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The Difference IV Nutrition Can Make in Your Dental Care

Today, we know of dozens of nutrients that are absolutely necessary for human life, including 13 vitamins and 16 essential minerals. We also know that taking more than the minimum requirement of some nutrients can have therapeutic effects - not just preventing diseases of deficiency but supporting the body’s innate healing abilities. 


Nutritional therapies are a key part of the kind of dentistry we do here at the Holistic Dental Center in Millburn, including IV drip therapy as a safe and effective support for a range of treatments. 


Why IV Therapy? Why Not Just Oral Supplements?

Oral supplements are great, but a therapeutic dosage would mean swallowing far more pills than most would be willing to tolerate. 


Delivering nutrients intravenously sidesteps that problem.


Oral supplements have to travel a long path through your digestive system before the nutrients make it into the bloodstream to be delivered to your body’s cells. A fair amount of their power is lost along the way.


IV nutrients bypass the digestive system so they can go straight to your cells, where your metabolism operates. This also means we can deliver nutrients at much higher dosages than you would be able to tolerate when taking them orally. This is especially the case with one of the most important nutrients we deliver through IV: vitamin C. 


IV Vitamin C when Removing Old “Silver” Mercury Amalgam Fillings

Vitamin C is a strong antioxidant that boosts immune function and helps protect against toxic metals such as the mercury that makes up about 50% of each and every “silver” amalgam filling. 


Because of this, IV vitamin C is a crucial part of any sensible amalgam removal protocol, administered during the procedure. 


Improving Oral Surgery Outcomes with Nutritional Drip Therapy

For nearly 100 years now, doctors have been aware of vitamin C’s potential to support wound healing after injury or surgical procedures. This is because of the crucial role it plays in generating new collagen. 


So our surgical protocols involve IV nutrition, as well - not just vitamin C but other nutrients that support the healing process, such as vitamins B12, D, and E. Additionally, we can deliver antibiotics by IV to prevent infection without compromising gut health, as broad spectrum oral antibiotics do. 


Gut health, after all, is critical to oral health. 


Used in conjunction with other biocompatible supports such as platelet rich fibrin (PRF), nutritional drip therapy sets the stage for fast, natural, and uneventful healing for our patients. 



About the Holistic Dental Center of NJ


For over two decades the Holistic Dental Center has provided exceptional biological dentistry with surgical expertise in a friendly, home-like environment. To schedule your dental appointment give us a call at 908-206-7848 or visit our website at www.holisticdentalcenternj.com 


For the full article, visit: at https://holisticdentalcenternj.com/the-difference-iv-nutrition-can-make-in-your-dental-care/



Wellness May 2022
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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