by Pride Dental | Aug 8, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Over the past few months, we’ve been hearing a lot more dentists raise concerns about how trendy kombucha has become. “It’s bad for your teeth!” the headlines scream. But are those headlines true? Pretty much, yes. As we’ve noted before, for all the benefits of...
by Pride Dental | Aug 1, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition, Periodontal health
We know smartphones, tablets, and computers can be addictive. Heck, most of us know from personal experience. After all, who hasn’t deleted a time-sucking app or two from their phone? Even if you’ve done a pretty good job curbing your device dependence, you probably...
by Pride Dental | Jul 25, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition
We’re pretty sure you’re not thinking of type 2 diabetes or problems like stroke, coronary heart disease or dementia when you’re reaching for a zero cal energy drink or that brightly-colored paper packet to open into your morning coffee – all conditions that research...
by Pride Dental | Jul 18, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
By Charles G. Brown, Executive Director of Consumers for Dental Choice and president of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry The continued use of dental amalgam, a primitive pre-Civil War device that is 50% neurotoxic mercury, is in increasing disrepute, as...
by Pride Dental | Jul 11, 2019 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
As more people become informed about the risks of mercury amalgam “silver” fillings, some progress has been made on the road to mercury-free, mercury-safe dentistry for all. There are a couple recent developments that we wanted to be sure to tell you about. The...