I have been researching the subject of Cranio Dental and Skeletal Symmetry (CDSS)ever since I first managed to help a patient suffering from severe migraines, which had hospitalized her for the previous 6 months, some 35 years ago.

To understand the concept of symmetry one has to understand the intricacy of our bodily structure which performs best when it is absolutely symmetrical to the last millimetre. 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.

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.

A slight deviation from perfect symmetry affects our bodies like a badly balanced car tyre which eventually shows wear on one edge needing replacement. 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 skeletal asymmetries anatomically and neurologically. Correction of the asymmetries also brings about very rapid resolution of most symptoms experienced by patients commonly branded into CFS, FM and MS.

Our bodies are highly tuned to perfection. A slight asymmetry and eventually the damage starts showing effects in terms of pain, numbness and organic disturbances. Some patients present with some 60 symptoms.

Conglomerations of symptoms eventually are classed as different illnesses e.g. Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Multiple Sclerosis. All these illnesses have at their core bodily asymmetries. When corrected the patients show remarkable 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 (Except perhaps CCSVI which has given some patients short-term to very long-term relief in some cases).

The patients also very often take a sigh of relief that at last their illness has been recognized not realizing that they are in as much of a limbo as they were before and perhaps considerably worse.

What has really gone on is that no effective treatment was provided for the earlier symptoms and matters have gotten worse akin to the tyre 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 suboccipital muscles and the mastoid insertion of the Sterno-mastoid muscles are palpated.

The patients often have difficulty turning the neck and the breathing is almost always suboptimal giving rise to fatigue and numerous gastric and gynaecological symptoms.

Correcting the Atlas vertebrae 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 was the case the patients would never experience immediate and dramatic relief.

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 distortion also seriously affects the patients breathing capacity. 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 and contract various muscles to straighten the vertebrae and the head. Since the damage is permanent the messages to the muscles to contract are permanent. 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.

The Atlas vertebrae appear to be misaligned in a majority of patients and its asymmetry appears to also depend/cause the asymmetry of the teeth and jaws. In other words, they are interdependent. 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 a dental asymmetry.

Damage to the jaws are 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.

Poor development of the jaws due to dietary effects and genetically missing teeth also eventually cause serious health issues. Please read the article on the previous page.

The treatment required is not to the neck which is showing secondary changes but to the mouth to improve matters.
I have tried to keep it simple.
To be continued............

Testimonial from a patient:
I first visited Dr Amir in November 2013. I had been suffering from headaches, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and jaw pain including speech problems,
I had seen many dentists prior to seeing Dr Amir and my complaints had seemingly fell upon deaf ears. To put it bluntly they were telling me either that the problem didn’t exist or that there was nothing that could be done about it.
I heard everything from excuses about how expanding an arch could lead to erupting teeth through the gums to being told my chronic fatigue and cluster headaches were due to pollution.
After an initial consultation I felt a weight lift off my shoulders as Dr Amir having examined me and gone through my extensive records, quickly explained to me very confidently what my problems were, how best to correct the problem and what else the treatment involved.

As soon as my treatment started I immediately felt the benefits. My energy returned and I felt a clarity in my head that I had forgotten existed. Now seven months on and through the use of specially constructed appliances my bite has gradually improved and my entire skeletal structure feels much stronger.
Dr Amir’s work is pioneering and his way of practicing dentistry should be used worldwide. I am deeply concerned about the overall state of orthodontics and the medical profession as a whole and cannot recommend Dr Amir highly enough. He has a wealth of knowledge on orthodontics and general health and his approach and care for his patients and work is refreshing and genuine.

I was unfortunate to meet so many so called doctors who didn’t understand my problems but very fortunate to find one that did. It was like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. The care and support I have gotten from Dr Amir and his practice has been pivotal in my recovery and enabled me to go back to my university to complete my education. I hope more and more people will benefit from this life changing treatment.

I.K. May 2014

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