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Westerville dentist may face disciplinary action
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Misti Crane
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A Westerville dentist known for his unconventional approaches might be
punished by the Ohio State Dental Board.
Dr. Wesley G. Shankland is accused of inappropriate care of 12 patients
from 1999 to 2001, according to a letter sent to him by board secretary
Dr. Edward Hills.
The letter mailed to Shankland's Cleveland Avenue practice lists 14
counts against him and says that he:
· Operated on three patients without adequate testing beforehand.
· Removed 14 teeth inappropriately from four patients.
· Performed excessive and/or unnecessary surgery on six patients.
· Caused injuries that led to the removal of four teeth in one
patient.
· Failed to consider alternative treatments and run appropriate
tests.
· Overprescribed pain medicines.
Shankland, 54, is a 1978 graduate of the Ohio State University College
of Dentistry. He has published two books on temporomandibular joint
problems, commonly known as TMJ.
Neither he nor his staff responded to a phone message left at his
office yesterday.
All dentists facing punishment by the dental board have an opportunity
for a hearing before the board decides whether to take action. The most
severe punishment is revocation of the dentist's license.
Shankland is a leading proponent of "neuralgia inducing cavitational
osteonecrosis," a diagnosis that is controversial among dentists and
can lead to removal of multiple teeth and parts of the jaw.
Dentists who believe in the condition think that pain, pressure and
other problems are caused by lesions in the jaw.
Shankland's Web site, www.drshankland.com, includes information on
the diagnosis and other dental issues, including some opinions that
root canal fillings are not safe.
The letter from the board does not say what conditions Shankland was
treating in the 12 patients mentioned.
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Westerville dentist may face disciplinary action
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Misti Crane
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A Westerville dentist known for his unconventional approaches might be
punished by the Ohio State Dental Board.
Dr. Wesley G. Shankland is accused of inappropriate care of 12 patients
from 1999 to 2001, according to a letter sent to him by board secretary
Dr. Edward Hills.
Member of *organized medicine and dentistry*.
The AMA and ADA are liars.
The letter mailed to Shankland's Cleveland Avenue practice lists 14
counts against him and says that he:
· Operated on three patients without adequate testing beforehand.
· Removed 14 teeth inappropriately from four patients.
· Performed excessive and/or unnecessary surgery on six patients.
· Caused injuries that led to the removal of four teeth in one
patient.
· Failed to consider alternative treatments and run appropriate
tests.
· Overprescribed pain medicines.
Shankland, 54, is a 1978 graduate of the Ohio State University College
of Dentistry. He has published two books on temporomandibular joint
problems, commonly known as TMJ.
Neither he nor his staff responded to a phone message left at his
office yesterday.
All dentists facing punishment by the dental board have an opportunity
for a hearing before the board decides whether to take action. The most
severe punishment is revocation of the dentist's license.
Shankland is a leading proponent of "neuralgia inducing cavitational
osteonecrosis," a diagnosis that is controversial among dentists and
can lead to removal of multiple teeth and parts of the jaw.
Dentists who believe in the condition think that pain, pressure and
other problems are caused by lesions in the jaw.
Shankland's Web site, www.drshankland.com, includes information on
the diagnosis and other dental issues, including some opinions that
root canal fillings are not safe.
He is totally correct.
The letter from the board does not say what conditions Shankland was
treating in the 12 patients mentioned.
Right. Typical.
I suspect this is another witch hunt because he doesn't dance to the tune of
*organzed dentistry*.
Those who are liars and try to stop what they do not endorse.
Information on root canals.
http://www.altcorp.com/AffinityLaboratory/rcttreatment.htm
http://www.tldp.com/issue/157-8/157rootc.htm
Surprisingly it's composed of little tiny tubules, and those tubules are so
small that if we took our smallest front tooth and stretched it out -
stretched those tubules out end to end - it would stretch out for a distance
of 3 miles. Now what happens is when you get a cavity in a tooth and the
decay gets into the dentin of the tooth the bacteria that are involved in
the decay process get into those tubules. I should tell you that initially
those tubules carry a fluid and that that fluid carries nutriments and the
nutriments in those dentin tubules keep the tooth alive and healthy. And
those nutriments come from the nerve and the blood vessels that come into
the root canal of the tooth. And so fundamentally what happens when you get
a deep cavity and it exposes the nerve of the tooth, those bacteria get into
all of those dentin tubules and they remain in there causing infection and
eventually they can escape and that's a story in itself. They can escape in
what's known as the lateral canals and there toxins can actually escape
directly through the root surface into what's called the peridontal membrane
or ligament. This is a hard fibrous tissue which holds the tooth in the bony
socket, and when the infection gets into there it transfers easily into the
bony socket and from there the bacteria and the bacterial toxins can get
into the surrounding bone and the blood supply of that surrounding bone. And
now this acts much like cancer cells, you know cancer cells metastasize and
that means that they travel around the body in the bloodstream and they get
to another tissue, gland or organ and they set up a new cancer. Well these
bacteria from infected dentin tubules also travel around and metastasize in
the same way and they can get into the various tissue. Those bacteria are
kind of like people, you know, if they get to like Seattle or Reno or
someplace they decide that's where they're going to have their home, well
the bacteria traveling around the body, they may get to the liver, the
kidneys or the heart or the eyes or some other tissue and they set up an
infection in that area. So this is exactly what happens and why the
degenerative diseases occur from these teeth.
http://www.curezone.com/dental/root_canal.html
MJ You're assuming that ALL root-filled teeth harbor bacteria and/or other
infective agents?
GM Yes. No matter what material or technique is used - and this is just as
true today - the root filling shrinks minutely, perhaps microscopically.
Further and this is key - the bulk of solid appearing teeth, called the
dentin, actually consists of miles of tiny tubules. Microscopic organisms
lurking in the maze of tubules simply migrate into the interior of the tooth
and set up housekeeping. A filled root seems to be a favorite spot to start
a new colony.
One of the things that makes this difficult to understand is that large,
relatively harmless bacteria common to the mouth, change and adapt to new
conditions. They shrink in size to fit the cramped quarters and even learn
how to exist (and thrive!) on very little food. Those that need oxygen
mutate and become able to get along without it. In the process of adaptation
these formerly friendly "normal" organisms become pathogenic (capable of
producing disease) and more virulent (stronger) and they produce much more
potent toxins.
Today's bacteriologists are confirming the discoveries of the Price team of
bacteriologists. Both isolated in root canals the same strains of
streptococcus, staphylococcus and spirochetes.
MJ Is everyone who has ever had a root canal filled made ill by it?
GM No. We believe now that every root canal filling does leak and bacteria
do invade the structure. But the variable factor is the strength of the
person's immune system. Some healthy people are able to control the germs
that escape from their teeth into other areas of the body. We think this
happens because their immune system lymphocytes (white blood cells) and
other disease fighters aren't constantly compromised by other ailments. In
other words, they are able to prevent those new colonies from taking hold in
other tissues throughout the body. But over time, most people with root
filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of systemic symptoms they didn't
have before.
MJ It's really difficult to grasp that bacteria are imbedded deep in the
structure of seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.
GM I know. Physicians and dentists have that same problem, too. You really
have to visualize the tooth structure - all of those microscopic tubules
running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth, those tubules transport a
fluid that carries nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the
tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched out on the ground
they'd stretch for three miles!
A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid circulating through it, but the
maze of tubules remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem
remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can migrate out into
surrounding tissue where they can "hitch hike" to other locations in the
body via the bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or gland or
tissue, and the new colony will be the next focus of infection in a body
plagued by recurrent or chronic infections.
All of the "building up" done to try to enhance the patient's ability to
fight infections - to strengthen their immune system - is only a holding
action. Many patients won't be well until the source of infection - the root
canal tooth - is removed.
MJ I don't doubt what you're saying, but can you tell us more about how Dr.
Price could be sure that arthritis or other systemic conditions and
illnesses really originated in the teeth - or in a single tooth?
GM Yes. Many investigations start with the researcher just being curious
about something - and then being scientifically careful enough to discover
an answer, and then prove it's so, many times over. Dr. Price's first case
is very well documented. He removed an infected tooth from a woman who
suffered from severe arthritis. As soon as he finished with the patient, he
implanted the tooth beneath the skin of a healthy rabbit. Within 48 hours
the rabbit was crippled with arthritis!
http://www.midnightcafe.com/alzh/endnotes.html
19. Dentin Tubules: The tooth structure is porous and dental tubules (hollow
tubes)
within a single tooth are approximately three miles in length. Eight
bacteria
fit side by side within one dentin tubule, which makes bacteria
difficult to
eradicate. It is not uncommon for cavitations to become reinfected.
X-rays
revealed I have six to eight reinfected cavitations.
20. Cavitations: Infected areas within the jawbone.
21. Bone necrosis: Disease caused in healthy cells due to direct contact
with
any agent (usually living organism) capable of producing infection.
http://www.carondevita.com/dentaldebate.html
Dentists do not generally consider this a problem as they are taught that
the
tooth is basically dead
anyway except for that little bit of nerve in the root area. However,
although
it appears to be a solid, very hard substance, dentin in fact has many
dentinal
tubules. They are so tiny that a single tooth has as much as three miles of
tubules
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