Re: The Dr. K Book
- From: "Clinton" <clintonz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Nov 2005 04:44:44 -0800
Tony Bad wrote:
> As promised (to Clinton Z...not Bill Clinton) I have been reading Dr.
> Kulacz's book.
>
i'm going to have to comment from memory. i still seem to have
misplaced the book
> I am not finding any thing I would say is untrue, except for the continual
> suggestion that the book shows things most dentists know nothing about.
> Contrary to this suggestion,
ok
>I find that the book describes many things that
> are very ordinary. They may have a low incidence of occurrence, but they are
> no mystery to any competent dentist.
The basic point is that infection may not necessarily show up on x-ray,
may be difficult to culture and may require active investigation to
find by the dentist. This is a situation that many dentists are not
equipped
to handle. (this is also true for many OS's). Note the description of
how
frequently during surgery , the drill falls into a cavitation and the
infection
tunnels through the jaw. It is very misleading for you to state that
any competent dentist is able locate and clean out these kinds of
infections,
though obviously a fraction of the patients Dr. K see's may have
uncommon
types of infection such as osteonecrosis, osteomyletis or NICO.
The fact the author came to this group
> and used terms like idiots and tooth carpenters, yet has authored a book
> that seeks to mystify very ordinary things makes those earlier comments
> rather confusing.
Dr. K is not trying to "mystify" anything.
In fact he is trying to demystify. Furthermore many dentists are
unaware of how to locate and culture infection, that is not clear on
x-ray. See the
section on" x-raying the invisible".
Many professionals also consider staph in bone samples to be "normal".
The point in the book about no harm being done if a hole is drilled in
the jaw that later heals, is also very telling. Most dentists do not
know how to LOOK for infection.
>
> As noted in an earlier post, there are many photographs of ordinary things
> that have captions that seem aimed at alarming the unknowing viewer. I am
> just an idiot dentist, but I could take pictures like this every day.
> Nothing worth writing a book about. An extracted tooth with a granuloma
> attached...oh my!
1) As you well know, these pictures are not featured in the main part
of the
book and apparently were just some picutures taken from the website
thrown in the appendix as an afterthought.
2) How many holes have you found eaten into the sinus. How many
cavitations have you found during practice? Keep in mind it is not
so easy to photograph a hole!
3) This is very misleading of you to state. There are no biopsy slides.
You are implying there are ordinary samples of bone slides depicted. No
attempt to cover this issue is made whatsoever.
4) It may seem trival to show a hole eatent through the sinus or a
cavitation,
until you are the patient who has gone to 100 dentists, who couldn't
"find"
these things because they didn't show on an x-ray.
>
> I am finishing the section on the basic theory behind much of the book. The
> book correctly describes that many severe complications can occur as the
> result of untreated or unchecked dental infection. This is not a shock to
> anyone. What is alarming is the suggestion that such complications should be
> a concern to people.
I'll have to reread , but again this appears to be a misleading
statement.
I am sure that nowhere does Dr.K say that most Root Canals would evolve
into "complex dental infections". What is a concern is what effect the
RC can have on the immune system over the long term and this debate is
obviously
a debate wich is very broad in scope.
.
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