Modalities Offered (Click to view description)

• Dentistry
  Dentistry
  

  Dentists diagnose and treat problems with teeth and tissues in the mouth, along with giving advice and administering care to help prevent future problems. They provide instruction on diet, brushing, flossing, the use of fluorides, and other aspects of dental care. They remove tooth decay, fill cavities, examine x-rays, place protective plastic sealants, straighten teeth, and repair fractured teeth. They also perform corrective surgery on gums and supporting bones to treat gum diseases. Dentists extract teeth and make models and measurements for dentures to replace missing teeth. They also administer anesthetics and write prescriptions for antibiotics and other medications.
  
  Holistic dentistry and holistic dentists practice natural dentistry and biologic dentistry using mercury free fillings and integrative medicine.
• Craniosacral Therapy
  Craniosacral Therapy
  

  Craniosacral therapy (also called CST, cranial osteopathy, also spelled CranioSacral bodywork or therapy) is a method of complementary and alternative medicine that focuses on the eight bones of the cranial vault in conjunction with the spine and sacrum, and the cerebrospinal fluid.
  
  This therapy utilizes light touch to create relaxation and a sense of energy moving within the body.
  
  CST is most commonly used by physical therapists, massage therapists, naturopaths, chiropractors and osteopaths. Craniosacral therapists may help with mental stress, neck and back pain, migraines, TMJ Syndrome, and chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia.
• Holistic Health Practitioner
  Holistic Health Practitioner
  

  Holistic health practitioners offer an increasingly respected and centuries-old alternative type of healthcare that emphasizes total wellness of mind, body, emotions and spirit. They treat people not as collections of parts and diseases, but as whole individuals. Most holistic health practitioners have knowledge in some or all of the following areas: anatomy and physiology; human energy healing systems; nutrition and body chemistry; stress management and relaxation techniques; therapeutic touch and bodywork; spirituality in healing; natural remedies such as herbs, essential oils and homeopathic preparations.
• Homeopathy
  Homeopathy
  

  Homeopathy is a healing art whose "highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles." (1). It is the art of healing that employs" a perfectly simple system of medicine, remaining always fixed in its principles as in its practice" (2).
  
  Homeopathy is a whole system of medicine that utilizes the principle of totality of symptoms to assess the state that needs to be cured. The sum of all the symptoms and condition in each individual case, including those in the mental and emotional realm, is the sole indication of a remedy. It is by the dynamic action on the vital force that remedies are able to re-establish health and harmony by safely removing the whole of the disease, the totality of symptoms that were presented.
  
  The homeopathic remedy that is selected is one that has the capacity to dynamically alter the condition and lift the natural disease at hand through similarity to the disease state itself. This is called the law of similars or similia similibus. Homeopathic remedies are prepared according to the strict guidelines of the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS) and are regulated by the FDA. Homeopathic remedies prepared this way are dynamized to the point where only a minimum dose is needed to stimulate the organism to heal itself.
  
  Homeopathy lends itself to self care for self-limiting conditions and is safe to use for infants, pregnant women and the elderly. Homeopathy is simple, safe, effective, affordable medicine.
  
  Nancy Gahles, D.C., CCH, RSHom (NA), President, National Center for Homeopathy, www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org, E-mail: askDrNancy@aol.com
  
  1. Aphorism 2, Organon of Medicine, Sixth Ed. translated by William Boericke, M.D.
  2. Samuel Hahnemann to the Organon of Medicine, Sixth ed. Translated by William Boericke, M.D.
  
• Nutrition, Functional and Integrative
  Nutrition, Functional and Integrative
  

  Functional Nutrition practitioners identify and address the underlying root imbalances that may be preventing optimal health and performance, based on the principles of biochemistry, metabolism and performance.
  
  Practitioners seek to restore normal immune, digestive, and detoxification functions through development of a personalized nutrition program that takes into account a full assessment of the client's nutritional intake or lack thereof.
  
  Benefits of functional nutrition include overall wellness, prevention of illness, weight loss or gain (as needed) and increased functionality of the body's organs and systems such as brain, muscles, digestive tract, and more.
• Probiotics
  Probiotics
  

  Probiotics are live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to beneficial microorganisms found in the human gut. They are also called 'friendly bacteria' or 'good bacteria.'
  
  Probiotics are available in the form of dietary supplements and foods. Some uses for probiotics for which there is scientific evidence are to treat diarrhea, to prevent and treat infections of the urinary tract or female genital tract, to treat irritable bowel syndrome, to reduce recurrence of bladder cancer, to shorten how long an intestinal infection lasts that is caused by a bacterium called Clostridium difficile, to prevent and treat pouchitis (a condition that can follow surgery to remove the colon)and to prevent and manage atopic dermatitis (eczema) in children.
  
  Probiotic products taken by mouth as dietary supplements are manufactured and regulated as foods, not drugs. Probiotics' side effects, if they occur, tend to be mild and digestive (such as gas or bloating). More serious effects have been seen in some people. Probiotics might theoretically cause infections that need to be treated with antibiotics, especially in people with underlying health conditions. They could also cause unhealthy metabolic activities, too much stimulation of the immune system, or gene transfer (insertion of genetic material into a cell).

Contact Information

Name: David Presser
Dental Health Center of David B Presser, DDS, LLC
56 Clifton Country Rd, Suite 102
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone: 518-371-5113

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