Bytes of Byron - Bio Holistic Dentistry

20/10/2023

When I see patients who grind their teeth, I try to delve into their deep subconscious.

Why is the body doing this in sleep?

We often find airway collapse and the sympathetic drive to open the airway.

But recently, i've noticed a triangle.

Poor sleep headed with symptoms like teeth grinding mean the body isn't breathing well, but it also means the body isn't transporting oxygen well.

Iron is the carrier of oxygen in the blood. When you are low in iron, you feel like you can't breathe.

Iron also has a fundamental role in the brain and sleep:

It's critical for the synthesis of neurotransmitters, like dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine play essential roles in regulating mood, behavior, and sleep.

Myelin Production: Iron is necessary for the production of myelin, a fatty substance that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers. Myelin acts as an electrical insulator and allows for efficient transmission of nerve impulses. Proper myelination is essential for fast and accurate signaling within the nervous system.

Energy Metabolism: Iron is a cofactor for enzymes involved in cellular energy production. It participates in mitochondrial respiration, a process through which cells generate energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Neurons, like other cells, require ATP for their functions.

Neuronal Development: Iron is essential for the normal development of the brain and nervous system, especially during fetal development and early childhood. Adequate iron levels are crucial for the formation of neural connections and the overall growth of the brain.

Neuroprotection: Iron balance is critical in the brain to prevent oxidative stress. Excess iron can lead to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can damage neurons and contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

If you grind your teeth, you need to check your airway during sleep. However you can't ignore biomarkers like iron that play a fundamental role in sleep and breathing.

Have you suffered from iron deficiency before? What about teeth grinding?

06/10/2023

mercury amalgam dental fillings documentary

26/09/2023

We perform SMART protocol to remove.

Here is the most comprehensive report about the harms of . It includes an extensive bibliography of over 1,000 citations.
https://zurl.co/vRzb

16/06/2023

Pure Ceramic Implants are the most biocompatible material we use at Bytes. Avoid metals in mouth.

10/06/2023

Zwicker JD, Dutton DJ, Emery JC. Longitudinal analysis of the association between removal of dental amalgam, urine mercury and 14 self-reported health symptoms. Environmental Health. 2014 Dec;13(1):95. At baseline, individuals with dental amalgam fillings have double the measured urine mercury compa...

06/02/2023

A new study out hypothesizes the mechanism through which in the central nervous system can influence the development of . Thx to Fluoride Action Network
https://zcu.io/fRwp

02/02/2023

I was shocked when I started to investigate whether my patients could breathe through the nose.

Many people simply can't!

If you or a family member suffer from a chronic blocked nose, don’t ignore the signs.

The first study has linked chronic sinus inflammation with a changes to the brain.

This story via Science Alert:

Chronic nasal inflammation which causes a persistent blocked nose and headaches among other symptoms, affects 11 percent of people in the US – and a rising number of children.

In those with sinus inflammation, the researchers spotted lower functional connectivity in the frontoparietal network.

This area of the brain is used for:
• attention and problem solving,
• higher functional connectivity (linked to self-reference and mind wandering)
• lower functional connectivity in the salience network (which manages external stimuli, communication and social behavior).

The differences were more significant in people with more severe rhinosinusitis. Taken together, these increased and decreased spots of activity in the brain could be behind the symptoms people report.

The subjective feelings of attention decline, difficulties to focus or sleep disturbances that a person with sinus inflammation experiences might be associated with subtle changes in how brain regions controlling these functions communicate with one another

Current treatments for rhinosinusitis can last several years, with the severity of the inflammation often going in cycles, and thickening sinus tissues (like calloused skin). While surgery can often help, it's no guarantee that symptoms of the disease won't reoccur.

In the end, the onus goes to the individual to tolerate and learn to breathe through the nose.

This nose clearing exercise can help clear up a blocked nose:

1. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath
2. Hold the tip of the nose closed and hold the breath.
3. Feel the pressure rising in the sinuses (this carbon dioxide build up helps to chemically shift the environment of the nasal sinus).
4. Breathe out, and take a long exhale before moving into a slow exhale and inhale pattern.

Did this exercise clear your nose?

07/11/2022

Do you have restless sleep or grind your teeth?

Teeth grinding often accompanies a set of other symptoms, including:

​- Low blood pressure
- Chronic stuffy nose
- Temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD)
- Headaches or migraines
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Tension headache
- Hyperventilation syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Cold feet and hands
- Depression or anxiety
- Brain fog, daytime sleepiness
- Allergies, skin rashes
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Why would this be?

People who grind their teeth, often work or study long hours or report stressful family situations. Stress plays a part, but teeth grinding also reveals how people breathe during sleep.

To put it more correctly, teeth grinding hints at a set of sleep disorders and lack of oxygen during sleep. It’s a little-known condition known as upper airway resistance syndrome. And it is far more common than you’d expect.

It’s estimated that 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders. You may ask how the number could be so big? Many people simply don’t know they are at risk. They also have sleep disorders that are hard to pick up and even define.

The relatively small number of diagnoses are those with obstructive sleep apnea, yet it’s estimated 1 billion people globally suffer from OSA.

Teeth grinding is often associated with a condition abbreviated as UARS – UPPER AIRWAY RESISTANCE SYNDROME.

Sleep tests reveal UARS is sleep interrupted with frequent respiratory effort related arousals (RERAs). It’s due to higher pressure in the airways that send a message of ‘choking’ to your brain. If you suffer RERAs all night long, your body cannot enter deep REM sleep.
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​UARS indicates sympathetic FLIGHT OR FLIGHT driven sleep. It is the little sister of sleep apnea, and we need to talk about it.

Imagine the sound of tooth enamel screeching against under 250 pounds of force per inch.

Whilst guards can sometimes help, the real way to help a patient is to identify their structural or breathing issue.

Do you or a family member suffer from teeth grinding?

08/10/2022

We see it everyday. Parents who are watching their child’s teeth erupt, only to see the enamel hasn’t formed correctly.

Why would this happen?

Remember, when milk teeth erupt, there is another set of adult teeth growing and developing underneath the gums.

While problems in kids teeth will be stressful, and we may lose the battle, everything we do will help fortify the adult teeth of a child.

Don’t lose hope.

In the womb, a child is imprinted with signals from its mother’s body.⠀
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Today we are learning how important ante, prenatal, and postnatal nutrition is to help nourish our next generation.⠀
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For critical nutrients, like vitamin D, we need to remember, that it is a hormone, and acts deeply on the body, affecting how the DNA will express many years later.⠀
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Strong teeth and bones, require many years of nourishment from sunlight derived vitamin D.

Babies born with vitamin D deficiency may have affected bone growth or in severe cases rickets (flexible bones). Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked with the development of childhood allergy.
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A recent study indicates that children born to mothers with inadequate vitamin D levels had a greater chance of developing early childhood tooth decay. ⠀
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During the study, the vitamin D levels of 206 pregnant women were analyzed during their second trimester. Only 10.5 percent of the women had adequate levels of vitamin D. Of the children born to women with lower levels of vitamin D, 21.6 percent of them had enamel defects, which leave teeth more susceptible to dental cavities. Tooth decay was found in 33.6 percent of the children born to women with the lowest levels of vitamin D.⠀
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Although most pregnancy multivitamins contain 10 micrograms (400 international units), for women at high risk of vitamin D deficiency this may not be enough.

Vitamin D deficiency and dental disease is a strange one. When you think about it logically, it seems very strange that it’s not the FIRST thing that comes to mind when we see decayed teeth.

Our children need:

1) More sunlight
2) More vitamin D rich foods
3) More animal based fats that help absorption of fat-soluble vitamins

We can all start this today!

Did you experience vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy?

02/10/2022

01/10/2022

Is any mouth breathing ok?

It’s a survival reflex so it’s there to stop you from dying in emergency, but when it sneaks into your day to day life, it’s going to make you sick.

If you breathe through the mouth at night, you will likely snore, and have a higher chance of developing sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea causes blood pressure issues, heart disease, and is a known link to Alzheimers disease.

If you’re anxious a lot, breathing through the nose, slowly, is your fastest ticket to a calmer more resilient nervous system.

Mouth breathing reduces your tolerance to carbon dioxide. Sounds good? No carbon dioxide has many physiologic roles including the release of oxygen from the blood into cells.

Your brain has CO2 detectors all of the body monitoring CO2. If it’s not use to the rise during slow nasal breathing, it will panic and revert you to mouth breathing.

Reprogramming your unconscious ‘autonomic’ body to nasal breathing requires many things to fall in place.

Struggling? These could explain why:

Nasal / throat issues – if you have chronic blocked sinuses, deviated septum or adenoid issues, it’s going to be harder for you to breathe through the nose. See an ENT specialist, breathing is paramount!

Tongue Posture – When your tongue seals to the roof of the mouth it blocks mouth breathing. Problem is no one does it. Train the tongue to seal to the roof of the mouth.

Head and neck posture – if you have forward head posture, it’s likely you mouth breathe regularly. By closing the lips, supporting the spine straight and sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth.

Sleep – if you wake up with a dry mouth, snore, toss and turn, go to the bathroom frequently you aren't breathing well. Simplest way to get started is to try mouth tape to seal the lips through the night.

If you feel like you can’t breathe through the nose, you need to start building tolerance in the nasal passage to air.

Here’s a quick exercise:
1) Take a deep slow breath into the diaphragm
2) Hold the breath when your lungs are full
3) Clip the nostrils with your finger-tips
4) Hold and time your result

Do you or a family member struggle with mouth breathing?

18/09/2022

A Systematic Review” found that exposure to static magnetic fields (SMF) such as those generated by MRI, electromagnetic fields (EMF) such as those produced by wi-fi and mobile phones; ionizing electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and non- Ionizing electromagnetic radiation such as lasers and light cure devices can all significantly increase the release of from restorations and/or cause microleakage.
https://iaomt.org/mercury-released-from-dental-amalgam-fillings-in-response-to-different-physical-stressors/

04/09/2022

Your tongue acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line that runs right down to your toes!

In nearly all my patients, I see poor tongue posture, and the links to bad spinal posture, breathing, and other issues are felt right throughout the body.

The simplest way we can see how the tongue is so influential is how it supports proper head posture. When the tongue is down and forward, forward head posture and mouthbreathing occurs.

Over time this associates with a narrow jaw, crooked teeth, and sleep disorders.

But… you guessed it, as always the mouth is a gateway for so many other systems in the body.

The tongue is an extremely complex muscular and fascial rudder system.

It guides all the structures of the myofascial continuity that runs from the inner arch of the foot all the way up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

Isn’t that amazing?

Actually the tongue is potentially more important for core stability than turning on your actual core.

Our core begins deep under the arch with the insertions of the tendons from the lower leg, especially tibialis posterior.

To find its insertion, feel just under the inside arch of the foot, just underneath and forward of protrusion of the navicular bone you can feel a bit over an inch in front of your tibial malleolus on the inside of your ankle.

This point will respond to a soft-but-energy-rich touch that is held, and also to a more firm and direct fascial release. Pressing here can make a flow of feeling run up the fascial line.

So for better core support, spinal, hip and leg strength, you need to work on your tongue posture.

During exercise practice sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, this turns on the fascial rudder to the toes. It takes time and you need to work on making the BACK of the tongue connect to the soft palate. More on this to come.