Both Mouth & Body Can Benefit from Naturally Nitrate-Rich Foods
“Avoid nitrates,” we’re told, as if all nitrates were alike. But plenty of perfectly healthy foods contain them naturally: beets, radishes, turnips, leafy green vegetables, onion, garlic, apples, watermelon, grapes, and more. No, what the infamous “they” are...
Office | Apr 14, 2021 | 0 Comments
Treating Gum Disease May Improve Metabolic Control, Confirms New Study
While it might seem like the links between gum disease and other inflammatory conditions is something that’s only been recently discovered, some of them have been known for many decades. Researchers were talking about the oral/heart health relationship way back in...
Office | Apr 7, 2021 | 0 Comments
Being Stressed Can Stress Out Your Mouth
Since the start of the pandemic, there’s been a fair amount of talk about how spiking stress levels seem to have contributed to more dental problems. More than 70% of dentists surveyed saw an increase of patients experiencing teeth grinding and clenching,...
Office | Mar 31, 2021 | 0 Comments
So Is Olive Oil as Good as Coconut for Oil Pulling?
So if olive oil can help you keep your gums healthy, should you switch to that for oil pulling? Not necessarily, says a small study recently published in the Journal of Orofacial Research. Thirty-four adults took part, half of whom were told to pull with coconut...
Office | Mar 24, 2021 | 2 Comments
Healthier Gums Through…Olive Oil
A Mediterranean diet is an anti-inflammatory one, so you’d think that it might be especially helpful in lowering the risk of gum disease, which is marked by chronic inflammation and linked with other inflammatory conditions. That’s exactly what a new study in the...
Office | Mar 17, 2021 | 0 Comments
Harmful Bacteria in the Mouth May Affect Heart Disease Risk for Those with RA
Once upon a time, if you said that conditions in the mouth could have any kind of impact on whole body health, folks might have looked at you funny. Because of the historic divide between dentistry and medicine, the mouth was long treated almost as if it didn’t...
Office | Mar 10, 2021 | 0 Comments
The Benefit of Adding Some Mushrooms to Your Diet
Mushrooms are pretty amazing, from how they grow - - to the nutritional boost they can offer, as emphasized by new research published last month in Food Science & Nutrition. The study shows that simply adding a small serving to your diet each day - 84 grams, or...
Office | Mar 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
What’s On YOUR Toothbrush?
Every few years, it seems there’s a big freakout about how your toothbrush could be speckled with bits of fecal matter courtesy of open-lid toilet flushes. It’s no wonder, really. A poo-covered toothbrush isn’t particularly nice to think about. Only, your brush may...
Office | Feb 24, 2021 | 0 Comments
Severe Gum Disease May Mean a Higher Risk of Bacteria in Donated Blood
When you go to give blood, you’re screened for risk factors that could make the donation unsafe. Donations are also tested for bacteria, viruses, and such - tests which must all be negative before the blood can be used for a transfusion. But if a new study is...
Office | Feb 17, 2021 | 0 Comments
Yet More Progress Toward a Mercury-Free Future
When the FDA took a historic step forward last fall with its new guidance on “silver” mercury amalgam fillings, some complained that the changes didn’t go far enough. Certainly, we agree that all dentistry should be mercury-free. But creating change is a journey,...
Office | Feb 10, 2021 | 0 Comments
