Dr. Victor Zeines

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When Dr. Victor Zeines first started practicing dentistry he felt like a tooth repairman, simply filling cavities only to have the person come back in a few months later for another filling. Feeling discouraged he quit dentistry and became a psychotherapist.

In his new practice he noticed that if you could change a person’s diet, you could change their mood. Intuitively he wondered if a better diet could prevent dental issues. So he went back to his New York University Dental School professors, only to be puzzled by their lack of answers.

In 1975, he decided to return to dentistry and started giving his patients vitamins. This opened Dr. Zeines up to a whole new world of healing. He studied acupuncture, chiropractic care and kinesiology. In perfect synchronicity, the universe dropped more clues along his path.

At the health food store he found two nutrition books actually written by dentists. They were Diet and Disease by Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin and Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price. And on the radio he heard Dr. Hal Huggins speak on mercury toxicity.

He discovered that if patients removed their mercury fillings their health would improve. He also began to incorporate herbs and homeopathy into his practice. Dr. Victor Zeines got his master’s in nutrition and explored other holistic techniques including non-surgical periodontal work. And of course his patients thrived.

He is passionate and enlightens people about natural techniques that create healthy oral ecology. He is the author of Healthy Mouth Healthy Body, Living a Longer Life Naturally and the book Your Tongue Never Lies. He is also a contributing writer for Rodale’s The Herbal Drug Store and one of the contributors of the film Food Matters.

Dr. Zeines hosts the Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body show on New York Talk Radio. He is a member of the advisory board of the holisticoption.com, and his offices have been mercury free for over 25 years with locations in Manhattan and Woodstock. And his website can be found at www.natdent.com.