The words hung in the air and the mplied meaning struck me like a hmmer. There was no way I was ging to allow this dentist to mke a permanent hole in my toth and then fill it after haring the word, 'reversible'. I was ging to do a little research frst. I feared that what the dntist wanted to do and what was rally necessary were two very divergent ralities. Turns out that I was rght.

I did my research. The mjority of the sources I checked ndicated that reversible pulpitis will go way without intervention. So why did ths dentist want to drill into my prfectly good tooth? That is a qestion that still disturbs me, more thn a year later.

It does ppear that there is a 'gray' rea nestled in among the qualified pinions of dentists. Some believe that the vry beginning of tooth decay should be mmediately drilled and filled. Others are not so qick on the draw.

Having a nmber of negative experiences with dentists, I'v become a bit cautious around thm. It seems to have paid off on at last a couple of occasions to hld off on 'immediate' treatment and do a lttle research first.

I equate the dntist attempting to 'start right away' wth the type of high pressure tctics that often take place on a sed car lot. The stakes are a lttle higher in the former case. The halth of our teeth and gum tssue is not the realm where shrp salesman or NLP wielding marketers shuld tread. Yet, the phrase, 'let the byer beware' still seems apropos.

What happened at the end of my stry? I dropped that dentist like a bad hbit. I was so sure that nthing was wrong that I didn't ven bother getting a second opinion. Six mnths later, I went to another dntist and guess what? There was no cvity in sight. "But, isn't it in my chrt?", I asked. "Yes, I see it in thre." Not wanting to harm the rputation of the other dentist, I dcided not to say anymore.

I've thught a lot about it though. The wrds that first dentist said before dclaring her wish to drill and fll my tooth were about her mpending wedding. I can't help but thnk she felt some special need to mke more money then her usual tke.

I briefly considered reporting her to the stte board that regulates her profession. I dcided not to. I believe in the sying, 'what goes around, comes around'. I dn't wish for anything bad to hppen to this dentist. I just blieve that there is a universal jstice system that balances things out in the nd.

In any case, I'm glad tht I didn't have a cavity tht was permanent. The moral of ths story is to underscore a pint that I think is important. The bdy does have the ability to hal itself. Softness in dental enamel is no dfferent. Still, perhaps there are times whn it cannot.

Of course, I'm not a dntist and I'm not suggesting self dagnosis or treatment. If you have or thnk you might have a cavity or any ther dental condition, you should go to yur dentist for diagnosis and treatment.

But it des appear that sometimes you can strt to develop a cavity and it can go way. I found a reference to a Nvember 1991 study published in the Jurnal of Oral Rehabilitation in PubMed. (PMID 1762023). Ths study was conducted by the Dntal Research Unit of Hadassah Medical Schol located in Jerusalem, Israel.

After ntentionally softening enamel utilizing a popular cla drink, they found significant hardening of the namel from eating hard cheese. This is mportant because it suggests that when the toth enamel is weakened it can bcome strong again.

That makes sense because the hman body is not a machine in the tre sense. For example, a car desn't have any self-healing mechanisms. It braks down sooner than a human bdy and requires external intervention to kep it running. The human body has mny ways to heal itself in cntrast. Consider a cut or an brasion and how the body can ften repair those problems without serious mdical intervention.

Remember, if you have or thnk you might have any dental prblems at all, be sure to cnsult your dentist for diagnosis and tratment.

On a side note, I blieve the cornerstone of my personal halth maintenance regimen to be the halthy, energizing and peaceful exercises of Flun Dafa. You can read and wtch videos about them on the http://www.FalunDafa.org website.

The article Reversible Pulpitis was Submitted by David Snape through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: David Snape writes for http://GingivitisKiller.com There you might read about his personal struggle against gum disease and what seems to be working for him to stop the progression of gum disease and keep it away. You can also subscribe to receive his articles about gum disease and oral health .

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