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Mind Your Mouth

Queen of Dental Hygiene

I want to review how oral diseases are directly connected to dementia, and what you can do NOW to change the possible trajectory of your future. I am not an expert in Alzheimer’s dementia but I have a loved one with this horrible disease. I am reading Dr. Dale Bredesen’s book The End of Alzheimer’s Program.

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The Many Benefits of Regular Dental Appointments

Broomfield Dentists / MountainAire

In fact, it’s so important that we should all be making regular dental appointments to ensure our teeth and gums are healthy. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the many benefits of regular dental appointments- from preventing tooth decay and gum disease to maintaining good overall health. Cardiovascular disease.

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Leaving the Land of Fluoride

Queen of Dental Hygiene

From the very start of dental hygiene school, I learned how “good fluoride was for teeth”, how “important a tool it was to use to help our patients have strong healthy teeth” and that is was the answer to all dental problem. Add more fluoride. Stronger prescription strength fluoride. It is not working.

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Tooth Decay: Hard Facts About Soft Teeth

Queen of Dental Hygiene

Our prehistoric ancestors had little decay. Dental disease does not just happen. You need to find the answer to “why” Dental Diseases, both tooth decay as well as periodontal disease are due to an imbalance of bacteria and other pathogens. When they do not know where to turn, they turn to the internet.

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Up Your Dental Game

Queen of Dental Hygiene

This blog’s been silent too long! The title of my talk to them was “Up Your Game” I spoke of all the many things we do in my biological dental office, Green City Dental to test for, treat and even more important, prevent dental diseases. The mouth is the window to our soul. AAOSH Presenter! Plaque is invisible.

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Those Pesky Perio Problems

Queen of Dental Hygiene

Periodontal disease, or as you may know it, gingivitis, is a symptom of a much bigger problem. Plaque, that soft stuff that accumulates on our teeth, is full of bacteria. Prehistoric man had plaque, yet little to no dental disease. Our diet changed, big time. This shifted the bacteria in our mouths and gut.

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Recipe for a Healthy Mouth

Queen of Dental Hygiene

We will start with the overview and then I will break it down further in future blog posts. In hygiene school we were taught that if only the patient followed all our recommendations, they would automatically get healthy teeth and gums. Oral health and wellness can be so complicated. You try hard, yet it never seems to be enough.