A holistic dentist for
Las Vegas and Henderson
Holistic means different things at different offices, so here is what it means at ours. We treat gum disease as the health condition it is, and we test for it rather than guess. We look at how your body reacts to those bacteria, which is the part most explanations leave out. We screen how you breathe at night, and everything we put back into a tooth is metal-free. We see patients from Henderson, Las Vegas, Summerlin and Anthem.
Why he practises this way
Dr. Goh spent most of his career in high-volume, insurance-driven dentistry, looking at teeth instead of people, and it burned him out. He was also a dental-phobic patient himself, with a bad gag reflex, so he knows the chair from both sides. The training he chose afterwards points in one direction: how the mouth sits inside the rest of your health.
A first visit, step by step
We start with your history
The first visit is a conversation before it is an exam. Medications, sleep, family history and what your last dentist told you all change how we read what we find. Dr. Goh is not in a rush here, and this part is not a formality.
The gum exam is a disease exam
We measure the depth of the pocket around each tooth and note where the gums bleed when we probe them. Those two measures track with gum disease better than anything you can see in a mirror, and neither one hurts. That is what makes the early stage so easy to miss.
One rinse, sent to a lab
You swish and spit, and the sample goes to a lab. The panel targets eleven of the several hundred bacterial types in your mouth, and it sorts them into high, moderate and low risk. A second reading looks at one of your own genes rather than at the bacteria.
We screen how you breathe at night
Snoring, waking up tired, morning headaches, a dry mouth and a scalloped tongue form a pattern we look for. Dr. Goh screens for it, and he may suggest a sleep screening beyond the visual exam. That screening looks at sleep quality, heart rate and oxygen saturation. A sleep physician makes the diagnosis, not us.
What we put back
Every restoration here is tooth-colored composite or ceramic, and this practice has never placed an amalgam filling. Metal-free is simply how Dr. Goh has always worked, so it is not an upgrade you have to ask for. If you have a metal sensitivity, tell us at the first visit and we will plan around it.
Why two people with the same bacteria end up differently
The bacteria are only half the story. What decides how much damage they do is your own immune response, which Dr. Goh calls the most important part of the whole picture. Some people answer a low-grade gum infection with a large amount of inflammation, and that inflammation is what dissolves the bone around a tooth.
That tendency is partly genetic, which is why the lab reads your interleukin-6 genotype alongside the bacteria. It is read once in a lifetime, because your genes do not change. We re-test the bacteria after treatment, so you can see whether what we did actually moved anything.
Who this suits, and who it does not
Holistic covers a wide range of practices, and no single office does all of it. Reading the list below takes a minute and can save you a visit.
If a specific therapy is the reason you are searching, ask for it by name when you call.
A good fit if
- Your gums bleed when you brush, or a dentist has mentioned pockets or bone loss
- You would rather know which bacteria you carry than start a gum plan on a guess
- You snore, you wake up tired, or someone has told you that you grind at night
- You want tooth-colored materials, and you want to know what is actually in them
- You are managing an inflammatory condition and your physician has asked about your gums
Worth knowing first
- We screen for disturbed breathing at night, and a sleep physician makes the diagnosis
- Bring any recent bloodwork with you, because we read panels you already have rather than order new ones
- Gum treatment usually runs across more than one visit, and you see the written plan before it starts
Not what we do
- We do not offer every therapy that people file under holistic dentistry
- We do not promise an outcome, a timeline, or how your body will answer treatment
- We are a dental office, so nothing we do treats a condition outside your mouth
Researchers have tied several of these gum bacteria to conditions elsewhere in the body, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's. Association is not the same as cause, and treating your gums is not a treatment for anything beyond them.
Questions we get about this
7 questionsCome in and see the whole picture
The first visit is a comprehensive wellness consult. That means a conversation first, then a full look at your gums, your bite and your airway. You leave with a written plan, and we schedule nothing until you have read it.
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your first full visit — whole-body, oral-systemic health