Could Oral Health Be the Key to Longevity?
As an accredited holistic dentist, Amy Ha Truong, DDS, describes her practice as a good blend of Eastern and Western medicine. It’s something familiar to her because of her upbringing.
“A lot of the things that we grew up with were a little bit of Western … and also Eastern, because my parents used a lot of Oriental medicine,” she says. “Once I started practicing, I felt like in Western medicine and dentistry you were looking at the problem, but you weren’t looking at the whole problem,” she says. “So that brings us to holistic dentistry, where we look at the whole body.”
She studied for two years with the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology to add Eastern medical thinking to her practice. Like traditional dentists, she does checkups, fillings, and other treatments, but she is also trained to, for example, connect a sore tooth to other issues in the body.
Excerpted from Mpls St. Paul
