The Primary iD is a reading of five parts of your health, taken from the one place they all show: your mouth.
Forty questions, about six minutes. Below is every one of them, why we ask it, and what your answers tell Dr. Gabi before he meets you.
Why these five
Not how you are doing. What is building.
Most health scores tell you how you are doing today. The Primary iD looks for what is building: the slow, quiet signals that research links to many long-term conditions, years before you would feel them.
Inflammation
Low-level inflammation that does not switch off. It often shows first in the gums, and research links it with heart disease, diabetes and other chronic conditions.
Toxic load
What you are exposed to and carry: tobacco, alcohol, sugary drinks, and the materials already in your mouth, which Dr. Gabi checks at your visit.
Each of the five dimensions is a place where those signals show up, in or through your mouth. And each one is something you can act on.
Oral healthSleep & airwayNutritionFamily historyLongevityInflammationquiet, and it does not switch offToxic loadwhat you are exposed to, and carry
Five places we look. Two things we are looking for.
A snapshot, or a direction.
A biological age gives you one number for where your body seems to be today. It is interesting, but it does not say what is driving it or what to change first.
The Primary iD reads which way things are heading: where inflammation and toxic load are building, across five places you can act on, and the one change that would matter most.
Directional, not a diagnosis, and not a measure of biological age.
Years agoTodayYears ahead
Biological age · one reading, todayWhat is building · and where it is headingYour clearest lever · where acting matters most
An illustration, not your data. The line is what has been building; the green is what acting on your lever can look like.
Oral health is the state of your teeth, your gums and the saliva that protects them.
A cavity is not really the problem. It is the sign that the balance in your mouth has tipped, and that balance is what we read.
Oral health
72/ 100
SampleOral health
Eight answers72 avg
sugary snacking48
a recent cavity90
fluoride habit88
bleeding gums40Your lever here · Yes
time since a cleaning48
dry mouth88
grinding or clenching85
smile confidence92
A sample oral health score, and the eight answers behind it. The weakest, bleeding gums, is where the first visit starts.
What we look at
Pocket depth, at six points on every tooth
Bleeding on probing, where, and how much
Bone level, against the root, on radiograph
Decay, , and the pattern it lands in
Calculus, above and below the gumline
The eight questions, and why we ask
How often do you have sugary drinks or snacks between meals?How often you snack matters more than how much sugar you eat. Each snack starts a new acid attack.
Have you had a new cavity in the last 3 years?A recent cavity is the best single guide to whether more are on the way.
Do you use fluoridated toothpaste twice a day?Twice-daily fluoride toothpaste is one of the best-proven ways to prevent decay.
Do your gums bleed when you brush or floss?Gums that bleed are inflamed. It is the earliest visible sign of gum disease.
When was your last professional cleaning?Tartar and inflammation build up when cleanings are far apart.
Do you often feel like your mouth is dry?Saliva neutralizes acid. A dry mouth leaves your teeth with less protection.
Do you grind or clench your teeth?Grinding wears teeth down, and it is often connected to how you breathe at night.
How confident do you feel about your smile?How you feel about your smile shapes whether you look after it, and whether you see a dentist at all.
What your answers tell Dr. Gabi
Where decay and gum inflammation are most likely to start, so your first visit begins in the right place.
Nutrition is the pattern of what you eat and drink, which reaches your teeth and gums before anything else.
We do not count calories or prescribe a diet. We look for the one or two habits doing the most, to your mouth and to the rest of you.
Nutrition
81/ 100
SampleNutrition
Eight answers81 avg
olive oil88
vegetables92
fruit70
red & processed meat90
sugary drinks68Your lever here · 2–4
water68
alcohol88
whole grains86
A sample nutrition score, and the eight answers behind it. The weakest, sugary drinks, is where the first visit starts.
What we look at
Erosion, , and which surfaces it favors
Where decay lands, between, at the gumline, on the edge
Saliva, flow, and how well it buffers acid
Tissue response, how the gums answer inflammation
How often, you eat — frequency beats quantity here
The eight questions, and why we ask
Do you use olive oil as your main cooking fat?Olive oil as your main fat is a hallmark of the Mediterranean pattern, one of the best-studied ways of eating.
How many servings of vegetables do you eat per day?Vegetables bring fiber and protective compounds. More servings means a stronger pattern.
How many servings of fruit per day?Whole fruit adds fiber and nutrients to the pattern.
How often do you eat red or processed meat?A lot of red and processed meat pulls the overall pattern the wrong way.
How many sugar-sweetened beverages do you have per week?Sugary drinks are the strongest single dietary signal for both tooth decay and metabolic health.
How many glasses of water do you drink per day?Water keeps saliva flowing, and saliva protects your teeth.
How often do you drink alcohol?Alcohol dries the mouth and relaxes the airway at night, so it touches two dimensions at once.
Are most of the grains you eat whole-grain?Whole grains change how quickly sugar reaches your bloodstream.
What your answers tell Dr. Gabi
Which one or two changes would matter most, so any advice is specific to you rather than general.
Each dimension, 0 to 100.Built from its eight answers. Higher means more protective.
Your Primary iD.The average of the five. One number for the whole picture.
Your clearest lever.The dimension with the most room to move. It is where your first visit starts.
Your Primary iD is directional. It is not a diagnosis, and it is not a measure of biological age. Dr. Gabi confirms it with you at your visit.
The science
Built on published, validated questionnaires.
Each dimension adapts questions from screening tools used in dental and medical research. The scoring is ours, and it is directional. These are the sources.
Oral healthFeatherstone JDB, J Calif Dent Assoc 2007 · Eke PI et al., J Periodontol 2013 · Slade GD, Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1997
Sleep & airwayChung F et al., Anesthesiology 2008 · Johns MW, Sleep 1991
NutritionMartínez-González MA et al., PLoS One 2012 · Hedrick VE et al., J Am Diet Assoc 2012
Family historyJepsen S et al., J Periodontol 2018 · Nibali L et al., 2019
LongevityLloyd-Jones DM et al., Circulation 2022
Start here
You have read the questions. Now answer them.
Request your visit in about two minutes, then build your Primary iD in about six more. Your iD Guide calls you to confirm a time.