Oral Health, Fluoride, and Your Toothpaste with Dr. Staci Whitman, a Functional Kids’ Dentist and Founder of NoPo Kids Dentistry: Episode Rerun

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we discuss oral health, detailing mouth, teeth, gums, and even toothpaste, but also dive into fluoride, flossing, tongue scraping, and more. The dive deep into: 1. Is brushing and flossing enough? What else should you do to maintain your oral health 2. How your oral health impacts every other system in your body. 3. Bleeding gums aren’t normal! Gum disease is connected to a ton of chronic health conditions 5. Fluoride: good or bad? We break it down 4. Explaining Root Canals. If you need a root canal, you should see an endodontist. Dr. Staci Whitman is a Functional Kids’ Dentist in North Portland, Oregon. She is the founder of NoPo Kids Dentistry, where she takes a whole-body, holistic, and functional approach to her patients. Dr. Whitman attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and worked as a general dentist for two years before earning a certificate in pediatric dentistry from Oregon Health & Science University. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. On this
0:06.4	podcast, we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and improve your
0:13.1	health and well-being. Today I'm talking with my friend, functional medicine dentist, Dr. Stacey Whitman,
0:19.2	whose motto is whole body health starts with
0:21.7	oral health. And I was able to ask her all the questions that you have about your mouth, teeth,
0:28.4	gums, and even toothpaste. Dr. Stacey started out as a general dentist, but wanted to make
0:34.4	a bigger impact on the development of our health starting at a younger age.
0:38.8	So she went back and became a pediatric dentist who focuses on the health of your mouth from a holistic,
0:45.1	whole body point of view.
0:46.5	She's a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and is a board certified pediatric dentist.
0:52.7	She's also a fellow of the American Academy
0:55.1	of Pediatric Dentistry.
0:56.7	She has it covered.
0:58.0	She runs the very successful NoPo Kids Dentistry
1:01.3	right here in North Portland in Oregon.
1:03.9	It was an absolute pleasure talking with her today
1:07.1	is understanding how the health of your entire oral cavity is so crucial to your overall system.
1:14.0	I was even able to ask her some questions around fluoride, flossing, tongue scraping, and more.
1:20.4	Here's a clip from today's conversation.
1:22.9	Dentistry went one way, medicine went the other, and because of that, over the decades and decades and
1:28.5	decades of that being the way it is, the general public, our patients, just think they're separated.
1:35.6	You go to the dentist for anything mouth-related and then your physician for everything
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