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Mind Your Oral Microbes for Your Best, Healthiest Self
Today’s post will talk about how your efforts at oral hygiene reach far beyond those teeth/gums. What you do in the mouth affects your entire body and in particular, brain health. How can we use this...
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Mind Your Mouth
Dental health is about so much more than just what toothbrush and toothpaste to use. Oral wellness is THE key to how healthy you are going to be into your senior years. Today’s post is dear to my...
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The Breathing and Sleep Health Kids Summit
Hello Loyal Readers! I hope you’ll join me for The Breathing and Sleep Health for Kids Summit. https://queenofdentalhygiene–healthymouthmedia.thrivecart.com/2022-summit-all-access-package-69/ I will...
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A Perfect Kiss
What makes up the perfect kiss? As an expert in the oro-facial-respiratory complex, I thought I might just delve into this fun and delightful topic. There is so much more to know about puckering up in...
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Revelations of the Paper Tape Sleep Revolution
Want to sleep better, deeper, dream and wake refreshed? Here’s a secret- use your nose for breathing. So simple to say, yet most folks don’t. Their mouths “fall” open at night, they snore, they stop...
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Day 22: Did You Know?
Today’s nugget of new news you can use is all about the research that talks about fluoride. We are almost done with the month. I hope you have learned lots about all kinds of things healthwise. The...
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The Importance of Chewing
Yesterday’s blog post was all about bottles, the infant suck-swallow motion, the mature swallow. Today’s article is on chewing and how to grow healthy babies into healthy adults. It all comes down to...
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Day 25: Let Food Be Thy Medicine
Healthy food- Eat the Rainbow In dental hygiene, we focus so much on being “antibacterial”. We worry about all the bad bugs and what they do in the mouth to create and foster tooth decay, gum disease,...
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The Truth about Tartar
Tartar Buildup Behind the Front Teeth Why, Oh Why do some teeth (people, actually, but poetic license here) build up tartar and others never do? I’d always secretly blamed it on folks just being lazy...
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Day 27: Ozone Magic
Ozone makes the sky blue Ozone is my magical secret weapon against oral disease. It deserves a full-on, long and detailed write up, but in keeping (or trying to keep) to my goal of ” tidbits of new...
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Day 28: The Mighty Tongue
Tongue can’t reach “the Spot” An oldie from 2015 but a really important goodie! Bringing it back out to remind you how important the tongue is in facial growth and development. The Tongue is the Ruler...
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The A, B, C’s of Oral Health
Food IS Medicine What if we, in the dental profession, are doing dental healthcare all wrong? We continue to scale, polish, and lecture about oral hygiene, and our patients do their best to comply....
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Day 30: Journey to Oral Health
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...
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The Whole Tooth
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...
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The Truths About Fluoride
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...
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Defeat Dry Mouth
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 desperately seeking relief and...
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Children Get Gum Disease Too
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...
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Day 25: Let Food Be Thy Medicine
Healthy food- Eat the Rainbow In dental hygiene, we focus so much on being “antibacterial”. We worry about all the bad bugs and what they do in the mouth to create and foster tooth decay, gum disease,...
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The Truth about Tartar
Tartar Buildup Behind the Front Teeth Why, Oh Why do some teeth (people, actually, but poetic license here) build up tartar and others never do? I’d always secretly blamed it on folks just being lazy...
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Day 27: Ozone Magic
Ozone makes the sky blue Ozone is my magical secret weapon against oral disease. It deserves a full-on, long and detailed write up, but in keeping (or trying to keep) to my goal of ” tidbits of new...
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