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2004 saw the best Easter in the history of Dental Fear Central so far! This is what I found in my nest of e-mails (well hidden
among the 57 and 58Kb viruses)... yep, you guessed it, the eagerly awaited feature article on HealOzone by Keiththeteeth,
BDS!
"Hi everyone - yep, I got lots of eggs! But I'm on a diet, so I'll have to rely on my son to demolish them. My daughter
doesn't like chocolate, imagine that! When I decided to go on a diet one of my friends /patients gave me some advice. She
said if you look in the mirror and see a fat person it means one of two things; 1- You are anorexic, and are not seeing the
real you or 2- You're fat! Anyway, swiftly moving along to the question:
What is Healozone?
Healozone is the best bit of news for anyone who doesn't enjoy dentistry. Does anybody who you wouldn't want to meet on a
dark night really enjoy dentistry? Well at least my friends/patients can now laugh with me about it!
Healozone is a clever bit of kit which makes Ozone (3 oxygen atoms stuck together) and delivers it straight to your tooth
through a handpiece with a little squidgy tip on it. (So when patients think they're biting my finger they are actually biting
the squidgy thing.)
Ozone is a tiny molecule which breaks down bacteria, viruses and even fungus like candida/thrush. It always works and you
can't be allergic to it. Neither can those bacteria develop resistance to it.
So why is it the greatest thing since sliced bread I hear you say?
Because it requires no injection AND it's painless. In fact there is no sensation to being zapped with the ozone machine.
The only way you can hear it working its little miracle is you can hear the machine bleeping. Also I usually do my little
party trick at the end and demonstrate how it breaks down a latex glove in 10 seconds. So far none of my fingers have dropped
off and I can still count to 9 _ - dang! Would you believe that!
OK, you're still reading this. You know that the only way Healozone can hurt is if I drop it on your foot. After 40 seconds
application we get you to rinse with a remineralisation (<-Great word that) rinse which contains Fluoride and minerals
that help the tooth to repair.
This is how I first got interested in Ozone. My middle name is Abraham, and my wife, Mrs Lot was looking back at our old
practice, Sodom and thinking, well Gomorrow were going to get Healozone when there was a blinding flash of light and she turned
into a pillar of remineralised tooth enamel.
- Actually, I was working at the Royal London Hospital trying to reduce tooth decay on a group of patients who had received
radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. These patients are highly susceptible and we found that using diet, Fluoride and mouthwash
we could reduce their tooth decay. Then along comes Ozone, and I thought this is the answer.
Following the Ozone treatment my friends use a kit containing special toothpaste, mouthwash and a little handbag spray. Don't
worry if you don't have a handbag - you can put it in your pocket!
What do I use Healozone for nowadays?
During the last 14 months I have learned more about the uses of Healozone. It was developed to treat early tooth decay, before
it was a hole. It's great for that, but we also use it every day for treating much bigger patches of decay. Often we paint
in some pink filling (no metal), into the damaged tooth to act like a bandage on the tooth, and stop bits from going into
the hole. We may zap the tooth again a few weeks later to help the repair process.
When do I NOT use Healozone?
1) When I'm on holiday, (though I do talk to other people about it, but I'm getting better.)
2) When I don't need to because there is no sign of tooth decay.
3) Healozone is not actually a miracle and if my friend/ patient thinks that it will cure everything, and that they are
invincible, I will not recommend it.
The point is that if you have tooth decay you must be willing to change the circumstances that created it. We can use Ozone,
but you must change the diet factors which initiated it. Together we can have a simple, quick and painless way of solving
the problem. But only through cooperation.
The only disadvantages we have seen are that we cannot yet apply Ozone to all situations. It is just difficult, but we may
overcome this with new developments currently being tried.
Cosmetically, while we have reversed the tooth decay, we cannot change the colour, so if you want to disguise the dark patches
we usually bond a tooth coloured resin (no metal) over the dark marks.
What's it all cost?
Most dentists seem to charge around �45.00 for treating one tooth and usually �25.00 each tooth thereafter. Many like myself
include diet advice, remineralisation kit and re-treatment if required in with the original cost. For example, to Ozone all
four adult first molar teeth, remin kit, reassess and diet would cost �120.00. This would take about 30 minutes- mostly explanation!
And require a short 5 minute second visit about eight weeks later.
The future of Healozone is bright (but not Orange!). We have a wonderful new technique - I am still finding new uses for it
everyday, treating ulcers, cold sores, piles (No not Haemorrhoids) of things!"
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| Keith at work... |
Keith "Keiththeteeth" Hayes (47) got his BDS degree in London in 1977. His hobbies include travel, music, friends
and work! (no honestly...) He runs a small friendly caring Dental Practice in Tunbridge Wells, Kent called "Rose Cottage",
so bring your handbag! Before anyone gets too excited, here's the snag: he's married *sniff*...
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| (on holidays in the Carribean) |
This article is � Keith Hayes, 2004.
Hang on - there's more stuff on HealOzone! Check out our special features page Fun Dentistry with Ozone by Ray Steggles, BDS, which contains some detailed info as well as pictures of the HealOzone unit.
And if you're not too squeamish, some "before" and "after" pics will be added to that article soon (no,
not of Keith and Gordon's dieting efforts, but before and after treatment with HealOzone! Though you never know, those diets
might actually work, in which case there may well be "before" and "after" shots...) So check back!
Some words of caution: HealOzone is not gonna be available in the US for another two years. And there have been no independently
validated studies published in reputable journals so far (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). B/c the technology is fairly
new, it's hard to make accurate predictions about long-term outcomes. And it's not quite clear yet to what extent the remineralization
agents are responsible for the clinical effects rather than the ozone itself. But we'll keep our fingers crossed...
How to find a dentist who offers HealOzone:
Check out the-o-zone for dentists who offer HealOzone!
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| � Mark Parisi - www.offthemark.com |
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Any takers for articles on WaterLase, "The Wand", or other new(ish) technologies? All dentists are invited to
contribute! Please e-mail connect@dentalfearcentral.com - Cheers!
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