On Receiving The Lloyd Rudy, MD Oral-Systemic Health Leadership Award
This year, at AAOSH’s 5th Annual Scientific Session, I was honored and humbled to receive the Lloyd Rudy, MD award for oral-systemic health leadership. Dr….
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Periodontal Disease: Sex Matters
As a practicing dentist, I sometimes notice trends and tendencies in my patients before research comes out to confirm it. Years before the term “oral-systemic…
Why Oral is Systemic
When I first began noticing that my older patients who were in excellent health had “gums of a 16 year-old,” I knew that oral health…
Inflammation Testing in Oral-Systemic Healthcare
Inflammation testing is one of the key steps to evaluating underlying systemic problems to help prevent and reduce the impact of inflammatory diseases such as…
Next Gen Oral Care: Personalized
I’m often asked about how to communicate with patients about the frequency of dental checkups. As we all know, dental care is not one-size-fits-all. It’s…
Medicine & Dentistry – Unite!
“The state of our nation is only as good as the state of our health.” Delos M. Cosgrove, MD President and CEO of the Cleveland…
6 Ways to Integrate Medical & Dental Care
Physicians may be looking right past their patients’ oral health, and it’s not out of negligence. After all, physicians who left school before 2008 received…
Oral-Systemic Health: The Time is Now!
Periodontal disease is now considered a complex oral and systemic disease that needs to be addressed by an integrative coordinated care team that includes both…
Where Dentistry Meets Advanced Inflammation Testing
Inflammation is the key cause for most of our serious chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease, to name a few—and…
Integrative Care: The Future of Healthcare
I was recently interviewed for an article in Naturopathic Doctor News and Review for their regular column, The Expert Report. The journal, whose main audience…