Dr. John Augspurger

Both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the American Dental Association have run editorials encouraging front-line physicians and dentists to be on the cutting edge to better treat the increasing numbers of chronically ill patients,…

If you go back in time and look at the concept of what Alfred Pischinger called the Basic Regulative System, or the extra-cellular matrix, you will begin to understand the concept of "homeostasis." Homeostasis is the state of inner balance…

Treating symptoms instead of root causes often leads to the rise of new symptoms, often called "side effects”, which then require more tests, drugs, and surgeries of their own. The physician prescribes yet more medicine, and up goes the risk…

Despite what you might read on various websites or Internet forums, removing amalgam fillings, root canals and so on is not the end-all, be-all of biological dentistry, let alone achieving wellness. Even though removing poisonous mercury is crucial, it addresses…

Back when I graduated from dental school and went into practice as a traditional, insurance-driven dentist, I thought the “holistic" approach was a radical idea. You see, in dental school we were taught “single tooth dentistry”, where a dentist would…