Intraosseous Neural Therapy (I.O.N.T.)

© Copyright 2003 by Ara Elmajian, D.D.S., Canada
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 6)

In the early 1990s while reading through a dental products journal, I discovered a new system of delivering dental anesthesia, called the Stabident system. This system provides anesthesia to the immediate area of an individual tooth by delivering the anesthetic intraosseously.

The procedure is simple. After the gingiva in the area of the tooth site is anesthetized, a small puncture penetrating through the cortical plate and extending into the cancellous bone proximal to the tooth is made, utilizing a special 27 gauge dental drill. The local anesthetic is then delivered via a needle through the puncture site, directly to the bone. The advantage of this system is that the tooth and its surrounding tissue become fully anesthetized, while the lips and tongue are not affected.

In my mind this new discovery opened up a vast array of possibilities in the field of dental medicine. I took this delivery system one step further and developed the procedure I coined Intraosseous Neural Therapy (I.O.N.T.). I began experimenting in my practice by combining 1% procaine with various homotoxicological and sanum remedies. This procedure has been used successfully for the past 10 years to diagnose, detoxify and treat the areas affected, thereby rejuvenating the autonomic nervous system (A.N.S.) both directly and indirectly. The results have been rewarding.

This article primarily deals with Autonomic Nervous System (A.N.S.) dysfunction due to toxicity, infection and electrical disturbances in the maxilla and the mandible. These structures are extremely vascular, and highly innervated by the A.N.S.