight, (4) rosacea, (5) pain in low back, neck, and head, (6) daytime sleepiness averaging 5 days a week, (7) “fatigue always,” (8) 3 episodes in 3 years of choked airway while eating, needing Heimlichmaneuver, and (9) “I now need to drink to wash down my food.”
By connecting a few dots, we can see that a structurally Impaired Mouth is the culprit:
It’s smart to find a mouth doctor before further degeneration and premature aging.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a medical diagnosis based on a sleep test score, and its usual treatment is a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) mask. Apnea means absence of breathing for 10 seconds or longer, and the obstruction is rooted in the choked airway inside an structurally impaired mouth.
Fifty percent of high blood pressure, 30% of heart attacks, 60% of strokes, and 25 % of heart failures have OSA as an underlying problem, reported a 2003 study in the Journal of American College of Cardiology. In 2006, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine stated that “Oral Appliances are a simpler alternative to CPAP… with robust studies demonstrating their efficacy.”
An Airway-centered Mouth Doctor can treat mild-moderate cases of OSA and CPAP intolerance without surgery or medication.
A choked airway inside an Impaired Mouth also contributes to America’s leading causes of death, in addition to all the fats, salt, and sugar in Americans’ highly processed diet, in my opinion.
No departmental lines exist inside the body, just one rule: Airway dictates, and all else accommodates. This common sense been missing in American healthcare. What will be YOUR cause of death? What else can you do besides eating better?
The hip bone is connected to the thigh bone, and the jaw bones connect to skull and spine. WholeHealth is a common sense model that (A) sees all parts of the body are connected and all systems seamlessly coordinated, and (B) delivers the care of health accordingly.
In WholeHealth, teeth grinding is one frame in a movie called Airway Obstruction During Sleep. Snoring, jaw clicking, chronic pain and fatigue, and one dental trouble after another can be leading indicators of bigger health troubles ahead, as described in my book Early Sirens.
These symptoms are “footprints” at a crime scene that invariably leads to an impaired mouth with a pinched airway as the first domino tipping over many others.
Why do so many children grow up with bunched-up teeth needing braces? Why do so many adults end up with sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease nowadays? Why are heart disease and cancer still leading killers despite all the “wars” declared and money thrown?
Impaired Mouth Syndrome has been missing on the radars of doctors, dentists, and insurers and employers. What can you do before they wake up?
A good night’s sleep can heal many health troubles — as long as your airway is not choked. A Holistic Mouth is structurally fit to support airway and sleep.
A DNA appliance is an essential part of an individualized WholeHealth wellness program to turn your impaired mouth into a holistic mouth, and to restart your total health starting with good sleep and oxygen for your heart, brain, and teeth. The process is as simple:
An Airway-centered Mouth Doctor™ (AMD) is trained to deliver Holistic Mouth as a natural solution for many symptoms of Impaired Mouth Syndrome.
The best time to fix the roof is while the sun is shining. The best time to align the whole body is during dental makeover. The best time to head off sleep apnea and dental wear and tear is to see a dentist who is also trained as an AMD™ every 6 months.
Find and treat that Impaired Mouth, and sleep, energy, blood pressure, and mood all improve, as shown in Six-Foot Tiger Three-Foot Cage and Early Sirens. “Good oral hygiene is essential, but no amount of brushing and flossing will fix the symptoms of Impaired Mouth Syndrome,” says Dr. John Park Trowbridge, MD, author of Sick and Tired?.
Start taking charge of your health now:
Dr. Felix gained international acclaim for having identified “Impaired Mouth Syndrome” as the overlooked source of many medical and dental issues, and developing a “Holistic Mouth” intervention framework for correcting the root causes of many conditions that are otherwise very difficult to permanently resolve.
