Posts by Green City Dental
Why We Take Gum Disease So Seriously
If you're a patient in our office, you know we take gum disease seriously. If you're not a patient, you might wonder why any dental pra...
Fluoride, the Developing Brain, & the Case Against Fluoridated Water
Thanks to a fluoride shortage in the US right now, some public water systems have been reducing or suspending fluoridation. While some ...
What Makes the Biggest Difference Between Brushing Your Teeth & Brushing Them Well?
When it comes to oral hygiene, dentists agree on a lot of things: Brush regularly. Clean between your teeth and along the gumline. Use ...
When Teeth Grinding Is Part of an Airway Problem
When you get right down to it, grinding your teeth while you sleep is kind of weird behavior. It doesn’t seem to serve any obvious purp...
What You Can’t See Can Shape Your Oral Health
Most of what happens in your mouth, you don’t see. Even with a mirror. Even with really good lighting. What can be seen with the naked ...
Light-Based Therapies in Modern Dentistry
While there are trillions of individual nerve fibers in your body, only about 86 are considered major nerves, arranged in 43 pairs. Twe...
Real Food, Real Chewing, Real Growth
Recently, the Guardian reported on a new paper in the Milbank Quarterly that examined the public health implications of ultra-processed...
Promoting Your Body’s Own Healing Response After Oral Surgery with Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF)
Biological dentistry is biocompatible dentistry, and no material we use is quite so biocompatible as platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). Used t...
Next Level Gum Disease Treatment for True Periodontal Regeneration
Many people seem to not really realize that they’ve got gum disease until their dentist or hygienist tells them that they need a deep c...
We Think You’ll Love the Newest Member of Our Green City Team, Hygienist Wendy
In last month’s post - on Guided Biofilm Therapy - we only name-dropped the hygienist who recently joined our team. Now that Wendy has ...