What Makes “Safe Mercury Removal” Safe? Being SMART!
Because mercury is such a toxic element, particularly dangerous when inhaled, we go to great lengths to protect the health of our patients, ourselves, and our planet whenever we remove "silver" mercury amalgam fillings to replace them with biocompatible...
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The Perio-Systemic Link
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....
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Is Juice Really as Bad for Your Teeth as Soda?
Once upon a time, people thought Diet Coke was something healthy. After all, it didn’t have all that added sugar. Of course, today, we know synthetic sweeteners cause problems of their own. Now a new study in JAMA Open reminds that another drink many think of as...
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The Mouth – Body – Mind Connection
Chronic inflammation is one of the common denominators of gum disease and systemic illness. But “systemic” includes more than just physical conditions but mental, as well. Through recent years, there’s been a rising tide of both medical and media interest in the...
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Sunlight & Vitamin D – It Does a Mouth & Body Good
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...
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“Indisputably, 21st Century Technology Is Mercury-Free Dentistry”
Last month, landmark legislation was introduced to bar the state of Maine from using in taxpayer money to pay for mercury amalgam fillings. “If amalgam were a necessity in dentistry, it would be one thing,” wrote the bill’s sponsor, Senator Mike Carpenter with...
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Why Gum Disease Is a Very Big Deal
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....
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Good Nutrition Is the Foundation
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...
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For Better Oral Health, Move More
Exercise might be the last thing you think of when it comes to ways of taking care of your teeth (well, unless you’re a regular reader and remember this post), but it’s true. Yes, exercise. Physical activity. Walking. Running. Swimming. Working out at the gym....
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“Like Inviting in an Arms Manufacturer to Exhibit at a Peace Convention”
GMOs are one of the last things you’d probably expect to find at a natural food show, but there they were at the world’s largest natural food trade show, Natural Products Expo West. Present and accounted for was Impossible Foods, whose signature product, the...
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