Fundamentals of a Humanistic Dentistry

Claus Haupt is an anthroposophical dentist and gives lectures and seminars. Born in Bad Düben, Germany in 1946, he studied dentistry in Halle from 1966 to 1972. Since 1985 he has been working as a dentist in Munich with his own practice. In 1984 he began to actively turn to anthroposophy and to work on the knowledge connections between spiritual science and the teeth. His involvement with speech therapy, painting therapy, eurythmy therapy and small odia art provided valuable stimuli in his search for effective, humanly meaningful therapy options and exercises for dental malocclusions. In the sense of Rudolf Steiner's statement that "the sum of the world's secrets" is revealed in the teeth, the author intensified his work on karma and human knowledge in the teeth, especially in the context of numerous school examinations at various Waldorf schools in Germany and abroad. Within the framework of this activity, he trains teachers, eurythmists and curative eurythmists in the perception and implementation of therapeutic possibilities for dental malocclusions. In his book Grundlagen einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Zahnmedizin (Fundamentals of a Spiritual-Scientific Dentistry) he has for the first time summarized the experiences and findings of his decades of research and practical work as well as the contents of his lectures and courses.