Earlier this year, a French fashion magazine suggested that lip piercings might just be “the next go-to jewelry trend for an event or daily life.” (Allure, for one, begged to differ.) Of course, oral piercings are hardly new. The most recent data we could find says...
Since emerging in the 1970s and 80s, holistic and biological dentistry have led the way in acknowledging that conditions in the mouth can affect overall health, and vice versa, both physically and energetically. In fact, one of the towering figures in biological...
If you’ve got gum disease, one of the simplest things you can do to reverse it is just to change your diet. Research has shown that replacing sugars and other refined carbs with nutrient-dense plants and proteins can significantly improve gum health, even if your oral...
It wasn’t so long ago that dentists here in the US could get into trouble for speaking the truth about dental amalgam, even the basic fact that its main ingredient is mercury. Mercury, of course, is one of the most toxic elements to life and especially harmful to the...
Just as we don’t use mercury amalgam to fix decayed or damaged teeth, we don’t use titanium implants to replace missing teeth. A recent paper by German dentist and naturopath Dr. Johann Lechner and American dentist and implant expert Sammy Noumbissi simply confirms...
Although “silver” amalgam fillings have been used for almost 200 years now, there’s really not much to recommend them beyond the facts that they’re cheap, easy to place quickly, and can last a long time. But they also make teeth weaker because so much natural tooth...
Turmeric has long been used in Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s a great antioxidant, after all, helpful for reducing inflammation. Yet that’s just one of the many ways it’s been used to support healing. But the spice has antimicrobial properties, as...
While this year hasn’t quite brought the return to normalcy that lots of folks had hoped for, we’re definitely closer to it now than we were at this time last year. We even had something more like a regular Halloween, trick-or-treaters and all. That means we had a...
As you head down the hall to the treatment room for your new patient exam in our office, one of the first things you’ll likely notice are the multiple ozone generators. Ozone, after all, has a potential role to play in most every service we provide. Its ability to...
As a healthy mouth depends on a healthy body - and vice versa - everything you do to keep your body healthy, strong, and resilient also supports your oral health. There really is no separating the two. Even so, there are some nutrients that have come to be strongly...
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