A Holistic Approach
NLS Clinic Cosmetic Dentistry Section maintains a holistic approach to the practice of dentistry by providing not just cosmetic procedures, but by also addressing and correcting any underlying dental health issues.

"What I find most exciting about the newest smile makeover techniques is that they're simple, comfortable, and beautiful", "The procedures provide me with the opportunity to give people a great reason to smile! What could be more satisfying?"

Holistic Mercury-free Dentistry:
Is an approach to dental treatment, primarily caring for patients' health and safety from both a conventional as well as "alternative healthcare" point of view. It is sometimes called "biological" dentistry or "biocompatible" dentistry. In it's fullest sense, I believe it acknowledges and deals with the your mind, body and spirit, not just your "teeth".

In holistic mercury-free dentistry there is an effort to find biocompatible materials to use to reduce toxicity for everyone, especially the chemically sensitive. Amalgam use is avoided in holistic dentistry (" amalgam free" or "mercury free") due to concern about possible toxicity problems. Amalgam removal and replacement with natural-looking bonded materials is a common holistic dentistry treatment as well as a common aesthetic dentistry treatment. We feel the mercury/amalgam is not only potentially bad for your teeth and for the human body in general, but it looks awful and unnatural, too. Detoxification, especially of residual mercury deposits in body tissues from amalgams is often done.

Who is a candidate for Cosmetic Dentistry?
Individuals who can benefit from cosmetic dentistry run the gamut from teenagers to seniors.

This can include: anyone who doesn't smile because of yellow or discolored teeth, people with crooked or irregularly shaped teeth, seniors wanting a more youthful appearance, teenagers left with chipped teeth after a sporting accident, brides and bridegrooms before their special day, sales persons, newly divorced people who are trying to get back into the dating game, or people recovering from automobile accidents, or other traumas.
 

Top Treatment Options

Improvements in technology and dental materials offer a wide variety of comfortable options to help anyone attain an attractive new smile more easily than ever before. Today's top cosmetic dental treatment options include:

Cosmetic dentistry
It is one of the most important messages of NLS Clinic is to make you have a good look, from both inside and outside, your smile is important for us. We can offer you white teeth, improve the appearance of your teeth by bonding and shaping, and by use of veneers that is placed over the front side of the tooth to improve its appearance

LASER
The magnificent LASER that is used in NLS Clinic is considered to be an effective safe method in cavity removal without pain, enhances healing, bloodless technique, allows stronger restoration of teeth, and can contour the unhealthy gums with a faster healing and no postoperative discomfort. LASER also helps in providing the ideal hygiene.

Pediatric dentistry
NLS Clinic provides facilities that allow children to accept dental treatment. Most Dental problems in children are preventable and we can help in prevention of it and to maintain healthy long-lasting teeth for a healthy

Veneers - An increasingly popular procedure, offering an "extreme smile makeover" generally without the discomfort and drilling of older techniques. Veneers are ultra-thin, custom made laminates that are bonded directly to the "smile teeth". They are a great option for achieving a beautiful smile, closing gaps, correcting poor color, and straightening uneven teeth.

Whitening - The most commonly prescribed cosmetic dental procedure, many whitening options are now available to consumers in a wide range of prices.

Bonding - An option for chipped or cracked teeth, bonding is a process in which an enamel-like material is applied to a tooth's surface, sculpted into shape, hardened, and then polished for an ideal smile.
 

Holistic Mercury-free dentistry

The "silver" fillings in your teeth - Dental Amalgams - are still widely used by the dental profession in most parts of the world. The "Amalgam" consists of a mix of metals - Generally 50% Mercury, 35% Silver, 15% Tin and other metals. But is it safe to put so much Mercury, the most toxic non-radioactive metal known to man, into the mouth of a person?

Mercury is a known poison. It is, in fact, one of - if not the - most toxic of all the elements known!!! It is fact that mercury is fully one-half of the mass of the filling you see when you look at any "silver" filling. It is fact that mercury vaporizes in the mouth and that the vapor is inhaled and also directly absorbed into the body. It is fact that mercury travels to all body tissues and concentrates in tissues where it can do damage in several known ways.

The question is not whether the above facts are true, but whether enough of it occurs to be significant. Organized dentistry in the USA has taken the position that amalgam use is perfectly safe. Those against its use have found compelling relationships to many serious illnesses ranging from depression to cancer, and from kidney disease to Alzheimer's.

How can it be thought to cause so wide a range of problems?
The suggested answer is that mercury from fillings doesn't cause a specific disease. It causes poisoning. And depending on which tissues it concentrates in, the symptoms will differ from one person to another. Two of the most common sites of concentration and damage, however, seem to be the brain and the kidneys

There is now a growing mountain of evidence that it is NOT safe to do so. Some countries, like Sweden, Canada and Germany, have either banned or imposed serious limitations on Amalgam usage. There is now compelling evidence from reputable scientific bodies such as the World Health Organisation that, despite claims from pro-amalgam bodies such as the American and British Dental Associations (ADA/BDA), mercury is NOT "locked" safely in the metal bonds in the teeth, but can leak slowly into the body, often causing severe illnesses. These are reckoned to possibly include ME/CFS, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimers, and a whole range of "auto-immune" illnesses. In fact, just by damaging the immune system, Amalgam could be contributing to an even broader range of illnesses.

Mercury's extreme cytotoxicity and neurotoxicity is a major factor in the neurological conditions, along with its inhibition of basic enzymatic cellular processes and effects on essential minerals and nutrients in cells. Mercury is also documented to cause imbalances in neurotransmitters related to mood disorders. A direct mechanism involving mercury's inhibition of cellular enzymatic processes by binding with the hydroxyl radical (SH) in amino acids appears to be a major part of the connection to allergic/immune reactive conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, lupus, eczema and psoriasis, scleroderma, and allergies. Immune reactivity to mercury has been documented by immune reactivity tests to be a major factor in many of the autoimmune conditions.

What should we do? Is there a way to reason through this?
I think there is! First, we are being constantly bombarded with all sorts of chemical and biophysical noxious influences in our food, air, water...everywhere. Our immune systems are being stressed more and more. I believe we are seeing more chemically sensitive people and more illness from "environmental" causes. I think it makes sense to avoid known toxins, especially if there is a reasonable alternative...and there is.

Regarding mercury (in fillings), a friend of mine, a Virginia dentist, stated:
"Somehow I just don't feel comfortable using a substance designated by the EPA to be a waste disposal hazard. I can't [legally] throw it in the trash, bury it in the ground, or put it in a landfill, but they say it's OK to put it in people's mouths. That just doesn't make sense."

NLS Clinic is unique to be an amalgam free dental clinic, we just use natural products that are safe and together with the general approach for your health, we can have the good smile we need.