Is root canal treatment as painful as it sounds? Our Mackay dentists view root canal therapy as a great case study in pain management …
General Dentistry Articles
Chewing Gum & Oral Health Outcomes
Imagine a world of dentally perfect people languidly chewing sugarless gum. Chewing gum & oral health outcomes can be shared victories …
Disability & Getting Dental Care: What Are The Challenges?
Disability and dental care: what are the most compelling challenges? Parents with kids who are autistic or have intellectual disabilities can tell you that going to the dentist is often up there with the worst days of their lives …
What’s the Impact of Electronic Cigarettes on Oral Health?
What’s the impact of Electronic E-Cigarettes on oral health? Delving Into The Dental Consequences Of Vaping …
Copper Nanodots & Ionic Gel: Fighting Gum Disease Sci-Fi Style
Statistically, more than half the world population between the ages of 18 and 64 have issues with their gums. Bad news if you're one of them; good news if you're not. From gingivitis and gum recession to periodontitis, it's no wonder the bacteria creating these...
Dental Implant Hearing Aids
It’s a study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America rather than the Journal of the American Dental Association as one might reasonably expect. Like a lone, home-schooled Babel fish deciphering only one, rather than every language in the known...
That Periodontitis Raises Blood Sugar Levels Is Not Sweet News
Of all the things that most people want raised, a blood sugar level isn’t one of them. Award rates, living standards, access to education, ethics, eyebrows, awareness and spirits all hit the list waaay above that. It’s as if the periodontitis payload of horror isn’t...
Can Having Bad Oral Health Affect An Entire Country?
Can Having Bad Oral Health Affect An Entire Country? If it does, it sure makes ignoring and neglecting our oral health sound selfish. Although pretty much everything we do is selfish: we’re Homo sapiens. We’ve made an entire world for ourselves that way. In our...
Swollen Gums: What Lies Beneath The Inflammation?
More than 80% of chronic disease starts in the mouth. Curiously - according to the American Psychological Association - 80% of Americans have suffered the physical and emotional symptoms of stress in the last year. And that’s an accurate reflection of global stress...
Mercury: Great as a Planet, Lousy as a Leaky Amalgam Filling
Great as a planet, Mercury is pretty lousy as a leaky amalgam filling. It’s crucial to avoid mercury fillings in the future & have them safely removed by a dentist certified in the Safe Mercury Amalgam Removal Technique (SMART)…