by Office | Mar 27, 2019 | General Health & Wellness, Oral Hygiene
When you get right down to it, you don’t really need toothpaste to clean your teeth. It’s the mechanical action of brushing – and flossing – that breaks up the bacterial biofilm (plaque) that forms on your teeth between cleanings. Oh, toothpaste can make the job a...
by Office | Mar 20, 2019 | Oral Hygiene
And no sooner had we clicked “publish” on our last post, we found out about another new study that points to yet another alternative to conventional antiseptic mouthwashes. Published ahead of print in the International Journal of Dental Hygiene, the paper reviewed the...
by Office | Mar 13, 2019 | Oral Hygiene
Conventional mouthwashes tend to be indiscriminate. Like many an antibiotic, they kill lots of helpful bacteria right along with the harmful ones. And that can have ripple effects throughout the body. Consider the small but compelling study just published in Frontiers...
by Office | Dec 5, 2018 | Oral Hygiene
If you’re using a conventional over-the-counter mouthwash on a regular basis, you could be raising your risk of diabetes – or so research suggests. Consider, for instance, the 2017 study in the journal Nitric Oxide. For it, researchers tracked health data from 1206...
by Office | Nov 7, 2018 | Oral Hygiene
If you’re a Millennial, we hope your oral hygiene habits are better than those of the folks who participated in a new study in BMC Oral Health. Nearly 100 young adults participated. A team of German researchers asked them to brush to the best of their abilities. Their...
by Office | Sep 5, 2018 | Fluoride / Fluoridation, Oral Hygiene
Recently, headlines everywhere were hollering about the danger of fluoride-free toothpastes. “They won’t stop cavities!” concerned “experts” warned. Why the sudden interest? A new review of selected previous studies concluded that Personal oral hygiene in the absence...
