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Most dental information online is written by someone with a chair to fill or a gadget to sell. GlaadBlog.org is neither. We explain what a treatment actually does, what it costs you in time and money, and when the honest answer is that you do not need it.
4 practising clinicians review everything we publish. Every page carries the date it was last checked.
In-depth guides, each one clinically checked
Practising clinicians on the review board
Sponsored placements dressed up as advice
Longest a page can go before it is re-checked
Most read this month
Three questions account for most of the traffic to this site: my gums are bleeding, my teeth are not white enough, and should I get braces at my age. Each of these has a full guide behind it, and each has been through clinical review.
Gum health Gingivitis is reversible. Periodontitis is not. The line between them is quiet, painless, and usually crossed years before anyone notices a loose tooth.
Reviewed by Dr. Adaeze Okafor, BDS, MSc Periodontology
Cosmetic Peroxide concentration and contact time do almost all the work. Everything else - charcoal, lemon juice, blue LED mouthpieces - is marketing sitting on top of that one mechanism.
Reviewed by Dr. Marcus Hale, DDS
Orthodontics Aligners win on appearance and hygiene. Braces win on complex movement and on not depending on your willpower for 22 hours a day.
Reviewed by Dr. Erik Brandt, DMD
The part most sites skip
A byline is easy to print. What matters is whether anyone with a licence actually read the page before it went live. Here is exactly what happens to a draft on GlaadBlog.org, and who is accountable at each stage.
A dental writer or registered hygienist builds the page from systematic reviews, national dental bodies and clinical guidance. Never from other blogs, and never from a manufacturer’s brochure.
A named, practising dentist in the relevant specialty reviews the draft. If they cannot stand behind a claim, the claim comes out — even when it makes the page less quotable.
Every guide shows the month it was last reviewed and who signed it off. Nothing on GlaadBlog.org is allowed to sit untouched for more than twelve months.
The four things we cover
We do not chase every dental keyword that exists. The site covers four areas where good information genuinely changes what a reader decides to do — and where bad information is expensive.
Implants, aligners, whitening, root canals and crowns — what each one involves, how long it really takes, what drives the price, and the cases where the honest answer is that you do not need it yet.
See treatment guidesClinics quote a headline figure; the bill arrives with a graft, a scan and a lab fee attached. We break treatments into their actual components so you can see what you are being charged for and where a cheaper option is genuinely as good.
Start with implants
Four habits do almost all the work. We say which, and which shelf of the oral-care aisle you can walk straight past.
A twinge that stops and an ache that lingers mean very different things. Learn to read the pattern — and the red flags that need an appointment now.
“The most useful sentence in dentistry is often: this does not need treating yet. It is also the sentence you will almost never read on a page funded by treatment.”
Independence
Search almost any dental question and you land on a clinic page optimised to fill a diary, or an affiliate round-up optimised to sell a whitening kit. Both can be accurate. Neither is neutral. Four rules keep this site honest.
GlaadBlog.org does not own a clinic, does not take referral fees and does not sell treatment. There is no commercial reason for us to talk you into a procedure.
When we name a product it is because the evidence supports it, and any commercial relationship is disclosed on the page — not buried in a footer.
Watchful waiting is a legitimate plan for early wear, small chips and borderline cosmetic cases. Sites funded by treatment rarely say so.
Costs, timelines and success rates are given as ranges with the factors that move them, because your bone, your gums and your habits are not average.
Who signs off
Not a stock-photo "medical team". These are the people whose names go on the pages, each reviewing the area they actually practise in.
Full biographies, specialties and the review each clinician is responsible for are listed on the about page. Our sourcing rules and correction process are set out in the editorial policy.
Questions we get asked
Who we are, what we will and will not do, and how to hold us to it. If your question is not here, send it over — the answers that come up twice end up on this list.
Read the editorial policyGlaadBlog.org is an independent dental health publication. It explains dental treatments, symptoms and daily oral care in plain English, without selling treatment or running a clinic. Every guide is drafted from clinical sources and reviewed by a practising dentist before publication.
Drafts are written by dental writers and a registered dental hygienist, then reviewed line by line by a practising clinician in the relevant specialty — a periodontist checks the gum pages, an orthodontist checks the aligner comparisons, and so on. The reviewer is named on the page along with the date they signed it off.
No. Nothing on this site is a diagnosis, and no page can replace an examination and radiographs. The guides are designed to help you understand your options and ask better questions at your appointment. If you have facial swelling, trauma, uncontrolled bleeding, or swelling that affects breathing or swallowing, treat that as an emergency and seek urgent care immediately.
We do not accept paid placements presented as editorial recommendations, and no advertiser has any say over what a guide concludes. Where a commercial relationship exists on a page, it is disclosed on that page rather than buried in the footer.
Each guide carries the month it was last reviewed. Nothing is allowed to sit for more than twelve months without a fresh clinical read, and pages are updated sooner when guidance from bodies such as the ADA or NIDCR changes materially.
Tell us. Corrections go to the editorial address on our contact page and are triaged by the review board. If a claim turns out to be wrong we correct it and note the change on the page rather than quietly editing it away.
Where to start
Ten minutes on GlaadBlog.org before you sit in the chair changes the conversation. You stop asking “what do you think?” and start asking why this option, at this cost, over that one.
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