A biological dentist and a conventional dentist hold the same licence. In the UK both are registered with the General Dental Council, both took the same degree, and neither can practise without the other's qualification. There is no separate register, and no recognised specialty.
What differs is everything downstream: which materials go in the mouth,…
More than an hour after stepping off the main stage at the Health Optimisation Summit in London, Dr Dominik Nischwitz is still talking. The questions that started at the side of the stage followed him up to the gallery balcony, after a steward on a health and safety mission moved everybody on. "I'm not leaving…
Dr Dominik Nischwitz is a German dentist based in Tübingen. He founded the Biodentistry Global Standard, a certification and training programme for what he calls biological dentistry 3.0, and he is among the most widely known international advocates of ceramic dental implants and of treating the mouth as an upstream factor in whole-body health.
His…
Biological dentistry covers treatments with varying levels of evidence behind them. Metal-free fillings are ordinary restorative dentistry. Ceramic implants have clinical guideline recognition. Cavitation surgery has no professional body endorsement, though the research on the underlying condition has moved recently. The table below sets each treatment against its conventional equivalent.
Treatment comparison
TreatmentConventional equivalentWhat the…



