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“Some fats and oils can be used when cooking over high temperatures, while some are better suited for use over low or no heat. The following guide lists preferred cooking oils, their smoke points, and their best uses.” Download the attached PDF for more details and a handy chart. A Guide to Cooking with Fats […]

Ozonated Olive Oil is made by infusing a high concentration of ozone in extra-virgin pure olive oil. It combines the moisturizing and smoothing properties of olive oil with the versatile healing properties of ozone. We keep glass jars of this for patients refrigerated in our office for dispensing. In practice, a small amount of the cool, […]

Ozone was pivotal in my practice. No single other concept and practice has affected more change in my thinking, how I view disease and healing, how my therapies are performed and the enormous improvement in treatment outcomes. The use of ozone permeates every portion of our work at Whole Health Dentistry. To say it is […]

Is Biological Dentistry Cosmetic Dentistry?  Absolutely Yes! Biological dentists use some traditional methods of material selection such as shade, color, light transmission, and shape matching. Biological dentists are also looking for harmony. Harmony with how the teeth, muscles and joints function, and with how the material reacts with the body’s immune system. For instance, traditional […]

Note: Thank you to Edward Arana, DDS, founder of the IABDM, for his excellent article Thoughts on Biological Dentistry, for portions of this work, as he stated so clearly the heart of the matter. One way to describe this type of practice is conscious dentistry. All the technical aspects of traditional dentistry remain true. However, the Biological […]

In 1926 Alfred Stock PhD defined the term chronic micromercurialism describing the effects of mercury on the body. This can be mercury from any source. Please understand that the ADA refutes that mercury is released from amalgam fillings. A health practitioner other than your dentist must talk with you about the dangers. Your dentist is […]

Hg out of sight…. In the little room beyond my children’s in our office there is a door behind which the lights flash, sounds and shadows escape from under the door like a muffled Willy Wonka contraption held at bay.  It is like this in many dental practices – some dark corner where the air […]

Dr. Copeland, Should one of my mom’s anchor teeth hurt three weeks after her bridge was completed? The doctor shaved down some tooth to help, but it didn’t do any good. Please let me know what you think. Thank you so much!-Jane Hi Jane, If the tooth is just uncomfortable to biting or chewing it […]

Greetings, I live in Hawaii on the island of Kauai. My dentist thinks I should have a root canal and I feel like I need a second opinion. The options on the island are minimal so I am wondering about coming to Santa Barbara to see Dr. Copeland. This is the situation:Three or four weeks […]

Dear Dr. Copeland, My question is about a root canal done many years ago (at only 31) and the dentist really did not do a good job. I had to go back and have it redone. The new dentist found that the tooth next to it has had a lot of food collection and has […]

Note: This information was taken directly from the EPA website. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed standards under the Clean Water Act to help cut discharges of dental amalgam to the environment. Amalgam is a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill cavities. Mercury is discharged when […]

Hello Dr. Copeland, I came across your website and I have a quick question that I hope you can help me with. I am currently in the Middle East and I had all of my nine silver fillings removed. I had them done by a normal dentist, which I am learning can be dangerous due […]