Zeines Victor - Holistic dental care: the complete guide to healthy teeth and gums

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Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and cross-cultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature.

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: The following information is intended for general information purposes only. Individuals should always see their health care provider before administering any suggestions made in this book. Any application of the material set forth in the following pages is at the readers discretion and is his or her sole responsibility.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Artemis, Nadine, 1971
Holistic dental care : the complete guide to healthy teeth and gums / Nadine Artemis; foreword by Victor Zeines.
p.; cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-1-58394-721-0
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[DNLM: 1. Oral HygienePopular Works. 2. Dental CarePopular Works. 3. Holistic HealthPopular Works. WU 80]
RK60.7
617.601dc23

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Dedicated to
my mother, Deirdre,
and to everyone who has teeth.

Moisten your tongue with praise, and be the spring ground waking. Let your mouth be given its gold-yellow stamen like the wild roses.

Sanai, eleventh-century Persian poet

So, self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, and without that self-knowledge you cannot go far therefore, you must begin near and search every word that you speak, search every gesture, the way you talk, the way you act, the way you eatbe aware of everything without condemnation; then in that awareness you will know what actually is and the transformation of what iswhich is the beginning of liberation. Liberation is not an end. Liberation is from moment to moment in the understanding of what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Self-Knowledge, Third Talk in Rajahmundry, 1949

Do not leave your health in your dentists hands and assume all will be fine.

Hal A. Huggins, DDS, Uninformed Consent