Question: My dentist __________ recently was introduced to your calcium therapy and presently he is using the wafers on an implant of mine which has not osteo-integrated completely. He has inserted the wafers between the gumline and the implant and over the next few weeks I will go to his office weekly to have this rather tedious procedure repeated. I’m just wondering if you have had any experience with your therapy in this sort of application and what you might think of the time frames for re-introducing the wafers and any time frame on when results might be seen …
Also, here is some information and studies on high serum calcium levels and prostate cancer. Do you know anything in this area as far as using your calcim protocol and whether it will increase serum calcium levels?
Answer: Sorry you find yourself in such an untenable situation. Yes, we have long known, and research has confirmed, that using calcium with implants does help raise their success rate. This is not to say we encourage implants very often. Their success rate is so low, 70-75%, so we do not consider them a great health choice. Their success rate is not even calculated until the implant has been successful for 6 to 10 months. In other words, if they succeed, they are counted. There is nothing so biased in dental practice as this “success” rate. Like the misleading comment of implant result, “not osteointegrated,” really means it failed.
Also, they are virtually cost-prohibitive to the average person. If people who do implants were really interested in a 90% + success rate, like everything else in dentistry, they would have long ago looked into our Calcium Therapies. This seems to compare with the fact that our periodontists have failed miserably with surgical perio therapy and its miserable success rate, only to turn to a similar arena, implants.
This is like returning the 1940s when it was acceptable to not fill, crown, bridge, not do partials or root canals. Just take out all the teeth and make dentures. Today we are headed down the same black hole with implants as a costly intermediary to dentures. That’s not good dental science.
Yes, we teach patients to use the calcium chips at home. It is a little tedious, and very effective and are figuring out easier ways to do this. You can learn to do the calcium treatment a couple times a week at little cost and without us. Since you are from the highest ranked school in NE since I can remember, don’t worry, this is a piece of cake.
About the question of your low serum calcium levels, yes, we did research about 30 years ago. It had to be done rather surreptitiously without the dental school’s permission, which stopped our work three times. The results were superb and revealed things that led to breakthroughs in serum calcium levels. These findings are still proprietary.
No one would publish our papers after our classic ones on nonsurgical calcium root canal therapy in ’82 and on re-implantation using calcium materials shortly after that. Our paper on serum analysis is intimately related to our three papers online now, Diastemic therapy, Fusobacteria, and Clostridium Difficle. These and our developments in skin care with calcium materials place dentistry right in the middle of medical care.
Please read our research and let us know what you think, or of any other concerns.
Kind regards, Mark J. Manhart DDS