rhodesdarcy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@Teghead infectious disease i would agree with you, life expectancy actually no....infant mortality has gone down so the over all average shoots up massively, but if you look at life expentacy of people who wouldnt have died in infancy then in the last decade its gone down. Malnutrition really is terrible look at all the chronic inflammatory diseases that plague our health care that are in general are nutritional in origin. And i have no marketing needs.

Teghead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@siking1962 " I haven't asked the ADA but I can predict their response."Isn't that a bit cynical? Who knows, if you were to contact them with a series of well-documented case studies (such things are published in medical journals occaisionally), they might fund some research elsewhere, providing you and us and everyone with answers.You could pull the absence of evidence card on them and challenge them to disprove the causal relationship, rather than remaining in the unproven limbo.

Teghead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@siking1962 ..This could be all yours too for $1000, loool.I mean, if you're right, then people should know about this, but at this stage you should probably figure out the exact cause if any ad identify the problem if any and collate evidence, yaknow that whole phased evidence thing, just to satisfy the incredulous of us.

Teghead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@rhodesdarcy "We are the sickest the population has ever been" excuse me? Only for your marketing/idealogical needs. By pretty much all measures people living in the USA and Europe are very healthy compared to 100 years ago. Malnutrition, infant mortality, life expectancy, infectious diseases...

Teghead (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@firefly4772 No sorry that dosn't make any sense, because nerves are nothing like rubber bands, they don't stretch and even if they did it'd have nothing to do with how they work..I'm pretty flummoxed by this, because I can't find any reference to these kinds of reactions to metal crowns anywhere, apart from AltMed youtube videos... but I'd be flying in the face of Occam's razor to say this video was a hoax, it seems pretty genuine. I'd want more solid evidence to believe the crowns causedit

firefly4772 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm not a doctor but my theory is when you are pushing on the crown, you are relieving pressure of your nerves which enable your nerves to 'stretch' so you can move them. If you had a rubberband and you stepped on it, it wouldn't have the stretch it would have as if you just pulled the band with no strain on it...common sense?

siking1962 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The mechanism is explained in the book called Live Without Pain: A new Theory on What''s Wrong with you and How to Fix it. Basically it's the withdrawal reflex, and yes constant irritation from metal can alter muscle tone to have very serious consequences that end up as "etiology unknown" or are sent to the psychiatrist.

siking1962 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

maganz has made a comment on Muscle Testing Dental Crowns:And the patient is not hypnotized? I can't understand what mechanism would do this. It looks like some kind of a magicians trick. How could you explain it? What's really at work here? How could a metal crown have such serious consequences? Why do many have crowns without such symptoms? - sorry removed by mistake

maumeeohio (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Do you work with a good dentist who could change out all the porcelain-metal crowns? What would a whole mouth cost? Should it be done in stages?

siking1962 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes, get yourself tested through Melisa but your problem doesn't have to be an "allergy", just contact with the metal is enough to cause havoc with your nerve sensors and therefore your muscles.