A Cavitation was a new word even for me as a dentist. I retired three years ago, but I was only cognizant of this word for my last ten years in dentistry. The actual problem was clearly known by a few dentists, who helped treat the strange pain patterns that arose from cavitations, for many years before we discovered what they had known all along. A Cavitation, therefore, by my definition is an energy block to the jaw system that causes pain, toxins, infectious agents, or other negative byproducts to accumulate and spread very easily to other parts of the body. The energy block is usually first; the lack of blood flow and lymph drainage allows the accumulated secondary effects.  

Because of pioneering research completed early in the twentieth century by a physician named Rosenow, we have been able to appreciate the extreme spread of oral problems to the rest of the body. Rosenow was able to clearly prove that oral infections, or foci as they have been called, are many times more likely to travel to other parts of the body than the reverse (ie. than would a gall bladder infection travel to the mouth). A result of this study was tremendous pressure put on dentistry to save teeth, which ultimately led to the process of root canalling teeth. The result of this root canal boon is a worsening of our general health.

I exemplify this increase in root canals as a major cause of an increase in cavitations. I have previously explained my prejudice against the root canal process, because there is no longer any housekeeping within the tooth. The immediate movement toward infections and toxins in a root canal thereby leads to eventual need for removal of the tooth. The presence of infection and toxins will greatly effect the body's ability to heal the area. The lack of healing is the due to the energy blockage that leads to the Cavitation. I had the unfortunate experience to remove Cavitation areas for many patients. I was appalled at how difficult it became to obtain healing when the energy blockage had been present for such a long period of time.

We were forced to resort to extreme healing techniques to enable the body to actually heal these areas. The use of laser energy to bring the blood flow and lymph drainage closer to normal is probably the greatest aid to healing. We still use it numerous times to aid the healing and bone reformation that is necessary. I am also convinced that utilizing Pro-biotics (from Germany) to help fight some of these long-standing infections is also almost always necessary. The antibiotic approach to fighting infection has been greatly surpassed by the research of Gunter Enderlein, a German researcher. He formulated an approach to combating infection that does not require stronger and stronger antibiotics. The formulations are specific for individual infections and when carefully matched to the patients germs and weaknesses, they work wonders on even the most chronic infections. 

Therefore, Cavitations are made to happen by having a root canal first, then by energy blockage, and, I believe, by the ways in which we extract wisdom teeth. The original wisdom tooth extraction  process was with local anesthetics, one tooth per visit, with weeks of healing in between. The patient had little-to-no chance for a Cavitation because the immune system was stronger in those days. Currently, nearly all wisdom teeth are removed by Oral Surgeons (specialists who are very skilled at quick and cheap removals). The downside of this practice is most lose every one of their wisdom teeth. The teeth are nearly all removed with the aid of drugs that help us not remember the experience and minimize our pain.

The drugs used, unfortunately, place us very close to death and they suppress our immune function, which makes it extremely hard to begin the healing process, and to have decent blood flow to and lymph drainage from the area. We also are usually given four of these accentuated insults all at once.  We also may have Cavitations for other reasons not well understood which have to do with local anesthetics and poor blood and lymph drainage in the cramped wisdom tooth areas. These, therefore, serve as toxic dump sights, like a river with horseshoe bends, where eddies dump junk floating down stream (or mankind's predisposition with dumping garbage where people seldom travel).  Perhaps it is due to the liver's inability to process toxins in a timely manner when we consume these quantities of the drugs. We are still trying to understand all the reasons why more than one-half of all extractions end in energy blocks and Cavitations.