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...
Mouthwash is one of those things that a lot of us use automatically. You brush. You floss (or mean to). You rinse. You get on with the rest of your day, assuming you’ve done a good job taking care of your teeth and gums. You probably don’t wonder much about the...
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...
“Diet, often considered as a lifestyle factor, ” as an editorial in the journal Nutrients once put it, contributes to the development of many chronic conditions including obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome,...
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...
Your gums are constantly defending against harmful bacteria. If that defense system gets overwhelmed, inflammation sets in. One of the key players in that inflammatory process is an enzyme called matrix metalloproteinase-9, or MMP-9 for short. Think of MMP-9 as...
A “deep cleaning” is a lot more than a little something extra to get your mouth especially pristine and bright. It’s a procedure done to help save your teeth by getting active gum disease under control. Truly, tooth loss becomes a possibility when gum disease is...
When it comes to sugar and oral health, most people seem to think about only the impact on the teeth. Sugars – and many starches, too! – are the favorite food of decay-causing bacteria, after all. But these fermentable carbs also fuel chronic...
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...
The link between gum disease and systemic health is a mouth/body connection that’s now familiar to dental professionals, conventional and biological alike. Most others remain unaware of it, though – even people with chronic health problems that have been...
Gum disease is something that many people find easy to ignore for a long time. Their gums may look red and puffy, and they may bleed a bit when you brush or floss. Seldom is there any pain, though, even as the disease progresses. Gingivitis becomes periodontitis....
We all need sleep. Sleep is when important repair work goes on. Toxins and metabolic waste that have built up during the day are cleared from the brain. Memories are consolidated; information from the day before, processed. Meantime, cytokine production increases,...
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...
In our office, we believe the best dentistry is the least dentistry; that prevention is preferable to treatment; and that when treatment is needed, biocompatibility is a must. That’s because biological dentistry respects the complex relationships between oral...
“Collectively,” the authors of a 2019 scientific review affirmed, “experimental findings indicate that the connection between oral health and cognition cannot be underestimated.” Specifically, their concern was with the link between gum disease and cognitive...
“Antibiotics are frequently overused and misused in dental practice,” note the authors of a recent paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. According to one 2019 study, “nearly 81% of all antibiotics prescribed before dental...
Our thanks to the office of biological dentist Dr. Colin Yoshida, Fremont Natural Dentistry, for letting us share a slightly modified version this recent post from their blog… If you’ve got gum disease – and about half of all adult Americans (and 70% of...
By Michael G. Rehme, DDS, NMD, CCN The American Academy of Periodontology estimates that nearly 80% of Americans have some form of gum disease. Approximately 50% of cases are considered moderate to severe. As a biological dental office, it is our responsibility not...
By Michael G. Rehme, DDS, NMD, CCN A recent dental journal article I read described, at length, the oral/systemic connection, i.e. the influence the teeth and gums have on the whole body (the “system”) and vice-versa. It referred to the overwhelming...