Impressions
A search on the Internet reveals many Medical Intuitives standing by waiting to diagnose and help one with any medical condition and a valid credit card . The web pages promise to address one ’ s medical condition in ways that conventional medicine does not . Wait a minute ! If that is true someone should contact President Obama . If we channel taxpayer money to Medical Intuitives we could solve this health care problem that is crippling our society and our economy . Quick , repeal heath care legislation , we have a solution and it ’ s been in our faces all this time . Sadly , my patient continued to have dental pain . Eventually , she contacted an oral surgeon on her own and had tooth # 13 extracted . I was never able to examine the extracted tooth , but more importantly , her pain did not go away . Again , we suggested that she go for a pain consultation , but she continued to oppose our suggestion . Was I vindicated ? If the tooth was extracted and the pain persisted then it was not the tooth . Not exactly . She contacted the Intuitive and was told that somehow I interrupted her immune system and how was I going to fix it ? Is that what the website meant when they say that they work hand-in-hand with the practitioner ? Obviously we don ’ t have all the answers . Some would say that the patient had a fractured tooth . Others would argue that she had a chronic infection that left remnants in her bone and continued to affect her immune system . What about the fact that I placed a foreign material into her teeth ? Maybe she never had anything wrong with her teeth . And what if it was yet another tooth ?
I will never find out the answers to these questions because she did not return to my office or that of her general dentist . She did go once to the pain management center but did not return there either . Just the other week I had a call from an oral surgeon and friend . He wanted to tell me that he had an interesting patient in the office . She had been referred to their office by a general dentist . He requested that she have tooth # 14 extracted . She gave him her long history and dropped my name in her story . She told him that her Medical Intuitive told her to have tooth # 14 extracted . He was sure it was her problem . Two weeks later she returned to the oral surgeon . She still had the same pain .
He thought I should know . I thought about contacting the Medical Intuitive , but I assumed they already knew . They know everything .
— BRT
6 May / June 2010 • Pennsylvania Dental Journal