Calcium and Vitamin C- Not just good for bones

Most of us have heard by now of the importance of getting enough calcium in our diets to prevent bone loss as we age. But for many men and women getting enough calcium is a direct contradiction to what ever our most recent diet plan describes. The shocking truth is that new research has uncovered calcium as a preventive tool in oral care.

About 99 percent of the calcium in the human body is held in the bones and teeth. Calcium maintains healthy teeth and protects your teeth in an indirect way. Your teeth themselves are relatively inert, meaning that the calcium they contain usually stays there. Your jawbone is the potential problem. Like other bones, it gradually surrenders calcium for needs elsewhere in your body if you’re not consuming enough. As your jaw weakens, your teeth loosen, creating gaps where bacteria can invade, triggering infection, inflammation, and bleeding. In fact, the condition of your teeth and gums can be a window to the overall health of your bones. Not surprisingly, the first signs of osteoporosis are sometimes found by your dentist.

Nutritional recommendations to help keep you smiling include:

Drinking lots of water. Keeping your mouth moist is important in warding off tooth decay and periodontal diseases because it washes away food and neutralizes plaque.

Brushing and flossing after eating sticky foods such as raisins, fruit rolls or candy

Next time you are at your local San Diego dental office, ask how you can help protect those pearly whites

Cosmetic Dentistry: When Is The Best Time To Do It?

Isn’t it difficult to decide if cosmetic dentistry is something you should do? And if so, is now a good time to do it?

If you did not know what cosmetic dentistry was, just look into the bathroom mirror and smile.  Now open your mouth as big as you can.  The magic questions you have to ask yourself are, “Do I like what I see?” and “What do other thing of my smile or what is their impression of me as a result of looking at my smile?”

In this vain country we live in, perfection and looking younger is common theme found in all of our lives.  A perfect smile is just one of the more noticeable treatments we can actually delegate to a professional, a cosmetic dentist.

So if you don’t like what you see, how do you know what it should look like?  Do you have pictures of your beautiful smile when you were 16?  Do you clip magazine articles showing sexy models with perfect teeth?

The best approach to cosmetic dentistry is to go to a cosmetic dentist “who has an eye for aesthetics.”  Because ultimately, you can have the nicest dentist, whom you trust with all your heart, and still not get a good result.  Obviously, a trustworthy dentist with that “eye” is the ideal.

In fact, I know many dentists I would go to to get a filling or crown made on a back tooth but when it comes to cosmetic dentistry in the “smile zone”  (what you see when the lips frame the smile) you should really search for a dentist that knows what he or she is doing.

With front teeth dentistry, the stakes are much higher.  As a dentist, a crown on the front tooth is much more difficult to do than a crown on the back tooth… especially if the patient has high expectations.

Fortunately, technology has allowed dentists and their dental technicians (a crucial team member) to do some rather extraordinary dentistry that looks completely natural.  Porcelain in the hands of the right people, can be a dead match to natural enamel… and that’s the goal.

Now that we know what we want (a prettier smile), how to get it (go to a dentist with the “eye” for aesthetics), and know what material to use (porcelain), the next step in the decision process is, “when?”

When is the best time to get this type of work done?

Should I wait until later?

Here are three things you should consider.

1. Costs – everything increases with time… including the fees that the dentists charge.  This newer technology gives proven results but at the mercy higher costs.  Dental lab fees are higher.  Materials are getting more expensive.  The cost of running a business is getting higher.  Go to a cosmetic dentist and you will feel a hit to your purse.  It would be wishful thinking that cosmetic dentistry will be cheaper in the future.
2. Desires – do you want it now.  That’s probably the most difficult question because you are the one that is going to have to make that decision.  Do you have an event coming up… a wedding perhaps?  How important is it to you or the people that are going to see you to have a beautiful smile?
3. Current Conditions – what do my teeth and gums look like now?  Do your friends (the honest ones) tell your the truth?  Do you have spaces, crowding, yellow, multi-colored, jagged, crooked, fang like, short, gummy, or any snaggle-tooth type of smile?  Do you have cavities, missing teeth, or ugly dentistry that was done when you were in your 20s?  Cosmetic dentistry can and is ususally basic restorative dentistry.

Cosmetic dentistry is here and ready to make an impact on our lives because we desire it.  If you want to have that perfect smile and fast, it can be done but ultimately the decision is yours and yours alone.  Seek out the best in your area.  Make sure he or she is at the top of his or her game and uses the most natural products available.  You don’t want to be pretty and toxic.

For more information about cosmetic natural dentistry, don’t hesitate to call me, Dr. Marvin, San Diego dentist.  888-825-5351

Disease Prevention Starts With Detoxification First

I was reading a post on how a guy lost all of his articles.

“I like having a small library of articles
touching on how “only the body heals itself” and disease prevention
through whole food nutrition.”

I feel sorry for this guy because it has taken me many years to get my collection of information.  I think you should start doing the same.

I like how he states that “only the body heals itself” and disease prevention through whole food nutrition.

This is a great idea if you are a parent and start a child at a very early age (as we are doing with our children) but for most adults, we are already poisoned.

Take mercury fillings for instance.  My wife had a silver toxic filling placed in her mouth by yours truly while I was in dental school.  (Thanks Rhea for being my patient.  By being my patient, she helped me pass boards!)  Anyway… we soon after replaced the filling about 1 yr later with a porcelain inlay.

Well recently, Rhea has been going through this cleanse and visited a group of alternative medicine specialists in San Diego.  What she found out was that she had mercury toxicity.  And to think she only had one mercury filling in her mouth for only 2 years.  (she’s never had one before I ruined her.)

Now she has to go through a desensitization protocol so that she can eliminate the toxins.

Imagine the levels of toxicity if you had more than one of these fillings for more than 2 years?

Pretty sickening isn’t it?

Well… though this guy at the beginning of this post believes that nutrition is great for disease prevention, I think it is just as important to go through a detoxification/desensitization procedure first.

As a San Diego Dentist, I feel it is just as important to get the word out about holistic dentistry and mercury filling removal.  Nutrition is indeed important but not necessarily the first step.