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the speakers: RELIEVING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS THROUGH DENTISTRY AND
APPLIED KINESIOLOGY
Authors:
John Diamond, M.D., DIBAK (USA)
[email protected]
Dr. John Diamond, M.D., DPM, FRANZCP, MRCPsych., FIAPM, DIBAK, is a
pioneering figure in alternative and holistic medicine. He began his career in
psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, a Foundation Member of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), a Member of the American Holistic Medical
Association, a Diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology and a
Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. Dr.
Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in
clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized
best-selling author of over twenty books.
Joseph Da Cruz, DDS (AUSTRALIA)
Dr. Joseph Da Cruz is a holistic dentist from Australia who has been interested in
the areas of health, nutrition, functional medicine, psychology, Chinese and Indian
medicine, biochemistry and blood chemistries for many years. He was born in India
and received his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 1976 and his Masters in
Operative Dentistry in 1979 both from the University of Mumbai (Bombay) India.
He migrated to Australia and has worked in his own private practice in Canberra for
the last 25 years and attracts a wide patient base that includes patients traveling from
the USA, England and Germany, as well as from all over Australia. He is a member
of the ADA (Australian Dental Association) and a founding member of ASOMAT
(Australian Society of Oral Medicine and Toxicology). He is a Fellow of ACNEM
(Australian College of Nutrition and Environmental Medicine).
Institution: Life Energy Foundation, New York, USA
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, USA
Structure Contents:
Problem definition:
How to relieve TMJ, migraine, neck and back pain, crooked teeth, sleep apnea,
mouth breathing, reduction of sympathetic nervous system overactivity, startle
reflexes, and some psychiatric problems through dentistry.
Drs. Diamond and Da Cruz have worked together for many years to find a solution
to these problems. Dr. Diamond’s showed his work with Dr. Willie May back in the
1970’s to Dr. Goodheart, and this was the start of the ongoing AK work with the
TMJ, and later the hyoid bone, and the beginning of the continuing and everexpanding relationship between AK and dentistry. Recognizing the supreme
importance of dentistry, Dr. Diamond has carefully examined the mouth and facial
structure of nearly everyone who consults him. He came to realize that a holistic
approach must not only include the dental area but perhaps should even start there.
One problem in finding a solution to these problems through a dental appliance is
that standard appliances lock the maxilla along with the teeth. If the cranial sutures
are jammed they inhibit the Cranial Respiratory Impulse (CRI), the continuous
pulsation in the cranium whose strength is essential for optimum health. Another
problem is that many standard appliances use metal across the midline, which can be
a source of stress. In designing an appliance that would work for the mental and
physical problems outlined, these two problems were also considered.
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Patients and methods: Psychiatric and dental patients (adults and children)
Drs. Diamond and Da Cruz have developed the Splint Orthodontic Myofunctional
Appliance (SOMA) which overcomes the physical and mental problems listed
above. The SOMA has been specially designed to counteract both of the problems
usually found with appliances which have been mentioned. It fits onto the upper
teeth in a particular way so as not to inhibit CRI. And its metal forms a circle, a
design which does not stress the wearer. It gently expands the bony structure of the
upper palate without pain, aids orthodontic correction with great efficiency, as its
design avoids the fight-back of facial muscles produced by regular appliances; and it
helps lessen temporomandibular dysfunction by decompressing the TM joints and
encouraging muscle relaxation.
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine was so impressed with the design and
results of the SOMA that they have expressed an interest in a joint research study.
The role of AK in this appliance is that it works optimally when it is tested for the
exact amount of opening required. All AK doctors should be able to obtain this
appliance for their patients and then be actively involved in the monitoring of when
an adjustment is needed. Doctors will find that some of their patients who have not
shown improvement will now respond better to treatment and improve at a faster
rate.
Results:
The benefits produced by the SOMA appliance are far more than just orthodontic
and facial. It has helped relieve different types of chronic pain including neck and
back, respiratory problems, and immune system conditions, TMJ, migraine, crooked
teeth, sleep apnea, mouth breathing, greatly reduces the startle reflexes of infancy
whose continuation into adult life is one of the chief underlying causes of all stress
reactions, reduction of sympathetic nervous system overactivity, and some
psychiatric problems with a reduction or complete stoppage of medications for the
above conditions. In addition there is improvement in swallowing, speech, eating,
breathing, and sleeping.
A powerpoint presentation has been prepared which will include many case histories
of children and adults (see last page of this abstract for one case history example
with photographs.) All patients will have agreed to have their name and/or their
photographs exhibited as well as any personal details about their condition.
Conclusion: The SOMA dental appliance has had great success in helping both physical and
mental problems. The fact that it has been so successful in helping mental problems
has been a very exciting discovery.
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Case History: Mrs. S is a patient who wore braces as a teenager to improve her smile. Because her
appliance did not address the underlying causes of her dental problems, malocclusion (crooked
teeth) reestablished itself, along with mouth-breathing, narrowing of the palatal arches and
distalizing of the jaws due to tightness in the throat. This was accompanied by a pattern of stressrelated clenching and squeezing of facial muscles along with this severe migraines, and neck and
back pain. Within three months of wearing the SOMA, her lower jaw had moved forward and she
was properly able to close her mouth and to breathe through the nose As a result her palate
widened, her teeth straightened and her migraines and neck and back pain have totally
disappeared.
Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, are before:
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6 and 7 are plaster models of the jaws before
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8,9,10,11,12,13 are after a year and half and stable.
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