We look forward to educating you on treatments and healthy habits that will continue to ensure your oral health stays excellent! We will continue to follow trends in oral health and do our best to explain what they are and their importance.
As a dental office, our blog will be focused on all aspects of oral health. Whether it will be about treatments that can be taken care of in our office or another, we strive to educate and stress the importance of oral health.
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Scientists have known that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is exacerbated and sometimes even pushed to manifest itself by the presence of periodontal disease. While their connection has only recently been scientifically confirmed, medicine held inklings of their intertwinement long into the past. The historical treatment for systematic illnesses like RA often centered around the teeth, with pulling teeth or a round... read more »
While our teeth and gums are the well-known focus of dental work, this practice has expanded their care to include further areas of oral health. This blog post centers on one such treatment: laser therapy for snoring and related conditions. As a common affliction, medicine developed many treatments for snoring. The most recognizable are machine-focused, with devices like the CPAP... read more »
This blog post continues our investigation into PBM therapy and takes a closer look at the effects and applications of the PBM therapy available at our dental office. While in the last post we discussed the increased cellular respiration and oxygenation PBM therapy stimulates, in certain wavelengths the practice creates other beneficial effects. Specifically, the wavelength of our PBM therapy... read more »
Instead of reaching for the medicine cabinet next time you have a toothache, you may want to reach for a red light! A light or laser treatment in many cases is now just as effective, if not more so, at managing and relieving pain than an aspirin or ibuprofen. To that end, this blog post explores the history and function... read more »
Though lasers may seem to be a tool of the future, they are much more prevalent in everyday life than most of us realize. The dental industry is no exception; there are lasers used in all aspects of oral care—mapping teeth structures, destroying malignant substances or whitening teeth—with varying intensities. This blog post serves as an introduction and teaser to... read more »
Many items come to mind when imagining the tools of oral health: toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash…the list goes on. But seldom would a person consider their diet, the eating of an orange or wasabi as part of their dental routines, as part of an effort to defend against tooth decay. However, there are myriad and plentiful natural solutions to the issue... read more »
Generally, humanity’s oral health has solely improved. With increased access to their hygiene tools and doctors who specialize in their health and beauty, our teeth have altogether never looked better. We imagine the crooked or wooden teeth of the past, and tut, enjoying how far technology and science have come. But there are even more differences between ancient and modern... read more »
Hormones are famous for causing many bodily changes: acne, hair growth and voice cracks. But it also has subtler and more holistic bodily effects beyond the pubescent embarrassments. Oral health is an unexamined and unspoken health aspect that the human phases of hormonal change have significant effects on. The most obvious and universal human hormonal change is puberty. However, a... read more »
In the last blog post, we discussed the causes and prevalence of secondary tooth decay. This blog focuses on preventing secondary tooth decay and the budding technologies seeking to combat this persistent dental issue. The number one, and perhaps the most obvious, prevention for secondary tooth decay is no past tooth decay, aka no cavities at all. This is achieved... read more »
I recently had the frustration of being told I have a new cavity, formed where an old filling had worn down. My instinct was frustration: a moment of, “I thought I fixed that already!” A patient understandably assumes, having left that cavity in the past, it was a blip that was remedied and eventually forgotten. Unfortunately, secondary tooth decay (also... read more »
