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Healthy Teeth and Gums with Green Tea

Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by wisdom.

Origins of green tea consumption believe that it could cure disease and heal wounds. With recent scientific studies showing that there are health benefits of drinking green tea, especially in weight loss, heart health, and cancer prevention.

A study recently published in the Journal of Periodontology, states that routine intake of green tea may also help promote healthy teeth and gums. The study  found that those who regularly drank green tea had superior periodontal health than subjects that consumed less green tea.

Male participants aged 49 through 59 were examined on three indicators of periodontal disease: periodontal pocket depth (PD), clinical attachment loss (CAL) of gum tissue, and bleeding on probing (BOP) of the gum tissue. Researchers observed that for every one cup of green tea consumed per day, there was a decrease in all three indicators.

Green tea’s ability to help reduce symptoms of periodontal disease may be due to the presence of the antioxidant catechin.  By interfering with the body’s inflammatory response to periodontal bacteria, green tea may help promote periodontal health. Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the gums and bone supporting the teeth. It could lead to other diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Thus regualarly drinking green tea could lead to improved oral health and overall health.

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Organized Wisdom

Posted on 08. Aug, 2008 by wisdom.

Organized Wisdom is a website that offers a human powered health web search. The health information is well organized and covers numerous topics. For example on Oral Health they offer the following categories: GuideWisdom, 5 Great Resources on Oral Health, What is Oral Health?, Oral Health Resources, Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Oral Health, Foundations and Support Groups on Oral Health, Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Oral Health, Clinical Trials on Oral Health, Related Wisdom Card, and User Recommended Links for Oral Health. Under each category are links primarily to external sites that the people who have edited the page feel are important and great rescources. For example, under Oral health there are links to WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and the American Dental Association. Unfortunely, there is no link to my website http://www.teethremoval.com.

The site provides reviewed and organized search result pages called WisdomCards which go through a general reviewer and a doctor, such as the one on Oral Health I just described.  Guides and Physician Reviewers are paid for each WisdomCard that gets accepted and published. You can even get payed by being a contributor. The first five WisdomCards are payed at $10 each, and the pay goes up as you contribute more WisdomCards.

A nice feature of the site is that each page shows the team who approved it. There are profile pages, too, but these are very simple: just a picture, bio, a link to a website, and a list of the articles users have contributed and saved.

Organized Wisdom also offers forums for participants to discuss health topics. The forums do not have very many posts though. You need to register a free account in order to access the forums.

The one complaint I have with OrganizedWisdom is they have a lot of Google Adsense Ads on their pages. I feel that more professional looking sites should not have many of these as the deter from the postive experience. Further, I feel like the name choice of the website may not be that great and it is slightly too long. I wonder why they didn’t go with something such as HealthWisdom or PatientWisdom.

In addition, I find it ironic that wisdom is such a large part of their website. If you have any experience using OrganizedWisdom I would be interested in hearing about it.

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