Alzheimer’s is Now Optional: Role of Oral-Systemic Health
Dale Bredesen, MD; Michael Gelb, DDS; Susan Maples, DDS; Jack Kall, DMD

AAPMD, AAOSH & IAOMT, Partners in Collaboration Cures 2023, join with Dr. Dale Bredesen and Apollo Health to continue the conversation with important information on the role of oral health factors in protecting and restoring brain health. The Bredesen Protocol details how its collaborative approach between the medical, dental and other healthcare professions presents a path to prevent and restore brain health to attack dementia, a disease posed to kill 45 million of the current population.

Dr. Dale Bredesen earned his M.D. from Duke University Medical Center and served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA, and the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bredesen also directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute before joining the Buck Institute in 1998 as founding President and CEO.

Dr. Bredesen’s research explores previously uncharted territory in explaining the physical mechanism behind the erosion of memory seen in Alzheimer’s disease, and has opened the door to new approaches to treatment. This work has led to the identification of several new therapeutic processes that are showing remarkable early results. Dr. Bredesen is a prodigious innovator in medicine, with over thirty patents to his name. Notably, he put much of his findings and research into the 2017 New York Times‘ Best-Seller, The End of Alzheimer’s.

Dr. Michael Gelb is an innovator in airway, breathing, sleep, and painful TMJ disorders pioneering Airway Centric.™  Dr. Gelb has studied early intervention for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) specializing in how it relates to fatigue, focus, pain, and the effects all of these can have on family health.

Dr. Gelb received his D.D.S. degree from Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery and his M.S. degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.  He is the former Director of the TMJ and Orofacial Pain Program at the NYU College of Dentistry and is currently Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology at the NYU College of Dentistry.  He has pioneered a new paradigm in preventive public healthcare named Airway Centric™.  He was awarded Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain in 1995.

Dr. Gelb is a co-inventor of the NORAD, or Nocturnal Oral Airway Dilator appliance that reduces snoring by positioning the patient’s tongue and jaw so that airways stay open.  He has invented a new line of Airway, Performance and Pain over-the-counter products also called Airway Centric™.  Dr. Gelb recently co-founded the American Academy of Physiologic Medicine and Dentistry (AAPMD) and a non-profit to prevent the proliferation of chronic disease in the U.S. based on airway, sleep and breathing awareness, research and education.

Dr. Susan Maples is an international speaker in the area of total health, the oral health and systemic health connection, and the diabetes epidemic in America. She also speaks in the areas of leadership, team-building, advanced case planning and acceptance, relationship-based target marketing, and growing healthy kids in your dental practice.

When Susan is not practicing dentistry she serves as a leader in helping her profession take their place in the U.S. health crisis. To help educate the public on the mouth-body health connection, Dr. Susan authored the book BlabberMouth! 77 Secrets Only Your Mouth Can Tell You To Live a Healthier, Happier, Sexier Life . In addition, she is the co-researcher in an award-winning study on detecting diabetes in your dentist’s office.

With all of her work in advanced dental restoration, Dr. Susan has never outgrown her love for working with children. She is the author and originator of the Hands-On Learning Lab™ Kit for children and is recognized nationally for making a significant difference in children’s oral and physical health.

Susan feels it is also important to give back to our community. Dr. Susan and her team donate their time and care for people who are vulnerable, disabled, medically compromised or financially distraught. She is eager to speak before service organizations or promote children’s health with hands-on learning in our schools.

Dr. Jack Kall, DMD, FAGD, MIAOMT, is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and a past President of the Kentucky chapter. He is an Accredited Master of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) and since 1996 has served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors. He also serves on the Bioregulatory Medical Institute’s (BRMI) Board of Advisors. He is a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine and American Academy for Oral Systemic Health and has presented to many groups about biological dentistry and occupational safety in dental facilities.

Dr. Kall received his doctorate in dental medicine (DMD) degree in 1977 from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry.  For the next 25 years he served as Dental Director of the Family Health Centers, Inc., a federally qualified community public health center in Louisville, KY. Additionally, he founded Dental Health Center, his private practice focusing on biological, biocompatible dentistry.

In 2012 upon invitation of the Philippines’s Secretary of Health he gave the presentation “Mercury-free Dentistry in Public Health” at the national conference: Philippines—Towards mercury-free Dentistry.

In 2013 Dr. Kall co-authored “International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology (IAOMT) Position Statement against dental mercury amalgam fillings for medical and dental practitioners, dental students and patients”.

In 2016 he co-authored a chapter about the health risks of mercury exposure from amalgam fillings in the textbook titled: “Epigenetics, the Environment, and Children’s Health across Lifespans” published in 2016.

In 2017 he co-authored “International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) Position Paper against Fluoride Use in Water, Dental Materials, and, Other Products for Dental and Medical Practioners, Dental and Medical Students, Consumers, and Policy Makers”.

Dr. Kall has testified in several FDA and Kentucky Legislative hearings related to mercury fillings and water fluoridation.

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