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World Heart Day and your gums

2025-01-09T13:45:16+00:00September 27th, 2021|Categories: Oral Health|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today (29th September) is World Heart Day, and it's a great time to think about your heart and health in general. But did you know that there may be links between unhealthy gums and your heart? Researchers suspect that bacteria present in gum disease can travel throughout the body, triggering inflammation in the heart’s vessels [...]

All hail wonderful Fluoride!

2025-01-10T12:00:42+00:00September 13th, 2019|Categories: Oral Health|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Fluoride hails from the planet. It’s found naturally in rocks, soil and water, but fluoride doesn’t exist on its own. Like so many superheroes, it’s created through a scientific process. Fluoride is actually a chemical ion of fluorine, one of the top 20 most common elements in the earth’s crust. An ion is a positively- [...]