Queen of Dental Hygiene

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The Power of Oxygen-Ozone Therapy

Queen of Dental Hygiene

As dental professionals, our goal is to help enable our patient to have a healthy oral cavity. One of the very best tools in our dental therapeutic toolbox is unknown to most of the dental profession. It is not a medicine but rather the essence of life itself- oxygen- but even better- super oxygen- in the form of oxygen-ozone therapy. It is the safest medical therapy ever derived, it plays an important role in health, healing, and our wellbeing.

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Journey to Become a “BioLogical” Healer

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Ten years ago this month, I started my dental health blog. The most important part of my patient care is giving my patients information. Appointment times are far too short to scrape tartar, polish teeth, take x-rays or perio probe gums, and get the doctor to do an exam AND do patient education. So, thanks to my lovely daughter and editor, I started writing weekly articles for my patients.

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Children Get Gum Disease Too

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Parents always ask me, “Does my child have any cavities?” What I also want parents to wonder and ask; “Does my child have gum disease?” People – parents – don’t know what they don’t know! Too often, we dismiss a “little bleeding” or tartar buildup in children (never mind adults) as poor oral hygiene and admonish them to brush and floss. Yet, this build up of plaque and bleeding are actually signs of infection and inflammation which cannot resolve on its own with more brushing or different toothp

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Defeat Dry Mouth

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We need to talk about dry mouth. Not a day goes by I don’t have a patient or two that is affected by it. If you have it, you know how very uncomfortable it is, and are desparately seeking relief and solutions. Dry and Parched For those with severe dryness, it means life is uncomfortable. Without that elixir of life- saliva-things in the mouth fall apart rapidly.

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The Truths About Fluoride

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This blog has been a little quiet of late. I have been invited to give a two-hour presentation to the San Joaquin Valley Dental Hygienists’ Association on the controversies surrounding fluoride. It has taken time to unearth the real, hidden truths surrounding the most used tool in dental hygiene. The information I will be sharing may shock you.

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The Whole Tooth

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Group Smiles are the best! Today’s post is about some teeth “basics” What their functions are, what they are made of, and their inner workings. For most, this may be just a review, but important information because the next few articles will be about tooth sensitivity: its causes, and how to help stop or at least reduce it. For that, you need this basic information first.

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Day 30: Journey to Oral Health

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Health and Healing Thank you my fabulous reader for joining me on my quest to write a daily blog post for the month of June. This journey has been so fun as we got to explore all the things that need to be included in wha itt takes to have a healthy mouth and thus a healthy body. Oral health includes not only toothbrushing and cleaning inbetween the teeth, but also tongue cleaning, nasal breathing, saliva, deep restful sleep, colorful food, drinking water, a healthy gut, and feeding the microbio

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