Testimony 2018 — no. 57

November 2018

Dear Sir,

I have just finished reading your book "Nos dents, une porte vers la santé" with great joy. It was like a long-awaited meeting.

I am a lyric singer, and I also teach classical singing. My journey with singing is intimately linked, beyond the musical and expressive space it has opened for me, to the discovery of the amazing richness and capabilities of the body. I am eager for a fine and deep awareness that amazes me and connects me to my spiritual path.

I am in my fifties, and things have happened gradually, and sometimes wrong directions have left marks. The research, the work, but also the pains, reveal to me the extent of the constraints in which I have settled.

This is particularly the case with my teeth. When I was young, they said I had the teeth of happiness because of the space between my upper incisors. Orthodontic work tightened it, and many orthodontic appliances that I found very difficult to accept: they prevented me from sucking my thumb.

Over the years, I felt pushes in my upper gums; my teeth began to overlap. I consulted several dentists:

• "It's normal, teeth advance with age"
• "I'll file your teeth"
• "I propose a treatment with crowns. Ah, you're a singer? But never mind, you have to go through it"
• "We'll give you a super smile"

But I was eager to meet someone who listens to me, understands me, and considers the issue of my teeth within a global problem, linked to my posture, my cervical tensions, my often blocked sinuses...

That's why reading your book was like a bright light.

I see and feel an occlusal imbalance, which my intense vocal activity probably reinforces. I sense in this eagerness to regain a non-tension-generating occlusion, an invitation to open new spaces, to allow myself to be more and more welcoming to what I am, to this presence of the Other living in each of us.

I would be happy if you could point me to someone who could understand my search and accompany me with dental work.

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