The Root of The Matter
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The Root of The Matter
Holistic Approaches to Dental Surgery and Patient Healing
Unlock the secrets of biologic dentistry with Dr. Judson Wong as he shares revolutionary insights into the use of lasers for dental care. Discover how lasers can stimulate electrons and boost ATP production to enhance healing, reduce pain, and elevate your dental health. Explore their transformative applications in procedures like extractions, where they minimize trauma and contamination, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.
Preparing patients with chronic conditions for major oral surgeries requires more than just surgical expertise. Dr. Wong emphasizes the crucial role of a local healthcare "quarterback" in managing overall health. Learn about the vital nutrients—vitamin K2, iodine, magnesium, and more—that are essential for recovery, especially given the nutrient depletion in modern diets. This episode underscores the importance of targeted supplementation to ensure proper healing before and after significant medical procedures.
Ozone therapy and IV protocols are game-changers in optimizing healing, and Dr. Wong dives into these topics with practical advice. From affordable home ozone machines that offer multiple health benefits to a specific IV protocol designed for post-surgery recovery, this segment is packed with actionable insights. Lastly, we introduce the Holistic Dental Academy's online platform, offering evidence-based courses on holistic dental practices curated by Dr. Wong himself. Tune in for a wealth of knowledge that could transform your approach to dental health and overall healing.
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Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Root of the Matter. I am your host, dr Rachel Carver, and I'm very excited. Today we have Dr Judson Wong, who I would consider one of my mentors. He has taught me quite a bit about biologic dentistry and it's always a really fun time. He's created a whole curriculum for people like me who are really wanting to learn more great hands-on. He's just an all-around awesome human being. Thank you so much, judson, for coming on and teaching our audience a little bit some more about biologic dentistry, how we can have the healthiest mouth possible. Maybe you could start with just telling us how you got into more of this biologic from traditional dentistry.
Speaker 2:Well, how long we got. That's a long one, I know. In a nutshell, I got to give credit where credit is due. I think everything that I am, everything that I do, I owe to Providence. I think he is the grand chess player and has all of our best interests in mind and I just hope I can be in the right place at the right time for the right person. In a very small nutshell, there's a synopsis. God is good.
Speaker 1:That's right. So I thought maybe we've had some other biologists on talking about stuff and I came out last July to visit you out in Utah and we did a whole laser course. We haven't really talked much about lasers before and why they're so beneficial. Lasers gets a hot topic and people think of these beams beaming at you. But maybe you can explain to us a little bit how lasers are used in health and then specifically how we use it in dentistry to create better outcomes. Sure.
Speaker 2:It's all about light Speaking of about. God the greatest light that exists, I think he has allotted us that one little piece of his divine power to actually wake up every cell in the body, the way lasers work depending on the wavelength. Of course, they all have one thing in common they're stimulating electrons. They're donating the spice of life. I love dr tenant jerry tenant's book healing his voltage. We cannot heal unless we donate electrons, one of the best ways that we can donate electrons into the body is.
Speaker 2:When that light hits the cell, it stimulates the production of more ATP, which is the energy of the cell. It also stimulates more protein synthesis and in all of that it decreases pain and increases the speed of healing. There really is no downside to laser treatment. It can only be helpful if it's used in the proper parameters. Laser light should be measured and delivered dose-wise, just like a medicine. Tylenol ibuprofen must have appropriate dosages and Tylenol ibuprofen those have appropriate dosages. So as long as you provide the proper dosage, you're going to get an excellent outcome with the laser.
Speaker 1:So let's say we're doing an extraction. How are you using the laser to help heal from an extraction? So I'll use the laser start to finish.
Speaker 2:Actually, we'll use it pre-treatment, so actually pre-anesthesia. You can prevent the patient from actually feeling any of the injection sensation by doing what's called the halt technique, p-a-l-t pre-anesthesia laser technique where you're.
Speaker 1:Very simply, I use the NDAG, the 1064 wavelength, very simply for one minute.
Speaker 2:photobiomodulate In this case, you're inhibiting the sensation of pain. And patients don't even feel the injection. Now, fortunately, I'm to the point in my career now where I don't treat a patient unless they're asleep, so I don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1:But if you've got a patient awake that is a huge benefit.
Speaker 2:Money cannot buy publicity that you will get from patients that worry about your injection technique. That's the first step. When you do that, you are also pre-treating every cell that laser light touches. You are also pre-treating every cell that laser light touches Wherever photobiomodulation occurs. You get a decrease in the production of inflammatory cytokines. What that means basically is you get a decrease in pain, the most notable is.
Speaker 2:TNF-alpha. That's a very common inflammatory cytokine that's released after surgery. When you use the laser you decrease TNF-alginate, which means you decrease pain, Plain and simple, In and totally. And during the procedure let's say that we're doing an extraction.
Speaker 1:You can also use the laser in this case.
Speaker 2:It would be the Erbium YAG on the platona to separate the periodontal ligament fibers between the tooth and the bone. As you do that you are, I don't want to say atraumatically, because any extraction is traumatic, but you're minimizing the trauma by doing a microsurgery Instead of having this macro trauma. It's like getting hit by a bus preventing that and actually get hit by a fly instead that's a lot easier to recover from and get hit by the bus.
Speaker 2:That's the power of lasers so you can separate the cradle. Look at the fibers tooth comes out. Where I really think the power of the laser shines, so to speak, is with the post-extraction contamination cleanup, removing all of that debris, the dead tissue, the disease, shattering every single one of those microbes that's in that extraction site. The literature shows that if you do not take this extra step, you will have the bacteria persist at least three months in those extraction sites. So when we're considering placing immediate implants, it is absolutely essential to do everything that we can do to make that site as pristine as possible.
Speaker 2:The first thing I'll do is use a piezo surge instrument, actually macro-debride all of the periodontal ligaments, then with the laser go in and clean up all of that other micro-material that we can't see. And we do that with the SWEAPS protocol. I would have to pull up the acronym. I'm terrible at remembering things that I can actually look up. My brain does a thing that says why would I want to memorize that you can look it up, it's just sweeps.
Speaker 1:We just call it sweeps.
Speaker 2:Literally, you're sweeping away all of that negative residue and getting it out of the patient's head. And it is phenomenal to see and to feel If you put your finger right next to that extraction site and then you do the sweeps. You've done this. You know exactly how it feels.
Speaker 1:You can feel that laser energy stirring up, sweeping out all of the debris out of that extraction site or cavitation site to help get rid of those inflammatory cytokines get rid of the viruses, the parasites, the bacteria get them out.
Speaker 2:So the body doesn't have to deal with that extra step of healing. So then, once it's clean and profusely bleeding, of course you hit it with the ozone to give it one final blessing. And then put in your implant. Prf whatever you're doing to do your final healing process.
Speaker 2:Once that step is complete, then la pièce résistance as I call it, or the French say the final capping stone is the photobiomodulation. The sooner you can get laser light on a wound, the faster the healing. Isomodulation the sooner you can get laser light on a wound, the faster the healing is going to be Immediately after your surgical procedure. Get a mark between photobiointubation and photobiomodulation, so around 10 joules per square centimeter dose into the site and then the healing is in the patient's core. We send home every single patient with the red infrared light. I like USUI. It's a very handy, portable, inexpensive instrument a patient can take home and have in their first aid kit and they use that every day, trying to deliver at least 5 joules, between 5 and 10 joules. If you make it higher than that, then you're more in inhibition rather than stimulation, healing, which is fine If they're in pain.
Speaker 2:You want an inhibitory dose. And they're using that over at the surgical site every day for at least a month. If they're osseointegrating, at least three or four months. So that's a very broad sense, my protocol how we use laser light in an extraction or surgical site.
Speaker 1:And it's fantastic, and this is the procedure and the protocol that I learned too, and I just I still. I've been doing it for years now and I'm still just blown away at the healing, the lack of any post-op problems and even in the patients who are full of inflammation, have a lot of, maybe, comorbidities. It's just incredible when you use something that God made for all of us, right, there's this natural light that is so important for all of ourselves. We talk about circadian rhythms and how we've got to get that morning sunshine, and most of us were just locked in like here I am, it's a beautiful day in the Northeast and I'm sitting in my basement in my podcast, but I thank you for doing this. We're done. I'm out in that sunshine, yeah, so you've got nice light in the back of you. But again, I just I'm blown away how great this light.
Speaker 1:I had a patient yesterday extracted number 32, which is a lower wisdom tooth, and he said my wife just couldn't believe how I could have a tooth out so bad and have zero pain and she was wondering what are these magical techniques you're using? I'm like, yeah, it's not so magical, it's really just light, what we were, all you know born to use, so it's just absolutely incredible. And then when you layer it with the things like the ozone and I love that. I don't do it beforehand, though that's a new little tidbit for me to do a little bit of that, because I do not put my patients to sleep, you'll practice even the next level.
Speaker 2:The more light we can pump into people, the better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's exciting, and we have those, the red lights too that we try to get, and everybody's in it. I actually just recently my daughter got injured playing softball. They're out there on the sidelines Give her ice and I was like, oh, cringing. And I was like, no, I pull out my little red light and of course, my daughter, she's get away from me with that. I know what's happening. But then I wrote a letter to the athletic director and sent her some of the literature how the whole idea of putting ice on injuries has been debunked. We should not be doing that. Yes, it decreases swelling, but it also then inhibits the good cells from coming and doing the healing, so it takes longer to heal. So I sent her off crickets, crickets. I have heard nothing back and I said I will even buy the school some of these red lights. This is so amazing, this is great technology, nothing. So, whatever, I'm trying. We are just dentists right.
Speaker 2:What do we know?
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. So I'm like. I'm like, look, in PubMed there's I can't even remember what the number was how many tens of thousands of articles right about red light or photobiomodulation. They've different kind of labels, whatever they're, because they're different frequencies. A little bit red light, then we've got the near infrared, far infrared. People are familiar with saunas and we know how that works too. So again the same thing the more energy that our body has, the better we're able to heal from pretty much anything. And I think that's what's exciting, because those of us who are in this biologic philosophy we understand and deeply believe that the body has the innate ability to heal itself, deeply believe that the body has the innate ability to heal itself. So we aren't trying to come in here and change mother nature. We're trying to enhance the ability to remove some of the obstacles that make it difficult for our body to heal and support the natural healing of the body. This is why I like homeopathic.
Speaker 1:The patient I was just talking about, he was like amazed by the Arnica. We give all of our patients a little pellet of Arnica before they leave and have them take it for a few days afterwards, and he's felt amazing. He said do you think my wife would benefit from that with her arthritis. I said, absolutely, like it doesn't hurt, you try it. I said they make all sorts of Arnica creams. That's a big, very popular one. But it was like this is what we want to do. We use things that don't have a lot of side effects because, again, we're not trying to stop a bodily function, we're trying to enhance the natural, and so I think that's what's, that's what's exciting about all this kind of stuff and it's beneficial. We've all benefited from these, even my kids, who gripe all the time. They'll feel sore and they're like where's the red light? We have every iteration of it, right, we have panels and we have the handhelds and we have the wraps and you name it. So every body part may need a little something different. But you know, light is so beneficial, I love it. So let's maybe shift gears a little bit.
Speaker 1:You have a lot of people who've been doing this a long time. Very have a great reputation for really doing wonderful work. So people travel to see you and a lot of people who are traveling may be really sick. Right, they have tried everything and fortunately maybe they found a medical professional who understands the impact of the oral cavity on the rest of the body and they know of you so they'll send people to you. Is there?
Speaker 1:I got asked this at a conference I was at a couple of weeks ago. If we want to prepare, so say we're somebody who has chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, which we've talked about before, in my opinion is just like an overload of toxicity, right, and a low energy state, right Somebody like that. Sometimes we worry if we do a major surgery we're taking out teeth or cleaning out these osteonecrosis areas are they going to get sick? Are we going to push them? Or we're taking out the amalgam fillings, or if we're exposing them to things, is their body going to handle it? So maybe talk a little bit about somebody like that. Do you do some of the pre-op or do you talk with their physicians? Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2:Yes and yes. I think there are three questions in that. Definitely, it takes a whole village to help these patients get better. We can't do it all on our own, especially if they're coming out of state. They need some local support, and so I always recommend that these patients have a quarterback, somebody that is in charge of their overall health, whether it's a naturopath, a nurse practitioner another dentist that has naturopathic training.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter who, as long as they have the overall understanding and wherewithal to quarterback this patient's treatment. That being said, I like to be as involved as possible, and by involved. I know from 25 years of practice and from the continued research that I do, the basic building blocks that every body, every physical body, needs to heal, and I made up a very simple list of those essential nutrients and I sent it with every patient.
Speaker 1:And sometimes they'll say, oh well, my naturopath has all of these covered.
Speaker 2:I say that's fine. Compare the list of what you're currently taking with the list that.
Speaker 2:I sent you and if you're not covering all of the bases, fill in the gaps, because all of these are essential. Our food supply is depleted in the United States Thanks to Monsanto and all of these. I'll probably go home and my house is blown up for saying that. Monsanto and all of these. I'll probably go home and my house is blown up for saying that, but all the GMO crap that's going on. Our food supply is a disaster and, according to published literature, we cannot get enough nutrients unless we supplement. So supplementation, in my opinion, is absolutely essential to regaining and maintaining health.
Speaker 1:So I'll go down this list here I've got it up because it's one of those things I can't remember every single thing on the list.
Speaker 2:But some of the absolute crucial nutrients. Going back to Dr Weston Price, activator X, right, vitamin K2. How many people are eating natto every day? Nobody. It's like asking how many people are eating seaweed to get their daily iodine dose Nobody. Look, there are two nutrients that most Americans are deficient Iodine 90% Americans are deficient. That's according to published data in the United States government and you know if it's published by the government it's an underestimate. So you get to iodine, the vitamin K2, so many benefits of the vitamin K2.
Speaker 2:And I'm not talking about dosages recommended by the usrda. I'm talking about what's considered a mega dose 15 to 45 milligrams per day, not micrograms which is the usrda milligrams some of the other absolute essentials. One of my favorite authors of all time right, dr Tom Levy phenomenal book on magnesium.
Speaker 2:So many ailments in humankind could be eliminated if people would very simply get 500 milligrams of magnesium a day. Everybody's deficient. What are some other crucial? One of my absolute favorites to get the terrain prepared for surgery is resveratrol 350 milligrams a day. It is a powerhouse. The most common source of that is from Japanese knotweed who knew right? But that's a very common source and it's a powerful way to actually scrub the interior lining of the gut and get a lot of that bile film out and help get those leaky gut junctions tightened back to their original, healthy form. Other favorites I love N-acetylcysteine. Talk about a wonderful way to get all of the junk out of the trunk. N-acetylcysteine is the precursor for glutathione. Glutathione is our body's fiber demand. In order for glutathione to work, we've got to have vitamin C, which unfortunately, as mammals we don't produce every day, so we've got to supplement with it Three to five grams once or twice a day.
Speaker 2:Nobody's getting that amount unless they're supplementing with it. You've got to eat literally a whole bag of oranges to get that amount and you don't want to suffer the blood sugar spike by doing that.
Speaker 1:Some other of my favorites.
Speaker 2:EPA and DHA, absolutely essential to build bone. If we don't have those essential fatty acids, most commonly obtained through fish oil high-quality fish oil then bad news. This is my current favorite right now from Designs for Health. I believe that's it. Yep, they're high-potency omega-L. Fantastic. A couple of those in the morning, a couple at night You're getting more than enough to do all of that healing process. Every cell in the body is surrounded by a cell membrane, two layers thick right, predominantly made of fat, but the fats that we're ingesting are substandard, then our cells are going to be wrapped in plastic.
Speaker 2:And then things can't get inside the cells or out of the cells that are supposed to, and then the body can't heal. All of this goes back to Dr Tennant's book. Healing is Voltage, foundational. If you want to change your life, change your career, change your family's lives, get and read that book. It's phenomenal. And you want the spiral-bound one, not the Reader's Digest version. Some other things of my favorites to get people prepared. If their vitamin D levels are low, get them up.
Speaker 1:Get them out in the sunshine.
Speaker 2:Anything less than 50 nanograms per milliliter is deficient, according to the McCullough and the Vitamin D Council d council. Now I know there's a lot of debate and hubbub about vitamin d being in rat poison and all these different things and I say basically listen too much of anything is toxic. Too much sunshine makes the desert it gives you sunburn, too much water you'll drown. There's, but all of those things are essential for life.
Speaker 2:Moderation is the key. Look at the literature. What does the literature, published literature, recommend? There was a recent study out of Germany talking about specific dosages of vitamin D according to your blood type Monumental study, landmark study and I wish I could remember those exact things without pulling up the study, but it's in the file.
Speaker 1:We'll look it up. We can attach it to the show notes.
Speaker 2:Look it up. Okay, what else? One of my favorites here Sauerkraut, kimchi. Fermented foods are the best source of probiotics known to man, much better than anything you can get in a bottle. So ferment your own veggies.
Speaker 2:Dr Mercola has a whole or he did, at least until the government took down his website. A whole section on fermented foods and absolutely I'd recommend doing that for getting your probiotics. Quercetin what a powerhouse to help get nutrients inside the cells. Phenomenal supplement, which you can actually find in fresh fruits and vegetables. I'm scanning through the list here to see any other absolute essentials. Those are the high points.
Speaker 1:If people are not preparing the terrain with those, they will not be ready and I won't do surgery If they have not been doing their homework. I won't treat them because I don't want to set myself up for failure.
Speaker 2:So, they've got to do their part, and part of that, according to my protocol, is supplementation getting the gut ready so they can do that.
Speaker 2:another crucial component to prepare the terrain is ozone in particular, and this is not a very popular component, especially with my kids. I really don't get it yet, but I talk to them about rectal insufflation, right, I tell people you want to use ozone wherever you have a hole in your body. It's that simple, right. And the most powerful place to do that is rectal. Rectal ozone insufflation is as effective as an IV ozone it takes less than five minutes and contrary to the IV ozone, it'll only cost you about a quarter.
Speaker 2:Iv ozone is probably I don't know three or 400 bucks, depending on where you are in the country, and you can do rectal intubation in the comfort of your own home. So I have a strong proponent of that, especially getting people ready to get the junk out of the trunk, so to speak.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I am 100% on board and I agree. We talk about that all the time on the podcast is our food. I was just talking with a patient the other day. It's my team members talking about how even all these health food brands they're getting bought out by big food, right? And so these brands they were like. At least I know if I use this food, I'm covered. Not so much anymore. It is, unless you're raising your own animals and growing all your own, and even then our water supply, our food supply, the soil, everything has become so deficient They've found glyphosate or Roundup in the Arctic, right in the Antarctic. It's everywhere. So that is. I 100% agree that even if people come to me all the time and I talk about this and I eat healthy.
Speaker 1:And I say what does that mean? Everybody's version of healthy is very different and we're all different, you know, and some of us may thrive eating other different things, but the key is those minerals and the fat soluble vitamins we really need, though.
Speaker 1:That is the foundation of health. This is what Weston Price, almost 100 years ago, discovered when he traveled all over the world and found the healthiest populations, and that's what he saw, even though their diets were very different. The foundation was the mineral levels and the fat salvo. I had a patient yesterday. She said oh, I just got diagnosed with osteoporosis and I'm on taking D3 now. And I said are you taking that with K2? And she's I don't know. I said it's kind of frustrating in today's day and age Like now. Now, a lot of times you'll see them together now because the companies are smartening up, they're reading the literature Hallelujah, that we know. And I said D3, it's good, but if you don't take your magnesium, you don't take the K2, you don't have any vitamin A. That calcium isn't going to get into your bones and into the teeth. No single vitamin or mineral works by itself right. Everything is a lovely dance and to have everything in the right balance for things to work properly, and it's frustrating that a lot of the medical establishment they're just not aware of that they really get no nutrition backgrounds.
Speaker 1:We talk about magnesium. That's probably the biggest one we talk about to my magnesium. You need, and agree, at least 500 milligrams a day of magnesium and not necessarily the magnesium citrate, because sometimes a lot of people take that to get their bowels moving but you may not get the proper dosage before you get the loose bowels. So I like more like the glycinate Not to go on. Glycine is also a really important amino acid for the liver. We talked about NAC, which is a precursor to glutathione super important. That's what your liver uses that one of the major antioxidants in our body to clear out all these toxins. Like when you're coming to someone to judge and you're trying to get rid of the crud that's accumulated over the years. And if your liver is not working properly, you're going to have a hard time clearing this stuff out.
Speaker 1:And I think liver is often in when we talk about our health, because we don't have great measurement tools. But it is key. It's what protects our pancreas. It's a big problem when we get gallstones right. Everybody just take the gallbladder out and then you're fine. Where did those gallstones come from? The liver? Oh, you've got diabetes. Just take this insulin. The liver is supposed to protect the pancreas, right.
Speaker 1:So let's focus on those kinds of things and, again, getting that nutrition and it's very challenging in today's day and age, but these are the mineral, this is the basis that we need to do so when, as Judson, we've talked a lot about this to this terrain, this idea of the environment in our bodies, when it's healthier then these, when we go in and you have these surgeries, your body's going to be able to clean yourself out much more easily. You're going to heal faster, you're going to feel better faster, you're going to avoid some of the things that can happen when we detox too fast in our bodies and prepare Sometimes all these toxins that get dumped in our lymph. But if our lymph is so full of all this other junk then we get more tired, we have rashes, we have all sorts of things. So preparing is very important.
Speaker 1:I'm also a huge proponent of ozone. I love it and the rectal. People go oh, don't put anything there. But literally the tube is about a quarter of the size of a baby's pinky. It is tiny, you really don't see anything and in three minutes he lied down. I agree it's a fantastic way to prepare that train give you some oxygen and, yeah, a heck of a lot easier than the IV, even though that's nice too, but yeah, it's more expensive.
Speaker 2:Not real practical for everybody.
Speaker 1:So now we're prepped. So now, what about post? So we've had the surgery, we've cleaned everything out. Is there a specific protocol? You, we were talking about the red light, so everybody gets that red light. Is there anything else that you have people do in the following days and weeks?
Speaker 2:Yes, a couple things. I want to touch on the ozone. Absolutely Every patient that walks out of our door at least, has had the recommendation to get a home ozone machine.
Speaker 1:And they're pretty affordable now. They're not terrible. Get the whole setup for about $1,500.
Speaker 2:Very reasonable, then they're only consumable is refilling the tank every year or two, which is $40 or $50. $1,500 investment in a first aid kit that will literally save your life. Rectal insufflation saved my life when I had COVID, literally.
Speaker 1:When people tell me oh, it's too inconvenient.
Speaker 2:I'm like, listen, you want to literally have something that can save your life. Make the investment okay.
Speaker 1:Because you can also do the nasal insufflation. There's so many things. You can ozonate water, the nasal inflammation, that insufflation. Every time my kids get a cold, boom, you're going downstairs, you're doing the ozone machine and it's again. It's such a small. Yes, $1,500 can be a lot, but if you think about it over the lifetime and how valuable it is because who knows when the next toxin is coming down the line let's be prepared. We know the people who are healthier, the people who had the healthier train. They was a little blip, a little cold, whatever it was. So if you're concerned about anything that might be coming, prepare yourself with, obviously, eating and exercise and sunlight and all that stuff. But having something like ozone is a life changing, life saving device.
Speaker 2:Literally a lifesaver. Yep Speaking of the ozone one of the things that I will routinely recommend for patients post-surgery is we call it Nozone Straight ozone gas in a 10cc syringe.
Speaker 2:Slowly inject it into the sinus cavities of the head and neck Great way to prevent an infection, especially if you've done a sinus lift or had heaven forbid a perforation, one of your maxillary teeth extractions. It happens all the time. It'll heal. It'll heal faster with ozone. So the ozone machine absolutely is top of the list, along with the red light. Postoperative healing modalities is top of the list, along with the red light post-operative healing modalities, right along that post-operative healing modality is also included the day of surgery and the day before surgery Every patient receives any surgical intervention in our office, even if it's one extraction.
Speaker 2:They get an IV the day before, the day of and the day after, and in that IV we do a high-dose vitamin C, not ultra-high dose 20 grams, 20 to 25 is adequate. We add 1 to 2 grams of magnesium, either magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate. We add 1 to 2 cc's of 1 or 2% of Procaine to help get the teeter totter balanced out.
Speaker 1:I also add.
Speaker 2:Azithromycin 500 mg day before, day after. The reason for that is it's supported by the literature first off and it prevents post-operative infection. It bypasses the gut because we're doing it via IV and it has anti-inflammatory properties. Huge benefit it is a game changer, also in the IV. All of this is in 500 cc's of Ringer's Lactate, so I think I covered everything in there. Oh dumb. Four to eight milligrams per IV bag, depending on the size of the patient. Dexamethasone is a phenomenal short-term way to keep the inflammation in control.
Speaker 2:You're not getting a mega dose to completely wipe out the body's ability to heal, but you're getting just enough to keep the traumatic injury that you're causing with the surgery to be within a healing range. Phenomenal godsend to dentistry. It's about 75 times as potent as cortisol without the toxicity of adding cortisol to an IV. Cortisol or portazone either one of those Fantastic Game changer, those IVs are amazing.
Speaker 1:I won't do surgery without those IVs.
Speaker 2:It's that important.
Speaker 1:And just that. When you have the antibiotic through the IV, sometimes we worry, oh, we're going to destroy all of our gut microbiota. It's so important, and just that. When you have the antibiotic through the IV, sometimes we worry, oh, we're going to destroy all of our gut microbiota. It's so important. But why is it different when you get in the IV?
Speaker 2:Because you're not going, you're not passing. As opposed to say, the oral antibiotic. It goes through the gut. All of your gut lining and your normal flora are exposed to all of that. Antibiotic, as opposed to an IB. Yeah, you're probably going to have a little bit of effect in the gut, but it's not going to be like napalm which you get with the oral antibiotic so a huge difference there, and it's for three days.
Speaker 2:Azithromycin has substantivity, so it around, so you don't have to give as much for as long. Three days is more than adequate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's one of my favorite ones to give because it is shorter course and it is more specific, kind of for the oral bugs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a big fan, yeah and although it is specific for the oral bugs, it covers broad spectrum of all of those oral bugs. Exactly Right, so you don't have to send five or six different antibiotics to get the same effect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I agree Great, we've got pre, we've got during, we've got post. These patients are doing really great. And what kind of things do you think that when you do some of these surgeries, is there something very common that comes to you like a specific symptom or disease that seems to be cleared away more easily when we get the oral cavity cleared up? Or is it just a variety of different things?
Speaker 2:I would say that there are three biggies that most people report first off energy levels always improve when you get rid of the vital burden that oral infection creates in the body the second I notice is gut function and that goes without saying if you read last year alone there were over a thousand articles published on the oral systemic connection one year or a thousand how many of our colleagues are reading those? Not enough, unfortunately. But when you swallow all of that toxic material?
Speaker 1:that bio burden.
Speaker 2:It disrupts this delicate flora that's going on in the colon, in the small intestine and even the stomach to some degree and when you disrupt that natural balance you tip that into a state of sympathetic overdrive. People cannot heal in sympathetic. They have to be in parasympathetic and rest and digest, getting the mouth cleaned up, getting all those toxins and bacteria out and the byproducts, the lipopolysaccharides all that junk out of the trunk, the gut normalizes right. The good bacteria can flourish because they're not having to compete with those bad bacteria.
Speaker 1:And most disease. In my opinion, it's toxins and infections, right, and so we manifest them and we get labeled with these different diseases. But at the root is exactly what you're saying because the infection toxins wreck our mitochondria, so we have no energy, right, the gut, the whole microbe, we get dysbiosis, we can't absorb our nutrients anymore. So this is amazing, right. So it doesn't again matter necessarily what your label is. When you heal at this basic level, your labels can go away, right.
Speaker 2:Exactly. And it is all about the gut If the the gut is healthy.
Speaker 1:The rest of the body can be healthy if the gut is not healthy, guaranteed you are going to have disease somewhere in the body. Right guaranteed, take it to the bank yeah, we know, the gut is like one cell layer thick. Right your immune system, everything's right there, so it has to be so we can absorb those nutrients.
Speaker 2:Yeah, three things I talked about. We talked about the energy levels, the gut yes, gut function, and then brain fog, yep, huge big one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been working with dale bredesen's recode program on that whole, or they have. Dr bredesen has recognized that oral bacteria are a major reason that we have dementia, right, and all these problems. And how close is your mouth to your brain? I tell patients all the time you take a 3D cone beam and the sinus and it's fascinating to me because patients never feel anything. And I said, well, look at this abscess tooth. I know you don't feel anything, but do you see how this is into your sinus? Do you know there's only a very thin membrane between the sinus and the brain, like it's very intimately connected. There's so much research showing that oral bacteria can be a contributing factor to dementia and all other kinds of brain issues.
Speaker 1:So it's painful, right, nothing hurts. So patients don't want to lose, and I get it. It's stinging, you have to lose a tooth, which is problematic, but, geez, the consequence of not can be Better to stay alive. My brother-in-law a month ago developed a brain abscess about the size of three ping pong balls.
Speaker 2:Okay, huge Right. And he woke up one morning, thought he had some indigestion, went into the bathroom. He couldn't move the left side of his body. His wife said don't you think you better get to the ER? He said no, I'll just take some Tums, I'll be fine. So she drove him and did the cone beam or the MRI and they saw this big brain abscess. Where was it coming from?
Speaker 2:Abscess tooth, oh Yep. So got that out in a hurry and he just now got. Last week got a clean bill of health that he can stop. They got him on around-the-clock antibiotics for two months Holy cow, crazy. Absolutely. Tooth infections can be showstoppers. They're a big deal. Just because it doesn't hurt doesn't mean we can ignore it absolutely. High blood pressure doesn't hurt. Diabetes doesn't hurt. Fatty liver doesn't hurt. Cancer doesn't hurt until it starts destroying body parts. Pain is not the only motivating factor. Shouldn't be.
Speaker 1:I tell people all the time, like if you had a big red bubble, the pus, on your arm, would you leave it there? If it didn't hurt, you know you wouldn't leave it there, would you? They're like, well, probably not. Okay, same kind of thing. And just explain to patients how a tooth is an organ. Most people just add it's just there to chew my food. But it's an organ just like all the other organs in the body. So we've got to treat it. And anybody who's had a tooth pain in their tooth, they know there's a nerve in there, right, but there's all the other good stuff too. All right, we've talked about some great stuff. Is there any other information you'd like to leave the audience with today?
Speaker 2:I always like to talk all day long.
Speaker 1:That's fantastic. So any of you who are dentists or medical professions out there, judson has so much great content out there and if you want to come and hang out with him it is such a blast to learn. He has a great kind of year long way. Every few months he's got another course and again just really great in depth. It's nice to talk with your other colleagues, as everybody has different levels of experience, so learning from each other, which I think is really important again, because biologic dentistry isn't necessarily, it's not a specialty, but again it's a philosophy. So we're all a little different and and again, those people who've been doing it longer can really are really valuable for those of us who are still learning. And we learn so much from each other's experience and we really those of us in this field really are on a mission to try to create this awareness throughout the world so that we know that there are solutions.
Speaker 1:I think sometimes in the conventional medical world it's doomsday you get this diagnosis and that's it. You're the victim and say your goodbyes or whatever it is. But there is when we really understand the root cause of a lot of these issues, which again, in my opinion, really comes down to that. What's affecting that mitochondria? What are those toxins? Where are those infections? Sometimes easier said than done, but if we have that frame of mind we can really target those issues and really create wellness for not only ourselves but our families and, hopefully, future generations. I'd really like to reverse the whole trend of our children maybe living less than we will. That's a scary statistic, considering we're such this modern world and have so much technology. That should not be the case at all. Judson, tell us a little bit about where we can learn about your content and how do we find out about your courses.
Speaker 2:You bet? Very simple. I've got two main sites. One is hands-on learning. That's here in my office in Bantam Utah. You can find out about those courses at holisticdentaleducationcom. Holisticdentaleducationcom. And I do seven of those a year January, march, april, july. The laser course actually is coming up every July the full week. We go out on the boat for a day and then do a day on zirconia implants two full days, everything laser and then the last day is dedicated to laser facial aesthetics.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was the guinea pig, by the way, your skin looks amazing. Yes, it's fabulous.
Speaker 2:So that's in July and then in September your skin looks amazing. Yes, it's fabulous. So that's in July and then in September every year is ozone. October we do sleep, orthodontic, orthopedic expansion, night lays and nutrition digestion. And then in November is session seven, and then that's when we focus on regenerative dentistry. How do we keep the teeth alive? How do we regenerate pulp? How do we prevent?
Speaker 2:having to do all of those other things invasive procedures, extractions and implants, and we also talk a lot about digital dentistry, cad, cam, 3d printing, everything digital. That's a really fun course. Those are all hands-on courses, literally. You come and you are doing stuff with your hands at least one of those two or three days, usually a lot more than that and there's an online version, holisticdentalacademycom, and that was launched in the last month. All of that hands-on is also available online.
Speaker 2:Of course, it's not hands-on because it's online learning but, all of the information is there we've got plenty of options for those that can't make it out to utah. You want to get started? Dive in online.
Speaker 1:Great. Yes, I highly recommend it. Judson does so. He does his due diligence. Everything is backed up by evidence in the literature and it's unbelievable how much information he has amassed for all of us. So I thank you so much for that and doing what you're doing and teaching me, and I hope everybody gets a chance to check it out and see you guys all on the next episode. Hope everybody has a wonderful day. See you next time.