Crooked Teeth? Invisalign May Improve Your Life (Your Oral Health-Related Quality of Life, That Is)
Picture a person with crowded, crooked teeth or a misaligned bite, and you might think that it’s nothing more than a cosmetic problem. In reality, that’s just a fraction of the problem. For one, a messed up bite - malocclusion - can make it harder to clean all your...
Why We Use Biocompatibility Testing to Provide You with Top of the Line Dental Care
Even as the world was still getting through the first full year of pandemic life, an amazing thing happened here in the US: The FDA released new guidelines against “silver” mercury amalgam fillings for particularly vulnerable groups of people: Children, especially...
How Do We Love Ozone? Let Us Count the Ways…
Ozone is kind of a funny thing. At ground level, it can be quite harmful to human health, mixing with other pollutants to form smog. Miles above the Earth, though, it protects us by forming a layer that absorbs UV radiation from the sun. What’s harmful in one...
How to Help Your Child Toward a Future of Good Mouth/Body Health
Maybe because dentists are also called “tooth doctors,” many folks don’t realize just how early in life a child’s first visit should be. After all, kids don’t even have all of their primary teeth until they’re about 3. Why on earth would they need a “tooth doctor”?...
Eating for Good Mouth/Body Health Starts with Real Food
Good mouth/body health depends on good nutrition. Ask any holistic dentist. But while there are lots of ways of eating healthy - Mediterranean, Wise Traditions, paleo, and more - they all have one thing in common: They focus on real food. Real food is whole or...
Diabetes & Gum Disease: A Two-Way Street
Diabetes and gum disease travel a two-way street. Develop one condition and you raise your risk of developing the other. As one 2014 paper put it, Diabetes increases the risk for periodontitis (particularly if poorly controlled) and evidence suggests that advanced...
A Few Ways in Which Gratitude Can Mean a Healthier Mouth (& Body, Too!)
A year ago, we were all being cautioned against gathering together for Thanksgiving - or at least to severely limit the number of households involved, celebrate outside, mask, and all the rest. Whatever you thought about those restrictions, we can all be grateful...
Healing After Mercury Amalgam Removal
Just over a year ago, the FDA made a big, big change in their guidance on dental amalgam. For decades, they had insisted that the material used to make so-called “silver” fillings was perfectly safe for everyone despite their being roughly 50% mercury, a potent...
For Whole Body Health, Make Oral Health a Priority
Even before the pandemic, information overload was something chronic. SARS-CoV-2 only amplified the problem. As a result, more than a few news items got overlooked through those first strange months of COVID life. One of them involved a paper in the CDC journal...
