07/01/2026
This weekend our team traveled to St. Petersburg for the Integrative Dental Medicine Scholar Society S3 Workshop: Sleep, Saliva, and Sugar.
At our office, oral microbiome health and sleep related oral disease are not new concepts to us. These are areas we already evaluate, discuss, and connect with our patients every day. What made this weekend exciting was the opportunity to learn about new types of testing, new screening tools, and even more ways to connect the dots between the mouth and the rest of the body.
We each had the opportunity to participate in advanced sleep screening, oral microbiome testing, and continuous glucose monitoring. The glucose piece was especially interesting as we continue learning more about how diet, blood sugar balance, inflammation, and oral health may all influence one another.
A special thank you to Lora Hooper, “The Saliva Hacker,” and Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson for being such incredible educators and for continuing to lead the conversation around integrative dental medicine.
Our goal is always to bring thoughtful, whole body focused dentistry back to our patients. Because the mouth is never separate from the rest of the body.
Sleep. Saliva. Sugar. It is all connected.