Shelby Township Dentist Discusses Total Health and Wellness vs. Holistic
Hi. I’m Dr. Heather Pranzarone Stratton at HPS Advanced Dental Care. We’re located at 24 Mile Road in Shelby Township Michigan. Our phone number is 248-652-0024.
We wanted to address a question we get a lot in our office from new patients calling and also from some of our existing patients.
A lot of people ask us are we a holistic dental office. We always ask the patient, not to be difficult, what does holistic mean to you? Because it seems to me that holistic means all different things to all different people. What I can tell you is that we’re a total health and wellness center dental office and because of that, what that basically means, and we’ll see if that fits your definition of holistic, is that we are absolutely concerned with what we’re placing in your mouth, what we’re taking out of your mouth and how that affects your overall health and wellness.
That focuses us on many different aspects of dentistry. We focus on periodontal disease and how that affects your overall health because we know that’s a chronic infection of your gums that’s caused by a bacteria that can make your heart sick. It can cause a stroke. It’s linked to all different types of diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases because of that infection in your gums. So, that’s absolutely something that we take very seriously and, that’s one of the things we focus on. One of the other things that we focus on is the materials in your mouth and how that affects your overall health. This is a question we get a lot actually, “what are you putting in my mouth or what are you taking out of my mouth or what do I have in my mouth”. We work very closely with our patients and we work very closely with the patient’s physicians, doctors, chiropractors, naturpaths to figure out what’s the best treatment for them.
We say it’s holistic with a WH not with just a plain H because we’re looking at the person’s overall whole body health. So basically what that translates to you as a patient is that we want to make sure that what we’re doing for you is best for you. Now, we have a lot of patients that come into the office and they have all different wants and needs. We absolutely try to customize the treatment that we do for you so that it works for your wants and needs. We have some patients that come in here and say, “you know what? What’s most important to me is I just really want a whiter smile.” Okay, well then we can just whiten their teeth. We have some people that come in and tell us, “you know, my doctor told me that these fillings in my mouth are making me ill because I have a sensitivity to”, name that material I guess, different types of plastic, different types of silver filling material, mercury. So we’re able to work with that patient, we’re actually able to do a test with the patient’s physician, that gives us a 40 page layout of the materials that are best for them. Then those materials that are best for them, we’re able to use, and make them as healthy as that they can be.
We also try and help them from an emotional well-being stand point. We want to make sure that when they come in here, emotionally, that they’re feeling a lot better when they leave. We want to make sure that they know that they’re being cared for at the highest level, that they trust us, that they trust the staff, that they know what’s happening with them is the best that’s going to be for them which helps to reduce things. I.e. the apprehension of going to the dentist. So we are absolutely concerned about the patient’s overall well-being and their overall health.
There are a lot of different ways that we can do that. So if that’s holistic to you then, that’s holistic to us. Like I said, we absolutely believe in this office and changing people’s lives through dentistry. And we believe that we do that every day.
Shelby Township Dentist Discusses Total Health and Wellness vs. Holistic
If you need more information about that give our office a call at 248-652-0024.
