Explaining the concept of Cranio Dental & Skeletal Symmetry™ - How your jaw causes hip mis-alignment
Friday, November 20. 2015Explaining the concept of Cranio Dental & Skeletal Symmetry™ - How your jaw causes hip mis-alignment![]() "Let me reject all the received opinions and know only what I can with the power of my own mind. Let me try to construct assiduously from the base up the scaffolding of my thought on the subject”. A subject too vast, too controversial, too confrontational and too challenging. 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 hospitalised her for the previous 6 months - some 35 years ago. I was able to use my fresh university education to align her amalgam restorations so that she could bite more correctly. She previously had all her molar teeth - all 20 of them filled under general anaesthesia which unfortunately had disrupted her bite. Her migraines resolved over one weekend. She never got the migraines again, and went on to have a family and excelled at work to become a senior banker in the city of London.
And worst of all: This poor management of patients with jaw problems stem from various pricipals underpinning dentistry. In orthodontics, we have Dr. Edward Hartley Angle (June 1, 1855 – August 11, 1930) who was an American ![]() The fundamentals of this classification are described as:
Superimposed on these principals is, the belief that the European face is more evolved with his retrognathic jaws but the dentoalveolar ratio has not kept up with this "highly evolved species". This implies that modern societies have too many teeth and not enough bone to accommodate the teeth justifying the extraction of teeth to balance out this disproportion. This thinking together with Dr Angle's classification gave rise to the concept of "Dento-alveolar disproportion". So the aim has been to reduce the number of teeth to attain a class I occlusion in maximal intercuspation no matter where it sits under the cranium. This erroneous understanding has lead to absolutely horrendous decisions which have, according to my experience, produced devastating consequences upon millions of people right around the world. The acceptance of this thinking and making it mainstream teaching in dental schools has created a great deal of chronic sickness in society. Angle described his principals in 1890 - some 130 years ago. Whilst not taking away anything from Angle and continuing to respect his position in the history of dentistry and orthodontics, it is imperative that we make drastic changes and upgrade our understanding of occlusion and its ramifications throughout our body. Current (and soon to be obsolete) orthodontic practice takes the jaws backwards while they should be developing forwards. Children are further given retainers to hold the jaws in this position preventing further forward growth. Thousands end up with chronic illnesses because of the gross interference with the overall balance of the head upon the neck. Angles classification which is restricted to the teeth only, and treatment based on trying to bring everyone into a class I relationship is deeply flawed, as it does not take account of:
This extensive list may be too far fetched for an orthodontist to accept but the implications of fiddling with the dental complex have widespread ramifications involving the whole of the skeleton and it is imperative that the starting point be properly and fully assessed. The diagnosis and treatment based on just the original Angles' classification which underpins orthodontics 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 carried out. The stark reality of the abysmal orthodontic specialist training is apparent in this comment I received today through one of my patients who visited another orthodontist for a second opinion: "I'm not sure who you saw in London but as there is no scientific evidence behind what you have been told. This will mean that you are very likely to undergo a very long uncomfortable and expensive process that will not work. I would not want that for you and therefore would not want to be involved in any such treatment. There is no evidence that extractions can cause ill effects and no evidence that orthodontics has any effect on the TMJ. There is also no evidence of any link with ME......" The orthodontists need to be woken up from their slumber. 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. Minute departures from symmetry 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 symptoms. In this image, I have shown the basic disturbance in our cranium in terms of rotating cogs. ![]() When the cerebellum lifts up on one side, a little-known fact but easily demonstrable, it disturbs the symmetry of the cerebellum and the blood flow through the vertebral artery because the Atlas vertebra also rotates forwards on the affected side. This can cause all kinds of movement disorders and may also affect the eyes. Please read my article on Visual snow. The hypoglossal nerve which innervates the tongue also emanates from the occipital bone close to the occipital condyles. Any asymmetry here can also potentially affect speech and swallowing. Some medical syndromes chiefly cerebellar ataxia, have these groups of symptoms occurring together namely, gait disorder, eye problems, speech, and swallowing issues. No pill can ever fix that so patients get pigeonholed into syndromes or medical conundrums. Dr Siegfried Trefzer writes: "In my understanding Ataxia itself is a term used for a group of disorders that affects coordination, postural balance, speech, most voluntary movements such as gripping and the selective engagement of muscle groups but also automated movements e.g. the ability to swallow, to walk etc. At some stage, my patient was simultaneously affected by all of these dysfunctions to a various degree." Any asymmetry of the Atlas makes the occiput asymmetric and hence the blood flow through the vertebral artery which traverses the Atlas to the cerebellum diminishes causing numerous symptoms like a loss of fine motor control, tremors and gait dysfunction. This worsens over time as the patient gets older and the arteries also start furring up. Studies with Doppler ultrasound have established this blood perfusion discrepancy but the neurologists have failed to establish the Atlas-Occipital link affecting cerebellar function. In this article please read the section under “Vertebral artery anatomical considerations”: They have observed the discrepancy naming it “VBI: Vertebro Basilar Insufficiency”. Atlas asymmetry also seriously affects cranial drainage via the Internal Jugular Veins (IJV). Please read an extensive article under Obstruction of the Internal Jugular veins & Atlas Asymmetry on this website. It is my contention that this is what starts a chain reaction resulting in various deficits in cerebellar function one of which is gait dysfunction or cerebellar ataxia and tremors (some very violent), especially in ‘MS’ patients. These tremors stop instantly on the correct positioning of the jaws while the patients have been told that they have suffered permanent neurological damage through the "demyelination process". This must be the quintessential explanation as attending to the asymmetry soon relieves the symptoms in those where the problem is of short standing. In others, it improves the gait while yet in others it stops further deterioration. This is an excerpt from my 2009 article on Atlas asymmetry: "The cranium becomes unlevel leading to an asymmetry of the eyes and the back of the head called the occiput which physically alters the shape of the cerebellum leading to problems with fine motor control of the skeletal muscles and also causing problems like dyslexia. According to some scientific research, Dyslexia appears to be centred in the cerebellum Apart from the Hypoglossal nerve a number of other important nerves also get affected: 1. The Vagus and the Cervical Sympathetic chain: The effects of asymmetry here can affect the function of many organs in the body, leading to digestive and blood pressure problems. 2. The Phrenic nerve: This nerve supplies the diaphragm. Disturbances here can lead to a reduced breathing capacity. After Atlas correction, we have seen an immediate improvement in the patient's breathing capacity in a majority of cases which is an absolutely phenomenal finding. Our governing bodies might not like it, but the dentist is responsible for the welfare of his patients. If a dentist or a colleagues' treatment of the dental complex has brought about the illness like neck pain the dentist can neither pass it to the medics nor to a chiropractor, who both do not have any chance of fixing such a problem. As a matter of record, repeated high-velocity adjustments are extremely detrimental to the neck. Only palliative massage of the neck muscles is an acceptable symptomatic alternative treatment. Experience shows that 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 patient reporting that she has completely recovered from her terrible neck pains also adds: "I have met such a wide range of patients with such a variety of problems in the waiting room, and it is extraordinary that a simple adjustment of the position of the jaw can have such a dramatic effect on the function of the whole body. I am a witness to the efficacy of your programme and have recommended you countless times to friends and acquaintances with chronic problems." 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. The graphs below are 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 helped through dentistry. Some patients present with some 40 symptoms. Clusters of such symptoms are selected to invent different illnesses e.g. Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Multiple Sclerosis. There is no merit in this system as no healing is available. 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. Internally the Lateral Pterygoid muscle in the mouth is extremely painful. Careful! You are a dentist. You cannot involve yourself in such matters. We shall expel you and erase your name from the register, says the governing body! You are at high risk of being struck off! When all you are doing is fulfilling the requirements of the 'Hippocratic Oath' that you swore to. Here is the dilemma. Either the governing body decides to start working totally altruistically and without compunction and allows dentists to do what they must for patient care or continue to let lose the patients upon the medical profession who will probably inject steroids and prescribe medications for symptomatic relief for the rest of the lives of the patients. The existing oversight of medicine and dentistry is actually preventing proper patient care and perpetuating disease and bankruptcy upon the whole of society. The remit of the triad of the medical council, dental council, and the medical defence establishments needs considerable revision through urgent government intervention if it really wants to care for the public and prevent wholesale looting under cover of the NHS. The other challenges facing someone like me are the hospital consultants who almost never find anything wrong with a patients jaws no matter how much pain or dysfunction the patient presents with and patients are misled into going back to their medical practitioners. I have many such reports. Here are the experiences of some recent patients: From: S M Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018, 19:01 Subject: Jaw issues Dear Dr Amir, I am a very fed up person. I have been sent round & round the mulberry bush for 20 years following an extraction. In the last year, however, the pain has gotten really bad and I have pain all along the right side of my body at every joint. I went to a private Harley St dr who and for the first time experienced being treated like I was a human! Below is my OPG. He thinks it looks like my jaw is very much dislocated and he had never seen anything like it. I have been telling GPs dentists, max fax people for years I am having difficulty speaking, eating & it feels as if my face is moving to the left. Nobody listened till now. However, I had to then be referred back to the NHS as the specialist treatment was too expensive. They again fobbed me off etc etc. Just received this from Belgium: Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 15:53 Subject: Request appointment (coming from abroad) "Dear Dr Amir, My name is L........, I am 32 and I live in Belgium. I am writing to you because I found your website through a community of people with TMJ dysfunctions. I have been having a lot of the symptoms listed on your website, and the things are getting worse every year. The doctors keep telling me it’s my anxiety and they do not even bother to try to find the real causes. I have had a lot of works in my mouth, ...................." The hospital consultants occupy a unique place in society. They are believed. Even when they fob off patients almost all the time. In one breath they say nothing abnormal found and in the next breath, they tell the same patients to use palliative measures like soft diet, hot compresses, painkillers, physiotherapy, drugs, and useless splints. It is a sorry state of affairs out there. Remember even a millimetre of asymmetry can cause serious problems, like hundreds of my patients can testify but here 8 extracted teeth, jaw clicking, limited mouth opening, the deviation on opening, intense pain in muscles all around the head and neck is accepted as normal! Two companies come to mind. One is Myotronics in Seattle, USA and the other Biopak in Milwaukee, USA. They both supply some sophisticated equipment which can precisely tell the displacement of the jaws and the tension around all the muscles around the head and neck. I think our hospitals need to equip themselves with these pieces of equipment so that patients are not misled in error, design or negligence. Each year, the neck will continue to deteriorate and your taxes can keep filling the bottomless NHS pit. 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 vibrations and pressure to the short muscles – suboccipital 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 which it does automatically as the symmetry in the front of the mouth improves. 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. "Last week when we were there Dr Amir had some 4th stage appliances to fit. As soon as they were fitted my wife could suddenly raise her arms. She could barely lift her hands an inch before that. She was also able to lift both her legs a couple of inches. This was startling. I ran to the waiting room to get my friend to come in and see this miracle. During that night I felt my wife pulling me towards her telling me that she is getting feeling back in her body. Her legs started moving. I was flabbergasted and phoned my son at 2.00 AM to come over and see movement in his mothers' arms and legs for the first time in 8 years!" Moving on from the Atlas to the hips 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 Spitz (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. Patients have usually had a lot more dental extractions, congenitally missing teeth, and underdeveloped jaws all affecting the balance of the head on this imaginary 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. ![]() 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, nerves, veins, arteries get constricted and a whole host of problems like chronic neck pain and a frozen shoulder etc. develop. THESE ARE SIMPLER PROBLEMS. More serious problems develop if left untreated. These can include Spinal stenosis, Chiari malformations, Cranio Cervical Instability with Atlanto Axial Instability (CCI/AAI) resulting in a 'sinking head' causing brainstem compression with its very serious ramifications in terms of erratic heart rate, extreme dizziness, extreme breathing difficulty, and often complete paralysis. 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 causes and genetically missing teeth also eventually cause serious health issues. While I am on the subject, genetically missing teeth have to be replaced with ideally implants, not the teeth dragged around to close the spaces constricting the jaws. 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. Please note that the effect of occlusal irregularities on hip inclination is present a 100% of the time and thus cannot be ignored by the dentist.In other words, a slight distortion in the mouth caused developmentally or iatrogenically, by the dentist starts damaging the lower back and hips of the patient. Should the patient be sent to the medics, orthopaedic surgeons, chiropractors or the dentist should be responsible for the calamity visited upon the patient? ![]() Ironically, it does not even occur to the patient or the dentist that the back pain started because of the dental interventions. The patient obviously seeks help from the medical profession and gets condemned to lifelong chronic back pain which no one can fix. Dr. Mercola says: "There is evidence that many standard treatments for back pain — surgery, spinal injections, and painkillers — are often ineffective and can even worsen and prolong the problem... Some research suggests that 1 in 5 patients who have surgery for back pain end up having more surgery. An estimated 80 per cent of Americans will suffer from chronic back pain at some point in life. Some 25-30 per cent end up struggling with persistent or chronic back pain, leading many to resort to prescription painkillers, expensive steroid shots, or even multiple surgeries. Recent data shows that back pain is increasingly being treated with addictive drugs and diagnostic exams that expose patients to potentially unnecessary and dangerous levels of radiation. These treatments do not cure back pain—they only treat your symptoms." Ever wondered why we have so many millions chronically sick; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revised January 2021©2015 -2021 Dr. M. Amir. All rights reserved. Trackbacks
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