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 proper facial development and growing the airway ...

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, and bad breath. ...

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 and going to bed without ...

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 news you ...

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 of the Body. Where he ...

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. Yet, dental disease is still at ...

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 ...