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More InformationWhat is Environmental Dentistry?
Interview Dr. Tartsch
What is Environmental Dentistry?
Admittedly... environmental dentistry is an abstract term. Environmental medicine is more of a term. External influences from the environment such as pollutants, metals or contaminants affect our health via the immune system. However, all influences from "inside", i.e. from the oral cavity and teeth, also have an effect on our immune system. It is therefore only logical that our teeth also have something to do with our general health. This is why this new specialist area has been named "Environmental Dental Medicine".
The focus of environmental dentists is on comprehensive dental treatment chronically ill patients, as well as the application of individualized and preventive treatment concepts for Gesund.
The aim is to identify possible "focal points" in the oral cavity and thus also to prevent or alleviate chronic inflammatory diseases far from the oral cavity. intensive, interdisciplinary cooperation and exchange with environmental physicians and the general practitioners treating them is of great importance.
We dentists are often unable to avoid permanently inserting foreign materials into our patients' bodies as fillings or dentures. As a rule, this is well tolerated by the body and the dental materials undergo the most precise approval and testing procedures.
However, any material can be a trigger for chronic inflammation, intolerances or allergies in a patient's individual situation, as it interacts with the organism in a variety of ways.
On the other hand, more and more patients are suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases. In these cases, a targeted search for material intolerances, inflammations or disruptive factors must be carried out. Additional inflammatory stimuli must be avoided so as not to further burden or even accelerate existing disease processes.
Mechanisms of environmental dentistry?
Contribution Dr. Tartsch
As the 1st chairman of the German Society for Environmental Dentistry, we have the necessary toxicological, immunological and environmental dental expertise to identify possible influences from the oral cavity on general health using modern laboratory diagnostics.
Dr. Jens Tartsch
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