A root canal tooth is a dead tooth. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on inside it. Though the tooth is sealed at the top, what’s in the tooth is free to escape through the roots and enter the circulatory system – including any pathogens remaining within the tooth and, more importantly, their […]
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Root Canals Raise Your Risk of Chronic, Systemic Illness
About this time every year, the American Association of Endodontists tells us that it’s “Root Canal Awareness Week” – an opportunity for concentrated spin on the wonders of a procedure that’s not all that different from mummification, only with a tooth instead of a complete corpse. And that’s what a root canal is: a dead […]
From the Archives: Choosing the Path to Your Preferred Future
Originally published on August 29, 2013 When you’re sick for a long time and your doctors can’t say why or offer much of any treatment beyond “managing” your symptoms for the rest of your life, you may start looking beyond the medical establishment for answers. This is how many people “discover” biological dentistry even exists, […]
The Complexity of Modern Illness
Just as 2015 was getting underway, there was a sudden flurry of chatter swirling about headlines like this: That “bad luck” spin came courtesy of the headline on a press release about a new study in Science, which suggested that only about a third of all cancers can be attributed to environmental factors. The rest […]
A Pearl of an Anniversary: Gone Mercury-Free
There’s an important anniversary coming up – important to us and our office and patients, at least. As of this November, it will have been 30 years since Dr. Glaros placed a mercury amalgam filling. Several months after that fateful day, Dr. Glaros described his transition to mercury-free dentistry in our newsletter – along with […]
Choosing the Path to Your Preferred Future
When you’re sick for a long time and your doctors can’t say why or offer much of any treatment beyond “managing” your symptoms for the rest of your life, you may start looking beyond the medical establishment for answers. This is how many people “discover” biological dentistry even exists, learning that there may […]
Sugar & the Modern Food Environment
Sugar has one thing going for it: It makes things taste good. And it’s a taste we’re born to prefer. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity. The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed […]
When Chronic Illness Starts in the Jawbone
Like many people, Suzin Stockton discovered the link between oral and systemic health first hand – through her own health struggles. Her research and continuing education led her to biological dentistry and a deep understanding of how focal infection and other sources of oral and dental toxins undermine whole body health. As she says at […]