Can Dental Health Impact Your Heart?

While you may be familiar with cavities and the negative impacts from mercury amalgams used in cavity fillings, you may be less familiar with what a dental cavitation is.  Dental cavitations are basically holes in the jaw bone caused by trauma, which could include tooth extractions or root canals, which result in decreased blood and lymph circulation to the area, setting the stage for a cavitation.  This lack of circulation causes osteonecrosis, or the rotting of the bone, which allows bacteria to settle in, resulting in further decay and potential infection.  What makes cavitations insidious is that you could have a cavitation without any signs or symptoms.

Any area in the mouth at the site of an improperly extracted tooth, root canal, dental implant, or cavity that is chronically irritated or infected is called a dental focus.  These dental foci cause disturbances, usually on the same side of the body, but in distal locations like the shoulder, or the heart.

For example, when I had experienced heart palpitations for over a year, I visited two different cardiologists.  They each informed me that there was no need to be concerned with the heart palpitations.  One of the cardiologists informed me that my heart palpitations could be due to hormonal fluctuations since she thought that I could be perimenopausal.  While that was plausible, I did not believe that to be the case with my condition.  Since I had never had heart issues previously, I felt the need to continue to seek out a solution because it was obvious to me that something was disturbing my normal heart rhythm.

I therefore decided to pray and ask God for the source of my heart palpitations.  The answer came to me three days later…in the middle of night, when I was sleeping: “Wisdom teeth and the heart sit along the same meridian.”  When I awoke the next morning, I was astounded by this piece of information.  I researched it and discovered dental charts which showed each tooth mapped out to different organs in our body.  In accordance with Traditional Chinese Medicine, meridians are pathways along which “qi” or energy can flow throughout the body, and along which one finds acupuncture points.

Although I had no pain, swelling, or redness in the area around my upper left wisdom tooth, I sought out a biological dentist, who had a Cavitat, a 3-dimensional ultrasound that can identify cavitations, unlike the X-rays that conventional dentists use.  The Cavitat confirmed the cavitation, and as soon as I underwent oral surgery to clean out the ‘hole’ in my jaw bone, the heart palpitations that I had experienced for a year ceased, as I had hoped.

It is important to listen to your body.  If you are experiencing symptoms that are out of the ordinary for you, do your due diligence to track down the root cause.  While some may not see the connection between the teeth and the heart, the entire body is, in fact, an integral system interconnected in ways that may not be obvious.  Any infection within a tooth or the jaw bone therefore impacts the health of the entire body and is not contained within the mouth since blood and lymph circulate throughout the body.  Do you have lingering health issues that your doctors have not been able help you fix?  Seeking out a biological dentist could be the next step in your healing journey.