Lon Peckham DMD, FAAOSH, Dip ACLM
Wholistic Functional Dental Medicine Expert
Is Poor Sleep Destroying Your Teeth? In case you haven’t heard, Sleep Medicine has become the new medical frontier with none other than Captain Kirk himself promoting sleep enhancing devices. And with good reason. Getting less than 7-9 hours of quality sleep is well documented to lead to cardiovascular disease, type [...]
And the essential test no one is doing. I was wrong. Remember in one of last summer’s newsletters I said that I believed that dental/oral infection was a significant “underlying factor” in COVID fatalities, but that we will never know because no one is looking. As it turns out, someone actually [...]
My personal physician is great. She’s a progressive forward thinker with a preventive approach to medicine that in my estimation places her in the top 1% of her profession. That said, we don’t always see eye-to-eye. In particular, right now we disagree on how reliable information coming out of the CDC [...]
What’s the Deal With Probiotics? You’ve probably been hearing a lot these days about probiotics and probiotic supplementation. But how many of us really know what they are, how to tell if you need to supplement, and if so, what supplement is best? Basically, a pro-biotic is a “good” helpful biotic [...]
I think it is pretty common knowledge that stress can cause a whole host of physical problems and diseases, upsetting our hormonal and neurologic balance, thereby initiating multiple pathologic cascades (including dental disease) many of which we are just beginning to understand. In fact, stress management is now considered to be [...]
f not, why not? In their bestselling book Younger Next Year, guess what authors Crowley and Lodge identify as the best way to start reversing the deleterious effects of aging and to actually feel younger next year than you do now? That’s right, making a serious commitment to EXERCISE. Sitting is [...]
When was the last time you thought about how you breathe? Newly emerging research is making it increasingly evident that how we breathe can have serious consequences to our health, physical performance, and longevity. We now know that improper breathing – Limits athletic performance Increases blood pressure Contributes to cardiac [...]
Loose dentures Chronic sore spots Unacceptable chewing These are just some of the reasons patients are now flocking to have dental implants placed. Although a well made denture with custom engineered bilateral balance will certainly help and often eliminate these problems, there are still situations where even the most well [...]
How to recognize a premium from a run-of-the-mill denture. Ever wonder why some dentures look better and last longer than others? Why some cost more than others? And how you can tell whether you’re getting your money’s worth. Well, by the time you finish reading this article you’ll know. Perhaps [...]
How to Control Inflammation and Maximize Your Immune Function By Dr. Lon Peckham More and more, health care providers are understanding and accepting that all diseases have multiple “causes” and are usually linked to others. In no case is this truer than with dental disease. It has often been said [...]
