Lon Peckham DMD, FAAOSH, Dip ACLM
Wholistic Functional Dental Medicine Expert
I was only 5 years old when I had my first surgery – tonsils and adenoids, plus “tubes” in my ears to help keep them from plugging up and getting infected again. The next time was when I was around 12 to remove teeth in preparation for 3 years of braces [...]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that good teeth provide us, humans, with beauty and confidence. But even with this in mind, most of us take our teeth for granted. We’ve been taught a lot about oral hygiene and optimal brushing three times a day since we were all kids, [...]
“Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.” This tagline has been in use since God-knows-when. But even with all the warning signs displayed on cigarette packs and advertisements, millions of people are still users. For some, it is a way to calm the nerves and release stress. For others, it’s [...]
OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for a little brain candy once in a while and have probably frittered away way too many rainy Sunday afternoons on my favorite movie genre – classic westerns. Ya I know, who would have guessed:) So when I hear that phrase, “the dirty [...]
OK, let’s be real. This virus is not going to just up and disappear, and civilization will not survive if we continue to “isolate” as we are. Even if a miracle drug or vaccine gets invented, it won’t be soon enough, who knows what the side effects are going to [...]
According to the International Diabetes Federation, around 463 million adults between the ages of 20 to 79 years old were living with diabetes in 2019. These figures are expected to escalate to 700 million people by 2045. In a sample size of 232 million people, half are expected to have [...]
“What you are is what you eat.” That has been a common saying since who knows when. Diet plays a crucial role in how our body grows and develops, and how it fights off all those bad and pesky diseases that would never stop trying to get into our systems. [...]
When you first take a moment to think about your teeth and mouth in general, the heart may not be the thing that you would correlate to it. But for some time now, research has been suggesting that they are more related than they seem. But wait, let’s backtrack a [...]
Breathing is an instinctive and natural process. Air goes into the lungs, and it goes out the same way it went in- either through our nose or mouth. People rarely think about “how” they’re breathing unless exposed to certain stimuli, or when they’re experiencing extreme emotions such as distress. At [...]
