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Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) – better know as chronic mouth ulcers – is a common oral mucosal disorder which affects around 20 per cent of the EU population. RAS is more prevalent in females and occurs most often during spring or winter times.


Recent government figures show that 69 per cent of adults have visible signs of plaque, even though most of these people brush their teeth twice a day. Aware of this problem, Dr Sune Wikner, a Swedish dentist and former Chief Dental Officer for the city of Stockholm, has formulated the first ever plaque controller in capsule form - ProDen PlaqueOff.


How are your gums? When I asked that simple question in a recent e-Alert, I had no idea it would touch a nerve, but it did.


The average grapefruit contains about 90 to 100 mg of vitamin C. That's a far cry from a mega-dose, but many people get less than that amount on a daily basis. According to researchers at Germany's Friedrich Schiller University (FSU), they might help their dental health and overall health considerably if they added two grapefruits to their diets every day...


Let's say you brush three times each day, floss daily, and visit your dentist for regular checkups and cleaning. Given all that, you might think you're doing everything you can to prevent gum disease. But there's another important step you can take that might not seem to have a direct connection to dental health.


Can healthy habits promote dental health? More specifically, can a combination of regular exercise, weight control and a healthy diet prevent periodontitis? American researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) posed that question in a recent study and came up with some surprising results.


Early-stage periodontal disease (gingivitis) is seldom painful and causes relatively minor symptoms such as red, swollen and bleeding gums. But untreated gingivitis can progress to periodontitis. As a result the Faculty of Dentistry at Mahidol University in Bangkok (Thailand) took a closer look at the tissue healing properties of the combined extracts of gotu kola and pomegranate on gum disease...


For decades the message that fluoride safely prevents tooth decay has been considered sacrosanct. This idea came from the same chemicals for better living era that also told us that smoking cigarettes soothed the throat...


It's fluoride time again.


After 41 years of poisoning its citizens with fluoro-toxic water, one European city - Basel, in Switzerland - saw the light and finally banned fluoride from its water supply. The people of Basel were told, just like we were, that fluoride was the be-all, end-all for dental health and that it would save us all, rich and poor alike, from the horrors of a mouthful of cavities...


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