Many people have asked me what is the best material to use to restore teeth. Mercury containing silver fillings are durable but for reasons of esthetics as well as potential toxicity are used by fewer and fewer dentists every year. Composite resins are the most popular and when properly placed they can last a long […]
While I was attending a dental meeting the other night, the speaker got around to talking about the latest "hot" new commodity in preventative dentistry, a product called silver diamine fluoride. The best I can say about this product is that it represents another misguided attempt to control decay. It has a long history of […]
Heart disease, diabetes, rampant decay, and cancer and all facts of life for many people. Why do some people seem cursed with these afflictions while others are not? Is it genetics (Spoiler alert-no!) or something else? It is common knowledge that little or any of these diseases occurred before the era of farming started about […]
Articles like this put it into focus. Every now and then we are reminded that we are rapidly becoming an obese society. If conventional wisdom is to be believed it is because we are eating too much and not exercising enough. We just finished an administration where the First Lady’s signature issue was childhood obesity. […]