Feeling the impact of tooth decay

The cavity is it a psychosomatic illness? If you ask your dentist, it is likely that you respond with a smile heard explaining that the decay is the result of the transformation of sugar acids by bacteria in the mouth. If we can not deny the role of sugar, can we conceive that other factors, including stress, can contribute to the formation of cavities? That could lead us to reconsider a problem believed to be well known.

Invoke emotional or psychological factors to explain the violations caries ready to smile and is often disbelief. The person who dares to say this is liable to react ironic: "Emotions are cavities! If this were true, it is not ... ".

Studies on the psychosomatic aspects of caries

Precisely, it is even known for a long time. Recently, many studies conclude that the link between caries and emotional experience. In 1992, a study conducted among refugees from South Africa shows that individuals holding the most stress factors are also those with the highest rate of cavities. In 1991, an epidemiological study conducted in Japan in the city of Fuji finds that personality traits such as addiction, regressive trends, nervousness and emotional instability are correlated at a rate of greater than cavities among children do these character traits. More interesting, in 1990, a Moscow study on pregnant women showed that the emotional stress of the mother during pregnancy are formed when milk teeth makes them more vulnerable to cavities, despite input fluorine. Other studies (1995, 2003, 2005) establish a correlation between difficult family conditions, including the stress of parents, and the rate of tooth decay among children.

Clear links between stress and caries

It has to face facts: the doctrine of sugar solely responsible caries lived. If so, all our teeth should deteriorate at the same time, on a regular basis, more or less quickly depending on the wealth of sugars in our food. However, a dentist finds in its daily practice that the reality is different. Cavities develop on only some teeth (not all), with well-defined periods of life. Thus some teeth does not deteriorate, even in very neglected mouths or very dilapidated, while others (sometimes bordering on materials) is carient and are quickly obtained in spite of care.
The vulnerability of certain teeth is because any tooth has a natural immunity against acids produced by bacteria in the mouth from sugar residue. This protective mechanism was highlighted by Professor Steiman has also shown that excessive stress was able to block this protection.

Less fluorine, more than conscience?

The bunt is a psychosomatic disease. Acids produced by bacteria from sugar that act on a previously weakened. The primary cause is internal (stress, emotions, lived) and external (sugar). The study on pregnant women subjected to stress also shows that the tooth Engramme in its crystalline structure of the mothers lived during the period when the tooth is formed. This knowledge should lead us to take a fresh look at tooth decay, disease commonplace among all of which were thought to know everything. If Hygiene (dental and food) keep everything obviously interest in preventing tooth decay is not as quantities of fluoride administered, often in excess and from an early age, which can preserve our teeth and those of our children from tooth decay, a harmonious environment, including psycho-emotional balance fostered a family atmosphere by enhancing the exchange and verbalization. In short, tooth decay, a matter of conscience rather than fluoride?

Work on the immunity of the tooth: psychosomatic origins of cavities