Mouthy Matters: Oral Health and How Your Gums Affect Your Whole Body

Here's something most people never get told before they sit in the implant chair: implants are not a set it and forget it fix. Nearly half of all implants currently in someone's mouth have some level of infection brewing around them right now, and most of those people have no idea. In this episode, Tosha sits down with Lisa Charles to break down exactly what's happening underneath t...

What if your dental appointment could do more than leave your teeth feeling clean and smooth? What if it could actually save your life? In this episode of Mouthy Matters, Tosha sits down with Jennifer P. Sieder, RDH, a dental hygienist with nearly 30 years of experience, to pull back the curtain on what dental hygienists are really doing in that chair. Because most patients have no idea. They come...

🔬 See what's living in your patients' mouths and watch your case acceptance change. 🌐 tosh.care 🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: 🌐  www.mouthymatters.com/start-here Most dental practices treat the mouth like a mechanical problem. Scale it, plane it, polish it, send the patient home with a floss lecture, and call it a cleaning. Dr. Joseph Denning, DDS, look...

🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: 🌐  www.mouthymatters.com/start-here What if the thing standing between your patient and her pregnancy was living under her gum line?  What if the reason a woman in her mid-30s kept canceling plans, kept bracing for the next flare-up, kept shrinking her life down to what her body would allow, was a bacterial infection her dentist had ne...

Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here If you have ever stood in front of a patient, recommended a nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste in good faith, and quietly wondered whether it was actually doing what the label promised, this episode is for you. Or maybe as a patient you had the same question? Or for your child?  The nanohydroxyapatite market in...

Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here Most people leave a dental appointment with clean teeth, a new toothbrush, and a reminder to floss more. Nobody leaves knowing that the bacteria living inside their gum tissue could be quietly connected to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, or diabetes. That gap is exactly why Mouthy Matters exists. I...

🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here You do everything right. You come in on schedule, you floss, you brush, you use the right products. And still, your hygienist is charting the same findings every single visit. Still bleeding. Still building up. Still watching those incipient lesions. If that sounds familiar, this conversation is going to...

🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here You've been told your whole life that bleeding gums mean you need to brush and floss more. Maybe you believed it for a while. Maybe you even started to accept it as just the way your mouth is. But what if bleeding gums are actually one of the earliest warning signs your whole body gives you, and mos...

🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here 🦷 Want products and solutions that actually improve oral health?  Start here: supermouth.com You've probably stood in that toothpaste aisle, stared at 40 options, and grabbed the one with the prettiest packaging or the best sale price.  And you followed the rules. Brush twice a day, use fluoride, s...

🦷 Ready to reset your oral health in 6 minutes?  Start here: www.mouthymatters.com/start-here If you've ever been told your gums are bleeding and walked away feeling like you just got a bad grade in brushing, this episode is going to change the way you think about your mouth forever. Bleeding gums are not a hygiene failure. They are a sign of infection, and there is a real difference between...

You have probably sat in a dental chair and been told your gums are bleeding because you are not flossing enough. You nodded, took the goodie bag, and went home feeling a little guilty. But what if that explanation was not just incomplete, it was actually wrong? What if bleeding gums are not a hygiene habit problem at all, but a sign of active infection living inside your tissue, and that infectio...