Tooth Truth

By Frank J. Jerome

Book Overview

Groundbreaking research that looks into the risks of using mercury and other metals in fillings and the degenerative diseases that can result. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887314083
• ISBN13: 9781887314084
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Pro Perkins Pub
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Tooth Truth

After having my health decline horridly, and living on antibiotics every other month for four-and-a-half years, I began to think that I'd rather be dead than continue on with the quality of life I had. I had trouble from my one and only root canal from the get-go, and the endodontist LIED by omitting the fact that HE NEVER TOOK THE FRONT ROOT OUT. My dentist was quite angry about that because he could not put a crown in with my gum irritated like that!!!!! Of course, I put $800 on the plastic to pay for the crown, it just took two years before that phase of the fiasco could unfold. FINALLY, my dentist says the (dead) tooth is in great shape and ready to crown. Why after telling him that I was sick all the time, been to an allergist and had been tested for over 200 items, been to an ENT numerous times, had CAT scans and blood work done, and no one had a clue what my "problem" was................WHY DIDN'T HE TELL ME THAT AN INFECTION MIGHT NOT SHOW UP IN AN X-RAY, or a CAT scan. I decided I was not going to take another antibiotic, since I had been living on some of the strongest a doctor can prescribe, and stil would become ill within 30-60 days anyway. When I called my dentist and said that I had ruled out every possible illness, and wanted the tooth out, he agreed. THEN, two days later his wonderful receptionist (I had been going to this dentist for 9 years) calls and says, I'm sorry but Dr.***** has a bad feeling about this, and can NOT remove " A PERFECTLY GOOD TOOTH IN GOOD CONSCIENCE." I would have thought that the appropriate time to invoke "Good Conscience" would have been two years before that when I was struggling with the root canal for two years already. Bottom line, a very compassionate, and gifted Oral Surgeon extracted it just sixteen days ago, and my symptoms of no energy, muscle cramps, and pain in my liver have greatly decreased. AS FOR THE CONSTANT HEADACHES, EYE DISCHARAGE, SORE THROAT, AND EARACHES...................THEY ARE COMPLETELY GONE. I bought this book for my family, and will NEVER TRUST A DENTIST AGAIN IN MY LIFE.

Read this book before your next dental visit

I really regret not ordering this book before embarking on my quest to have my mercury amalgams replaced.Most dentists want to put crowns wherever they can remotely justify it. They are usually not necessary and lead to a root canal, then removal of the tooth. I had a crown placed 8 years ago, I've had nothing but problems with it, 2 years after placement, I got a root canal. That did not solve the problem. Now, they recommend I get an apicoectomy. Lovely. More money for them. That is where they go into the gum and cut off the bottom of the root canaled tooth and fill it with something to stop the infection. This would stop the problems for a while, but eventually lead to my tooth being extracted. According to Dr. Jerome, this happens more often than not. There is a very predictable sequence of events. This is what keeps dentists in business.It makes me sick to read this book after having 2 new crowns put in recently. Over $2,000. I could have saved that much by buying this book first. Make an educated decision at the dentist's office. They are very motivated to keep you on the gravy train.After reading this book, I know to take the shortcut and have the root canaled tooth removed. I can then have a partial made, thus ridding myself of the toxic dead tooth.Most of this book is about the horrors of mercury. If you need to be convinced, this book will leave you with no doubts.He explains many dental procedures and why one is better than others for certain patients. One in 5 crowned teeth dies. This puts you back on the root canal train, then the tooth extraction train. After much expense and pain.Instead of a crown, they can do inlays or composite fillings. The dentist always wants you to do a crown. They have to saw away half of your tooth to do this, that sets you on the path of destruction.Don't spend another dime at the dentist's office until you read this book.

An eye opener on metals in the mouth!

This book is to the point on how your health is affected by your dentistry.Thank God there are more and more dentists who won't implant mercury/amalgam into a thier patient's mouths anymore. Some dentists are replacing the amalgam with composite and that can be even better when if it is done correctly.(Hal Huggins Protocol) Dr. Jerome tells all and adds more to the story, explaining how you can lose your quality of life with root canals and other metals in the mouth. A quality-of-life saver book.

A call for reform worth reading if you have any teeth left.

The author makes the point that once a person dies, their teeth may last thousands of years. Yet, while alive and part of an nutritional/immune system, most people are hard-pressed to keep them from rotting out of their mouth within a few years -- and think this is normal.He lays out the chronology of most people's progressive dental deterioration; the first fillings at 8-12, progressing to crowns in 20's-30's, root canals and bridges in 30's-50's with subsequent extraction and dentures in old age. There is nothing left, after having marched arm-in-arm with the state-of-the-art dental care ... and thinking this is normal, despite folks in other parts of the world living life with a set of choppers the likes of which most dentists never even see.The author lays out the realities and falsehoods behind each common dental procedure, as well as a dental care profession that has managed to isolate itself from the rest of medicine. This permits denial that the procedures and materials used in dentistry usually result in chronic infections and toxicity that have far-ranging, degenerative health consequences all over the body. The latest thing is radioactive composite fillings "that show up better on x-rays". Banned from glowing wrist-watches, but OK for implantation in your mouth (the levels are "safe").The good news is you don't have to wait the generation or two it will take for the policy-making ADA dental leadership (whose egos and prestige are at risk if the last century of treatment methods are recognized as being erroneous and harmful) to die off and reform to set in.Tooth and gum rot can be arrested and dental health improved by changes in behavior and diet. It's your choice: have the Mountain Dew for breakfast every day, gradually destroy your dental health while setting yourself up for a lifetime of futile, painful dental work that will only establish a range of other chronic infections and diseases ... or don't.The book lays out the information you need to manage your own dental health and find a dentist more concerned about your health than toeing the party line.It's remarkable how advances in medicine are thought of as a major benefit of modernity. Yet, considering what's going on with cancer, dentistry, AIDS, in which politics, ego and perpetuating institutions are more important than solutions, perhaps this time will be looked upon even less favorably than when "leeching" was common. At least back then, it was lack of knowledge. Nowadays, the errors are due to perversity; the knowledge exists but is disregarded to perpetuate human power and dodge responsibility for error. Who is living in the Dark Ages?

Reviewed by Kate Lin of The New Times

Dentistry has never been at the top of my list of things I would like to learn about in this lifetime. In fact, for most of my life, dentistry has been on a different list: "Things I would prefer not to know." But while ignorance is bliss, ignorance can also be costly. The costs come in the form of declining health and money spent for dental treatments that aren't in one's best interest.Tooth Truth provides some shocking and disturbing information about the current practice of dentistry. By the end of the book, I could see why Dr. Frank Jerome, D.D.S., states in his introduction, "This book is a warning to every person that there is much danger every time they enter a dental office." The dangers include almost every aspect of dentistry, from treatments recommended to the materials used.Dr. Jerome states, "It is common knowledge among dentists that over 95 percent of all dental treatments are optional." It is important, therefore, that the patient have the information to discern which of these treatments might be beneficial and which might not. Tooth Truth is a book for the consumer, a dental primer, providing an understanding of dental techniques and materials so that informed decisions can be made when your dentist makes recommendations.For most people, the normal course of action is to accept a dentist's recommendations, have the treatment done, and then forget about it. In contrast, Tooth Truth provides a broader perspective, letting us know the consequences of a particular treatment ten years later so that we can decide whether or not it is wise to have a particular treatment in the first place.For example, if you know that crowning a tooth increases the probability of needing a root canal later, then you might choose not to have a tooth crowned. Dr. Jerome explains how damaging it is to remove all of a tooth's enamel in order to crown a tooth. Furthermore, we learn that twenty percent of all crowned teeth die. Once the tooth dies, most dentists will want to do a root canal.Rather than having a tooth crowned, Dr. Jerome suggests either a composite filling or an onlay. An onlay is bonded to the top of the tooth and allows more of the enamel to remain intact. An onlay is far less damaging to the tooth than a crown, yet dentists are less likely to suggest this option. Dentists are taught that they need to "do more crowns to increase practice profitability."In fact, in quite a variety of areas, dentists do not seem to take into account the toxicity of the treatment being recommended. An example of this is the continued use of mercury in fillings. Dr. Jerome explores the use of mercury in dentistry and discusses its toxicity. Mercury is poisonous to the body, and has been proven to cause birth defects.In addition to the health threats that mercury poses, the disposal of the mercury-containing amalgam is a noticeable threat to our environment. The mercury-containing amalgam filling is considered hazardous waste before it is put in your mouth, and i