Is Your Dentist Holistic or “Fauxlistic”?
Holistic and biological dentistry aren’t things that are taught in dental school. Rather, they’re ways of doing dentistry that practitioners pursue in addition to their standard training, involving many years of additional education in a wide variety of fields....
Cavities & Other Oral Infections Can Harm the Brain, Too
Of course, gum disease isn’t the only oral condition that can affect the health of your brain. Any infection in the mouth has the potential to spread and do damage - even caries, better known as tooth decay. From the Mouth to the Heart to the Brain A couple summers...
Taking Good Care of Your Teeth & Gums Is Taking Good Care of Your Brain
Take a moment to think about the distance between your teeth and your brain. Once you recognize just how close they are, it’s a lot easier to see how dental conditions could affect the health of your brain. Bacteria and other toxins from the mouth don’t have that far...
A Device-Free Solution for Snoring: NightLase
If you share a bed with someone who snores, you know how annoying it can be. It can even be the inspiration for separate bedrooms, as is the case for almost 70% of Boomers who say they sleep apart. It can even be the motivation for divorce. Snoring has its downsides...
Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF): Faster Healing, Better Healing, More Comfortable Healing after Oral Surgery
Whatever we do in biological dentistry, we want it to be in harmony with human physiology and each individual’s unique biochemistry. It needs to be biocompatible - compatible with life. That goes for materials and techniques alike. There’s one tool that we frequently...
Using Ozone Can Mean Better Dental Implant Outcomes
If we had to choose one tool as the single most versatile one that we use in providing biological dental care to patients here in our Boise office, we would probably have to say medical grade ozone. A powerful disinfectant, ozone gas can be used to treat surface decay...
Need to Replace Teeth? Why You May Want to Opt for Ceramic Dental Implants
You might think of tooth loss as something experienced mainly by kids and old folks, but a person can lose teeth at any age. Usually, it’s because of gum disease. But sometimes it’s root canal teeth with residual infection that need to be extracted, or healthy teeth...
Biological Dentistry Is Dentistry that Supports Your Total Health
Oral health and whole body health are intertwined. That might not seem like a radical concept, but it’s one that was largely forgotten in mainstream dentistry until relatively recently. Now, even the National Institutes of Health includes it in its reporting on...
4 Reasons to Baby Your Teeth During Pregnancy
You’re having a baby! Excitedly, you contacted friends and family to share the life-changing news, but did you also remember to call your dentist? You might wonder, “What does my dentist have to do with our new addition to the family?” More than you might realize.
Gulp! Gulp! Youch!—What Causes Brain-Freeze?
It’s hot out and you’re sooo thirsty! You get yourself an ice, cold slushie and begin to slurp it back…then it happens: That instant intense pain in your forehead! Ouch! The Brain-Freeze It’s often called brain-freeze, ice cream headache…