The SNS controls body temperature, muscle tone, activity of osteoblasts, sexual arousal, activity of the thymus gland and circulation of immune cells. Several publications have demonstrated that dysfunction of the ANS is common and can be responsible for many varied illnesses such as high blood pressure, kidney failure, angina, hormone dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, chronic pain and many more. Your teeth and jaw relationships can support or skewer ANS function. Noel Markley DDS, San Francisco can show you how important it is to make sure the handiwork of each dental specialty is integrated with work from the other specialties. When one dentist does the entire mouth may be the only rational choice for those wanting the best bite and ANS functioning.
Specialization is often a sneaky form of productionlineitis .
Give me a dentist that knows the whole mouth, not just the gums, or the bite or the whatever. ANS imbalance can also be caused by unresolved emotional problems since the regulating center of the ANS, the hypothalamus, is in constant communication with the limbic system via the limbic-hypothalamus axis. The ANS is like a team of horses. The relaxation response is the most important factor and involves the degree of rise of the diaphragm as it relates to the vagus and possibly the phrenic nerve . Training in Inversion Traction showed me this relationship.