What is Holistic Dentistry? My answer would have been lacking before I began Parafunction Therapy with Dr. Robert Dickter, D.D.S. It is more than patient and environmentally friendly practices. Holistic care incorporates the person as a multi-faceted jewel. Empowering us to shine health into our lives.

This synergistic approach treats my TMD, Pre-Trigeminal Neuralgia, chronic Tention Headaches/ Migraine, Nerve/ Sciatic pain, depression, anxiety and symptomology often classified as Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia.

Holistic medicine is a powerful method that in this case has alleviated exceptional pain. My headaches and earaches have abated phenomenally and I am enjoying energy, memory retention increase, improved vision and the ability to tolerate light, noise and chemicals to greater extent. Furthermore my asthma, allergies, IBS and GERD are tremendously impacted to a point of lessening or removing much of my daily medications. I am astutely functional for the first time in as much as eight years.

Parafunction Therapy incorporates with traditional medicine; proper body mechanics, behavior modification and all-valuable time with patients. This holistic approach is not only comprehensive- it is key.

I clamor heartily to our outstanding medical community, indeed all of us, to affect one another as that multi-faceted jewel. The rewards for our efforts will be rich indeed. Let us move away from Managed Care and just managing our lives. Let us grow beyond that and become whole people, with whole purpose and whole lives.

Halli V. Lake

North San Juan