Holistic dentistry is an important factor in diabetic care, and with more than 30 million people in the United States suffering from diabetes, it is vital that you take care of your teeth and gums.

According to Dentistry for Health NY, more than 1.7 million cases of diabetes are diagnosed annually.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes affects the way that your body processes sugar. Every bite that you take is turned into sugar that is used for energy. Type 1 diabetics do not produce enough insulin. In Type II Diabetes, the body stops responding to the insulin. In both types of diabetes, patients can experience high blood sugar levels, which will cause problems with your nerves, heart, eyes and your teeth and gums.

Good oral hygiene, which includes regular dental checkups with your Holistic Dentist in New York, can help you control plaque and tartar growth, which will help prevent gingivitis and the more serious periodontal disease.

Why Diabetics are More Prone to Gingivitis and Periodontal Disease

Everyone has bacteria living in the mouth, most of it is good bacteria, but if you practice bad oral hygiene habits, the bad bacteria will multiply causing plaque and tartar buildup. Gum disease is inflammatory and will destroy your gums, which can cause tooth loss.

People who have diabetes have more gum issues because of blood sugar control. Like all infections, gum disease can cause your blood sugar to rise. Because of this, it is harder to control the disease. Diabetics are more susceptible to all types of infections, including gingivitis and periodontal disease.

How a New York Holistic Dentist Can Help

Regular visits with your dentist in New York can improve your blood sugar control and even decrease diabetic progression. When you practice good oral hygiene, which includes brushing twice and flossing once each day, you may see a drop in your blood sugar levels. Don’t forget to include regular dental checkups as diabetics may need to see a New York Dentist more often, and don’t forget to watch your diet. What you eat plays an important role in plaque and tartar control.

If you are a diabetic who suffers from gum disease, call or click and schedule an appointment with your New York Dentist. Dentistry for Health offers patients a special dental care program using holistic non-invasive dental treatments that have been specially designed for diabetics.

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Mercury Free Dentistry was used more than 40 years ago as a way for dentists to establish their dental practices as Mercury Free. However, back then Mercury Free wasn’t that accurate, as dentists who didn’t use amalgam in fillings still had to take them out. Unsafe mercury removal releases harmful and excessive amounts of the toxic vapor.

Mercury Free restoration removal equipment was developed to minimize the patient’s mercury exposure during removal. Using these safe protocols for mercury removal meant that the dental practice was now Mercury Free as well.

Dentistry for Health NY is both Mercury Free and Mercury Safe. Patients need to be aware that if a dentist says the dental practice is Mercury Free, it may not be Mercury Safe.

Massive amounts of toxic mercury vapor, over 200 times the levels allowed by regulatory agencies, are released when silver amalgam fillings are not removed in a Mercury Safe Dental office. Dentistry for Health NY has the training, experience, skills, and the equipment for safe silver amalgam filling removal.

Dentistry for Health NY is a dental center that has pioneered Mercury Free Dentistry and Mercury Safe Dentistry using the safest silver amalgam removal procedures available.

Once the fillings have been removed, biocompatible materials will be used for cosmetic, general, and restorative dentistry.

For the safety of Dentistry for Health NY patients, the dental center in NY:

• Uses a special suction tool or a rubber dam
• Uses lots of water with the suction device while the fillings and nickel crowns are being removed
• Replaces the silver amalgams with biocompatible dental materials that are compatible with you
• Removes the large amounts of mercury vapor that is released during removal with negative ion generators

Mercury Free Dentistry and Mercury Safe Dentistry can make a huge difference to your overall health, as silver amalgam can cause all sorts of physical and mental problems.

If you would like more information regarding Mercury Free Dentistry and Mercury Safe Dentistry, call or click and schedule an appointment with Dentistry for Health NY.

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Mercury Free Dentistry is possible thanks to the team of holistic dentists from Dentistry for Health NY. Holistic Dentistry treats the whole person in the most natural way possible, and that certainly doesn’t include amalgam.

The debate about silver amalgam fillings has been going on for years with the FDA deeming it perfectly safe for dentistry, however those that furiously disagree, claim that silver amalgam can cause physical harm.

How Dangerous is Amalgam?

Amalgam is dangerous enough for Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to ban amalgam filling use back in 2008 for health and environmental reasons. At certain levels, this powerful neurotoxin, used in silver amalgam fillings, can cause chronic illness, autoimmune disease, neurological issues, and even mental disorders.

Silver amalgam fillings contain 50 percent mercury combined with copper, tin and silver. Recent studies show that mercury vapor exposure, the stuff that can cause health problems, can increase due to teeth grinding, gum chewing and enjoying carbonated drinks. If you have broken, chipped or cracked amalgam fillings your chances of ingesting larger amounts of mercury vapor are much higher.

Dentistry for Health NY has the tools, the team, and the experience to safely remove your silver amalgam fillings. The holistic dental clinic in New York practices mercury free dentistry and has helped thousands of patients become mercury free with safe, biocompatible products that can help restore your teeth and gums.

Dentistry for Health NY provides alternatives when it comes to removing and replacing silver amalgam fillings, and although all dentists have the training to remove silver amalgam fillings, not all have the knowledge needed to safely extinguish and remove the toxic vapors that are released after removal.

As pioneers of mercury free dentistry, the holistic dentists from Dentistry for Health NY pride themselves on providing the safest and most biocompatible methods available in dentistry today.

If you would like to learn more about mercury free dentistry and holistic dentistry, call or click and schedule a no obligation mercury free dentistry consultation with Dentistry for Health NY today.

It’s a startling fact that 75 percent of American adults have periodontal disease on some level, and if you have, or have had gum disease, you are certainly not alone. Laser gum surgery can help prevent gum disease from recurring and preserves your gum tissue.

Symptoms of Gum Disease

Gum disease ranges from mild inflammation of the gums to severe bleeding, redness and swelling. If left untreated severe periodontal disease can cause tooth loss.

According to Dentistry for Health NY, an established Holistic Dental Center New York, recent research has indicated what Dr. Reid Winick and his team have known all along; that gum disease is related to your overall health with studies linking it to cardiovascular disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and even Alzheimer’s disease. If you suffer from gum disease, your chances of developing diabetes are higher than they would be if you had healthy gums.

New Dental Technology

There’s no use sugar coating the fact that periodontal disease is serious and must be treated, but thanks to 21st century dental technology, you don’t have to resort to surgery. Laser gum surgery eliminates the need to go under the knife, which can go a long way in preserving your natural teeth and your gums.

Laser Gum Surgery Benefits

In the past, gum disease treatments involved healthy gum tissue loss as dentists were forced to cut and stitch. Not only did this cause bleeding, pain and bandages, but it also resulted in down time. Gum surgery patients were forced to eat soft foods and deal with the pain that was brought on by the procedure.

Some of the benefits of the procedure allow you to:

Heal faster-Treatments that are minimally invasive will allow you to heal faster. Anyone who has had surgery knows how long it can take to heal from any type of surgical procedure.

Avoid gum line reduction-Because there is no cutting and stitching you won’t lose your gums.

Remain healthier in the long term-Patients who brush, floss, enjoy a healthy diet and visit their Holistic Dentist New York regularly are more likely to see permanent results from the procedure.

Enjoy minimal discomfort-You will rarely need pain medication for laser gum surgery.

Preserve your natural teeth-People with severe gum disease are in the high-risk category when it comes to tooth loss. Early intervention with laser gum surgery may help prevent tooth loss from occurring.

Allow for new bone growth-According to Dentistry for Health NY, laser gum surgery is helping promote bone regeneration around teeth.

Enjoy a shorter recovery time-Most patients feel well enough to go back to work and get on with life immediately after the procedure.

Gum disease is serious, but can be healed the natural way with Holistic Dentistry. Call or click and schedule an appointment with Dentistry for Health NY.

When the silver amalgam debate began to heat up over a decade ago, studies were conducted with the American Dental Association deeming amalgam safe for dental fillings, however, when you consider that mercury is a neurotoxin, and a very powerful one at that, how can it possibly be safe?

Dentistry for Health explains that 72 percent of people who responded to a survey had no idea that the silver fillings that they had grown up with, and probably still have, contained mercury, of those respondents, 92 percent would have liked to have been informed about the possible consequences.

Research indicates that mercury can cause autoimmune disease, neurological problems, mental disorders, and chronic illness.

According to Dentistry for Healthy NY, amalgam contains 50 percent mercury mixed with copper, tin and silver, and although amalgam fillings are still safe in the United States have been banned in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries for health reasons.

Studies conducted in Sweden showed a remarkable 78 percent improvement in patients who had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome after having their amalgam fillings removed.

Back in 2013, Dr. Oz stated on his television show that the FDA and the ADA approved the use of silver amalgam fillings and will in fact deem any dentist who removes fillings unethical and could have their license taken away. Back then 47 percent of dentists still filled teeth with silver amalgam. Because they have been around for so long, they were still considered safe.

These days more and more doctors and dentists are beginning to realize that silver amalgam fillings are responsible for a host of other physical problems. Thankfully, Holistic Dentistry has changed all of that with natural and biocompatible therapies and treatments that treat the whole person.

If you would like to know more about silver amalgam filling removal or would just like a checkup with a Holistic Dentist, call or click and schedule your appointment with Dentistry for Health NY. It really is about treating the whole person. Call or click for your no obligation silver amalgam filling removal consultation in New York today.

Tobacco use leads to all sorts of dental problems that include:

• Tooth discoloration
• Chronic bad breath
• Salivary gland inflammation
• Jawbone loss
• Leukoplakia
• Gum disease
• A delay in healing
• Lower success rate for dental implants
• High risk for oral cancer

Smoking and Gum Disease

Tobacco use will interfere with gum tissue cell function. This makes tobacco users more susceptible to gingivitis, and the more serious periodontal disease. Smoking and chewing tobacco also impairs the flow of blood to the gums, which slows healing.

Pipes and Cigars

Just like cigarettes; pipes, cigars and even Hookah pipes can cause oral health issues. People who smoke cigars are more susceptible to bone loss, while pipe smokers are at risk for tooth loss. Beyond the oral health issues, cigar and pipe smokers are in the high-risk category for throat and oral cancer, even if the tobacco isn’t inhaled.

Chewing Tobacco

Smokeless tobacco products are just as bad for your oral health as well. Chewing tobacco has over 28 chemicals that may increase your risk of throat and oral cancer, and cancer of the esophagus. Smokeless tobacco products also have more nicotine than cigarettes making it more difficult to kick the habit. One can of chew has more nicotine than 60 cigarettes. Chewing tobacco also contains sugar making you more susceptible to tooth decay.

According to the American Cancer Society 90 percent of people who have been diagnosed with lip, tongue, mouth, or throat cancer were smokers. Twenty seven percent of people who continue to smoke after they have been cured will develop cancer of the throat, tongue, lips and mouth, while those who quit after being cancer free only had a 6 percent chance of developing cancer a second time.

If you are a tobacco user, kick the habit and schedule regular appointments with your dentist for comprehensive dental exams and oral cancer screenings.

Call or click and schedule your appointment with Dentistry for Health NY today.