Case Study - Periodontal Disease and the Arsenic Connection

One of the major problems facing dentists today is how to accurately evaluate the dental patient with chronic periodontal problems who presents a plethora of blood tests and multiple consultation reports with no definitive diagnosis.

For years both healthcare practitioners and the public have been led to believe that blood tests represent the gold standard for establishing a diagnosis. My 45 years of clinical practice has opened my eyes to the fact that blood tests do not reveal the underlying cause(s) of the patient’s problem. In fact, some routine testing is very misleading. For example, the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) test that is supposed to monitor thyroid function has no scientific validity for its accuracy. The PSA (prostate specific antigen test) is just another example. Fifty percent of the men who had cancer had levels below the so called normal of 4. When all is said and done, abnormal readings only represent an indicator that something is not in balance but does not reveal the actual underlying cause(s). (To read more please go to: https://icnr.com/case-study/periodontal-disease-and-arsenic-connection/)