Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health

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"Something To Chew On" is a Health Manual first and foremost, but it is a Health Manual with a difference. The difference is a new way of seeing, a new and deeper understanding, a new perspective. And that new perspective is the difference that makes all the difference.

It has been called The Health Manual With Teeth because it is effective. It gets the job done. It is effective yet it is gentle and easy to understand. Although its primary focus is the Mouth, it introduces the Mouth as the Mirror of the body. This means that the mouth can be seen as an excellent predictor of the health of the body as a whole. Indeed the mouth maps in clear terms the overall status of health of the individual, - mind, emotion and body. In order to understand this, we must adjust our perspective. We must look at things in a different way.

In all there are 7 new perspectives

The First New Perspective,

- The Person As Partner

This approach is quite different from the usual approaches to dental disease. Traditionally the focus is on the teeth and what can be done to them. The dentist finds the problems and then fixes them. The person has the minor role while the dentist has the major one. This model serves to keep the focus on the dentist and away from the person and so tends to promote dependence rather than independence.

Our approach reverses the traditional approach. This means that the person assumes the major role and the dentist, the minor one. The person her/himself becomes the key factor in management with the dentist providing a guiding and helping role.

The Second New Perspective,

The Person As A Whole

Holistic Dentistry - Understanding The Whole Person. This approach recognises the complex nature of a human being and the many factors that may be at play in problems manifesting in the mouth.

This is a key new perspective. It acknowledges and welcomes the whole person,- mind, emotion, body and spirit. Seeing in this way enables prevention of disease in ways previously impossible and truly empowers the individual as 'captain of the ship'.

The Third New Perspective,

- the Mouth in all its glory

The mouth is often seen as nothing more than a chewing device!! This book provides a very different way of looking. This new perspective allows a completely new understanding of the mouth and all its functions. We go beyond a purely mechanical view of the mouth as a 'food chewing system'. Certainly, it is one of the functions and a very important one at that but it is not the only one.

We would introduce you to the Mouth as the Gateway of the Body. As such it is the organ through which we allow all manner of food and drink into the body. It is also a gateway for pollutants as well as cigarette smoke and alcohol. In this way, the Mouth can be seen as an Entrance Gateway.

Our relationship with food and drink has many and varied consequences for our health. The first and most obvious is management of weight. However other conditions such as health of heart and health of arteries as well as health of pancreas and health of bowels are all directly related to our relationship with food. Our relationship with food has effects on the stomach and the acid it produces and this can directly affect the teeth.