Are you ready to go on an adventure? This journey requires great courage and an open mind. Today we want to explore one of the most common oral health myths in our culture: that all plaque is bad. It seems that modern culture loves to over-condense issues and subjects, categorizing things as right vs. wrong,…Read More
What Your Receding Gums Could Be Telling You…
Is there a connection between receding gums, snoring, and feeling less-than-energetic? Today we’re going to put several puzzle pieces in place to help us navigate not only to greater oral health but also to whole-being wellness. In a recent article titled, ‘What causes receding gums and how to stop it’ (which happened to be our…Read More
Are Dental Sealants Safe?
Dental sealants are heralded as one of the ‘great hopes’ to stop tooth decay in modern culture. Numerous research studies about sealants for teeth over the past 20 years have shown that sealants decrease tooth decay. But what’s really going on here? Are the results of the studies accurate or being manipulated to paint…Read More
How to Stop Receding Gums
This is the follow-up to What Causes Receding Gums and How to Stop it. In that article, we explored how gum recession can only happen when the underlying bone tissue of the upper and/or lower jaw has diminished through the process of demineralization. Today, we will explore various strategies for supporting and optimizing jaw bone…Read More
How Nutrition Plays a Foundational Role in Stopping and Reversing Gum Disease
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 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
Is Xylitol Safe to Brush With?
Why are some subjects, like xylitol, so polarized? Some experts praise them while others throw them under the bus? In the same vein as our article on the safety of brushing with baking soda, today let’s explore whether it’s a safe and wise choice to use xylitol in the mouth on a regular basis.
Is Baking Soda Safe to Brush With?
“Is baking soda safe to brush with?“ “Will I damage my teeth if I brush with baking soda?“ These are just a couple of the many ‘baking soda safety’ questions that we commonly receive from readers like you. There are experts who claim that regularly brushing with baking soda can cause wear on tooth enamel…Read More
Is Your Cell Phone Causing Your Teeth to Decay? (and how to stop it)
Have you ever been using your cell phone and felt/heard a weird sort of buzzing/whining sound? I have and it freaked me out. I felt a high pitched stinging feeling into my ear. Having this first-hand experience has caused me to really take a closer look at what impact cell phones could have on our…Read More
How to Stop Two Common Habits that Cause Crooked Teeth
We all want to have a bright, healthy smile, right? It’s the unspoken sign of health, happiness and friendship across the planet. Whether our motive is for the visual impact of a beautiful smile (guys, read handsome) or the logistic fact that crooked teeth are tougher to keep clean, having straight teeth is a universal…Read More