To continue on our current journey of sharing with you the really common oral hygiene questions we get from our customers, today let’s discuss a counter-culture idea that really deserves some careful thought: If we eat well, do we need to brush our teeth at all??? Q: I eat a paleo/primal diet and our ancestors…Read More
How do I remove plaque from lower front teeth?
We are blessed to receive lots of oral health-related questions from folks like you each day. Overall, the questions cover all sorts of oral health issues, but our readers also commonly ask about how to brush their teeth correctly. We love to dive into interesting, important, and sometimes obscure topics like how oil pulling helps…Read More
Understanding the root cause of tooth decay and gum disease
You aren’t satisfied with the generally-recognized-as-true stories from our culture like, “I get cavities because I don’t brush and floss enough” Like us, you don’t settle for the ‘official’ story, and instead seek to find the root cause. When you really take a close look at the research, the root cause that provokes the breakdown in…Read More
How to create a healthy brushing routine with your toddler or young child
Let’s face it, getting our kids to brush their teeth can be a challenge. But, we know it’s important to help support our child’s long-term health by establishing healthy oral hygiene habits early in their life. Parents often reach out to us with questions like: “Is it best to just pin the toddler down and…Read More
Can a routine visit to the dentist actually cause tooth decay?
Is it possible that a routine dental visit could actually increase the risk of tooth decay by making remineralization of surface decay more difficult? We love our dentist friends. They provide us so much clinical, ‘from the trenches’ insight to share with you. Among the dentists we are so honored to call our friend is…Read More
How to determine if a toothpaste ingredient is safe to use in the mouth?
There’s a lot of controversy around commercial toothpaste and mouthwash ingredients, like fluoride or xylitol (not to mention the stranger ingredients that we can barely pronounce). As consumers, how are we supposed to determine if an oral hygiene product’s ingredients are safe to use from a whole-body perspective? Every week we are blessed to receive…Read More
Start here to optimize your oral hygiene
We get it. We’re all busier than we’ve ever been. And while the internet provides so much access to information, sifting through the noise online to find the insights and gems we seek on a specific topic can be a challenging prospect sometimes. Yet with the recent explosion of new research around the importance of…Read More
Can some plaques actually help our teeth stay healthy?
This article is the second in the series on how to be a ‘good conductor’ of the symphony in your mouth. In the first article, How to Balance Your Oral Flora, we introduced the oral microbiome and debunked the overly simplistic cultural myth that ‘all plaque (biofilm) is bad’. In this second article, we’ll walk…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
“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