From Our Archives: The Challenges of a Root Canal
Ozone is powerful stuff for fighting infection, reducing pain, and promoting healing. Yet according to a recent review of the research, it doesn't seem to be quite up to disinfecting a root canal treated tooth. Overall, the results demonstrated that ozone therapy...
The Future of Dentistry Is Mercury-Free – Because It Needs to Be
Though some American dentists continue to fill teeth with mercury amalgam, about half no longer do. That’s some serious progress in our fight for a mercury-free future! And they’re not just holistic or biological dentists. They’re dentists who have seen the global...
Biocompatibility Matters
Evidence shows the risk that “silver” mercury amalgam fillings pose to human and environmental health. Even the FDA now advises against them for roughly two-thirds of Americans. Still, many dentists prefer it, especially for filling the back teeth - teeth that...
A Few Notes on Iron, Anemia, & Oral Health
We all know that spinach is what gave Popeye his amazing strength. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxO758l7JVM But have you ever wondered why spinach and not some other vegetable? Back in 1870, Erich von Wolf, a German chemist, examined the amount of iron...
Real Kids Deserve Real Food
While research has shown that, overall, American kids’ dietary habits are improving, the truth remains that less than 1% of them eat in a nutritionally sound way. Most continue to consume an awful lot of junk. A new study in JAMA shows just how bad the average...
Guest Post: Omega-3s for Healthy Gums
This week, we're swapping posts with another biological dental office, Pride Dental in Arlington, TX. Our thanks to them for letting us share this post on the Tooth/Body blog - and for sharing our recent post on turmeric and gum health with their patients and other...
Oral Hygiene & COVID Spread: A Research Update
Early on in the pandemic, we saw a good amount of research on how certain oral hygiene practices, such as tongue cleaning and the use of various rinses, might slow the spread of COVID or offer some protection from the virus. Since then, science has offered...
Taking a Nutritional Approach to Gum Disease
If you ever had any doubt of just how much vitamin C matters to oral and whole body health alike, check out this 16th century English surgeon’s description of scurvy, a/k/a extreme vitamin C deficiency: Their gums were rotten even to the very roots of their teeth,...
Vitamin D3 & Your Jaws
Many decades ago, Dr. Weston Price showed how the shift from traditional foodways to the modern Western diet - with its softer foods and highly refined grains and sugars - resulted not just in more oral disease but a shift from broad, toothy smiles to crooked,...
Why Mercury-Safe, Mercury-Free Dentistry Matters, Part #347
Considering that US dentists have been filling teeth with mercury amalgam since the first part of the 19th century, it’s surprising to think that “the first-ever estimate of amalgam-restored teeth in the U.S.” was published only a couple months ago. And according...
