Hugo-Foronda Dental Clinic

03/12/2025

Patients spend freely on cars, restaurants, vacations, and subscriptions, yet freeze the moment dentistry isn’t covered by insurance. Teeth feel like a bill. Everything else feels like a choice.

Dental insurance was never real insurance. It began in the 1950s as a prepaid children’s plan. The one thousand dollar annual max was created when a crown cost under one hundred dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that max should be about ten thousand dollars today. Dentistry advanced and costs rose, but the benefit stayed stuck in the past. What once covered a year of care now barely covers one procedure.

People assume two cleanings a year is biology instead of bookkeeping. When insurance denies something, they think it must not be necessary. It becomes a shield that protects them from guilt and procrastination. Meanwhile they spend huge amounts on anything that feels fun or rewarding. Dentistry has no dopamine spike.

The solution is reframing. Diagnosis should come from biology, not a policy written in 1964. Insurance is a coupon, not a treatment plan. Shame has to disappear. A simple “Everyone’s mouth is different” can erase years of embarrassment.

People understand that insurance pays for disasters, not routine maintenance. Dentistry is the same. Preventive care protects them from bigger problems. Doing nothing is the expensive choice, and the edentulous statistics prove it.

Americans have the money. They spend more on gambling, alcohol, fast food, streaming, and to***co than on dentistry. The barrier isn’t affordability. It’s identity. Once patients see dental care as protection instead of obligation, they act like owners. And owners protect what matters.

Full story: https://www.dentaltown.com/messageboard/thread.aspx?s=2&f=120&t=394100

26/08/2025

25/02/2025

Here’s a quick list of what the studies have shown us over last 40 or so years.

A centrepiece of an effective healthcare system will include and integrate oral medicine with systemic conditions. I’m excited to see this fold out in our life time.

It’s a comprehensive list, that goes much further.

1) Periodontal disease (gum disease) increases the risk of cardiovascular events.

2) Thyroid conditions increase the risk of dental conditions.

3) Oral bacteria are found in the liver in end stage cirrhosis

4) Tooth loss equates to a volume calculated loss in airway

5) Crooked teeth associates with obstructed airways and sleep disorders

6) Type II diabetics are at higher risk of gum disease.

7) People who mouth breathe have a higher chance of developing obstructive sleep apnea.

😎 Oral bacteria are found in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients.

9) Bleeding gums during pregnancy may increase risk of gestational diabetes and tooth loss.

10) Asthmatics are more likely to develop tooth erosion

Did any surprise you?

There are more, who can name an oral systemic connection.

Has oral health affected overall health?

28/12/2024

For better health, you need to get better sleep.

Sleep is critical for healthy bones and teeth which is why I talk about it with all of my patients…

So how do we get better sleep. Well there’s no better way than looking to nature.

Sleep is a part of circadian rhythm that was designed to help us live on planet earth.

So why not look back to planet earth for the answers?

Day and night set a critical rhythm within your body, which you must time to.

Sunlight on your face, eyes, and skin, send messages of neurotransmitters to the brain and the most powerful forms of ‘captured’ sunlight, into the liver, to be stored in fat, and used as high forms of energy for your DNA.

Your perception of earth is dependent on light exposed as our planet orbits the sun. Daylight sees the most intensity and spectral shifts that sunlight brings.

Inside your brain, light converts to neurotransmitters that turn the endocrine system on for day time activities.

During the day and before twilight, the ambient illumination is between 1,000,000 (106) and 100,000,000 (108) times brighter than at night.

Red - orange hues of a sunset trigger the human brain to sleep via the message and stimulation of melatonin production.

The Red-light frequency goes from approximately 600nm to 780nm. IR-A light frequency stretches from 780nm to 1538.5nm. The dominant part of the solar spectrum is Red and IR light.

While bright blue morning light tells the body to reduce the hormone's level and get ready for a day’s work.

At night, melatonin floods the brain and body to help things relax and wind down.

But it needs that darkness! Any artificial light will scatter the messages to your brain.

How do we make sure this happens? Watch the sunset, the near infra-red light that your brain receives tells it to release melatonin for deep restful sleep.

Any sunset watchers here? How does it make you feel?

02/12/2024

Dental cavities are the most common chronic disease experienced by children.

If you’re building a house, you start with strong foundations. Our kids teeth are the foundations of the health of our future civilization.

If we are to overcome the chronic disease epidemic we need to target the ground level.

Kids whose teeth are rotting at their foundations are at higher of risk of all of the digestive, metabolic and end stage diseases that are flooding our healthcare system.

When we feed kids cereals for breakfast they are starting their days on a blood sugar roller coaster. Their oral microbiome is flooded with disease causing strep mutans that feed on simple sugars.

Their teeth and skeletal system are starved of the fundamental nutrients (sunlight derived vitamin D) and its co-factors that create resistance to decay.

Forget artificial colors, it’s time to get rid of cereals targeted at kids full stop. Last year 92
Million boxes of fruit loops were sold.

Let’s invest in our future and feed our kids nourishing whole food breakfasts based on eggs, bacon, dairy, and beef!

What do you think should we ban these types of cereals?

26/08/2024

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20/06/2024

When we talk about benefits of sunlight, we think vitamin D, but the nuances and role the sun plays in the human body goes far further.⠀
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Your solar panels are you your skin and eyes. When you expose skin to middle day sun, we convert vitamin D. It’s also the sunlight that can burn if you expose too much.⠀
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SUNRISE is a different type of light.⠀
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All sunlight is 42% infrared light. Infrared light stimulates collagen, increases bone healing and heals wounds. So, sunrise is great for your gums and teeth.⠀
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Sunrise contains little to no UV, so expose as much skin to the morning sun as you can.⠀
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This type of infrared light is also anti-ageing; it reduces wrinkles and scars. That’s not what you usually hear about sunlight is it!⠀
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​Infrared light, along with cellular water, is crucial when it comes to charging your body and creating energy.⠀
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The benefits of morning sun play a critical role as to how we utilize sunrays found in light over the day. Infrared light around sunrise preconditions our skin to protect us from the UVA and UVB that comes out a bit later.⠀
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Catch enough infrared light early in the morning and you’re less likely to burn later in the day.⠀
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Then around 10am, UVA raises its head a little bit later in the morning. It is critical in making Nitric Oxide (the substance we release from the nasal sinuse and exercise). Nitric oxide drastically increases mitochondrial energy, your memory, and it’s anti-aging.⠀
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UVA light also triggers the production of serotonin and dopamine and releases endorphins along with a small op**te effect. The end result? You feel good.⠀
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So if there’s one health recommendation I can make. Get up with the sunrise, watch it and expose your eyes, skin, and brain to the benefits of sunlight.⠀
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Anyone catch the sunrise today?

08/03/2024

Crooked teeth don’t happen via fate, they occur due to our environment.
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In dental practice these images have become normal.

Our children today don’t develop jaws that fit 32 human teeth.⠀
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In late adolescence we see it when wisdom teeth don’t fit. In late childhood we see it with crowded crooked teeth requiring braces.⠀
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What we are witnessing is one of the most important health trends of human history. When our jawbones don’t develop, our airways are less developed. The roof of the mouth is the floor of the nasal sinuses, and reduces the volume to breathe through.⠀
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The result is an increased pressure in the airway, and can lead to obstructed breathing during sleep, or sleep apnoea.
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How prevalent would you guess sleep apnea is in the world?
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Here are the figures reported in the Lancet: “Using AASM 2012 diagnostic criteria and AHI threshold values of five or more events per h and 15 or more events per h, we estimated that 936 million (95% CI 903–970) adults aged 30–69 years (men and women) have mild to severe obstructive sleep apnoea and 425 million (399–450) adults aged 30–69 years have moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea globally.

The number of affected individuals was highest in China, followed by the USA, Brazil, and India.”⠀
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A billion people.⠀
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Sleep apnea is now known predispose to heart attacks, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, type-II diabetes, depression, anxiety, teeth grinding, and Alzheimer’s disease.⠀
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We are in a pandemic of poor craniofacial development and it’s time to wake up.

Many people in the community are learning how to reduce and potentially reverse the consequences of slow jaw growth.

We can prevent this in our children.

To follow this story you can listen to my new podcast

Have you noticed signs of crooked teeth in your kids?

27/02/2024

Hugo-Foronda Dental clinic is now MEDICARD accredited!

25/01/2024

CROOKED TEETH MUST BE CORRECTED! ….. maybre we xan help you☺️