Medical Practice Will Have Opened Wide Around Mark Breiner

Mark Breiner is a doctor of western style dentistry who also has a whole body health practice. In this he is part of an important trend in western medicine that seems to have evolved to a point where it acknowledges ancient wisdom that was practiced in the East when westerners were more inclined to rely on witches and weirdos. It is quite wonderful to witness how online communication and globalization are playing themselves out even in arcane fields such as medicine. People who have become history since the 1990s expect dentists to extract teeth and fill cavities. Access to the Internet has had a sharp impact on public culture and now there is a wider understanding of the important of flossing and diet on the health of teeth. Subtly, the role of dentists is altering. It may also have been better access to information that made dentists and their patients more knowledgeable about new branches. Sleep apnea has suddenly a problem that almost everyone has and dentists have studied ways to overcome or at least treat this serious illness. It has also become public knowledge that stress becomes manifest in gingivitis and other periodontal diseases. Visitors to China are often dismayed by the poor state of teeth in general terms. There are more people walking about in the streets with brown stumps in their mouths that is the case in most western cities. This is ironic because Chinese traditional medicine is famous for being able to diagnose whole body health by looking into a patient's mouth. A patient who enters the clinic of a western style doctor will be asked to sit down and explain his symptoms before he is asked to open his mouth and say 'aah'. An acupuncturist will typically ask his patient to open his mouth right away. A quick glance at his tongue and the acupuncturist will know where to stick his needles. From looking at the tongue he can surmise which organ is sickly and needs a bit of invigoration. During the twentieth century people many people were convinced that 'science' was the solution to all problems. Medical practitioners who had spent eight years training in medical science were scornful of 'quacks' who purveyed alternative remedies not validated by scientific method. Even in fields like theology the word 'science' was fitted in somehow and politics became 'political science'. Those who spent many years being trained in scientific method tended to be dismissive of qualitative or deductive methods and the term 'hard sciences' was invented to distinguish real scientists from imposters. However it may be that technology which is not really a science but a language has actually outshone science in the recent evolution of knowledge making even some surgeons more humble. Complete and unwavering faith in science has waned somewhat leaving intellectual space for some alternative approaches. This does not imply that science has become the baby thrown out with the bathwater. Dr Mark Breiner and others have used their scientific expertise as the base for further inquiry. Medical practices have expanded their horizons. A book is available to elucidate and a website offers a free newsletter so that a new area of interactive, holistic medical practice becomes available.