Question:
Can anyone recommend a dentist in Los Angeles who is familiar with
Crohn's patients and is conservative as to what he recommends doing?
Answer:
Try to get a prescription of Valium or Ativan to reduce the stress of
crohns. It might ease your dental symptoms. Take some vitamins,
especially B comples vitamins. Difficult situation.
I doubt dentists know much about crohns.
Usually they only know what they see, they do not seem to attribute it to
crohns. It is a manmade illness and a puzzling one, and you can try
the alt.support.crohns-colitis newsgroup. Maybe some one
there lives in Los Angeles. Perhaps knowing the cause of crohns will
help.
Also, you might try another dental group with very knowledgeable dentists
and get their opinion about any questions you may have. The forum is
www.scimeddentistry.com/smd and register. to enter. They will be glad
to help also.
Since you do not seem to be getting an answer, We can assume crohns and its
effect on teeth is a completely unknown factor to most dentists. Not
surprising. Most physicians are also grasping around for answers to the
problem. Because the illness is not of medical origin. but treatment
requires the treatment of physicians, dentists, opthamalogists, surgeons, we
have to hope they know SOMETHING, while the Crohns and Colitis Foundation
of America (CCFA) insists they are extremely diligent in pursuing research
on the cause.of Crohns.
They will still be insisting the cause has to be scientific 500 years from
now, and we will be lucky if they know something by then. The cause
is manmade. Send an email to me (Advocate...@aol.com) and I will
write what the cause is and maybe you can help yourself a bit. Actually,
the dentists have no way of knowing dental problems can be caused by crohns.
It is not a familiar, mainstream malady.
