Restostitis
Restostitis ( ostitis = inflammation of the bone) is a term from alternative medicine and alternative dentistry. It describes a pathogenic focus that arises or should remain in the jawbone after tooth extraction as the cause of a variety of complaints throughout the body. It should be granulation tissue . In contrast to medical entities such as periodontitis or osteomyelitis , residualostitis can only be found and assessed using alternative medical methods such as kinesiology or electroacupuncture , because the diagnosis does not actually exist. The foci identified in this way are usually operated on to the patient's suffering. The lower molars are said to be particularly affected.
Radiological signs, which are occasionally cited by the proponents of the concept, are usually purely radiographic phenomena. The concept of "disturbance herds", which develop "energetic" remote effects via so-called meridians , is vaguely reminiscent of historical concepts from traditional medicine, but it is modern. Scientific work in the sense of evidence-based medicine has not yet been published.
Sources and individual references
- ↑ a b Dr. Hans-Werner Bertelsen, Ulrich Berger: The practice of “alternative medicine”: an insider reports. http://scienceblogs.de/ , February 8, 2012, accessed on November 15, 2016 .
- ^ Dietrich Volkmer: Herd, Focus, Störfeld: Contributions to a burning topic . BoD - Books on Demand, March 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-2695-7 , p. 78 (accessed August 29, 2012).
- ↑ Friedrich A. Pasler: Dental Radiology . Georg Thieme Verlag, December 12, 2007, ISBN 978-3-13-158045-0 , p. 98 (accessed on August 29, 2012).
- ↑ Beate Strittmatter: The trouble spot and its elimination: Ways out of resistance to therapy . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8304-5326-0 , pp. 20–7 (accessed on August 29, 2012).