Dr. Ben Javid

Most people don't.

It's pretty rare if I meet someone and they know what that means.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's, you know, if you think of functional medicine, you know, like you go to the doctors, you know, there's naturopaths and functional medicine, you know, it's like an alternative route.

It's very much like that on the dental side.

So that's the first way I would describe it.

There's some some pillars of, you know, that as far as how we think as biological dentists, and how what lens we look at when we actually see a patient that's different.

For one, we look at the body as a whole.

Like in other words, you know, current medicine is diagnosing patients in silos.

Like you have a heart specialist and they just look at the heart, you know, and the skin specialist just look at the skin.

You know, so for us as biologists, we look at the whole body.

So, and we look at the connection between the mouth and the teeth and how they affect each other.

For example, you can't have a healthy mouth with a toxic body.

And if you have a health, if you're trying to have a healthy body and you have a toxic mouth,

there's a problem there too because then it doesn't work that way.

So we're very focused on that and also materials that we use and restorations and all the treatments that we do, like you talked about root canals or metals or any source of infection that's coming in the body.

So there's a constant source of toxicity that comes in the body from every angle that we look at.

You know, like Dr. Papa's,

posts, you know, so many toxicities coming from every angle.

So it's, so for us, our role as biological dentists is reducing that toxic load.