Here's something a lot of people don't realize: Calling yourself a biological dentist doesn't necessarily make you one.

In this episode of Your Mouth Matters, Dr. T sits down with Kim Blaise, founder of OraBiologics, to talk about the gap between the marketing and the reality in biological dentistry right now.

Holistic. Natural. Functional. Integrative. Biologic. Biological. These words are everywhere. They’re also unregulated. Anyone can call themselves a biological dentist. That doesn’t mean they’re actually doing biological dentistry, though. For someone navigating a complex health situation, landing in the wrong office can cost a lot more than just time and money.

Kim came to this work through 20 years on the business side of dentistry, watching patients struggle to find their way to care that genuinely connected the dots between their mouth and their overall health. What she built with OraBiologics is something that the biological dentistry space has needed for a long time: a vetted, educated starting point for patients who are done guessing.

This is a candid, practical conversation about what it actually takes to find a practitioner you can trust and why that search is harder than it should be.

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Dr. Taylor & Green City Dental: https://greencitydental.com

Ora Biologics: https://orabiologics.com

O2Dontics: https://o2dontics.com

In this episode of Your Mouth Matters, Dr. Rebecca Taylor sits down with functional neurologist Dr. David Lee to talk about primitive reflexes - automatic movement patterns that babies are born with to support their early survival and development. These reflexes are meant to integrate as the brain matures. When they don’t integrate completely, the nervous system can remain in a stress-based pattern that influences far more than movement.

Dr. Lee explains how retained primitive reflexes can show up in ways as varied as mouth breathing, clumsiness, poor posture, sensory overwhelm, emotional reactivity, chewing and speech challenges - even plateaus in orthodontic or myofunctional care. Dr. Lee also shares his developmental “pyramid” model, describing how reflexes and core stability form the foundation for balance, eye tracking, coordination, focus, and emotional regulation.

This conversation offers a broader understanding of why some children routinely struggle with breathing, attention, handwriting, posture, or big feelings - and why addressing neurological foundations can make meaningful, lasting change possible.

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• Dr. David Lee & Alight Functional Neurology: https://www.afncwa.com
• Dr. Taylor & Green City Dental: https://greencitydental.com
• O2dontics: https://o2dontics.com

When sleep problems crop up, they don’t always point where you'd expect.

Snoring, restless sleep, morning headaches, brain fog, anxiety, high blood pressure - these are often treated as separate issues, rather than separate issues with a common root. In this episode, Dr. T sits down with Chad Seeber of Sleep Group Solutions to talk about what’s often overlooked in conversations about sleep: the airway.

They explore why dentists are uniquely positioned to spot sleep-related breathing problems, how sleep apnea and upper airway resistance can quietly shape long-term health, and why sleep issues labeled “mild” still need to be addressed. The conversation connects oxygen, stress physiology, and fragmented sleep, and explains why better diagnostics can make the difference between guesswork and predictable results.

If you’ve ever been told your sleep study was “nothing to worry about,” struggled with fatigue despite doing all the right things, or wondered why airway health keeps coming up in the dental chair, this episode offers a clearer way to connect the dots.

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Sleep Group Solutions: https://join.sleepgroupsolutions.com/
Green City Dental: https://greencitydental.com
O2dontics: https://o2dontics.com