Dr. Robert Nara: Freedom from Dental Disease

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You could say that Oramedics is to dental health as Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's "aerobics" is to physical fitness. When Cooper wanted to bring his running program to the people he said, in effect, "Look, you clowns, your blood vessels are going to hell, you need to get some oxygen pumping around in there, and the only way you can do that is with exercise!'' And Cooper designed a simple test: All you had to do was to see how far you could run, walk, and crawl in 12 minutes, then check your distance against the figures in the Aerobics book to find out what kind of shape you were in.

And, the book also described methods to improve your score. If you follow Cooper's recommendations, you will almost certainly improve your physical fitness. It's the same with Oramedics ... if you follow the instructions contained in our books and material, you will almost certainly improve your oral health. Now, before Aerobics was published people knew that exercise was good . . . but how many folks did you see out jogging then? Today, of course, there are millions of people who have personal running programs. I jog myself, every morning, but I didn't until somebody reached me! That's what Oramedics does: It allows the dentist to reach his or her patients, and those people do start cleaning their mouths . . . and clean teeth do not decay and they do not foster gum disease. It's really that simple.

PLOWBOY: Dr. Nara, many people are going to read this interview, and I'd suspect that a number of them will want to try Oramedics for themselves. Is there any way that these people can locate an Oramedics practitioner in their areas?

NARA: Not at this time ... at least not without great difficulty. There are some 600 practicing Oramedics Fellows in the world today, but—because of the tremendous confrontation that's going on—those who live in the U.S. have to "keep a low profile". If someone were to call one of these practitioners and ask, " Doctor, do you do Oramedics?". . . the dentist might well be afraid to say yes, for fear of reprisals from the dental associations.

PLOWBOY: Because your yellow pages ad simply said that you practiced Oramedics . . . and that was one of the factors that led to your loss of license.

NARA: Exactly, for the simple reason that the dental profession doesn't recognize Oramedics—or any form of preventive dentistry—as a specialty.

Over a period of almost 20 years of using these methods, we have never failed to eliminate dental disease from the mouth of anyone who has cooperated with us... anyone who was willing to try.

PLOWBOY: Well, since Oramedics dentists are not readily available, can you describe an "aerobics" kind of oral hygiene program that could be followed at home ... or even on a remote farmstead?

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