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The Oral Health Bible
The Oral Health Bible
The Oral Health Bible
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Dr. Bonner believes that the mouth is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems. His informative book The Oral Health Bible contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our doctors and dentists by detailing how many debilitating health problems - conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies - are intimately linked to oral health and hygiene.
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Release dateJan 1, 2003
ISBN9781591206170
The Oral Health Bible
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Michael Bonner

Michael Bonner practices in Somerset, Texas, a small community a few miles Southwest of San Antonio. He lectures to physicians and dentists in the United States and abroad and is the author of numerous health and wellness articles. Dr. Bonner's professional affiliations include memberships in The American Dental Association, The Texas Dental Association, The Academy of General Dentistry and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, where he is a candidate for diplomat status.

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    The Oral Health Bible - Michael Bonner

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    check for periodontal (gum) disease would reveal that at least nine out of ten adults have some evidence of gum disease at this time, and it would be safe to say that very few of them know they have it (it’s generally painless until it’s too late). Gum disease isn’t just the major cause of tooth loss and bad breath anymore. Even though both of these conditions are serious enough by themselves, periodontal disease is a far more serious health condition than either bad breath or tooth loss because it is very closely associated with several systemic health conditions, including arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, lung disease, premature births, rheumatoid arthritis, strokes, and more. In fact, the connection between periodontal disease and these severe systemic conditions has been confirmed by studies reported in the dental media. There is a common link in all this and it is largely avoidable, but only if the person with the gum disease knows what to do.

    The fact is, if a person decided today to try and take control of, or even reverse, their gum disease by making changes in their home-care efforts, the odds are nearly 100 percent that they would be unsuccessful, and that they would likely damage their health further by using products purportedly formulated to combat gum disease that are actually harmful—products such as commonly available mouthwashes and

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