Want Healthier Gums? Exercise!
Once you recognize that a healthy body depends on a healthy mouth - and vice versa - it seems obvious that what helps keep a body healthy helps keep the mouth healthy, too. Yet some people are a little surprised by some of the lifestyle factors that can affect oral...
Guest Post: Dozens of Ideas for Non-Candy Halloween Treats
We are grateful to our friends and colleagues at Rehme Dental Care for letting us share this wonderful Halloween post from the archives of their Tooth/Body Blog. It’s chock full of excellent ideas for dialing down the sugar and dialing up some sweet and spooky...
Getting a Better Looking Smile in a Healthy, Holistic Way
Hear the word “holistic,” and your mind might fill with images of nature and notions of authenticity. “Cosmetic,” on the other hand, suggests the fake, the superficial, the filtered, the Photoshopped. But those two terms don’t necessarily have to conflict with each...
Lasting Help for TMJ Troubles at San Diego Wellness Dentistry
About a year into the pandemic, we started to see a steady stream of news articles about how dentists were seeing more patients come in with considerable dental problems, particularly tooth fractures and TMJ pain. We saw much of the same here in our own office....
An Effective & Minimally Invasive Fix for Receding Gums
Gum recession isn’t just a cosmetic issue. As your gums pull further away from your teeth, more of their roots get exposed, and they aren’t protected by enamel like the visible part of a tooth is. Because of this, tooth sensitivity is a common companion to receding...
The Thought of Seeing the Dentist Stressing You Out? How We Help Make Your Visits as Comfortable & Relaxing as Possible
Many people get anxious at the thought of seeing the dentist. For some, it might be the effect of media portrayals like the sadistic dentist in Marathon Man (or maybe, on a much lighter note, this guy). Others may have had bad experiences when they were young,...
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”?...
