THERE ARE SO many choices of toothpaste in our grocery stores. With an...
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange…
MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, including side effects that impact oral health. These side...
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles…
“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow...
WE TEND TO ASSUME that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but…
TEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure...
THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their…
NOT MUCH WAS understood in Medieval England about cavities or gum disease, but they...
WE HEAR A LOT that it’s bad to chew ice. It’s because ice can do a lot of damage to…