Testimony of October 12, 2007 — no. 197

vendredi 12 octobre 2007

Bonjour. I am currently working for six months. I am at the end of your book and I am absolutely delighted with everything I have discovered. I have a strong proselytizing impulse based on the advancement of my personal dental work. I have just written an introduction to dentosophy for my close ones, which is a mix of my work and the substantial marrow found in your book. If you want, I can send it to you.

And congratulations on your book: it's huge!

INTRODUCTION TO DENTOSOPHY

In 1953, French doctors Soulet and Besombes put into circulation the gouttière activator, a kind of rubber mouth guard: a double gouttière receives the dental arches and the patient is invited to chew this flexible object once in place in their mouth.

The object invites a replacement of the mandible relative to the maxilla and reinitializes a more functional mouth that is more in line with its nature. The Spanish professor Planas confirms the hypotheses of Soulet and Besombes such that the new emerging discipline finds its place at the heart of dentistry, giving it a holistic character and a full place in human medicine.

The mouth is a part of the body where all life experiences transit and lodge. Teeth are more than just a relic of the mineral world in our body; they carry our personal history, and the ailments they suffer only reflect dysfunctions in our lives. Thus, dentosophy, literally "wisdom of the teeth," considers the mouth as a place that speaks to us and from which we must learn its language. Of course, when a tooth causes pain, it must be treated, but dentosophy proposes to treat it while seeking to uncover the mystery of what it wants to tell us in a broader field.

This new positioning has, from the start, attracted the wrath of the dominant medicine, which has done everything to marginalize it. Today, the vital forces of dentosophy have been renewed, and a new resurgence is at work.

To better understand the basics of dentosophy, it suffices to go back to the history of all life. At birth, the baby is driven by a gnawing reflex; it seeks the breast to suckle. The depression it must perform in its oral cavity is such that nasal breathing is essential. This breathing is our normal breathing, day and night. Why? The nose performs functions unparalleled: it allows us to filter the air we use and, through a fine network of micro-capillaries, to warm it. The upper gouttière of the activator is bordered by a flap that rises high enough to prevent any forced oral breathing, thereby forcing nasal breathing.

One of the baby's first physical aspirations is to access walking. A series of steps must be taken, one after the other: transition from lying on the back to lying on the stomach, progression on the ground on the side (homo latérality, Indian swimming), crawling on all fours (crossed laterality), squatting position, standing. Each phase corresponds to a development of the dental arch, and any blockage or obstacle manifests itself in the formation of the dental arches. Conversely, dysmorphoses observed in adulthood may result from disturbances dating back to this very early childhood.

But the story of life continues when the child pronounces its first phonemes and finds in the responses and sounds it hears the way to elaborate its speech, a function that uses the mouth. The understanding of the meaning of words invites it to exercise its thought in sequence. In total, the mouth will be an excellent witness to all this long journey of the construction of an adult in its body to its brain: those who support dentosophy know how to observe and decipher it.

The body we have, and especially the mouth, bears the marks of all our life, of our physical, psychological, emotional, and relational experiences. More than a knowledge, dentosophy proposes a reappropriation of one's mouth and body, and this through the simple use of the gouttière activator. Why and how is such a mutation possible?

Our nervous system is made up of billions of neurons connected to each other by synapses, a kind of crossroads of interconnection. These nerve cells are constantly renewed. Therefore, one can imagine how the solicitation of the chewing muscles, by the gouttière activator, can act. By repositioning the two maxillaries correctly relative to each other, the alternating work with phases of relaxation sends new conditions of life to the neurovegetative system that mark the structuring of the new neurons. These latter superimpose on the old neurological structuring composed of engrams established in a pathological context: they are at the base of the formation of the new regenerative tissues of the mouth that will orchestrate the replacement of the teeth, the gums, and the dental arches in their entirety. With a little time, the new structuring tends to erase the influence of the old, the mouth transforms, and it gains a better balance, and the patient feels new, more harmonious sensations.

One then understands why dentosophists speak of self-therapy and seek the adherence of patients first, then their abnegation in the work they are proposed, which is regular and lasting. The success of a transformation that brings harmony is at this price. It is useful to stop a little on this starting point because it is crucial.

Dentosophy offers another view of the mouth, but the mouth integrated into a harmonious body and mind, and these placed in more harmonious human relationships. If the patient decides, this view can pass into his own life experience. He can decide to build a new future by embarking on the work proposed. This last requires reforming one's own view of oneself. There will probably be a conflict with one's habits, and this will require making a distinction: either the thing seems too difficult, too constraining, or too crazy, and I would reject it (this is actually the dominant mode of functioning in humans of rejecting the new), or I would try it as a kind of Pascal's wager.

Experience made over six months, I must say that this Pascal's wager is worth it. For those who feel the difficulty while being attracted by the thing, I think that over a period of six months, there is ample possibility of feeling all the benefits of this practice and assessing all those to which one can still access. The guidance by a dentosophist seems indispensable; it is self-therapy but must be guided.

To be more complete, it would remain to evoke several important points such as:

The proposed work

The occlusion

The temporomandibular joint

The loss of verticality

Chewing, swallowing, phonation

Bucco-dental balance

The language of the teeth

Etc.