Keystone & Arch

Keystone & Arch

Publisher of Oral Intelligence: The Overlooked Window into Your Health and Longevity by Michael Gulizio, DMD. Forthcoming.

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Oral Intelligence

The Overlooked Window into Your Health and Longevity

The mouth is where breathing, sleep, the microbiome, and chronic inflammation meet, and most of medicine still treats it as a separate department. Oral Intelligence makes the case that it is one of the earliest and most readable signals of how the whole body is aging.

Drawing on two decades of clinical prosthodontics in New York City, Dr. Michael Gulizio shows what the mouth reveals about airway, sleep quality, metabolic and cardiovascular risk, and what can be done about it, long before the problems surface elsewhere.

Author
Michael Gulizio, DMD, MS
Publisher
Keystone & Arch, New York
Formats
Paperback, 6 Ă— 9 in; ebook
ISBN
To be announced
Status
Forthcoming
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About

An arch stands because of one stone. Every force in the structure is carried through the keystone at its crown. Remove it, and the arch falls.

The body works the same way. The arch is the body: the airway, the heart, the brain, the systems that hold a life upright. The keystone is the oral cavity. Every breath, every meal and every microbe enters there first, and what happens in the mouth is carried through everything downstream. It is the origin point, and the place where whole-body health is either held together or starts to give way.

Keystone & Arch publishes work built on that idea. It is the independent imprint of Dr. Michael Gulizio, who chose to publish Oral Intelligence himself so the book could stay close to his clinical work and reach readers on his timeline.

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The author

Michael Gulizio, DMD, MS, MSEd, MSciDent

Dr. Gulizio is a prosthodontist, the dental specialty responsible for rebuilding the mouth as a functioning whole: teeth, bite, jaw joints and the structures that support them. Born in Brooklyn and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, he returned to New York to practice and has spent his career working where dentistry meets the rest of medicine.

For several years he served as Program Director of the Advanced Esthetics and Occlusion Program at NYU, training dentists from around the world in veneers and occlusion. His clinical focus spans complex restorative and implant care, TMJ and orofacial pain, the airway and sleep, and the growing evidence linking oral health to cardiovascular, metabolic and neurological disease.

The practice

Core Smiles

Dr. Gulizio co-founded Core Smiles Aesthetic & Implant Dentistry with Dr. Steven Cordoves in 2007. Based in NoMad, Manhattan, the practice covers the full scope of dentistry, from esthetics and implants to longevity-focused care.

The assessment

ORIGIN

The ORIGIN Precision Oral-Systemic Assessment is his clinical framework for reading the mouth as a window on the whole body. It brings together the oral microbiome, inflammatory biomarkers, the jaw joints and bite, imaging and the airway into a single picture of systemic risk. It is offered at Core Smiles.

The book

Oral Intelligence

The full argument for the mouth as the keystone of health, written for readers who want to understand what their mouth is already telling them, and what to ask for.

Oral care

Beso

A bioactive oral care line, developed with Dr. Cordoves and formulated to support the oral microbiome instead of stripping it.

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