Po Dentistry

05/22/2026

04/15/2026

Don’t ignore dental pain. It’s your body telling you something needs attention. Call today and get relief fast.

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas to all of our amazing patients and team!

12/22/2022

Christmas dinner!!

12/16/2022

We love having family work together! Please welcome Danny as our new sterilization tech! Deisy, his sister, is one of our wonderful hygienists that is stepping in today to help us out!

11/23/2022

Do you wake up feeling tired?

Some signs of poor sleep include:

• Restless, active sleep
• Nightmares
• Cold hands and feet
• Digestive issues
• Anxiety and depression

In the dental chair, one of the main symptoms of sleep issues includes teeth grinding. In both adults and children experience it:

If you’re grinding your teeth at night, don’t ignore the signs.

Firstly, it’s a sign of poor unrestful sleep.

If you’re damaging your teeth, you are doing real harm to your body.

Tooth enamel is made of hydroxyapatite, one of the strongest biological materials on the planet.

When you wear it down

The nanostructured calcium apatite plays an important role in the construction of calcified tissues. It has ability to attach biological molecules such as proteins, which can be used as functional materials which can regenerate.

When you wear the surface down, it can’t do so.

Teeth grinding often represents a closing airway during sleep.

When the airway closes, due to many factors, the brain signals the jaw to move in order to tense the muscles to hold the throat open to breathe.

Breathing is paramount during sleep, and your brain is obsessed with monitoring the airway. Throughout the nose and throat are ‘pressure’ sensors that detect how much resistance the air needs to push through to reach the lungs.

Practical ways to decrease teeth grinding.

1) Tongue posture: Here you need to train the tongue to seal to the roof of the mouth during sleep. A difficult skill to learn, but sealing the tongue up, including the back of the tongue to the soft palate is key
2) A tongue that seals to the roof of the mouth helps open the airway, but also turns off the large chewing muscles such as the masseter that runs down the cheek.
3) This is correct ‘oral posture’, Tongue sealed to the roof of the mouth, teeth slightly apart. This helps turn the masseter off, which stops teeth grinding!

Have you struggled with teeth grinding?

11/05/2022

Do you have restless sleep or grind your teeth?

Teeth grinding often accompanies a set of other symptoms, including:

​- Low blood pressure
- Chronic stuffy nose
- Temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD)
- Headaches or migraines
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Tension headache
- Hyperventilation syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Cold feet and hands
- Depression or anxiety
- Brain fog, daytime sleepiness
- Allergies, skin rashes
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Why would this be?

People who grind their teeth, often work or study long hours or report stressful family situations. Stress plays a part, but teeth grinding also reveals how people breathe during sleep.

To put it more correctly, teeth grinding hints at a set of sleep disorders and lack of oxygen during sleep. It’s a little-known condition known as upper airway resistance syndrome. And it is far more common than you’d expect.

It’s estimated that 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders. You may ask how the number could be so big? Many people simply don’t know they are at risk. They also have sleep disorders that are hard to pick up and even define.

The relatively small number of diagnoses are those with obstructive sleep apnea, yet it’s estimated 1 billion people globally suffer from OSA.

Teeth grinding is often associated with a condition abbreviated as UARS – UPPER AIRWAY RESISTANCE SYNDROME.

Sleep tests reveal UARS is sleep interrupted with frequent respiratory effort related arousals (RERAs). It’s due to higher pressure in the airways that send a message of ‘choking’ to your brain. If you suffer RERAs all night long, your body cannot enter deep REM sleep.
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​UARS indicates sympathetic FLIGHT OR FLIGHT driven sleep. It is the little sister of sleep apnea, and we need to talk about it.

Imagine the sound of tooth enamel screeching against under 250 pounds of force per inch.

Whilst guards can sometimes help, the real way to help a patient is to identify their structural or breathing issue.

Do you or a family member suffer from teeth grinding?

11/02/2022

If there’s one thing we both agree on, it’s that feeding kids is hard. 😵‍💫

🤱🏼Breastfeeding or infant formula👨🏽‍🍼is the primary source of nutrition for a baby for the first six months of their life. BM is a miraculous living liquid of life providing your rapidly developing baby it’s sole source of nutrition.

👶🏼 From here, it’s advised that babies nutritional needs increase at around 6m. As such it’s recommended babies begin their weaning, introducing solids alongside secondary to breastmilk or infant formula is the way to ensure their nutritional and neuromuscular developmental needs are met.

We see so many children today with small, underdeveloped jaws, crooked teeth, not to mention tooth decay in 1 yr olds.

Many parents don’t know the crucial role solids has in a child’s jaw development, and underestimate the importance of that 6 months of food nutrition and the role it plays in strengthening our teeth and orofacial development.

As a child starts to grow its baby teeth, it is developing it’s touch and feel, & connection with chewing.

As these tiny teeth cut through the gum, the trigeminal nerve senses ‘pressure and touch’ sensations through the ligament of the teeth down deep into the jawbone.
�As these neural signals flood through the jaw bone, sending electric current through their tiny bone.

These pressure signals, felt through the teeth, like any other joint in the body, signal the body to place bone and develop the joint.

😬Chewing is the physical signal that your child’s teeth & jaw grow and develop.

🧈 Introducing your baby to nutritionally dense first foods will also allow your baby to build a strong immune system full of fat soluble nutrients, needed to ward off tooth decay, and build strong bone.

If you knew the numbers of babies presenting with tooth decay, you’d be as alarmed as we are.

Begin the weaning process at approximately 6months, when your baby is showing correct developmentally approximate signs. This will help their craniofacial jaw development, assist with straight teeth, and avoid tooth decay.

How was your weaning journey?

Let’s share experiences & tips below ⬇️
Knowledge is power and mothers need support 💗