If you are dealing with a toothache, you might be looking for home remedies to cure it rather than make a trip to the dentist. The truth is that although there are some home cures for toothaches out there, they’re all about as effective as the old-time superstitions that people used to rely on to …
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You might think it takes a major event to dislocate your jaw, such as a car accident or maybe a blow to the jaw (which, unless you’re a boxer, is hopefully not something that happens every day). But the truth is that it can be surprisingly easy to dislocate your jaw, resulting in jaw pain …
Among the ways that sleep apnea can significantly impact your quality of life is by increasing your risk of erectile dysfunction. How Strong Is the Link between Sleep Apnea and ED? The link between sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction has been confirmed by many studies. It seems that there is a very strong connection between …
CPAP is still considered the most effective treatment for sleep apnea, but it does have a number of unfortunate side effects. One of these is that the treatment can make you gassy. Because CPAP is constantly forcing pressurized air into your body, some of it air can force its way into your stomach or be …
Although the holidays are a time of joy, they’re also a major time of stress. Both good and bad stress can have similar physiologic effects, which can be damaging to your overall health, but also threatens your teeth. One of the most common responses people have to stress is clenching or grinding teeth, known as …
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Headaches are one of the most common illnesses suffered by individuals. But headache care lags behind other areas of medicine by 50 years or more in the opinion of some experts, largely because there hasn’t been enough research and funding for this disabling illness. Why have we put so few resources into researching and improving …
Paleontologists have recently identified a new reptile that they say had advanced teeth and jaws that were remarkably similar to mammalian jaws, even though it is 80 million years older than our oldest mammalian ancestors. Like humans, it couldn’t regrow teeth when they were lost, and its teeth and jaws had to adapt to the …
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Although there have been many miraculous discoveries in medicine, we’re still discovering many of the amazing innovations of Mother Nature that can help us develop more natural approaches to medicine. One recent discovery that might be able to help us fight off gum disease is that blueberries have powerful antibacterial properties that may one day …
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The ALCAT test is a food sensitivity test that is used to determine which foods in your diet may be responsible for a number of troubling symptoms that have been hard to diagnose. We offer this test to help our patients achieve a healthier lifestyle by avoiding foods that may be responsible for symptoms that …
