by Pride Dental | Mar 14, 2019 | Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Oral Health
Natural sugars eaten in whole foods are one thing; added sugars are quite another. Among other things, too much sugar fuels chronic inflammation that can drag down oral and systemic health alike. And that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. As Robert... 
by Pride Dental | Feb 14, 2019 | Periodontal health
Researchers have increasingly noted that poor oral health appears to be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia (not to mention other chronic inflammatory conditions). What is unclear is whether gum disease is actually the cause. New research in... 
by Pride Dental | Jan 10, 2019 | Biological Dentistry
Most new year’s resolutions are health-related, yet when most folks think about “health,” they’re usually not thinking about the mouth. Yet conditions in the mouth, as Dr. Reinhold Voll famously taught, may be implicated in up to 90% of all... 
by Pride Dental | Nov 21, 2018 | Periodontal health
It’s great to see the mainstream catching up to what biological dentistry has long held: Oral conditions can have systemic effects – and vice versa. In fact, Dr. Reinhold Voll – one of the pioneers on the way to biological dentistry – taught that up to 90% of all... 
by Pride Dental | Sep 6, 2018 | Periodontal health
As the evidence linking gum disease to other inflammatory health conditions continues to mount, even conventional dentistry is starting to acknowledge the truth of the mouth-body connection. Cardiovascular disease. Stroke. Diabetes. Alzheimer’s. Rheumatoid arthritis....