Want To Be In Excellent Health?
Posted on April 22, 2009 | Filed Under Health
Your Drugs May Not Be The Right Prescription
Teeth, gums and bone structure affect and are affected by one’s overall health. So it was fitting to study pharmacology in my dental training, since medications affect the system. In interviews with patients I am increasingly asked my opinion about their prescription drugs.
Such was the case with a new patient who admitted he was addicted to an anti-depressant, prescribed for the off-label purpose of handling his insomnia. Another patient consulted me about her teenage daughter’s headaches. Her daughter had seen several specialists who, unable to diagnose the cause of the girl’s headaches, prescribed an antidepressant, another off-label use of this med. Having treated TMJ patients for thirty years with headaches, I was able to discover what was causing them and give the girl relief – without drugs. The information I use has been around since the ‘90s, so isn’t new. But, it doesn’t involve surgery or drugs and so isn’t widely promoted. Read more
Look Ma’ No Cavities!
Posted on August 25, 2008 | Filed Under Dentistry, General, Health, St. Louis, Teeth Tips
For Boomers who grew up with this famous toothpaste commercial, I have a news flash: At your age, it’s no longer just about cavities!
If you’ve passed the age of forty, you really should have a mid-life diagnosis to evaluate the overall state of your oral health AND to plan a proper course of treatment that will enable you to keep your teeth for the remainder of your lifetime.
Patients over forty have often shortchanged their dental health or just barely maintained their teeth and gums. With the expense of family taking precedence through the previous two decades, Boomer-aged patients coming to me for the first time are often prepared to play catch-up with their own dental health.
Today you can plan a course of treatment that will ensure you’ve got your own teeth to chew with well into your senior years. In addition, nothing is more youthful than a natural-looking white smile. Unlike your parents, if you take care now you can have both.
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Got Bloody Gums?
Posted on July 25, 2008 | Filed Under Teeth Tips
OK, this isn’t as fun and sexy to talk about as cosmetic dentistry but it’s time to sound the alarm on one of the most common diseases around. It’s GUM DISEASE folks and 75% of Americans have some stage of it.
Sadly, most people think that it’s normal when gums bleed. If you washed your hands and they started to bleed, wouldn’t you get a little worried? Of course you would, yet most people don’t get worried about bleeding gums because no one is telling them it is serious gum disease that could be deadly!
The news about gum disease and it’s connection to our overall health continues to come up again and again in research and medicine. It’s time to get deadly serious about the disease that most of the planet still does not take seriously.
Here’s the good news! In our office we have the systems and technology to get gum disease under control 98% of the time without specialist surgery.
To schedule a gum disease check, call (314) 576-3000.
