The Question Traditional Dentistry Never Asked

Wellness actually asks why it's happening. The materials that we were using in traditional models were standard, and everybody got the same thing. It wasn't even an individual. Here in the wellness dentistry, we actually do what's called biocompatibility testing. We test every single piece of material that we're going to use on a patient, from anesthetic to sedation materials to, um, the resin materials. Uh, if you're going to be doing implant dentistry or bonding, those are all the things that you'll be tested, uh, Each product is tested individually and each person. You might be able to tolerate one type of bonding resin, but another type that would be a red flag for your body and put a lot of burden on it. He had questions in traditional dentistry which were very tooth-focused, and in the wellness model, it's a whole body. The treatment is really reactive in the traditional model, whereas wellness dentistry actually asks the root cause. What is causing this and why is it happening? We don't want our patients to come back years later and have the same problem on a different tooth. What I learned from Dr. Katie To is that teeth are, and the organ systems that are connected on the same meridian are actually, the problems are bidirectional.