The Kidney trouble with Degenerative Diseases and Focal Infections, Dental Infections

Because dentists construct dentures which look and act so much like natural teeth, people have come to believe that they are just as good as their own. While dentures are among the best of all body replacement parts, they are never as good at masticating food as natural teeth in good repair. Most patients with full dentures are enthused about them and insist they can eat everything.

Having checked diet intakes,however, I have found that when a denture patient can't chew certain foods, foods that prove difficult are gradually dropped from the diet and are replaced with foods they chew. In time, the diets of many are composed of only soft foods which require little mastication ability. Most of the soft varieties chosen are of poor nutritional quality.

Some patients even plead with dentists to take out healthy teeth, based on a belief they will then be through with the expense of dental care. The fact is most people's poor nutritional habits cause their gums to keep shrinking away, necessitating the relining of their dentures. This can be done only once or twice before new dentures are required. Each new set of teeth means that the gum ridge roundation which supports the load of chewing is continueing to shrink. The answer to all this is to Save natural teeth; that is, to "prevent decay the proven way"by eliminating junk foods and replacing them with natural ones.

There are so many degenerative diseases I won't try to list them all here. The most common ones Dr. Price found easy to transfer by infected tooth implantation from patients to animals were arthritis; rheumatism; heart lesion; kidney, liver and gall bladder problems; neck, back and shoulder stiffness; eyes ;ears; skin; shingles; anemia; pneumonia; appendicitis; neuritis, neuralgia, and nervous system breakdowns; and hardening of the arteries. Further discussion of how degenerative diseases were found to be involved follow. Endocarditis and myocarditis heart problems, along with circulatory system involvements, were discussed in chapter 12. Some others are:

Eye Infections: Eye infections transferred to rabbits from patients with eye diseases was very dramatic. The accompany picture "C" shows a woman patient's eye condition. She had a history of five such attacks of inflammation, plainly visible on the picture, and accompanied with progressive severity over a two year period. Picture shows teeth which appeared normal on x-ray film.

After the offending teeth were extracted from the patient, the acute inflammation she suffered was markedly recuded and was nearly gone in three days. She had no recurrence of the condition after three years. Dr. Price found that a variety of eye problems of patients were readily transferred to rabbits, and many became severe enough in the rabbits to cause the loss of sight.

Kidney Trouble: Originally Dr. Price believed kidney infections only remotely related to dental focal infections. He eventually found, however, many 30 to 40 year olds were developing nephritis(kidney disease) without the disease being suspected by the patient or the physician. Below is an x-ray picture of a tooth under a rabbit's skin from a patient with kidney trouble.

The case report of a 41 year old married woman who was suffering from rheumtism and heart trouble is of particular interest. A routine urine analysis also disclosed kieney involvement. He extracted tooth was cultured and rabbit inoculated ina vein with one cc of the 24-hour old culture. After 49 days, the rabbit died.

These pictures show the rabbit's two kidneys were enlarged enormously. The patient's lassitude, rheumatism and nephritis all cleared up promptly on removal of her two lower infected teeth, and there was no recurrence of former severe symptoms for three years, even though the patient was carrying a heavy work overload.

Stomach Ulcers: Another case concerned a 43 year old woman who had been an invalid for six years suffering from nervousness,neuritis, and nervous indigestion. These symptoms were associated with neuralgic pains that occurred at her saistline. Such cases were usually grouped together as alimentary tract and associate organ lesions, as they involved the digestive track, the gall bladder, stomach, intestinal indigestion, and the appendix.


Copyright (c) 2007 Sung Lee, and George Meinig D.D.S

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