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4302 SW ALASKA ST. SEA, WA 98116, ABOVE EASY STREET RECORDS
Personalized Systemic Periodontal Program (PSPP)
Integrative Medicine Services for Optimal Oral Health: Addressing Root Causes
This special clinical focus at Junction Naturopathic Medicine is on filling a gap in usual oral health care. Our program focuses on the systemic factors that in dentistry’s scientific language are called “host immuno-inflammatory factors”. Based on Dr. Kimball’s unique life path and passions, we provide integrative medicine for optimal oral health. Explore the outcomes-focused approach here.
The PSPP:
- Addresses the oral-systemic link
- Works collaboratively with your dentist, hygienist and periodontist
- Addresses typically multi-factorial root causes around nutritional & mineral deficiencies, digestion issues, blood sugar imbalances, stress and altered cortisol, chemical & heavy metal toxicity
- Promotes a healthy oral biofilm/microbiome and gut microbiome
- Treats patients as individuals, not just a diagnosis, that is, creates a treatment plan based on individualized factors
- Identifies modifiable risk factors that are driving imbalance and chronic inflammation
- Evaluates adrenal stress index, intestinal permeability defect, chemical & heavy metal status
- Uses natural medicines to treat, rare to have negative side effects, typically usually positive side effects
These modifiable risk factors include:
Food: Many risk factors relate to food and nutrition. Food is medicine and food is information. The highly processed food of the standard American diet (SAD) has low nutrient density and is high in trans fats promoting, among other issues:
- vitamin/mineral defic- iencies and imbalances, overfed & undernourished
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low omega 3 to omega 6 ratio of fatty acids
- low antioxidant levels
- intestinal permeability dysfunction
Rest: sleep quantity & quality, energy, fatigue
Exercise: achieving exercise appropriate for the patient’s situation
Stress: adrenal/cortisol dysfunction, emotional issues & trauma history with inadequate coping skills, overwork,
depression, anxiety, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction
Hormone balance: Adrenal fatigue, estrogen/progesterone/ testosterone, insulin resistance, thyroid imbalance, Vitamin D status
- sugar & refined carbo-hydrate excess, insulin resistance, excess calorie intake
- poor digestion (gut modulates immunity)
- dysbiosis - imbalance of gut biome
Detoxification: toxin overload – chemical/biologic/heavy metals
Immune imbalance: food allergy/hypersensitivity/reactivity
Relationships/community: counseling, promoting optimal communication
Treat chronic/occult infections: sinus, GI, bacterial/viral/parasite infections
Here at JNM we speak of the modifiable risk factors for periodontal disease and all chronic disease as “Fresh-Dirt”. Click here, www.juctionnaturopathicmedicine.com/fresh-dirt for more information.
Junction Naturopathic Medicine’s Approach to Personalized and Integrative Care: Helping You Get Healthier!
“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
Thomas Edison, January 2, 1903
Dr. Kimball’s
Personalized Systemic
Periodontal Program
(PSPP):
Integrative Medicine
Services for Optimal Oral
Health –addressing root
causes
