Holiday Baking Without Table Sugar? Try These Recipes
It’s hard to imagine the holidays without baked goods. Besides, as we’ve noted before, biologically, we’re hardwired to love sweets. Yet both sugars and the highly refined flours used in your typical baked treats spell trouble for teeth, not to mention the rest of...
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Another Reason to Dump the Mouthwash for Healthier Alternatives? – The Mouthwash, Nitric Oxide, Diabetes Link
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...
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The Mounting Evidence Against Fluoridation: 5 New Studies
If you buy the idea that fluoride prevents cavities – hint: it doesn’t really – fluoridation can seem like a common sense solution: You simply drink fluoride-treated water, and your count your teeth as protected, right? Wrong. Research has shown that any benefit...
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From Our Archives: Giving Thanks for Your Healthy Smile
One thing we are deeply grateful for this Thanksgiving is our patients. We appreciate the trust they place in us. We’re honored that they’ve chosen our office out of many to provide for their oral health care needs. So to our patients, we say thank you. Each and...
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Are You Just Brushing & Flossing, or Brushing & Flossing Well?
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....
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5 Reasons for Biological Dentistry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dVSscB7VlI To learn more about the tooth-body relationship, check out Dr. Rehme's article An Integrative Health Care Approach to Biological Dentistry and our previous post 6 Foundational Principles of Naturopathic Medicine &...
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From Our Archives: Beyond the Halloween Candy Same Ol’, Same Ol’ – Dozens of Ideas for Non-Candy Treats
Halloween is almost here, and for many kids, that brings up one thought: Candy!!! But we all know that all that sugar isn’t ideal, neither for their dental nor their overall health. We also know that Halloween candy is only the beginning of the deluge. Soon, the...
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Heavy Metals May Harm Your Heart
Of all the heavy metals, mercury is one of the worst for your health – and the most commonly encountered one in dentistry, thanks to its use in so-called “silver” amalgam fillings. Oh, there’s a little bit of silver in them, along with some tin, copper, and zinc....
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Good Bacteria, Antibiotics, & Your Immune System
Sometimes, a person can develop a raging bacterial infection that can only be controlled with antibiotics. When this happens, it makes good sense to use them. Unfortunately, we live in an age in which antibiotics have been severely overused. Sometimes, they’re...
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Grind Your Teeth? Got Gum Disease? The Two May Well Be Related
It’s long been thought that bruxing (tooth grinding) and gum disease are linked. Now, a new study in the Archives of Oral Biology sheds some new light on the matter. This small but intriguing study compared tooth grinding among two groups of patients, one with...
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