
Top Ten Reasons Why Dental Health is Mental Health
Smiling can get you a job. Make you seem more trustworthy. More intelligent. Appear warmer and more likable. Smiling is serious business. It affects the quality of your life in innumerable and sometimes subtle ways. At Horizon Dental we think that fixing your smile is also fixing you. Here are are few tidbits researchers have discovered regarding the power of the smile. 1. It's contagious. You feel better as do others who then spread that magic along. 2. It lengthens your lif

A Mouth Full of Heart Disease
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then your mouth is the window to your heart. The overall health of the mouth is a harbinger of overall health and holds clues as to the possibility and probability of serious hidden problems such as heart disease. There is a correlation between heart and gum disease. The reason why, some believe, is that the bacteria that causes plaque and gum disease can enter the blood stream, lodge in the heart and form clots. The research establishi

Chicken vs. Egg: Happiness vs. The Smile
At Horizon Dental, we take smiling seriously. It matters. If you are hesitant to laugh out loud or flash a smile because your teeth are embarrassing or simply less than perfect, it truly affects your health in very real and important ways. How so? The simple act of smiling does incredible things. New research has proven that smiling creates happiness. Yes. You read that right. The simple act of smiling literally creates happiness. Seems backward right? Yes. However it's not o