by staff | Oct 15, 2023 | Appliance Therapy
Sleep is when your body does its maintenance work. Toxins are swept from your brain. Tissues rebuild. Memories are consolidated. Energy is restored. It should be no surprise, then, that lack of sleep can interfere with your health. This maintenance work can’t be done... 
by staff | Oct 12, 2023 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
As many of us were baking pies and whipping up marshmallow-laden sweet potato casseroles and other carborific dishes for our Thanksgiving feasts, the sugar industry was coming under fire – again – for for operating by Big Tobacco’s playbook. As the New York Times... 
by staff | Oct 9, 2023 | Holistic Dentistry
Keeping your mouth healthy, as we’ve said, is largely a matter of controlling the billions of bacteria that live there. A good many of them are actually helpful, but others aren’t so nice: S. mutans. P. gingivalis, F. nucleatum, Actinomyces…and the list goes on. A... 
by staff | Oct 6, 2023 | Periodontal Health
As we mentioned last week, though diet and hygiene are the foundation for good oral health, other factors have an impact, too – factors most people just don’t think about. Exercise, for instance. Now, a new study in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology offers some... 
by staff | Oct 3, 2023 | Periodontal Health
Although you might think of stress as something oppressive and unwanted, it’s actually an important survival mechanism. It’s your body’s automatic response in the face of a threat. All systems go into fight-or-flight mode, marshalling resources to help you either...
