Free Radical Therapy is the logical approach to solving degenerative diseases and bringing a halt to repeat infection of which periodontitis, TMJ dysfunction and mercury toxicity are a part. Rather than treating symptoms, this method deals with the causes of the problem. It recognizes the existence of six fundamental defects that are common to every degenerative disease. These are:

1. pH imbalance-primarily Acidemia
2. Anaerobic Tendency
3. Free Calcium Excess
4. Chronic Inflammation
5. Connective Tissue Breakdown
6. Oxidative Stress

Free radicals are normal metabolic waste products produced by the body and the body possesses a whole enzymatic machinery to eliminate free radicals. Problems related to free radicals occur only when the body produces too much of them, or when the body loses its ability to eliminate them, or when we get too much of them from our food or the external world. Once free radicals accumulate in the body, this may give rise to periodontitis, TMJ dysfunction, mercury toxic problems and a host of other degenerative diseases.

Free Radical Therapy allows the dentist and patient to get at the cause of the periodontal disease, TMJ dysfunction and mercury toxicity rather than to simply treat symptoms for a lifetime. For the patient, it offers hope to conquer these diseases and keep their oral condition in a healthy state.