Nothing Routine About Radiation
Radiation is literally everywhere. A good amount of it is actually natural radiation, like that found in soil and rocks, cosmic rays from space, and even within your own body. But nearly half of human exposure to radiation is for dental or medical reasons, like...
Serious New Science on Soybean Oil
Since the early 1900s, consumption of soybean oil has increased more than 1000-fold, despite research raising one red flag after another about the potential negative effects of this highly processed product on human health. Soybean oil - often labeled as vegetable...
The Huge Healthcare Cost of Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea affects roughly 22 million Americans, making it as common as type 2 diabetes. But unlike diabetes, it’s a whole lot easier to ignore despite the impact it can have on your physical and mental health - not to mention your relationships, your job, and...
Whole Fat Leads to Less Fat
While cow’s milk doesn’t have to be a part of a healthy diet, in North America it generally is, especially for kids. “Just make it reduced-fat,” the purveyors of conventional wisdom say, concerned about overweight and obesity. But a new review and meta-analysis of...
The Link Between Screen Time & Cavities in Kids
Nearly every adult with a smartphone occasionally worries about screen time, especially if you’ve experienced your own tiny (or big) addiction to Instagram, a game, or those texts you send your best pal throughout what’s supposed to be a slightly more productive...
What Can Happen When You Cut Corners on Teeth Whitening
For many, the beginning of a new year often comes with a personal to-do list: be more grateful, make a difference at work, clean out the garage. Nearly everybody has one, even if just in their head. Self-improvement is often the goal. So, just as weight-loss...
For Healthy Holidays, Try a Little Tradition
Scrumptious foods and the holiday season go hand-in-hand, but often, those foods are filled with the kinds of things you aim to avoid when eating healthfully - a glut of sugar and other refined carbs, with nary a veggie in sight. But you don’t have to sacrifice...
New Studies Highlight Fluoride’s Effects on Children’s Developing Brains
Over the past few months, a pair of Canadian studies on fluoride exposure and children’s IQ have made quite a splash here in the States, to say the least. The first, published in JAMA Pediatrics this summer, involved 601 mother/child pairs from 6 major cities in...
Getting the Message on Mercury to the FDA
This past summer, the FDA put out a call for consumer input on medical devices, including dental amalgam. Hundreds of comments poured in, and 94% percent of them had to do with the adverse health effects of “silver” mercury amalgam fillings. Some stories came from...
Stress Relief Begins with the Act of Thanksgiving
For many, holidays stir up an odd mix of emotions. There’s joy in family traditions and get-togethers but also sadness for family and friends no longer with us or longing for loved ones far away. Your excitement for celebrations may also come with anxiety, thanks...
More Evidence for Ozone’s Role in Dentistry
One of the great things about dental ozone - beyond its power to fight infection - is its versatility. It can be incorporated into any number of treatments, from simple fillings to complex oral surgery. Over the years, research has shown the ability of ozone to...
Great Motivation for Stay-at-Home Meals
When your goal is coming up with nutritious and delicious meals for yourself and your family, it’s easy to fall into a rut. Every week it’s Meatless Monday, Taco Tuesday, Whatever Is in the Fridge Wednesday - you’ve been there. Yet while you know home-cooked meals...
The Trick To a Sugar-Free (& Stress-Free) Holiday Season
With today being Halloween, chances are you’ve already watched It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! - if not this year, then in one of the past 50+ years the Peanuts’ special has been on the air. The plot, where Linus waits in vain all Halloween night for the...
Chronic Inflammation: The Two-Way Relationship Between Periodontal Disease & Diabetes
Dentists have long known about the relationship between gum disease and diabetes, and science has continued to deepen our understanding of what that relationship is all about. This is the focus of a new review in the BDJ, exploring these two chronic diseases that...
The Beef Over Red Meat Is Over (We Hope)
The internet’s been aflame over red meat the past couple weeks, thanks to a comprehensive and meticulous review just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It’s conclusion? Despite incessant warnings from the likes of the American Heart Association and the...
Got Pesticides & Antibiotics? How Organic Stacks Up Against Conventional Milk
When it comes to a nutritious diet, there’s plenty of research showing the positive impact of eating organic fruit and veg, if only to avoid the pesticides on and in conventional produce. Is there a similar benefit to organic milk? Researchers at Emory University...
A Look Back at…PRF: Supporting Faster, Better Healing – Biocompatibility
Originally posted October 18, 2018; updated from the original One of the aims in holistic dentistry is to prevent exposure to toxins. So we steer clear of things such as mercury amalgam and fluoride. At the same time, we want to support the body’s natural healing...
Mouthwashes Can Kill the Good Bacteria Along with the Bad, & That’s a Problem
Mouthwash isn’t an essential part of oral hygiene, but a lot of folks still like to use it - and we can get behind it, so long as the rinse is chosen with care. Some contain fluoride. Some over-the-counter rinses may raise the risk of conditions like cancer and...
The Perils of Periodontal Disease: Osteoarthritis Edition
When it comes to the mouth-body connection, we know that whole body health issues can often be traced back to problems in the mouth. And when it comes to gum disease - a condition affecting up to 80% of Americans - the links to systemic health challenges are many. ...
Vaping & Smoking Are Equally Awful When It Comes to Periodontal Disease
While the dangers of vaping have been all over the news lately, that vaping is no good for your health is hardly news in and of itself. We first blogged about it a couple years ago. The immediate concern is focused largely on causing a host of respiratory...