DO YOU BRUSH AND FLOSS TWICE PER DAY FOR YOUR HEART? This is yet another study in the continuing saga relating good oral health to overall health. In this particular study, those with poor oral hygiene had a 70% greater risk of having heart disease. That’s something to pay attention to. Now, I’m sure this […]
US Dental groups sued over use of mercury Remember that the ADA was formed mainly to promote the use of mercury as safe in amalgam fillings. There is now no question that mercury from fillings can and does end up in the bloodstream and breast milk, and that mercury is very toxic to the human […]
Functional polymorphism in promoter of progesterone receptor gene associated with endometrial cancer risk Hate to beat up on today’s clinicians, but here we go again…the research is loaded with relationships between single gene nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and disease risk and tests to determine many of these SNPs are readily available, cheap and easy to do. […]
Heart attack statistics stem from multiple factors; the famous one cause : one cure model that dominates medicine just doesn’t fit here. It would be wonderful, though, if this were true. That means that treating everyone with a statin to lower his or her cholesterol would actually work. Or lowering everyone’s high blood pressure with […]
I’m not saying that you should cancel your next dental checkup, but we need to start viewing oral health from the context of a whole body approach. Lest the dentists out there remove themselves from my email list, the relationship goes both ways–good oral health is also required for good overall health. So let’s start with […]
