by Office | Jul 15, 2020 | Mouth-Body Health, Periodontal Health
By now, you’re probably well aware of the risk factors for complications from COVID-19 – age, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and such. Yet as a recent paper in BDJ notes, such risk factors “do not account for the other 52% of deaths arising from COVID-19 in...
by Office | Jun 17, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, Mouth-Body Health
Last week, the Sugar Association – an industry group – filed a petition with the FDA, asking them to “ensure all sugar content claims related to sugar and sugar substitutes are truthful and non-misleading.” To this end, they want every ingredient that...
by Office | May 6, 2020 | Mouth-Body Health, Periodontal Health
The link between diabetes and gum disease is pretty straightforward: Have one, and you’re more likely to have the other. Both conditions are rampant in the US, with about half of all adults having some degree of gum disease and 34.2 million having diabetes. Another...
by Office | Mar 4, 2020 | Mouth-Body Health
It’s been nearly a 100 years since J. Kilian Clarke of St. Mary’s Hospital in London first described one bacterium he found to be “fairly constantly present in early carious lesions.” He called it Streptococcus mutans. S. mutans is “an extremely active producer of...
by Office | Feb 26, 2020 | Mouth-Body Health
A healthy lifestyle – including great oral hygiene – is invaluable for reducing your risk of the chronic diseases so prevalent in the 21st century. That includes cancer, which a recent editorial in Harvard Public Health notes is poised to overtake heart...
by Office | Jun 12, 2019 | Mouth-Body Health, Periodontal Health
One of the big challenges of gum disease is that it’s easy to overlook symptoms until the disease has progressed quite a bit. There’s typically no pain, and even tell-tale signs such as puffy gums or blood when you brush and floss aren’t apparent in every case. With...
