My husband's teeth are falling apart. It seems they are crumbling from inside. Pieces will fall off the side.
He says he never had trouble with his teeth until he was put on all those meds. (before the doctors knew what was wrong they put him on antidepressants & anti anxiety meds)
He was NOT depressed but did have anxiety.
He only ever had two teeth filled in the years before this started. 7 or 8 years ago he had a front tooth snap off and got a bridge put in. Later he had a root canal done.
Posted by dmc (Member # 5102) on :
do a search here...there are threads discussing this. "search" is above under the "post a poll"
also the public health alert newspaper has an article in the archives
has he had his vitamin d level checked? lyme caused my vitamin d level to decrease dramatically. this did serious damage to my teeth. the other symptoms of low vitamin d are similar to lyme so be sure to have his blood tested. if it is in fact low, mega doses work very rapidly to increase the d levels and prevent future damage.
Posted by glm1111 (Member # 16556) on :
It happened to me also. My teeth started to crumble and break after my head went numb from neuro borrelia.
These infections can definitely invade the gums and cause dammage to the roots. Check into treating for parasites which can be a co-infection of Lyme
Google parasite symptoms and do a search on here for parasites.
Gael
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
After Bell's Palsy, my teeth were the first to fall apart. The bugs move into the jaw area because it is an area of low perfusion and the different infections survive there quite well until disturbed. Avoid root canals. That effort, before I new any better, caused the loss of all my teeth. Don't do root canals.
Cleaning out the area helped me to survive.
Take care.
Posted by Mountaineer (Member # 14085) on :
I've had many teeth break apart myself. Many root canals.
Weird part is I'm telling the dentist I still feel sensation under the cap. He said that impossible, the nerve is dead. Another symptom possible to keep and i on.
Posted by MannaMe (Member # 33330) on :
I'll try to answer all your questions........
I don't recall that he had vitamin d testing done. He was supplementing vitamin D for quite awhile. He ran out of it recently.
We are trying to decide which supplements he needs and if there are some he can drop - our funds are rather tight - he's not been at work since late spring.
He started rifing for Lyme and held the ... tubes... (is that what they are called?) on either side of his jaw at the teeth. That night he woke up feeling like he'd overheated, but wasn't. Was that a herx from Lyme die-off in the head? (he only does short rife sessions for lyme)
I did read up on that link about lyme in teeth - made sense to me! How many of our seemingly "other" issues are really all because of lyme?
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
Rife mobilizes metals and dental toxins big time. As well as microorganisms of all sorts including Lyme. So one needs to take the anti-metal, anti-microbial, anti-viral, anti-bacterial meds, and in this case freeze dried organic garlic works across the board. You also need to take binders, such as chlorella (or at a minimum charcoal short-term) to bind the toxins. If you do not take these, they will recirculate in the body and be reabsorbed in other areas. That's not good.
It would be best to find a LL naturopath who can help you with testing. You are wasting money if you take things that will not work.
Lyme settles where it does not get easily disturbed, such as the jaw, because that is the area where the metals also are. I did the garlic for several years and it worked very nicely.
Take care.
Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :
It is more common for lyme sufferers to have dental problems than not. Just read here in the past years.
It is like candida / fungi: eventually everyone will end up suffering from candida and teeth /jaw with chronic lyme.
Infections love the teeth / root as said above.
I lost two teeth to lyme, the dentist didn't understand, it just died from inside, the root got dead, no cavity outside. Infection from under.