Using Painless Sedation, Fort Worth Dentist Eliminates Common Fear of DentistryWritten by Ron Scott
If you are like me, you put off a visit to dentist until pain in your mouth exceeds discomfort you know you will experience when dentist first pokes that needle into muscle tissue in back of your mouth. Too, if you are as old as I am, you cringe every time you recall number of times a hurried dentist started drilling before painfully administered anesthetic fully kicked in. My exaggerated dislike for dentists is long standing. A child of Great Depression, my father didn’t believe in pain killers, at least for children in his family who didn’t do a good job of brushing their teeth and that view of parenting was reinforced by stenciled name on frosted glass of our family dentist’s door. (Out of respect for dearly departed, he will remain nameless.) To me, he will always be personification of pain and punishment, enforcer of my father’s will. So why am I writing this? Simply said, my fear of dentists disappeared recently when a broken tooth I’d been ignoring for several weeks finally got best of me. It had finally broken apart and exposed nerve couldn’t be mollified with warm salt water. In considerable pain I arrived Dr. Huckabee’s office in Southlake in afternoon expecting worst. First, I didn’t expect that there would be a dentist in all of Fort Worth available to take care of problem immediately so I’d have to deal with my fears through a sleepless night. Second, if one was available it would inevitably prove to be just another traumatic dental experience because he/she would be in a hurry to get home. Neither expectation turned out to be accurate. Much to my surprise, Dr. Huckabee, immediately took me on as a patient. What transpired, thereafter, made me finally realize that my fears could finally be put to rest - dental pain is no longer a given.
| | Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer of Med America Research Finds Correlation Between Contaminated Food and Alzheimer’sWritten by Ron Scott
The notion that Alzheimer’s, Creutzelf-Jakob, and Mad Cow Disease may be caused by consumption of meat and dairy products has, up to now, been pretty much dismissed by medical research community but an article written recently by Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D. of Med-America Research, is beginning to turn heads. “The possibility of age-related reemergence of food borne Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis) as a vector for Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD or human Mad Cow Disease) and Mad Cow disease itself is very real,” Broxmeyer asserts. Broxmeyer’s article “Thinking Unthinkable: Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and Mad Cow disease - age-related re-emergence of virulent, food borne, bovine tuberculosis, or losing your mind for sake of a shake or burger” is a well documented research study that is just now getting attention it deserves partly as a result of a report by Center for Disease Control (CDC). . The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported last May of an outbreak of CJD linked to consumption of meat contaminated “with agent causing” bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) at a New Jersey racetrack between time frame 1995-2004. In opinion of experts, ample justification now exists for considering a similar pathogenesis for Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and other spongiform encephalopathies such as Mad Cow disease. In fact, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and Alzheimer’s often coexist and at this point are thought to differ merely by time-dependent physical changes. A recent study links up to 13% of all “Alzheimer’s” victims as really having Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. According to Broxmeyer, Bovine tuberculosis, which includes Mycobacterium bovis and M. avium-intracellulare or paratuberculosis, is and has always been most prevalent threat to cattle industry, and USDA reports that between 20% and 40% of US dairy herds are infected with paratuberculosis alone. The health risk for milk tainted with M. bovis has been known for decades and there was a time not so long ago when ‘tuberculin-tested’ was printed on every milk container. “Schliesser stated that meat from tuberculous animals may also constitute a significant risk of infection. At turn of 20th century 25% of many US deaths from TB in adults were caused by M. bovis,” Broxmeyer goes on to say.
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