by Office | Aug 4, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition, Mouth-Body Health, Oral Health
There are lots of reasons why so much sugar gets added to ultra-processed food products. Adding sweetness is only the most obvious one. Sugar is also used as a preservative and to help fermentation along. It can act as a coloring or bulking agent. It can modify...
by Office | May 18, 2022 | Biological Dentistry, Mouth-Body Health
Though dentistry and medicine are still treated largely as separate spheres, most Americans acknowledge the link between oral and whole body health. As the latest survey on such things tells us, 92% of adults and 96% of parents say oral health is very or extremely...
by Office | Oct 21, 2020 | General Health & Wellness, Mouth-Body Health, Periodontal Health
Oxygen. Food. Water. Sleep. These are non-negotiable. Sure, we can exist for a certain amount of time without them, but after a point, you run into trouble. Stop breathing, say, for more than a few minutes, and brain damage starts to occur. Similarly, you need these...
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...
