What do your teeth say about your health?

The teeth are our hardest organ, carrier of our deep identity. They make it possible to identify a person when everything else has disappeared.

Each of them is a small pyramid formed by apatite crystals electrically charged, which filter and amplify information. Layer after layer the stress is recorded inside the tooth.

teeth are for life

It is the only part of the body that does not regenerate. We can renew liver cells every six weeks, but not teeth!

After conception, the embryo is divided and organized so that the embryonic tissues –ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm– can generate the different organs of the body.

The milk teeth they are formed from the ectoderm (like the central nervous system), in the second month of intrauterine life. And between the third and fourth the final ones begin to form.

In order for cells to recognize and interact, they have a memory that allows them to locate themselves in their environment and function in harmony. This memory is stored in the depths of the human being and integrates the emotions experienced in the maternal womb.

The mouth is the primary organ for relating to each other.

Sometimes enamel stains are seen in children due to drugs, upsets or stress that date back to pregnancy. The fetus does not understand the words, but searches through the sound that surrounds it for the love, affection and emotion it needs. The mouth is after the first relational organ of the human being: it connects the newborn with its mother, provides food, satisfaction and pleasure. And through it we give and receive: words, smiles, kisses, food, love.

The teeth are part, in turn, of an environment: they are surrounded by gums, bones, cheeks, the mandibular joint… This set of elements allows the basic functions breathing, sucking, swallowing, chewing, or speaking. They are connected to the cerebral cortex via the trigeminal nerve.

In it Penfield’s homunculusthe area of ​​the brain where the map of regulation and functioning of the whole body is drawn, half of the cortex corresponds to the orofacial area, which gives an idea of ​​the weight of the information that is transmitted from the mouth to the brain and from the brain to the mouth.

Dental decoding: understanding the message of the teeth

Based on his experience in consultation and the relationship of teeth with emotions According to Chinese medicine, doctors Caffin, Beyer and Vereeck developed the dental decoding. This discipline consists of “reading” the teeth so that one can become aware of life situations that are not fair to one.

It starts from the premise that it is the teeth that explain our history: they are the hard drive of our soul. Thus, the teeth reflect, through their bad position or the presence or absence of cavities, what our great conscience tries to tell us.

As faithful testimony of what we have experienced, they reveal our interior life and they help us to know what happens in the depths of us, there where we do not have access with the mind.

According to the decoding, the teeth keep emotional memories of two types: the innateproduct of genealogy, and the acquired during life.

The professionals trained in it -psychologists, therapists or dentists- delve into the causes of a problem based on what their teeth tell them. From their position, for example, a relational conflict can be analyzed.

A tooth mounted on another can indicate a relationship of dominance or a distance: a lateral incisor mounted on the right central incisor in a young person can reflect a distance from the father; a cavity in a left lateral incisor may represent a conflict with the mother.

perform a decryption It is therapeutic in itself, but it does not prevent dental work if there is a problem. Homeopathy and Bach flowers allow to compensate the emotional states that may arise in the sessions.

The triangle of health: mouth and teeth are essential

He health triangle It is formed by three sides: the structure, the nutrition and the energy. For there to be equilibrium, the triangle must be equilateral.

The mouth plays an essential role in this balance: it is the gateway for nutrition, it connects energy and integrates the structure. This place in the mouth explains that the teeth may reflect physical and emotional disturbances.

If your teeth don’t fit you can suffer knee problems

A good posture is possible if there is a good verticality. It is influenced by muscular chains that unite the different muscles of the body: two central ones, one anterior, one posterior, and some bilateral ones that intersect.

The existence of these chains explains that a problem at the top of the body can affect the inferior and vice versa. When the upper and lower teeth do not fit correctly, muscle spasms occur that cause injuries to those chains and can affect distance, for example, shoulders, knees or ankles.

In this sense, it is key Breastfeeding. This favors nasal breathing, as the baby must breathe, suck and swallow at the same time. The movement of the jaw helps to develop the jaw joint and the upper jaw, leaving enough space for the teeth and tongue. In turn, it generates a balance of forces in the skull that has a positive impact on posture.

We breathe about 18,000 times a day. By age 12, we have taken 80 million breaths. If at that age, when the milk teeth have already changed, the child has breathed mainly through the mouth, he will have lost millions of stimuli to develop the palate well and have the teeth well placed.

Doctor Alfredo Marino and posturologist Philippe Villeneuve have created a technique of neurosensory posturology that works with the posture captors: eye, ear, feet and teeth. For example, small stimuli are placed on the anterior teeth to send proprioceptive information to the brain that balances body posture.

Together with the ocular treatment with prisms, these stimuli allow improve dyslexiaconsidered a postural disperception syndrome.

It is worth knowing, on the other hand, that some teeth in poor condition due to cavitiesgingivitis or amalgam fillings can produce anything from bad breath or body poisoning to muscle, joint, kidney or heart dysfunction.

Chewing well is essential to nourish yourself

Chewing is essential for nutrition–one of the other sides that make up the triangle of health–, since it allows the first phase of digestion to be carried out in a healthy way. In addition to mashing the food well, it must be bilateral and alternate.

A good chewing also influences the structure: from early childhood it allows the harmonious development of the mouth environment: jaws, gums, mandibular joint…

Each tooth influences the energy of a part of our body

The energy, the third side of the triangle, is known, among other names, as “chi” and is given due importance by all Eastern cultures. In traditional Chinese medicine, every disorder is linked to an excess or deficit of this energy, which circulates through the meridians.

The meridians pass through the teeth. Based on the energy flows that pass through each one, cartographies have been drawn –called somatotopias– that relate each tooth to different organs, glands, vertebrae, joints, muscles and emotions.

Dr. Voll, a German dentist, studied these electrical level relationships and established the correspondences with the rest of the body structures. Dr. Orsatelli specified the relationships of each tooth with parts of the body or diseases.