Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Oral Health: The SHOCKING Link to Your Gut!

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (by Robert Whitfield MD) argues that oral health and gut health are inseparable, calling the mouth the entrance to the body and naming potential oral contributors to systemic health problems: hidden infections around root canals and old extraction sites (cavitations), and dental materials such as amalgam fillings. The speakers also note clinical choices like avoiding fluoride-containing products and the difficulty of knowing material contents in dental supplies.

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Oral health is gut health. And you can't have gut health without also having oral health because your mouth is the entrance into the rest of the body. Oral contributors might be hidden infections, like infections around root canals, around old extraction sites, like cavitations that you hear about. It could also be things that we've done medically, dentally, like. Like amalgam fillings. You know, things that are. If we're introducing potentially toxic substances into the body, into the mouth, how does that impact the rest of our health? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You're right that oral health is gut health, and you can't have gut health without also having oral health because your mouth is the entrance into the rest of the body. I would say filter. Filter things where you can. I personally don't use any products with fluoride in them. Even in the. In the practice, we don't have any. Anything with fluoride in it, which is. Believe it or not, it's an ongoing process because it's. It's not like the materials that I have in my office have nutrition labels on the back.