Midlife Health Is About More Than Menopause

Posted on by Erika Schlick
    In our previous post, we explored Erika Schlick’s journey from navigating her own complex health challenges to creating health education platforms that help women better understand and advocate for their health. That journey ultimately led to the Women’s Midlife Health Summit, but the conversation goes far beyond menopause. While hormonal changes are an important part of midlife, they are only one piece of the larger health picture. The Summit brings together experts acro...
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We Are Talking About the Oral-Systemic Connection—But Are We Talking to Each Other?

Posted on by Michelle Hougland
    A New Way of Thinking  For a long time, dentistry and medicine lived on separate islands. Today, we all know the truth: the mouth and the body are completely connected. We read the research on periodontal pathogens and systemic health, and we track the inflammation.  But a massive practical gap remains: How do we actually talk to each other across that dental-medical divide?  That is exactly why we started the Dental Referral Marketing Podcast and built Referral ...
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Why Erika Schlick Is Bringing Together Leading Women’s Health Experts

Posted on by Erika Schlick
    For more than a decade, Erika Schlick’s work in health education has been shaped by her own experience as a patient and a desire to help others better understand what is happening in their bodies so they can ask better questions and advocate for their health. Erika’s health changed dramatically in 2012 when she became chronically ill and spent years dealing with Lyme disease, mold illness, autoimmune conditions, gut issues, thyroid health, and many of the overlapping f...
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Why OraBiologics Belongs in Your Referral Network

Posted on by Kim Blaise
    Why OraBiologics Belongs in Your Referral Network A trusted bridge between the mouth and the body, for the practices caring for both. Every month, practices like yours see patients who are looking for something the front desk cannot always provide: certainty. Certainty that the dentist they are being referred to actually practices what their website promises. Certainty that the mouth is being treated as part of the whole body, not as an isolated set of teeth. OraBio...
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How Salivary Testing Changed the Way We Look at Whole-Body Health

Posted on by Zach & Savannah Labie
When my husband Zach was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer at just 33 years old, our world changed overnight. Like many families facing a serious diagnosis, we found ourselves asking one question over and over: Why? Beyond treating the cancer itself, we wanted to better understand the factors that may have contributed to his overall health. That search led us to nutrition, lifestyle changes, detoxification, and eventually to an area we had never considered before—oral health. ...
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OraBiologics: Supporting Patients Through Salivary Testing, Education, and Guided Care

Posted on by Kim Blaise
As salivary diagnostics continue to play a growing role in periodontal and oral–systemic care, one of the ongoing challenges for clinicians is ensuring patients fully understand their results—and are prepared to take meaningful next steps. OraBiologics was created to support this exact need. Rooted in biologic dentistry and oral–systemic health, OraBiologics is a member-based platform designed to help individuals better understand the connection between oral pathogens and whole-body he...
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From Cleaning to Cause: How Salivary Testing Changes the Patient Conversation

Posted on by Jonathan Evans
      For many patients, the hygiene appointment still carries a simple expectation: “I’m here to get my teeth cleaned.” As clinicians, we understand that what we see in the chair often tells a much deeper story. Bleeding, inflammation, pocketing, bone loss, and recurring disease activity are not simply “cleaning issues.” They are signs of an infection-driven inflammatory condition that requires diagnosis, strategy, and targeted therapy. The challenge is helping patie...
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Bleeding Gums Aren’t Just a Hygiene Issue – They’re Often a Diagnostic Opportunity

Posted on by Tosha Kozloski, RDH
For a long time, bleeding gums were treated as a home care conversation. Brush better. Floss more consistently. Let’s keep an eye on it… but what are we actually waiting for? That’s how most of us were taught. And honestly, it’s exactly how I practiced early in my career too. In 2008, when I began using salivary diagnostics alongside phase-contrast microscopy, something shifted for me. For the first time, I wasn’t making educated guesses. I could identify which microbes were prese...
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Periodontal Endoscopy: Seeing What Stops Periodontal Disease

Posted on by Lee Sheldon DMD PA
“The critical determinant in periodontal therapy is not the technique (surgical or non-surgical) used for the treatment of the periodontal pocket, but the quality of the debridement of the root surface." — Jan Lindhe, Journal of Clinical Periodontology (1984) That statement is not philosophical; it is clinical reality. Root surfaces must be truly clean for inflammation to resolve and for periodontal stability to occur. Multiple studies have shown that clinicians cannot reliably clean b...
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Throwback: Words of Wisdom by Sheena Hinson, RDH

Posted on by Sheena Hinson RDH
Every patient is different. Overcoming a patient’s obstacles to treatment may take some finesse. The diagnosis and treatment plan are typically the easier task. In this series, we have asked the experts from our Protocol Directory, “How would they help the patient overcome their obstacle(s)?” Patient: “Will my insurance cover this?” This is one of the greater dilemmas in the dental industry. It’s a roadblock disguised as access to care for many patients. For years, they have been misle...
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