Have you ever had a dentist tell you about the importance of nutrition? Not just the rhetoric of, ‘Don’t eat sugar,’ but have they really wanted to educate you about the critical role of nutrient-dense foods for creating optimal oral health (and whole-body wellness)? We’d never had this experience until years ago when we…Read More
How to Straighten Teeth Without Braces
We all want a radiant smile. While much of the radiance of a smile comes from within, whether we are letting our ‘Light’ shine or not, many of us still want a physically nice smile too. So when we turn our attention to dental braces, we come across another highly controversial subject in the oral health…Read More
How to Help Your Child Avoid Gum Disease
Since you’re here, you already know that gum disease is a huge silent epidemic in our global culture. The sad statistics don’t lie. If you choose to listen to the ‘official’ story from governmental data, 50% of adults in the US have advanced gum disease. We find a more accurate statistic from ‘in the…Read More
“Can Brushing After a Meal Damage My Teeth?”
At some point in the journey each of us takes toward optimal oral health, we wake up to realize that we have to take better care of our teeth and gums. Unfortunately, at this point, most of us simply increase what we are doing, assuming for example, “I must not be brushing my teeth…Read More
How to Safely and Effectively Remove Mercury from Your Brain and Body
Marisa is a 38-year-old woman, happy wife, and mother of 3 children. In many ways, her life is awesome. That is, except for the recent news that her father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “And he’s only 62”, she pondered. She thought that Alzheimer’s only struck old people in the last days of their…Read More
How to Make Your Teeth Whiter (without destroying your enamel)
Our culture is becoming increasingly fascinated with white teeth. With ‘news’ stories in front of us everyday showing us celebrities with their shiny, very white teeth, it seems that so many of us these days want to have an ultra white smile too. We are told that conventional teeth whitening (bleaching) is safe from…Read More
What’s the Safest and Most Effective Abrasive for Naturally Whiter Teeth?
The business of teeth whitening has become a gigantic global industry this past decade. From home whitening kits and ‘whitening’ toothpastes to dental office applied bleaching treatments and ‘whitening’ salons in Europe, it seems that our global culture wants to have a white smile. And understandably given all the unspoken qualities that a white…Read More
Can Tooth Whitening Treatments Destroy Your Teeth?
Writing about what’s wrong with conventional treatments has never been a favorite for us. As many of you who regularly read our articles know, we much prefer to discuss solutions to help each of us navigate the path to greater oral health. So, it’s in this spirit to help you along your path to a…Read More
Teeth Whitening – Methods and Differences
In order to fully address all the questions we get about how to whiten teeth, in this article we intend to establish some definitions and differences between current common whitening techniques. Once this foundation is in place, we can dive into the risks of whitening techniques, how to naturally whiten your teeth, and advanced strategies to…Read More
The First Step How to Whiten Your Teeth Naturally
The smile… the universal way we communicate health, beauty, friendliness, confidence, success, acceptance. It’s no wonder that we all want a healthy smile. Tooth whitening commercials and dental treatments are all too eager to give us one of those smashingly white smiles we see on all the ads on the internet, TV and in…Read More