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Dental facilities serving Brooklyn & Staten Island for more than 10 years.
Convenient Bay Ridge Brooklyn dental office.
Holistic Dentistry
-Holistic Dental approach, 100% toxins free materialsAt Southern Dental, our mission is to introduce the concept of biologic dentistry, which has been alternately called organic dentistry, integrative dentistry, or green dentistry, in order to provide a minimally invasive approach that considers the whole patient’s health rather than an isolated symptom, through the use of natural, safe, and gentle methods.
Our nutritional recommendations:
Make Healthy Smile Choices-teeth friendly foods are naturally high in nutrients and low in sugar. Some foods that are excellent for your dental health are milk, eggs, yogurt, peanuts and cheese. Milk acts as an acid inhibitor when combined with starches like those found in cereal. Other snacks that are good for your smile include meat, seafood, hard-boiled eggs, raw vegetables, plain popcorn, seeds and nuts. Foods which are devastating for your smile are high in sugar and lacking in nutritional value. Examples include: soft drinks, ice cream, raisins, dried fruits, sweetened juices, chocolate, candies, gum, jellies and other beverages high in sugars. Limiting your intake of these foods whenever possible will help preserve your healthy smile. In general, common sense should prevail! Eat sensibly, brush and floss your teeth daily, and visit your dentist to ensure your smile remains healthy and beautiful.
Innovative research:
Using Probiotics to Help Patients be Proactive
Novel approach can enable the prevention of root caries in a periodontal geriatric population
At this day and age, more and more people are becoming increasingly health conscious, and, similarly, a greater percentage of patients are retaining their natural teeth. The desire to remain fit as people age has led to an increasing desire to maintain a healthy, functional dentition. The major cause of tooth loss for adults is from periodontal diseases. Therefore, teeth retention for a large portion of adults may require some periodontal therapy. A common result of periodontal therapies is gingival recession and, ultimately, root exposure. Additionally, as people age and become less self-reliant, their oral hygiene measures typically diminish and the likelihood of developing root caries increases. Age- or medication-induced xerostomia also diminishes the innate ability of saliva’s protective response. Root surfaces are uniquely more susceptible to caries as they are more porous and likely to develop biofilms and, ultimately, dental caries. Streptococcus mutans is the known acidogenic etiologic pathogen in dental caries. Consequently, myriad approaches have been suggested to prevent these exposed roots from developing dental caries. Recently, a new oral probiotic entered the marketplace that can uniquely help prevent root surface decay. By continually inoculating the oral cavity with probiotic bacteria that out-compete naturally occurring S. mutans, an environment is created that combats the development of dental caries.
Additionally, a strong inverse relationship has been established between the presence of certain species of viridans streptococci and the bacteria that cause most types of periodontal disease. In a healthy periodontal site, S. oralis (previously called S. sanguis type II) and S. uberis are commonly found in significant amounts, while levels of periodontal pathogens including Tannerella forsythensis, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Peptostreptococcus micros, Campylobacter rectus, and Prevotella melaninogenica are quite low. The opposite situation prevails in disease sites where S. oralis and S. uberis are usually undetectable. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that S. oralis and S. uberis inhibit the growth of periodontal pathogens by producing hydrogen peroxide. This production of hydrogen peroxide was demonstrated to be sufficient to produce a substantial whitening effect on tea- and chlorhexidine-stained ceramic disks. Additionally, they also oxidize volatile sulfur compounds (VSC) responsible for bad breath.