Making healthy choices in life is more vital and yet more challenging than ever.   Today, we're exposed to more environmental toxins, depleted nutrients, and damaged genetics than we were just a few short years ago.   As a result, many of us need to fight hard to stay healthy.   We expect the healthcare system to help us navigate modern hurdles, but has medicine evolved to meet today's needs?

Natural remedies were once common knowledge.   Today they're a lost art, or worse: old wive's tales replaced by pharmaceuticals aimed at masking symptoms and making us feel good quick.   Dentistry is no exception to this trend.   The industry has forgotten that dental health comes from within.   The modern convenience of superficial remedies has trivialized biology.   Is this really helping us?   I think it's time to go back to a natural approach.

Biological dentistry is about diving deep into whole body and oral health. It's a comprehensive approach aimed at elevating chronic sub-par living and helping us thrive with a higher quality of life. By removing toxins and stress triggers (metal and infections) from the mouth, we can improve energy, mood, and memory, increase lifespans, and keep disease at bay.

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Today, popular belief would explain cavities away as normal.   Needing a new filling every once in a while might not seem like a "big deal."   Perhaps you've experienced something similar with gum disease and the need for repeated "deep cleanings" every few years.   This perpetual cycle of disease and treatment has become the norm for dentistry.   It's disheartening, and our healthcare really needs to be enhancing our health instead of covering up symptoms.

Conventional dentistry focuses mostly on dental esthetics and function.   So if it looks good and chews well, then it's a job well done.   That's great, but what if that dental work has an unforeseen detrimental effect on our health?   We all deserve to be thoroughly informed with respect to all health disciplines whether it's western, eastern, functional, or allopathic.   Nobody would willingly choose toxic dentistry, so why is it still being done?

It's important to recognize that dental diseases like cavities and gum disease are signs of a deeper issue.   Treating these signs with endless dental work may fix the problem on the surface but fails to address the cause.   This is why it repeats.   The key to health is a deeper look into the forgotten causes of disease -- a functional view.   A comic strip once joked about a lesson learned in medical school where, "A cured patient is a lost customer."   We can do better.

The truth is, cavities and gum disease are not random inconveniences.   They are neither natural nor a result of "bad luck" or "bad genes."   It's a myth that "everyone gets cavities" or "everyone's gums bleed," and it would be a mistake to trivialize these signs and ignore their root causes.   Cavities and gum disease warn us about physiologic and metabolic problems like vitamin deficiencies, pH imbalance, restricted airways, toxins, oxidative stress, or gut dysbiosis.   Treating the teeth holistically requires an awareness of those deeper issues, their interconnectedness, and their effect on health and dental health.   The wonderful result of overall health is that cavities and gum disease magically disappear.

With biological dentistry, our purpose is to create an opportunity where together we can easily understand and tweak these important connections that have been hidden from traditional view.   This is why our focus is on education.   With knowledge comes the ability to control cavities and gum disease, prevent them, and finally eradicate them.   Because, if you have dental problems, you may also have nutritional or metabolic problems that are causative factors in almost all other systemic diseases like heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes.   Shedding light on this connection is fundamental to our mission and critical to achieving the bliss of happy longevity that we all strive for.

Biological dentists and patients appreciate the value of true health.   In fact, it's our passion and it defines our vision.   Together we are trying to make biological dentistry the new norm.   You shouldn't have to worry about exposure to toxins like mercury, fluoride, or BPA.   You shouldn't feel like you're "in the dark" about cavities, gum disease, autoimmune disease, or any disease.   You shouldn't have to wonder whether your dentistry is compromising your health.   Biological dentistry makes no compromises.   It focuses on the true causes of disease — both dental and systemic — and helps address them by putting control back in your hands.   In this way, it's an entirely deeper and more comprehensive approach to the connection between the mouth, the mind, and the body.

Our young ones, especially, deserve the best possible chance for optimal growth and development.   The younger one starts on this journey, the greater the opportunity to appreciate and preserve health.   This is why we love to see children and provide that healthy start.   But regardless of your age or dental history, it will be our genuine joy to help you course-correct your dental destiny and guide you on this life changing journey no matter where you currently are on this path.   Simply call us to learn more and setup your first Biological Consultation.   We'll help you unlock your body's potential.   It's fun, it's easy, it's so rewarding, and it's uplifting.   Seeing a biological dentist is one of the best things you can do for your health!

For more information, you can read about the phases of biological dentistry or more about its philosophy on our blog.