I was recently asked to participate on the Everyday Health Dental Expert panel. Here are some short answers to the questions they asked their expert panel. 1. Do over-the-counter teeth-whitening products work as well as professional options? In some cases over the counter whitening products do help achieve the results the patient is looking for. In office [...]
Posted in Beauty, Comfort, Health | Tagged amalgam, bisphosphonates, braces, bump, clear correct, coffee, cosmetic, deciduous, Health, heart, hospital, invisalign, lingual, makeover, orol, periodontal, smoking, stain, veneers, whitening | Leave a commentHaving spent close to 10 years learning and the last 5 years teaching, with Dr. John Kois at the Kois Institute in Seattle, Wa., I’ve become particularly aware of the role science plays in expanding our medical and dental horizons. As John says when talking about what we do as dentists, “show me the science”. [...]
Posted in Health, In the News | Tagged clinical, Dr. John Kois, Dr. Richard Hodin, laparoscopic, robot, scientific, surgery | Leave a commentI came across this information recently and thought it would be good to share. “Food for thought” so to speak. Enjoy! RMS Robert H. Listig, MD a UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged atkins, Bitter, corn syrup, endocrinology, fructose, intervention, leptin, McDonalds, obesity, sugar | Leave a commentAfter recently attending a continuing education session at the Greater New York Dental Meeting about “Cancer Prevention in the 21st century” I was happy to learn that we do have some control of our own destiny for better health. The speaker, Dr.Tieraona LowDog, discussed dietary factors and the role they play in cancer prevention. Obesity [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged cancer, diet, Dr. Tieraona LowDog, obesity, prevention | Leave a commentWhen I was a kid the accepted way for dentists to treat cavities was drill ‘em and fill ‘em. Sometimes they even used “Novocain”. When I was in dental school the philosophy of care was changing and “prevention” was the key word; brush and floss, break up the colonies of bacterial “plaque” before they could [...]
Posted in Health, In the News | Tagged bacterial, care, novocain, philosophy, plaque | 1 CommentGUMS GINGIVITIS GENES What’s the connection? Researchers at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill along with Procter & Gamble Oral Care published a report in the December 2009 Journal of Periodontology documenting a connection between swollen gums and the genetic code. Traditionally when your dentist discussed with you that you had “swollen gums” he [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged genes, gingivitis, gums | Leave a commentWho would have ever thought that business would condone “sleeping on the job”? It’s true. According to a recent article in the Harvard Health Letter (Vol 35, Nov 2009), companies like Google are encouraging naps at work. How can this be? Recent sleep studies have shown sleep improves learning, memory and creative thinking. According to [...]
Posted in Health, In the News | Tagged google, job, naps, resting, sleeping | Leave a commentAs I’ve said before, as dentists we wear many different hats; we’re clinicians, biologists, artists and scientists. As scientists and clinicians we should be basing our treatment decisions and recommendations on scientific facts and evidence, not hearsay. That’s the basis of evidence based science. Two articles in this past Sunday’s newspaper caught my attention. The [...]
Posted in Health, In the News | Tagged artist, biologist, clinicians, kolata, robot, scientific, scientist, stress, surgery, tooth grinding, Winerip | Leave a commentFor several years I’ve been talking to my patients about a comprehensive integrated approach to dental care that evaluates how comfortable it is to chew and how the “chewing machine” is working. This is the “comfort” part in the Health-Comfort-Beauty” triangle. How nice to see that in the JOHN HOPKINS MEDICAL LETTER “HEALTH AFTER 50”, [...]
Posted in Comfort, Health, In the News | Tagged Beauty, behavioral counseling, bite, Comfort, Health, heat, jaw, medication, night guard, physical therapy, rest, surgery, TMD, tmj | Leave a commentAs I’ve said before, in a world that is changing so rapidly in terms of technology, social interaction and economics, we’re trying hard to remain ahead of the curve. How do we change and stay in touch with our patients? How have their dental concerns about health, comfort and beauty changed over the last 18 [...]
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