We finally did it. Thanks to you sharing about our products with your friends and family, OraWellness has continued to grow through the years. We now have happy customers in 77 countries around the world. (Thank you ALL!) In order to keep up with inventory needs, we have grown up from a small, boutique production…Read More
Are dental x-rays safe?
The safety of dental x-rays is another one of those hotly debated subjects in the field of dentistry. Like with fluoride, both sides of the x-ray argument have merit. But once in the dental chair, it doesn’t matter if you are at risk of tooth decay, periodontal disease, or both, x-rays are the go-to diagnostic…Read More
Is Fluoride Safe to Use?
You know us—we really like to stay focused on solutions to help you navigate to greater oral health. Goodness knows there is plenty in this industry to ‘cry foul’ about, but that’s not our style. That’s why we avoid writing lots of articles that simply identify problems. We prefer to share solutions to problems instead…Read More
How to use essential oils to reduce dental appointment anxiety and pain
Essential oils have seen an amazing awakening in the past few years. No longer are essential oils considered some fringe, new age, hippie snake oil. A tremendous amount of clinical research has been conducted over the past several years to scientifically validate the benefits of using essential oils in medicine and dentistry. Of course, you…Read More
What’s in the HealThy Mouth Blend?
(And why is it so effective?)
One of the most common questions we receive about our HealThy Mouth Blend is why we chose each ingredient for the formula. So in this article, we’d like to share our HealThy Mouth Blend’s backstory, the role of each ingredient in the blend, and some of the formula’s various beneficial elements. In the spirit of…Read More
How to Tell if Your Oral Hygiene Products are Holistic or Not
Why is it that some oral hygiene products have seemingly insane ingredients in them while others are made with natural ingredients? Looking beyond profit margins and corporate darkness, how can some manufacturers actually think that their products are optimally helping when they contain ingredients that we consider to be ‘questionable’ at best? Today, let’s…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
How to determine if a toothpaste ingredient is safe to use in the mouth?
Why is there so much controversy on ingredients like fluoride, xylitol, and glycerin (not to mention all the ingredients we can barely pronounce) in commercial toothpastes and mouthwashes? How are we as consumers supposed to determine if an ingredient in an oral hygiene product is safe to use from a whole body perspective? Every…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