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Holistic dentistry, also called biological dentistry, biologic dentistry, alternative dentistry, unconventional dentistry, or biocompatible dentistry, is the equivalent of complementary and alternative medicine for dentistry. Although the holistic dental community is diverse in its practices and approaches, common threads include strong ...
William Donald Kelley (November 1, 1925 – January 30, 2005) was an American orthodontist who developed "non-specific metabolic therapy," [1] an alternative cancer treatment, now known to be ineffective, which he based on his personal belief that "wrong foods [cause] malignancy to grow, while proper foods [allow] natural body defenses to work."
Stephen Barrett, writing on the Quackwatch website, dismissed holistic dentistry and much of Price's research, writing "Price made a whirlwind tour of primitive areas, examined the natives superficially, and jumped to simplistic conclusions. While extolling their health, he ignored their short life expectancy and high rates of infant mortality ...
Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. [2]The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.
Hal Alan Huggins (1937 – November 29, 2014) was an American alternative dentistry advocate and campaigner against the use of dental amalgam fillings and other dental therapies that he believed to be unsafe.
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Bumbling dentist who was fooled into believing that he was a deadly gunfighter. Lincoln Rice DDS – from Broad City. Jerry Robinson – orthodontist who shared the office suite on the Bob Newhart Show; Miss Root – dentist in the book Demon Dentist by David Walliams; Dr. Frank Sangster – in Novocaine.
In the field of Orthodontics, he is best known for his introduction of a refined type of retention plate called the Hawley Bite Plate. Two of Dr. Hawley's papers Determination of the Normal Arch and Its Application to Orthodontia and An Accurate Method in Orthodontia were read before 4th International Dental Congress and New York Institute of Stomatology.