It’s the future. Lasers are quickly becoming an integral part of many medical fields, including dentistry and healthy sleep. Snoring, an incredibly common problem that affects everything from health to relationships, can now be treated nonsurgically with lasers. What Causes Snoring? When your airways become too narrow during sleep, the air moving through causes the [...]
A laser system for greater comfort and precision Patient comfort is a priority, especially when it comes to dental work. The problem is, many dental procedures require numbing, which means a needles and discomfort. Fortunately, modern dental technology is finding new and better ways to give patients a better experience. Laser dentistry, specifically the LightWalker [...]
The quality of your sleep directly affects the quality of your waking life, including your productivity, emotional balance, creativity, physical vitality, and even your weight. According to the National Institutes of Health, the average adult sleeps less than seven hours per night. In today's fast-paced society, six or seven hours of sleep may sound pretty good. In reality, [...]
A safe, effective alternative to traditional titanium implants At our office we want to make sure we give our patients treatments that don’t have harmful side effects. In recent years, it has been found that things like mercury fillings, and other common dental techniques, may not be healthy. We are wary about putting metal your [...]
In this audio clip, Dr. Chandler gives a presentation about biological dentistry, and how the health of the mouth is connected to the health of the rest of the body.
For many years dentist have taught patients that caries or cavities are a result of acid in the mouth. Eating sugar feeds the bacteria that cause caries and then they excrete acid, and the acid eats holes in your teeth. We have learned that caries formation is much more complicated than that. There is a [...]
Written by Dr. Tom McGuire When most people think about good nutrition, they assume that the only important thing is what’s in their food. Well, chew on this: Teeth—that’s right, teeth!—play a critical role, too. The connection may not be obvious at first glance, but if you have missing teeth or dental disease, you simply [...]
A Good Night’s Rest Millions of Americans deal with sleep apnea, which is a medical disorder that disrupts airflow during sleep, thus substantially lowering sleep quality and duration. Why Do You Need Sleep? The body is an intricate system that requires rest to function properly. It is constantly repairing itself, and the mind especially simply [...]
Options Cancer—the word that has the ability to strike fear into the hearts of all of us. In the 1940’s one in 16 people developed cancer, today it’s one in three. There are not many of us that have not been touched on a personal level by this awful disease. Cancer can show up any [...]
