It’s a hard problem. When dental teams are focused on implants and veneers, they don't focus on the root cause of your issues. We do. And, we did not anticipate this would be nutrition. When Dr. Keeper was working for years at UCSF in search of a drug to stop tooth decay, he kept finding nutrients instead. After showing that they stopped cavity bacteria from making acid from sugar, he searched back in the forgotten literature, and found that arginine, vitamin D, and vitamin B6 prevent cavities. When he spoke to Harvard’s top researcher on gum disease, it was the same story, but with omega-3 fatty acids, curcumin, resveratrol, polyphenols, and Vitamin D. The most important thing we can do for anyone, is to talk about food.
Read LessWe optimize your health by making your teeth stronger, by making your saliva more protective, and by making your plaque microbes symbiotic. We achieve this through nutritional counseling, dietary supplements, education on helpful oral hygiene practices, evidence-based brush-on preventives, sealants, and home use products.
We use advanced diagnostic tools and techniques, such as digital imaging, laser cavity detection, contrast agents, and salivary diagnostics, to detect issues at their earliest stages and identify the cause.
We use brush-on medicines to remineralize and rebuild your natural tooth structure. The therapeutics absorb into weakened areas of the teeth and inflamed areas of the gums, first fighting the causes of the problem and then embedding into the affected areas for long term effects.
We use sculpted medicines that mimic the natural properties of your teeth. They are made of water and minerals, just like the tooth. So there is no indication for complicated contraptions like rubber dams. We use advanced non-invasive techniques to clean the tooth, and then restore the lost tooth structure. The material integrates with the tooth and continuously delivers minerals to make the tooth stronger and to prevent decay nearby. It continuously absorbs minerals from your diet, becoming more like enamel itself with each passing month.
Read LessNutrition-based products guide the plaque microbes to health. The most common diseases in humans no longer require surgery. Advanced enzymes remove decay or loosen tartar, so procedures are optimally comfortable - and produce optimal outcomes.
Electronic and brush-on anesthetics numb small areas just as well as local anesthetic. Choosing materials from a true holistic long-term perspective is at the core of our work. Everything we do is designed for your comfort, to overcome dental anxiety, to minimize your expense, and to provide a calming and healing experience.
The most common ailments are all caused by the same problems. We don’t need A.I. to tell us that diet, hygiene, and exercise are the keys to health - our grandmothers knew this. And the solutions are related. Improving inflammatory conditions helps with your gums, and vice versa. Soothing microbial dysbiosis in the gut does the same for the gums. We are proud to collaborate with other health care workers of all types to propel you along your path to thriving.
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When dental teams are focused on implants and veneers, they don't focus on the root cause of your issues. We do. And, we did not anticipate this would be nutrition.
Read MoreWe optimize your health by making your teeth stronger, by making your saliva more protective, and by making your plaque microbes symbiotic.
Read MoreWe use advanced diagnostic tools and techniques, to detect issues at their earliest stages and identify the cause.
We use brush-on medicines to remineralize and rebuild your natural tooth structure.
We use sculpted medicines that mimic the natural properties of your teeth.
Read MoreAdvanced enzymes remove decay or loosen tartar, so procedures are optimally comfortable.
Read MoreEverything we do is designed to provide a calming and healing experience.
We are proud to collaborate with other health care workers of all types to propel you along your path to thriving.
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About UsToo much of anything creates problems. Too much water causes hyponatremia, which starts as seizures and gets worse. Even the best things in life need temperance and balance.
Fluoride prevents cavities. Normal over-the-counter fluoride toothpaste prevents 22% of cavities. Prescription strength fluoride toothpaste prevents 37% of cavities.
There is growing evidence that chronic exposure to high fluoride levels during pregnancy or early childhood may have small but measurable effects on cognitive development. Most of the studies that have shown differences are in areas that naturally have high fluoride levels in the groundwater, higher than water fluoridated for cavity prevention. And yet, there is concern that fluoride toothpaste gets swallowed so much in young children, that it could mimic this effect, or that artificially fluoridated water could have a small effect.
Fluoride varnish applied a couple times per year prevents 40% of cavities. Silver fluoride applied once per year prevents 60% of cavities. Silver fluoride twice per year stops 80% of big cavities!
We ourselves did some of the key safety studies of fluoride varnish and silver fluoride in very young children. While these studies were important for advancing policy around the world, they were somewhat performative because the doses are so tiny. The safety is obvious. The doses are infinitesimally smaller than from toothpaste or tap water, because they are only applied a couple times per year, instead of a couple times per day.
So, our philosophy is to maximize effectiveness while minimizing the exposure to fluoride - or any drug.
We accomplish this by applying tiny amounts of high concentration medicines directly to the problematic areas of the teeth and gums. The medicines absorb into the tooth, where they react to restore health, and there is hardly any left to spread into the body.
One droplet of silver fluoride has as much fluoride as a couple liters of fluoridated tap water, or a gallon of naturally low fluoride well water. We consolidate this into the tooth and remove excess. The blood levels of fluoride never go up.
We believe the risks from medicines applied directly to affected or high risk areas are far less than the risks of far larger doses of plastics, vasoconstrictors, and local anesthetics ubiquitously injected into the body by traditional dentistry.
The most effective approach to fight decay is to completely remove all sugars and overprocessed carbohydrates from the diet. But this is often impractical. Fluoride is a core part of the most efficient solutions to decay. We minimize your exposure by direct application and protect you from systemic exposure.
We are here for you. We will always work hard to provide balance to optimize your oral and overall health.