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How Your Health Can Be Impacted By Your Mouth?

Periodontal and Biofilm Diseases of the Mouth

Presented by: Dawn Ewing, PhD

Original Lecture/ Publication Date: September 19, 2025 (Webinar Series)

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Course Description:

A healthy mouth is a valuable part of a healthy body. Dentistry can make or break that healthy mouth.  Concepts we once held in high regard have changed as science and research find new and better ways. Please treat each patient as a unique case with regard to their treatment plan. No two immune systems are able to tolerate the same burdens. Man has not been able to perfectly duplicate your original teeth that God gave you.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain how electricity in the body is a key player.
  • Define the Tooth/Body connection.
  • Learn what toxic materials are used in Dentistry.
  • Explain other ways dentistry can affect health.

Practical Applications:

  1. Recognize dental materials and procedures that may impact systemic health when evaluating unexplained patient symptoms.
  2. Incorporate questions about oral health and dental history into patient assessments to identify hidden contributors to illness.
  3. Collaborate with dental professionals to create individualized treatment plans that reduce systemic burden and improve patient outcomes.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Dawn Ewing is a naturopathic practitioner in Houston, Texas, Executive Director of the International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine (IABDM), and author of Let the Tooth Be Known, now in its fourth edition.

She began her career as a dental hygienist after graduating from the University of Texas Dental School in 1988 and was eventually appointed to the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners by the governor, serving two terms.

A thirst for knowledge about the human body immersed her in the world of emergency medicine. Becoming a Nationally Registered Paramedic, she spent 12 years on a 911 ambulance and four years in international air ambulance transport.

She began teaching CPR to the public, Advanced Cardiac Life Support to health care providers and became an affiliate faculty member of the American Heart Association in 1987.

She was drawn back into dentistry by a biological dentist. He was looking for someone with knowledge of the body as a whole, not just the mouth. This new excitement led her to return to school for a doctorate in naturopathy, a PhD in holistic nutrition and a doctorate in integrative medicine at Capital University of Integrative Medicine.

Obviously a perpetual student, Dr. Dawn continues to do far more than the 80 hours of continuing education each year required for her combined licenses. Most recently, she was certified in functional nutrition by the Functional Nutrition Alliance.

AGD PACE Code: 730 (Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology)

Conflicts of Interest:  N/A