Contents

This testament is dedicated to all those who express learning through a spectrum of experiences, curiosity, loving kindness, respect for others and humility. Your journey is mine. Mark

Whole Dental Health Contents

1. Journey’s Introduction

2. Mark and Toni’s Learning Odyssey July – August 2019 France, England, Scotland and the USA

• England – Surrey, Hampshire and London.
• France – Provence.
• France – Dordogne.
• France – Loire Valley.
• France and England – Champagne and Somerset.
• Scotland – The Highlands.
• USA – Portland and Boulder.
• Reflection.

3. Mark’s Professional Development Plan and Reflection

• A New Hope? Re-Registration for Dental Professionals in New Zealand. A Whole Dental Health Perspective, Appraisal and Reflection.
• A Personal and Professional Reflective Journey into an Unknown and Uncertain Future. Whole Dental Health, A Brave New World.
• Developing my PDA’s and PDP in the Light of Future Changes to Recertification. Redesigning from 2019 to 2022. Whole Dental Health – A Brave New World.
• 9/11:20 Workplace Learning @ Quin and reflection.
• Quin Dental Orthodontic/Tropic Hygiene Protocol.
• Quin /Nelson Dental Centre Hygiene Protocol.
• 2020, The year that wasn’t and was. A personal reflection. Never gonna give you up!
• Final thoughts and reflections on a new world country gone mad. The end of the whole dental health project and the beginning of another.

4. Ecological and Environmental Oral Health – Working with Nature

• Environmental Oral Hygiene – A Sustainable Approach to Whole Dental Health – Introduction and Intention.
• Joellen Coates – University of Wyoming – Honours Thesis – “Got Teeth? How the Oral Microbiome and Diet Affects our Oral Health and the Future of Dentistry.” Aligned with Whole Dental Health? A Reflection.
• The Oral, Systemic and Metabolic links to Whole Dental Health. A Personal Journey and Overview.
• Sustaining Host and  Ecological Co-existence within the Habitat of the Mouth. A Whole Dental Health Journey.

5. Action Research – Inquiry Learning

• Context – The first step in this long journey of new knowledge creation through action research  –  2017
• Action Research – At the Beginning.
• My Living Contradiction – A Reflection.
• O’Hehir University Project Part 1: A DCP Pilgrims Progress – A Simple Journey into Dental Health Improvement.
• O’Hehir University Project Part 2: A DCP Pilgrims Progress – A Simple Journey into Dental Health Improvement.
• Unorthodoxy in Learning. Testing a Workplace Concept – Carl R. Rogers –  Supporting Authentic Online Learning at O’Hehir University – A Narrative Account.
• Airflow Action Research – Product into Practice.
• Mentoring – Guiding the Learning Journey.
• Designing Hygiene Intervention Protocols for my Practice – Whole Dental Health – Part’s  1 and 2.

6. Functional Foods, Pre and Probiotics

• Xylitol: In the Dock and in the Surgery.
• Fluid Food for Thought – Health Benefits of Red Wine, Beer, Green Tea, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Recommended Dosages. A Whole Dental Health Reflective Perspective.
• Honey, Propolis, Fungi and Mushrooms, Uncommon Allies in Dental Healthcare and Humanity? A Reflective Personal and Professional Journey.

7. Azithromycin and Xylitol

• Azithromycin – The Final Ecological Solution?
• Doing the White Thing? Reviewing and Changing my Practice in the Light of Evidence, Experience and Reflection.

8. Water Fluoridation and Alienation

• Understanding the Nature and Intent of the Anti-Water Fluoridation Movement in the Context of My Workplace – A Whole Dental Health Reflection.

9. Myo Facial Therapy

• Mr James Nestor – Breath – Oro Myofunctional Therapy – Kimberley Benkert. A Review and Reflection, Ongoing.

10. Thought Leaders in Natural Health

• Progressive Dental Nutrition? Relating the Lessons of the Past with the Present. Weston A. Price
• The Gang of Five. Alternative approaches to Dental Disease Prevention and Celebrating the Diversity of Progressive opinions. Whole Dental Health and Beyond.
• Reflections – Robert Lustig’s Metabolical Chapter 5 and O’Hehir University’s Recent Interview With Me.

11. Oral Hygiene Products

• Ingredients in toothpastes, Pro and Prebiotics we sell at Quin.

12. Behaviour Change

• Motivational Interviewing is a Collaborative Style of Counselling which is both Client Centred and Directed to Help Recognise a Problem that is an Issue for Them and They (may) want to do Something about.

13. Offtheplot – A Journey into Tangental Learning

• Too bee or not too bee? Is that the question? Part 1.
• Mushroom Supernova – Tangential Learning in Temperamental Times and Temperate Places.

14. Mark’s Bio and Resume

15. Mentoring with Mark

16. Elemental Dental Health – Ongoing in England

• A Year to the Day 02 September 2020, a Reflection on a Radical Year. September 2019 – August 2020.