Healthy Nikki - Health Coordinator

04/18/2025

As a hygienist for 27 years I have taught parents this is the best way to start safely and effectively training your kids to have healthy habits !!!! Once those teeth come in they can become infected and that also can affect the rest of the body!
It can also be very tough with a wiggly toddler, but this is the safest way to teach them habits and remember their dexterity isn’t good until age 8, so you still should be helping them brush until then!🦷🪥

04/07/2025

It is National Dental Hygienist Week!! Dental hygienists clean teeth, but they also look for other health issues like oral cancer, diabetes, and lupus. Oral health is an indicator of whole-body wellness, so hygienists have a vital job indeed! 😁🦷🪥

04/01/2025

54,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer every year. Survival rates are greatly improved if dental professionals detect the disease early. To***co use is still a substantial risk factor, but a growing number of healthy non-smokers are at risk due to the spread of HPV (human papillomavirus). The best way to protect yourself from oral cancer is with a routine screening at your next dental appointment. 🦷🪥

09/14/2022

Heading into dental health month getting ready for a talk I’ll be doing, really in my profession seeing the damage to just the mouth from soda/pop use is sad. More sad is what it does to the rest of the body.

03/19/2022

Think about how we treat our mind and body each day- what we expect from it. If we eat bad, sleep bad, then don’t drink water and pop many pills for various ailments how do we expect to be at our best. The 4 pillars of health have been around for thousands of years, sometimes the more industrialized we are the more unhealthy we are…. we get away from the basics sleep ,nutrition ,exercise, hydration.

03/10/2022

What do you think is the main cause of all of these??

01/13/2021

Seems to me that there is not a lot of understanding of how immunity/ or a vaccine works and as I am teaching biology this year I thought I’d share. You want a good immune response to have your body create antibodies to a virus. It is the BEST reaction!!! Drink a ton of water, have oranges and get some rest if you need but other that that 1-2 days of sore vs 14 days of illness or worse!!! 🥰

01/13/2021

01/12/2020

The ADA Issues New Guidance on Va**ng, Calling for a Near-Complete Ban

01/08/2020

Such a good read!! Lots of parents and even adult patients will say to me it’s just normal to snore but it’s not especially in children it’s dangerous and can we do lots of health issues!

“Parents prepare yourself for some all-caps yelling, because this is going to change lives. All parents. If you have a child, I’m going to tell you something you need to know that you have probably never heard. And please share this. There is a huge red flag in the picture I am sharing with this...

12/23/2019

12/17/2019

Benefits essentially were the same whether people went to the gym twice a week or five times a week.