If you’re a patient or a regular reader of this blog or follow us on social, you already know that we’ve never been big fans of ultraprocessed food. Scratch that last word. We prefer to call them “products” instead. After all, by the end of their manufacture, many...
You can tell fall is coming by the shorter days, cooler nights, and changing leaves — or by the grocery shelves suddenly full of products that no reasonable person ever thought would be made better by pumpkin spice. But beyond the pumpkin spice cookies and...
A lot of people think that regular dental visits are what keep their teeth healthy. And they do matter. But they’re not the main thing. Most of what determines your oral health happens all the rest of the time when you’re not in the dental chair. It’s shaped...
There’s a rhythm to the natural world that’s hard to miss. Day gives way to night. Temperatures rise and fall. Plants open to the light and close at dusk. Animals move through cycles of waking, feeding, and rest with a kind of built-in timing. The human body has...
Ten years ago, the idea that diet influences gum health still wasn’t emphasized much in mainstream dentistry. Yet a growing body of research was already starting to show that eating more nutrient-dense foods and few refined carbs could measurably improve...
Perhaps to no one’s surprise, a newly published review in the Journal of the American Dental Association concludes that water fluoridation reduces tooth decay by about 25%. If that sounds familiar, it should. Variations of that estimate already appear across public...
The holidays bring plenty of wonderful things – twinkling lights, festive music, gathering with family and friends, giving and getting gifts, hot cocoa in front of a lively fire. But coming in winter, they also take away something crucial: the amount of...
The usual approach to oral health focuses largely on elimination: kill the “germs,” remove the plaque, sterilize the mouth – as if such a thing were even physiologically possible. Actually, your mouth is home to hundreds of bacterial species. Not all of them...
When folks share their concern about ending fluoridation, it’s often accompanied by the direst of predictions about what it would mean. A recent paper in JAMA Health Forum, for instance, states that we’d see 25 million more kids with cavities, almost $10 billion in...
Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. They’re needed for muscle growth, tissue repair, and other metabolic processes. But that’s hardly all they do. They also work as neurotransmitters, support immune function, and help with wound healing. They can...
Our thanks to biological dentist Dr. Veronica Montgomery at Boise Caring Dentistry for letting us share this recent post from her office… Like most soft drinks, energy drinks aren’t exactly kind to the enamel that protects the living tissues within each of...
A recent study suggests that vegetarian diets promote better health, based on the fact that vegetarians were found to have higher salivary pH levels. Because oral pH is a factor associated with good oral health, the authors concluded that “healthcare...
There’s something appealing about using a simple, kitchen staple like baking soda to clean your teeth. It feels natural. It’s inexpensive. Many people swear by its effectiveness. But the power of baking soda isn’t just the stuff of folk wisdom. There’s also science...
There are lots of reasons why folks seek out a biological dental practice like ours. Sometimes, they suspect there may be a dental component to their long-standing health issues – lingering infection in root canal teeth, for instance, or...
Our thanks to Fremont Natural Dentistry, a biological practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, for letting us share a recent blog post of theirs on how melatonin – a compound mainly associated with sleep – may also “play a protective role in oral...
“Antibiotics are frequently overused and misused in dental practice,” note the authors of a 2023 paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. According to research presented at IDWeek 2019, “nearly 81% of all antibiotics...
Our thanks to the office of biological dentist Dr. Ann Abdulla for permission to share the following post from their terrific blog, with minor modifications. You can find the original post here. As long as there have been mouths, there has been stinky breath, but...
Ask the average person to name nutrients that are essential for good oral health, and you’ll probably get answers like calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin C. They’re important, to be sure – but so are others, including magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc. A trace...
Dark chocolate is definitely one of the more tooth-friendly options when it comes to sweets. It doesn’t stick to the teeth like gummies or caramel or nougat. It’s less acidic than hard candy and doesn’t remain in the mouth as long. It usually contains less sugar...
Our thanks to Fremont Natural Dentistry for letting us share this post with you, in slightly modified form, from their biological dental blog. While Sarah Michelle Gellar might be best known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she recently caught a bit of extra attention...