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The interest in Applied Kinesiology in dentists’ groups grew further in Europe in the 1990s. Government accreditation of Applied Kinesiology as an independent health specialty has begun in Austria. Drs. Meierhöfer, Gerz, and the new Austrian Diplomates started to organize courses in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The number of dentist members with ICAK-D training increased during that time in to over 300 members.

From the increased number of AK candidates Dr. U. Angermaier (Roth) and DDr. Margit Riedl-Hohenberger (Innsbruck) showed extreme engagement in AK and consequently both passed 2006 their dental diploma examination.

DDr. Riedl-Hohenberger worked successfully on lab-based studies, reproducing AK testing of dental materials. This research was published continuously in the Austrian Trade Press.

A little later the results of this fast development of AK technology in dental medicine were published for the ICAK meeting in Berlin with the article “AK Dental Diagnosis” in German and translated into English as well.

For many years these dental Diplomates, in different German cities and in Austria, organized AK seminars that offered trainees the AK dental-medical diploma of IMAK. As mentioned, the medical and dental associations of Austria recognized this diploma.

In 2010 IMAK and the “German Medical Society of Applied Kinesiology” (DÄGAK) joined forces and the new group of Diplomates brought in a lot of ideas and worked together for a uniform curriculum in AK for all German-speaking countries—and potentially in the future for all AK courses in Europe.

The aim of present dental AK representatives in the German world is to spread this positive development from the German-speaking area and to attain international recognition.

The number of patients showing vague symptoms, suffering from unclear complaints that have been existing chronically for years and are resistant to therapy, has increased steadily over recent years. Many of these patients with chronic diseases do not show a clear pattern that could be categorized according to mainstream medicine. Many treatment methods that have been successful over many decades don`t work as effectively as they once did, in spite of using better materials and improved instruments.

Standard diagnostics, such as inspection, palpation, x-ray, laboratory tests, etc. are not sensitive enough to deal with chronic diseases. Therefore, the amount of unanswered clinical questions grows steadily. This is as unsatisfying for dentists as for patients.

Especially in dentistry most of the knowledge is the result of “trial and error.” For example, when dealing with inflammation, the dentist prescribes an antibiotic, which he thinks will work and if it doesn`t he prescribes another one and so on.

Therefore, it is now more necessary than ever to make use of complementary, bioenergetic examination methods. Here, Applied Kinesiology is an ideal diagnostic method. It enables us to examine the basic state of the body`s reactions to various forms of sensory-motor stimulation without using invasive, potentially toxic, and expensive medical equipment. Using different challenges, we can expand as well as refine the standard diagnostic possibilities underlying our patient’s problem. Once we have translated the patient symptoms into muscle language, we are able to find the best remedy. So, we are able to decide which among a host of treatment options is the most valuable therapy.

Few groups of medical practitioners introduce as many different materials into the human body as dentists. Experience has shown that every field of medicine deals with symptoms that have their origin in incompatible dental materials. Material incompatibilities are caused by immune mechanisms, primarily type 1, that is acute responses and type IV, that is delayed responses. It should be an essential motive for the responsibly practicing dentist to clarify in advance whether a patho-physiological reaction can be expected to a newly introduced dental material,  or already incorporated, in order to save the patient unwelcome consequences through immune responses. It should be taken into account that every incompatible material can constitute a trigger for chronic inflammations, as it will interact with the organism itself as well as with all foreign materials already present in the body. In this way, inflammatory irritations may be triggered, or already existing complaints accelerated and amplified.

Applied kinesiology provides us an expedient, inexpensive, and reproducible method to predict the reaction of the patient`s immune system to a dental material before incorporating it. First, we need small pieces of each material that should be introduced. These test bodies have to be produced exactly the same way they are introduced later into the patient`s mouth. That means acrylics have to be prepared with all bonding agents and then polymerized in the same way they will be polymerized chair side. Metal alloys have to be casted and processed with ceramics or acrylics and color painted the same way as they will be introduced. The same applies to zirconium, ceramics, temporary materials, and cements.

Amalgam incompatibility using AK is easily done with different types of MMT.³⁶ For the pre-test the patient gets the test substance on his tongue for about a minute. If a normoreactive indicator muscle stays normoreactive after that time the material seems to be compatible to the patient`s immune system. Any dysreaction hints at intolerance. To exclude a type IV allergy on a high level of validity (over 90%), the patient has to take the material into his mouth for 5 to 10 minutes each day for a period of one week (in patients with many allergies even two weeks). After that period of exposure, the clinician repeats the muscle test. If the normoreactive indicator muscle stays normoreactive, the material is considered compatible for the patient and can be used. But no test (not even the laboratory test) can predict what will be in the future.

Dental materials which are already present in the patient`s mouth and which are suspected to be causing problems can only be tested by use of homeopathically processed test substances (potentized dental materials).

First it is necessary to check the muscles that are functionally correlated with the estimated problem for inhibitions in the clear. If there aren`t any, you have to check the associated neurolymphatic reflexes by therapy localization or challenge. In case of dysreactions, bring the potentized dental material into contact with the patient`s skin and test the muscle again. If it becomes normoreactive the suspicion that the dental material is intolerant is confirmed. For forensic reasons, the result has to be confirmed by a laboratory test. But this becomes much easier now that you know what you are searching for.

Depending on the dental material, there can be immunological or toxic problems. Toxicological problems are verified best by saliva, blood, or urine tests. Immunological problems are verified best by lymphocyte transformation test or basophile degranulation blood tests.

Testing for infections and pathologies (foci)

The theory that focal occult infections can mediate systemic inflammatory and degenerative effects was first proposed in the 1920s.^36-38 Though discounted for many decades, the focal infection theory of systemic disease is becoming once more better established.³⁹ The most recognizable example here is periodontal disease being a risk factor for systemic inflammation and related degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular disease.⁴⁰

One study of periodontal disease indicated a causative role for systemic inflammatory markers through the lowering of CRP, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and LDL cholesterol levels from baseline after two months of periodontal therapy.⁴¹ It is possible to trace bacteria recovered from peripheral blood to occult focal infection in tooth apices after a root canal, and it has been suggested that the resultant bacteraemia and circulating endotoxins may have systemic effects.⁴²

The Medical Journal of Applied Kinesiology⁴³ published reports from dentists and other clinicians in the German-speaking world on this subject and has produced an impressive compendium of the AK diagnostic findings in cases of focal occult infections and their treatment.

The problem is that almost all chronic inflammations in the dental area stay silent for a very long period. Even radiological changes caused by these inflammations get visible only at a certain stage of osseous destruction. Add to this some foci have no radiological signs. So in many cases Applied Kinesiology is the only method to detect these silent inflammations and the only method that is able to detect correlations between foci and symptoms, which can be located over the whole body (double therapy localization). First you test one muscle belonging to each meridian in the clear. All unilateral dysreactions, which are not caused by local muscular problems, are under suspicion to be caused by a focus. Then using a normoreactive indicator muscle you have to check all the suspicious dental areas by therapy localization or challenge. If the indicator muscle gets dysreactive there is something wrong at this area. To find out what it is, you have to use homeopathically processed test substances (i.e. Kieferostitis D6) or allopathic remedies (antibiotics). Bring them onto the skin (homeopathy), or into the mouth (antibiotics) of the patient and retest if there is a normoreaction again.

Applied Kinesiology and Craniomandibular Dysfunction (CMD)

The stomatognathic system and the rest of the body exist as integral components of our neuromuscular system and cannot function without the influence of muscle agonists and antagonists. The use of AK helps to diagnose the disruptive influences present within the stomatognathic system.

Malocclusion is always associated with altered cervical neuromuscular function and postural mechanics.