conclusion can be made. If, while driving along the highway in spring after the snow has melted away, one observed dead animals lying in the fields or along the road with crows picking on each carcass, one could draw the conclusion that crows kill animals. It can quickly be shown that such reasoning is wrong. The same erroneous reasoning might lead to the conclusion that the calcium deposits on the teeth cause gum disease. The weight of evidence supports the concept that diseased gums with the presence of large amounts of calculus can be healed without removing the deposit. We know that these calcium deposits are there as a result of gum disease and are not the cause of it. The sharp spines of calculus may modify the disease and accelerate its progress, but calculus is not its initial cause.
Mouth bacteria (germs) are also erroneously blamed for producing gum disease. This mistaken belief could move a person to try to destroy mouth bacteria (germs), which would be the wrong thing to do since only a small percentage of the bacteria present in the mouth are disease-producing. The greatest number are health-producing. Man has done untold damage by tampering with ecology, and the mouth is only a small example.
The indiscriminate use of mouthwashes has been accompanied by an increase of gum disease.
The initial and real cause of gum disease is the white material known as materia alba or plaque, found along the necks of the teeth and in the gingival crevice. The presence of the material can easily be demonstrated by running a rubber-tipped disclosing instrument along this area. One will easily see the white material, most aptly described as "mouth dirt," coming out of the crevice in a snowplow fashion. This rubber-tipped instrument should not be used to clean the crevice but only for detection purposes, for it would be injurious to the mouth. Another method used to reveal the dirt is the disclosing tablet, which stains the white material and makes it visible. However, one of the shortcomings of the staining technique is that it does not demonstrate the dirt under the free margin of the gum (gingival crevice).
This hidden material is the primary cause of the inflammation; without it, gum disease is rarely present. When this material is removed and kept out of the area, healing begins immediately in virtually every case.
It is widely believed that this plaque is food debris left in the mouth. This assumption is false. The eating of most foods does not dirty the mouth as believed; eating does much to clean it.
Research done at a state prison brought this to light. In this research, inmates were divided into groups according to how many times a day they brushed their teeth. Each of these groups was then divided into two sections. Section A was allowed to eat three full nutritious meals daily. Section B was given the equivalent nutrition by injection into the bloodstream. At the onset, every individual's mouth was cleaned by a dentist. The calculus was scraped off and the teeth thoroughly polished. The object was to determine if the mouth would get dirty when no food was consumed. Everyone was examined periodically. The surprising discovery from the experiment was that the section that did not eat had by far the dirtiest mouths. As the research went on into the third and fourth weeks, nearly everyone in Section B (those that did not eat their food) developed periodontal disease. In Section A, less evidence of change was seen between the men who brushed their teeth and those who did not. It was evident that eating solid food has as great an influence on mouth cleanliness as ordinary tooth-brushing.
Over the years, many things have been blamed for producing gum disease. Today we know that plaque (mouth dirt) is probably the most common cause while many of the previously blamed "causes" only aggravate the condition.
One of the most important aggravating factors is occlusal disharmony (the fitting or misfitting of the lower teeth in relation to the upper). This has nothing to do with malocclusion (crooked teeth). It is very possible that teeth with malocclusion can still have good occlusal harmony. Other influencing factors are missing teeth, systemic diseases, and iatrogenic factors (overhanging fillings, crowns, partial dentures and poorly constructed bridges). While these are often blamed for causing periodontal disease, they only magnify the condition
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I wondered if some excerpts from it might be useful??? 
Apparently many people in North America are suffering from mild scurvy most of the time.
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