by Office | Jun 1, 2022 | Oral Health, Periodontal Health
About half of all Americans have some degree of periodontal (gum) disease – and over 70% of all seniors. Yet the condition is one that’s often easy to ignore. Its symptoms aren’t especially debilitating – at least early on. You may have red, puffy...
by Office | May 26, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Ask a random person how to keep their teeth and gums healthy, and chances are they’ll say little more beyond “brushing and flossing.” Sure, those are important. Yet as with whole body health, it’s good nutrition that really comes first. This was emphasized by a...
by Office | May 11, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Probiotics have an important role to play in your oral health. As a new [2020] paper in the Journal of Functional Foods notes, Recent studies including clinical trials strongly suggest the active role of probiotics in prevention and treatment of oral infections,...
by Office | Apr 20, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health, Periodontal Health
But let’s get back to the subject of real sugar, the favorite food of harmful oral bacteria (as well as something craved by many of the humans who host them!). They love the stuff – and, of course, what goes in must go out. Their metabolic waste is incredibly...
by Office | Mar 2, 2022 | Oral Health
One of the most persistent dental headlines throughout the pandemic has been how dentists have seen an increase of tooth grinding due to stress – one of the most common causes of daytime bruxing. (“Bruxism” is the clinical term for habitual clenching and...
by Office | Feb 24, 2022 | Biocompatibility, Cavitations, Oral Health
Recently, we ran across an Arizona TV station’s troubling investigative report on dental implants. Reports of problems with the devices are up. Way up. Analyzing yearly data, there were less than 13,000 reports of problems in 2018. In 2021, reports skyrocketed to...
