Reddit reviews Peterson's Principles Of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Third Edition - 2 Vol. Set (Hb)

Teeth have needed to be extracted from mouths since the time that humans have existed. Whether they fall out on their own or they are pulled out, the human body has mechanisms in place to heal itself, and it has been successfully doing that for a very, very long time. In the past hundred years or so, some very smart people who have jobs to do not much else except to ask the question "and then what happens" have figured out how healing takes place. Imagine you have 400 laboratory rats sitting around in cages. You zonk them out, extract the same tooth from all of them, and then they wake up and go about their business. Then, you systematically take one rat every hour, kill it, dissect its extraction site and put very tiny slivers of the healing tissue on a microscope slide. You end up with 400 images of how healing happens. Like a flipboard cartoon you could make a choppy movie of how it happens. The point is, we know what happens in healing. We know down to the cell, and often down to the instruction the cell gets, on how healing happens.

Now enter someone new. Someone who spent a lot of years in school, knows a lot of science, but for one reason or another they want to make more money than they are currently making. A person like this can make up a story using lots of real science and some fake science to get a lot of people to want to listen to his story. The more people that are listening, the more people buy their book or line of products or maybe even advertising on their web site gets them money in their pocket.

That's what has happened here. Someone has come up with the story that remnants of periodontal ligament can create cavitations in your alveolar bone. It's a fake story.

But you, dear reader, believe it. It sounds plausible. You want to be healthy and do what's right for your body. But you've been snookered. Seriously, this principle of cavitation is fiction. Osteonecrosis is real, dry socket is real, but not cavitation.

Who am I to say? I'm just a regular guy, a general dentist, who has been pulling two to four teeth a week on average for the past ten years. I've been watching them heal, dealing with complications. I've followed some patients for years after the extractions, some people I never see again. I know it's not real. But you don't have to believe me, just go to Amazon and buy this: http://www.amazon.com/Petersons-Principles-Maxillofacial-Surgery-Edition/dp/1607951118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408619053&sr=8-1&keywords=principles+of+oral+surgery

Sure, it's $450, but it's a book written by people who do fill their entire lives with nothing much more than tooth extractions. The information is out there for anyone. You don't have to have a doctorate to buy it. Go ahead. I haven't read it, but I can assure you that there isn't a chapter about removing the periodontal ligament after an extraction.

Holistic and natural dentistry is fake. Please stop reading about it. Do it for the sake of the rats (and dogs and god knows what else) helped us understand what is real.