The Laser Dental Group

Did you know that there may be dental benefits that you aren't taking advantage of?  Dr Hall explains the Cigna benefit.  Check with your health insurance to see if there are medical benefits you could be taking advantage of.

Did you know that 100 million Americans fail to see a dentist each year, even though regular dental examinations and good oral hygiene can prevent most dental disease?  Neglect of dental care can have serious consequences like decay,  inflammation , and loss of teeth, and an increased risk of  malnutrition .  Gum disease  has been implicated in an increased risk of cardiovascular and respiratory disease. In addition, oral examinations can be the least invasive method of diagnosing types of cancers and other diseases.  Ask Dr Louie or Dr Hwang more about this at your next visit. The uptake rate of preventative dental care increased over a ten-year period in the United States, but there remains a large disparity among ethnic groups, reports one of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the subject, published in the open-access journal   Frontiers in Public Health . Neglect of dental care can have serious consequences like decay,  inf...

Researchers at Columbia University in New York suggest that if you look after your gums, you could also be reducing your risk of heart disease. They claim that improving dental care slows the speed with which plaque builds up in the arteries. Writing in a recent online issue of the  Journal of the American Heart Association , they report a prospective study that shows how improving gum health is linked to a clinically significant slower progression of  atherosclerosis , the process where plaque builds up in arteries and increases a person’s risk of heart disease ,  stroke  and death. Lead author Moïse Desvarieux, associate professor of Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Health, says: “These results are important because atherosclerosis progressed in parallel with both clinical periodontal disease and the bacterial profiles in the gums. This is the most direct evidence yet that modifying the periodontal bacterial profile could play a role in preventin...