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Mind, Mouth, and Meaning: Exploring the Oral–Systemic Connection to Mental Health

Featuring Expert Guest: Sam Shamrdi, DMD

 

Our Smile Smarter series concludes the academic year with an essential conversation on the intersection of oral health and mental well‑being. Join us on May 12th as Dr. Sam Shamardi explores the growing body of evidence linking periodontal health, systemic inflammation, and mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. Dental professionals are often among the first to notice signs of stress and systemic imbalance—from xerostomia and bruxism to inflammatory patterns that may reflect broader health challenges.
 
This session will connect the science to the chairside reality, offering practical insights on how oral health conversations can thoughtfully support whole‑person care. Designed for hygienists and dentists, attendees will leave better equipped to recognize relevant patterns, communicate with empathy and clarity, and integrate mental health awareness into everyday clinical interactions—rounding out the year with a perspective that reinforces dentistry’s role in overall health.
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Perio Tray™ therapy from Perio Protect delivers medication deep below the gums so that the medication can fight infections causing the host inflammatory response. The seal on the tray is the key to deep delivery.

 

The primary antimicrobial used in Perio Tray™ delivery is Perio Gel™ with 1.7% hydrogen peroxide. This effective, broad-spectrum antimicrobial decreases our reliance on antibiotics and has the added benefits of freshening breath and whitening teeth. Patients love these benefits. 

 

Perio Tray™ therapy is offered most often to patients with gingivitis or periodontitis, but it is also prescribed for patients with infected margins around restorations, with peri-implant mucositis or peri-implantitis.

 

Because Perio Tray™ therapy helps improve gingival health and prevent the recurrence of disease, it also extends the life of restorations, giving you optimal restorative results.

 

Perio Protect has the only tray delivery system with research to support these claims.

Results Speak for Themselves

"As a periodontist, I have tried just about every method of treating periodontal disease that makes scientific sense. The key to success is long-term maintenance. Perio Protect is the one treatment that I have utilized in the last five years that works. Perio Protect is easy for patients to use, which means high compliance and high compliance means lots of success. It has become part of my winning formula."

 

Dr. Gordon Fraser

Conyers, GA

Reducing Oral Inflammation Improves General Health and Wellness

Periodontal disease is not just an inflammatory response to a bacterial infection that leads to tooth loss. It is a chronic inflammatory disease with multiple risk and modifying factors that prime individual patients to respond differently to polymicrobial biofilm-induced inflammation.

 

Perio Tray™ delivery of Perio Gel™ (1.7% hydrogen peroxide) helps better manage inflammation by suppressing pro-inflammatory gram-negative populations in the subgingival microbiome and encouraging the repopulation of healthier bacterial species. When delivered and held deep below the gums, peroxide works as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, physically disrupting the biofilm matrix that protects biofilm communities and lysing bacterial cell walls. 

 

Peroxide via Perio Tray™ delivery does more than just kill bacteria. Its release of oxygen – as it activates, peroxide turns into O2 + H2O – changes the microenvironment of the periodontal pocket so that healthy bacterial species repopulate at the expense of pathogenic ones. The environmental changes in the pockets thus have a direct effect on the changes in the composition of bacterial species in the microbiome.

 

Because periodontal diseases place a chronic low-grade burden on the immune system and exacerbate other inflammatory primed comorbidities like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis and others, it's important to treat at every stage.

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