by Office | Mar 18, 2020 | Periodontal Health
You may have heard about the links between gum disease and heart disease, diabetes, even rheumatoid arthritis. Psoriasis? Maybe not. Until now. For a study published last summer, researchers sought to “explore the relationship between psoriasis and a combination of...
by Office | Jan 8, 2020 | Periodontal Health
Prevention is the best medicine, especially when it comes to gum disease, which affects nearly all adults. For it’s not just a matter of keeping your teeth in your mouth – untreated periodontal disease ultimately means tooth loss – but also supporting your...
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...
by Office | May 22, 2019 | Oral Health, Periodontal Health
Vitamin D, we’ve noted before, is crucial for healthy teeth and also plays an important role in strengthening the immune system and warding off depression and fatigue. Both of those are more common in the dark days of winter, of course. Now that summer is just about...
by Office | May 8, 2019 | Periodontal Health
Why do we make such a big deal about gum disease and periodontal health? For one, almost everyone is affected by it. According to one study, 93.8% of all adults were found to have some degree of gingivitis, or early stage gum disease that is largely reversible....
by Office | May 1, 2019 | Periodontal Health
Despite studies like one of several we looked at last week, suggesting that exercise may be even better for periodontal (gum) health than improved diet, more research suggests that diet is crucial – possibly even enough to reverse gum disease on its own. It’s a point...
