The Following is sent to us by Atom Bergstrom, Author of "Yes No Maybe, Chronobiotic Nutrition." and regular guest on One Radio Network.  Atoms archived shows here.

According to Flanders Dunbar, M.D., Med.Sc.D., Ph.D., Emotions and Bodily Changes: A Survey of Literature on Psychosomatic Interrelationships, 1910-1953, Fourth Edition, c. 1954 …
 
"J.W. Lyons […], in discussing psychosomatic aspects of dentistry, asserts that psychological disturbance leads to functional impairment, which leads to cellular disease, which leads to structural alteration. In support of this contention he states that the mouth is related to major human instincts and passions: to self-preservation (sucking and eating); to cognition (learning environment); to love and sexual mating; to hate (verbal aggression) and to injuring and killing (biting and tearing). He says that such ‘atavisticimpulses can be reactivated – sometimes by dental processes, resulting in unexpected reactions."
 
"The infant bites what it does not like. The adult uses incisive language and is likely to try to hurt with sarcasm when put on the defensive. The dentist, then, in taking over the mouth is temporarily handicapping his victim in his desire to obtain nourishment and love, at the same time robbing him of an important means of self-defense through biting or words. In effect, he is repeating the behavior of parents who have interfered with thumb-sucking, nail-bitiing, and other habits which were initiated as reactions against oral and other eroticized deprivations."
 
Dr. Dunbars ORGAN LANGUAGE includes …
 
"bare their teeth"
 
"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
 
"I’d give my eye teeth"
 
"hardbitten"
 
"he lies in his teeth"
 
"the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge"
 
"a tooth for every baby"
 
"bite the hand that feeds"
 
"once bitten, twice shy"
 
"a toothsome morsel"
 
"good enough to eat"
 
"sweet tooth"
 
"helpless as a toothless babe"
 
"a toothless old woman" (associated fears of helplessness and death)
 
"bite off more than we can chew"
 
"grit our teeth"
 
"get our teeth into"
 
etc.