Re: The Dr. K Book


"Clinton" <clintonz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> 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".

Any experienced clinician understands the limits of radiographs, this is not
news to anyone.

>
> 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.
>

While I agree this is a point made in the book, it is not true.


> >
> > 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.
>

They are in the book...where is irrelevant.

> 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!

I have seen many cases...as I said, this is not uncommon. A periapical
abscess can destroy a good deal of bone...there isn't a lot of bone
separating the roots of some maxillary teeth from the sinus...you do the
math.

>
> 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.

I am not being misleading. The premise of the book and the comments made by
the author on this board suggested he had found some mysterious problems
that others cannot find. The photos DO show areas of pathology, my point is
that for the most part they are showing common conditions. If one proposes
to you they have found Atlantis and then shows you pictures of Atlantic City
instead wouldn't you wonder why?

>
> 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.
>
>

Show me someone who saw 100 (I know you are exagerationg for effect)...or
even 10 dentists who couldn't find such a problem.


> >
> > 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.
>

You misquote me and then say I am being misleading. Go re-read the book. It
lists several pages of remote or systemic infections in a section about oral
infection. Can these complications occur? Possibly, but they are rare but
that is not the impression an uneducated reader would get.

T


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