Section 5-2. “Hazo disease” is diagnosed by oral internal medicine tests

Now I wish to briefly explain actual procedures of treatment for “Hazo” therapy. First of all, the patient is asked to receive the oral internal medicine tests in parallel with conventional dental examinations, whereby we investigate whether there are any abnormal findings from the systemic points of view apart from local diseases such as dental caries or alveolar pyorrhea, and there are any latent problematic factors related to oral organic functions. As explained previously, the significance of these tests can be easily recognized if you think about an iceberg floating in the ocean. When we look at an iceberg, it consists of the visible part above the sea but actually, the real part is hidden below the sea level. The conventional dental examinations focus on the visible parts, namely oral lesions such as abnormality in chewing functions of teeth. Oral internal medicine tests examine systemic functional abnormalities of teeth from their organic features which cannot be determined by superficial examinations. For example, careful investigations shall be performed on postures and systemic functions. Through these examinations, not only superficial chewing function abnormalities but also real health conditions of teeth affecting the whole body can be clarified. Based on these findings, we make diagnosis whether there are “Hazo diseases” as dental organic diseases or not.

Section 5-1. “Hazo therapy” is an ideal causal therapy

In this chapter, shall we review several examples in which dental treatments programmed by a new paradigm “Teeth are organs” are actually applied in clinical fields? So as to discriminate the new systemic dental treatments based on organ concept of teeth from the conventional ones, we wish to call it as “Hazo treatments”. As the witnesses from patients, we have already referred to comments of them whose systemic symptoms were alleviated by “Hazo treatments”. In this chapter, we shall confirm concretely actual cures of systemic symptoms by treatment of teeth, whereby I wish to certify the fact that teeth are not the chewing organs but exert transmission of information to the whole body, indicating “Teeth are organs” and “Teeth are connected to our lives”.Ideal therapy or rational treatment is not a symptomatic therapy but a causal therapy. The latter therapy means finding out the causes of the disease, removal of them and curing the disease radically. “Hazo treatments” can be classified into the causal therapy. To begin with, for your better understanding of significance of the therapy, I wish to explain “Hazo diseases” systematically according to causes. They can be collated into three cause lines. One of them is abnormality in “Hazo”~cerebral line functions, and another is abnormality in “Hazo”~muscle function line. The third is an iatrogenic disease including abnormality caused by implanted artificial foreign substances such as organ incompatible metals. They are responsible for onset of systemic symptoms or dysfunction directly or indirectly via stress reactions.On the other hand, in order to minimize the abnormality in such a “Hazo”~cerebral line and to maintain homeostasis in physical functions, “Hazo”~muscle line functions try to keep the balance by controlling the physical posture and correcting bias of information transmission from “Hazo” to brain. Sometimes, distorted teeth alignment is associated with shifting mandibular position, thereby loading forced tension on chewing muscles. As the natural consequence, the spine and the posture are distorted, with shifted centroidal line, difference in the height of bilateral shoulders, onset of lateral curvature and sometimes difference in lengths in bilateral legs. Although it cannot be superficially recognized, visceral smooth muscles are usually exposed to abnormal tension. If we stand up, sitting or walking, indicating postures against gravity under these situations, stiff shoulder, headache, low back pain, back pain and numbness occur as a warning from our bodies. In severe cases, pains persist under a supine position on bed. In some cases, abnormality occurs in visceral organs directly or indirectly. According to abnormality in occlusion, various symptoms manifest in mandibular joint such as inability to open mouth, difficulty to open mouth, making noise around jaw upon chewing and tiredness in mandibular joint. In addition to these two abnormality, artificial materials such as incompatible metals to organs cause biological abnormality (iatrogenic diseases) including the afore-mentioned Macro-Galvanic electric erosion effects, electromagnetic disorders, changes in “Hado” of water in our bodies due to alteration of biological electric bio-fields and resonance.Furthermore, since abnormality attributed to teeth is not a temporary one but continuous and accumulating effects, they contribute to sleep disturbance and onset of systemic stress reactions as the most significant stressor to induce physico-psychological distortion.If we compare “Hazo diseases” to bowing of twigs, they can be reverted to the original shapes of twigs provided that the twigs are blown by tolerable strength of wind. The same is true with “Hazo diseases”. Once “Hazo diseases” are treated with “Hazo” treatment to remove unreasonable power which is loaded on patients’ bodies, they can be reverted to healthy bodies. However, if “Hazo diseases” are aggravated due to delayed treatment and unreasonable force is continuously given beyond the bowing limit, the twigs are broken, whereby elimination of the causes by “Hazo” treatments would not regain the original forms of the broken twigs. The broken lesions of the twigs should be locally reverted to the original shapes by a kind of surgeries. Take diabetes mellitus for example, it is difficult to cure it completely. Herniation of intervertebral disc and ureteral calculi might be good examples in which despite surgeries, local diseases would be easily relapsed because local surgeries would not be sufficient for complete cure. What is required is to completely cure “Hazo diseases” which play an important role as the causes of such abnormality. It is well known that both herniation of intervertebral disc and ureteral calculi easily relapse. This is because the causal mechanism for “Hazo diseases” is involved in these diseases.

Section 4-4. Alveolar pyorrhea is a signal symptom of “Hazo disease”

Alveolar pyorrhea is one of the major causes resulting in losing our teeth. Among the readers of this book, some one perceives loose teeth, bleeding from gum-ridge and a twinge in teeth. In fact, “Hazo diseases” are significantly involved in aggravation of alveolar pyorrhea. If there is any distortion in our occlusion, colossal force is centered on a specific tooth upon biting or unexpected force is loaded on teeth continuously, evolving into providing damages to teeth. These conditions are technically called as “Early contact” and “Colossal trauma” which have been known as aggravating factors for alveolar pyorrhea. Incidentally, if “Hazo diseases” occur, the patients cannot bite foods firmly leading to preference of soft foods; as the results, defense functions and self-cleaning functions surrounding teeth are reduced and preventive effects against bacterial infection are weakened, thereby stimulating aggravation. Furthermore, “Hazo diseases” decrease systemic functions, together with reduction of both natural healing ability and immunological functions in local areas in oral cavity. In addition, curing ability of diseases and prevention against advance of diseases are also decreased. Particularly, since mouth is an inlet to incorporate foods as foreign substances from outside, mouth is the most important part indispensable for maintaining our lives. Accordingly, within mouth there are various antibacterial and anti-viral substances including lysozyme, lactopherin, peroxidase, mucin and immunoglobulin A to protect the surface of mucous membrane and teeth. It is reported that peroxidase enzyme also exerts intoxication effects of carcinogenic agents such as aflatoxin. On the edge between teeth and gums, there is a special defense apparatus. The boundary area between teeth and gums is susceptible to diseases. When physical resistance is weakened or local problems occur, alveolar pyorrhea manifests therein. The boundary area is composed of halfdesmosome, a kind of hard adhesive material; furthermore, the production speed of the surrounding cells is faster than those in other areas. In addition, leukocytes known as policemen in our bodies are excreted from surface of mucous membrane to oral cavity (Degranulation of leukocytes) and disintegrate themselves to release their own antibacterial agents which play a role in prevention of bacterial infections. There are many complicated defense apparatuses but in any events, mouth is the front line to perform defense against infection of our bodies; therefore, weakening of these functions is associated with onset of abnormalities in our mouth like stomatitis accompanied by dysfunction of stomach. Subsequently, susceptibility to catching a common cold is also such an indicative phenomenon. Under such consideration, it is more appropriate for us to consider that alveolar pyorrhea is one of manifestations of “Hazo diseases” and a warning sign representing an important harbinger. According to the previous dental medicine, alveolar pyorrhea would not be recognized in such a way but this disease is considered to be an unfavorable disease, followed by local treatment, surgical operations or emphasizing importance of plaque control by means of tooth brushing. However, onset of alveolar pyorrhea can be designated as a useful message conducive to prophylaxis of cancer and infections, as well as prevention of them. Among elderly patients, some of them have healthy teeth despite of being affected by alveolar pyorrhea although they do not perform thorough tooth brushing. In these cases, presence of systemic “Hazo” functions is involved though it cannot be detected by oral cavity inspection. Salivary secretion and inherent prophylactic functions against infections are adequate in the following elderly persons who have enough teeth including back teeth, satisfactory and well-balanced occlusion, and can enjoy tastes of various solid foods by thorough chewing. As the natural consequence, these persons have stout bodies to reject infection with causative bacteria of alveolar pyorrhea. It is anticipated that they are resistant to morbidity of cancer. The patients with loose teeth or with concern about alveolar pyorrhea are recommended to receive radical treatment in parallel with systemic promotion of health based on suspect of “Hazo diseases” rather than complaining of unsatisfactory tooth brushing.