Naturopathic Dental Care

What is Naturopathic Dentistry?

Unlike conventional dentistry that treats the mouth like it is disconnected from the rest of the body, naturopathic dentistry recognizes that what happens in your mouth can impact your energy, immunity, and long-term wellness. If you have experienced common dental diseases or treatments, naturopathic dentistry aims to remove all substances that are not in harmony with whole body health.

We focus on the optimization of your oral microbiome, improving the quality of your nutrition, and removing all toxic substances in your mouth to facilitate whole body health.

Naturopathic Dental Services in Portland

The Benefits of Naturopathic Dentistry

We look at how to support all of your body’s systems – immunity, digestion, psychological, emotional, and energy levels – to ensure that your whole body feels and functions well.

Blodgett Dental Care collaborates with naturopathic, nutritional, and integrative health practitioners as a team that works for you.

Who Is The Blodgett Dental Care Ideal Patient?

This approach may be right for you if:

• You were told everything was fine, but you know something isn’t right
• You may be sensitive to metals or chemicals
• You’re managing chronic inflammation or autoimmunity
  
• You want to align your dental care with naturopathic values
• You want a highly experienced dentist who knows how to restore your mouth and whole body to health

People come to us when:

• They’ve been told everything was fine, but you know something’s off
• They feel dismissed by conventional dentistry
• They want root-cause-focused alternatives
• They want a naturopathic, whole body approach

Naturopathic Dental Care FAQs

Explore commonly asked naturopathic dentistry questions from our thriving community! Cant find your query? Reach out to us during our business hours and we’ll be sure to help you get your question answered!

Why do holistic and naturopathic dentists not do root canals?

Millions of people suffer from chronic tooth and jawbone infections. Recent studies have shown that all root canal treated teeth are loaded with microbes. When a diseased tooth is kept in living jawbone, the bone around the tooth changes its biological quality to one that is also diseased. Changes seen on dental X-rays include abscesses and “condensing osteitis”. Condensing osteitis is one of the ways that your body strives to protect its more vital organs from the chronic infection to which your jawbone is exposed. Truly holistic and naturopathic dentists understand that by leaving a dead tooth in living bone, this leads to jawbone diseases and energetic disruption of that dental meridian.

How do I take care of my teeth holistically?

A holistic approach to teeth is based on the understanding that they are each individual organ systems living within a larger system – the human body. A holistic dental approach considers that what happens to one system in the body affects all the others. For instance, a person who is under significant stress is much more likely to develop tooth decay than one who is relaxed. When under stress, your “fight or flight” response is activated, causing the fluid within your teeth to move inward rather than outward, allowing acids and microbes from the mouth to enter the porous root structure and cause breakdown. The holistic approach respects that everything affects everything else – from your mindset to your diet to your physical activity.

What do holistic dentists use to fill cavities?

The first consideration of a holistic dentist is whether a filling is necessary in the first place. In many situations it may be possible to use remineralizing strategies to help teeth heal themselves. Our opinion is that the very best dentistry is having no dentistry at all! However, if teeth have become either infected or injured, then dental materials will be required to restore the tooth back to health. Holistic dentists who are truly considering your own unique bio-individual health will first obtain a “BioComp” test to ensure that the materials being implanted in your mouth are compatible with your immune system. Once this has been accomplished, the appropriate ceramic or composite material will be chosen. Both dental ceramics and composites are tooth-colored, bondable materials that are beautiful, strong, and help restore teeth back to their original state of healthful integrity.

Do naturopathic dentists use fluoride?

Fluoride has numerous effects, some beneficial and some highly toxic. When fluoride contacts tooth enamel, it creates fluorapatite, which is significantly more resistant to acid breakdown. However, when fluoride is absorbed into the bloodstream through ingestion or oral mucosa absorption, studies have proven it has a neurotoxic impact, specifically lowering IQ. Because of these risks, many naturopathic and holistic dental practices choose not to use fluoride. Instead, they focus on optimizing the oral microbiome, improving nutrition quality, and removing all toxic substances in the mouth to facilitate whole-body health.

What is the safest alternative to a root canal?

A truly holistic or naturopathic dentist will start by asking you questions rather than immediately giving you answers. Each person is different – different health goals, different budgets, and different timelines. If a tooth is either dead or in severe, non-treatable pain, then something must be done in order to improve the health of the host. The primary option to consider instead of a root canal is to remove the tooth. Once the dead and/or painful tooth has been removed and the bone restored to health, then you can consider tooth replacement options. The most common biologically compatible option would be a ceramic dental implant with a ceramic crown. However, you may also consider replacing the missing tooth using a ceramic bridge or non-metallic removable partial denture.