The fundamentals of this classification are that tooth arches can be:

• Normal - Class I;
• The upper arch can be too far forward - Class II;
• The lower arch can be too far forward - Class III

Superimposed on these principals is, the thought process that there is a "dento-alveolar disproportion" in our mouths. This means that there are too many teeth and not enough bone to accommodate the teeth justifying the extractions.

Jaws are often crowded and extractions are carried out rampantly to reduce the upper jaw size to meet a retrognathic lower jaw OR extractions are carried out in the "overdeveloped" lower jaw for the teeth to meet an underdeveloped upper jaw. The whole world has followed this classification of occlusion and continues to follow it to this day with thousands of patients undergoing extractions and constrictive orthodontics.

Angles classification and treatment based on trying to bring everyone into a class I relationship is deeply flawed, as it does not take account of the environmental and developmental damage, which brings about these malocclusions. It does not look into the potential for developing or advancing the retrognathic jaw or both jaws. It does not look into the anteroposterior and lateral planes of the occlusion. It does not look into where in space the dental complex is placed relative to the skull. It does not look into the pharyngeal space, which may be compromised by retrognathic jaws. It does not look at the swallowing patterns of patients which often result in the upper jaw being too narrow causing permanent sinus problems.

The diagnosis and treatment are based mainly on intraoral features. It excludes an examination of the muscles around the head, which may be very tender and stiff because of the asymmetry of the jaws. It does not look at the impact on the neck, which may be mal-rotated. It does not look at the lower back or the hips of the patient which, are always out of level in the presence of even the slightest malocclusion!

Over the years I have figured out that this classification and any treatment based on it is also, one of the most dreadful concepts which underpin orthodontics and has lead to a great deal of chronic sickness in society with hundreds of thousands suffering the ill effects in every country where such treatment is practiced.

The reality is very different when one tries to correlate health with the craniodental form. It appears that complete spatial symmetry of the dental complex, relative to the skull, is of the utmost importance. Symmetry implies left-right mirror image equality, correct proportions anteroposteriorly, and vertically. Correct inter arch occlusion of both arches. It is actually a 3-dimensional craniomandibular harmony and balance, versus just the one-dimensional implication of the word symmetry.

The expression "hanging by the skin of the teeth" is the most potent expression ever invented. Minute departures can lead to illness. An analogy I often use is that our bodies are as finely tuned as a finely made Swiss clock. If anything goes even slightly wrong with the mechanism, it will not give the correct time. Our body is exactly the same. Minute departures lead to illness.

In the picture above, I have shown the basic disturbance in our cranium in terms of rotating cogs. When the lower jaw is pushed back, it causes the temporal bone to rotate forwards while the occipital bone lifts upwards causing all kinds of head and neck problems e.g. migraines, neck pain, sub occipital muscle pain, and shoulder pain. These are dental problems and can only be corrected through dental interventions, not medical pills. Your governing body might not like it, but you are responsible for the welfare of your patient. If you or a colleagues' treatment of the dental complex has brought about the illness like neck pain you can neither pass it to the medics, who do not have a chance in hell of fixing it, nor pass it to a chiropractor, to fix the problem. Repeated high-velocity adjustments are extremely detrimental to the neck. Only palliative massage on the neck muscles is acceptable, symptomatic alternative treatment.

The primary cause is in the mouth and the secondary lesion is in the neck. The primary needs treatment. The secondary takes care of itself.


A slight deviation from perfect symmetry affects our bodies like a badly balanced car tire which eventually shows wear on one edge needing replacement - synonymous to one needing a hip replacement at age 70! This concept of absolute symmetry is hard to fathom when one sees so many variations between individuals.

It is however very easy to demonstrate within a few seconds of a consultation. Patients present with very many symptoms and most can be easily explained in terms of craniodental and skeletal asymmetries both, anatomically and neurologically. Correction of the asymmetries also brings about a very rapid resolution of most symptoms experienced by patients commonly branded into ME, CFS, FM, and MS.




The graph above is a true record of a patient who was previously described as possibly suffering from ME or CFS or FM or MS by various medical consultants! The body starts recovering very rapidly with symmetry based interventions. Tens of thousands had previously been spent on medical care with absolutely no resolution and the patient had gotten rapidly bed bound.

She was an Angles' Class II and two of her upper premolar teeth had previously been extracted to drag her upper teeth and jaw back to meet a smaller lower jaw! This created a serious imbalance of the head on the neck, which started reacting causing pain and numerous spiralling symptoms throughout the body. The patient recovered completely and went on to get a first class maths degree at University. She was bedridden for almost a year before coming for treatment. Again, I must emphasise that these patients can only be cured through dentistry.

Some patients present with some 60 symptoms. Conglomerations of such symptoms eventually are classed as different illnesses e.g. Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Multiple Sclerosis by practitioners who have absolutely no way to cure these patients but instead specialise in classifying patients into the correct pigeonhole after conducting endless investigations repeated every few months. All these illnesses have at their core bodily asymmetries. When corrected the patients show remarkable and often rapid recoveries.

You may be surprised to learn that these illness names have no bearing on reality. Many patients suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are classified as such until they start getting some head symptoms like Optic Neuritis. This is when the patient is referred for an MRI scan and if some plaques are found in the brain the doctor exclaims that he has at last discovered what is wrong with the patient - It is not CFS it is MS! However, medicine has neither an answer for CFS nor for MS. The patients also very often take a sigh of relief that at last their illness has been recognized not realising that they are in as much of a limbo as they were before and perhaps considerably worse because now they are going to be subjected to some useless killer drugs.

What has really gone on is that no effective treatment was provided for the earlier symptoms and matters have gotten worse akin to the tire of a car, eventually wearing out.

In terms of examining such patients a visit to the Chiropractor or an osteopath will nearly always show that one leg is clinically shorter than the other. The patients also have numerous pains around their head and neck muscles especially when the sub occipital muscles and the mastoid insertion of the Sterno-mastoid muscles are palpated.


Each year, the neck will continue to deteriorate and your taxes can keep filling the bottomless NHS pit and gluttonous specialists. The patients often have difficulty turning the neck and the breathing is almost always suboptimal giving rise to fatigue and numerous organic problems throughout the body.

Bringing about symmetry in the front of the mouth aligns the Atlas vertebra. The Atlas vertebra occupies a unique place in the recent history of treatments of skeletal asymmetries. AtlasPROfilax is a Swiss technique developed by Monsignor Rene Schumperlii that uses strategic and precisely targeted mechanical vibration and pressure to the short muscles – sub occipital muscles – of the neck. In this way, the atlas is allowed to embed correctly in the condylar facets of the occiput.

A German MRI and 3D CAT scan investigations have shown that 98 percent of a healthy, modern population sample had atlas malrotation and that the AtlasPROfilax procedure was corrective for this condition.

In another study of 350 patients using an iliac crest, inclinometer indicated that the AtlasPROfilax procedure corrects pelvic misalignment and functional leg length discrepancy. It immediately corrects the short leg phenomenon. This would abate back pain, hip pains, sciatic nerve pains, numbness etc for a majority of the patients.

If we are talking about MS patients, you can just imagine the benefit many would experience from this one PHYSICAL correction. Claiming that the previous hip pains were the consequence of demyelination and "descending pathways damage from brain lesions" becomes very questionable. If such were the case, the patients would never experience immediate and dramatic relief.

However, correcting the Atlas does not correct the discrepancy in the mouth, which is a counterbalance for the Atlas rotation and vice versa. The Atlas soon goes out of synch again in most cases. Correcting the teeth helps correct the Atlas and correcting the Atlas improves the jaw. The required change in the jaw is often much greater and needs long-term treatment while attempts to correct the atlas alone does not hold in the presence of most dental asymmetries.


Moving on from the hips to the head and neck and trying to answer many questions I receive, please visualise the following:
I want you to imagine a perfectly shaped head for example that belonging to one of the great athletes like Usain Bolt or Mark Spitzer (a swimming legend). If such a head was balanced on a spike it would have to sit on a certain place on the spike to balance. If we now go and extract just one small tooth out of the patient's mouth that head is not going to balance anymore and will need to be repositioned on the spike.

In life, it is not a spike but our neck vertebrae which support the head. These vertebrae will have to compensate to balance the head. They compensate by realigning as best as they can. In other words, they rotate and distort. Since the damage to the mouth is permanent they have to remain distorted permanently often affecting the nerves that emanate from the spine. The damage to our jaws is forever present in modern societies. Dr. Weston Price did a great deal of research some 70 years ago and attributed the poor facial developments to our modern processed foods.

The body is built to gain symmetry all the time. The brain and other reflex mechanisms built into our neurology do not like the vertebral misalignment in the neck and contract various muscles to straighten the vertebrae and the head. Since the damage is permanent the messages to the muscles to contract are endless. Fatigue and pain set in. Over a long period the discs bulge, spurs grow and a whole host of problems like chronic neck pain and a frozen shoulder etc. develop.

Damage to the jaws is not from a single tooth extraction. It can be from a number of teeth extracted for various reasons which cause far bigger distortions of the neck. Extracting premolar teeth, conducting constrictive orthodontics, wearing retainers preventing jaw growth, extracting wisdom teeth all contribute to the creation of serious damage to the cranial balance on the neck vertebrae. Poor development of the jaws due to dietary effects and genetically missing teeth also eventually cause serious health issues.

The neck is part of the rest of the spine. The rest of the spine cannot let its top end to rotate in one direction. The lower end distorts in the opposite direction to balance the spine. Its lower end is connected to the hips. The distortion of the lower spine causes the hips to rotate and give rise to what is called a clinical short leg. The consequence is lower back pain, hip pain, and sciatic nerve pain.

The effect of occlusal irregularities on hip inclination is present 100% of the time and thus cannot be ignored.


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