Hey there, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. On this

podcast, we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and improve your

health and well-being. Today I'm talking with my friend, functional medicine dentist, Dr. Stacey Whitman,

whose motto is whole body health starts with

oral health. And I was able to ask her all the questions that you have about your mouth, teeth,

gums, and even toothpaste. Dr. Stacey started out as a general dentist, but wanted to make

a bigger impact on the development of our health starting at a younger age.

So she went back and became a pediatric dentist who focuses on the health of your mouth from a holistic,

whole body point of view.

She's a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and is a board certified pediatric dentist.

She's also a fellow of the American Academy

of Pediatric Dentistry.

She has it covered.

She runs the very successful NoPo Kids Dentistry

right here in North Portland in Oregon.

It was an absolute pleasure talking with her today

is understanding how the health of your entire oral cavity is so crucial to your overall system.

I was even able to ask her some questions around fluoride, flossing, tongue scraping, and more.

Here's a clip from today's conversation.

Dentistry went one way, medicine went the other, and because of that, over the decades and decades and

decades of that being the way it is, the general public, our patients, just think they're separated.

You go to the dentist for anything mouth-related and then your physician for everything

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