Oral Microbiome Testing
Your mouth is one of the many places where you need bacterial friends in order to create and maintain health.
Oral health is implicated in various cardiovascular issues, brain and mental health issues, gut and digestion issues, and more.
Through oral microbiome testing, you learn who is currently living in your mouth, gain an understanding of whether they are helping or harming your overall health, and receive action steps on how to make positive changes!
Who should test their oral microbiome?
Everything that you swallow, including your oral bacteria friends and enemies, affects the health of your gut, brain, heart, teeth and gums, and more. How do you know if you should test your oral microbiome?
If you are dealing with any of the following, I recommend finding out more about your oral microbiome:
- sensitive teeth
- memory issues
- leaky gut
- cavities
- mold exposure
- candida overgrowth in the gut
- silver (amalgam) fillings
- past root canals
- chronic sinus infections
- chronic fatigue
- difficulty with taste and/or smell senses
- chronic bad breath
- diabetes or pre-diabetes
- currently expecting a baby or considering it!
- have young children at home
- snore at night
- mouth breathing – particularly during sleep
- preventing or reversing Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s
- thrush or other fungal infections
- inflamed gums
How do you “fix” your oral microbiome?
Oral health is impacted by your breathing, your sleep, your oral care, your diet, and more.
Your test results from Bristle come with a personalized care routine including specific products (toothpaste, etc) that will help you grow more friendly oral bacteria and remove the unfriendly ones.
During your consultation with me, we go one or more steps further. We discuss what else you can change about your wellness oriented lifestyle that will support a healthy microbiome in your mouth and everywhere else too!