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How Menopause Affects Teeth and Gums Every significant change in hormone levels has an effect on the gums and on the other nearby tissues that support the teeth.  However, the hormonal changes of menopause affect the gum health of women more permanently than the hormonal...

How Smoking Affects Your Gums and Teeth Smoking is a big stressor that increases the chances of periodontal disease sevenfold. It also reduces the chances of successful gum therapies. In fact, smoking can cause receding gums and bone loss even when plaque-forming bacteria have not...

How Nutrition Affects Your Teeth and Gums “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” –Hippocrates in 431 B.C. The most important long-term factor affecting the health of teeth and gums is nutrition, from the womb onward.  If we and our...

Healthy Gums = Healthy Body Originally, people thought that oral health care only affected gum health, cavities and loose teeth, without being aware how it might also address larger health concerns. But in recent years significant links have been discovered. If you had a chronic...

Benefits of Professional Teeth Cleaning Caring for your gums is much easier and more effective when there is no armored layer of calculus (calcified plaque also known as tartar) adhering to the teeth and inflaming the gums.  Therefore, we recommend that you allow a dentist...

Information On How Saliva Affects Gums and Teeth Four different types of salivary glands typically secrete between a half and one-and-a-half liters of saliva per day, the equivalent of having between two and six 8-ounce glasses of water. Healthy teeth and gums are regularly washed...

Virtually all gum disease involves plaque produced by a few specific strains of bacteria.  Knowing about these plaque bacteria can show us why and how to keep them in check.  See the Healthy Gums page for an overview of Gum health and gum disease to...

When we pull back our lips and look in our mouths, we see our teeth and a lining of gums that covers where the roots of the teeth meet the jaw bone.  But from the bone at the depths to the gums at the surface,...

Our mouth’s environment has many microscopic players, and it pays to keep it in balance as best we can. Our body already has to cope with the stresses of a modern diet that’s different than what human bodies had learned to accommodate over the eons. ...

Gum health and retaining your teeth, at its simplest level, entails keeping your soft mouth tissue robust and the bacteria of your mouth in balance. Our bodies aren’t biological machines; they’re living organisms that have adjusted over the eons to live in harmony with the...