Your Prescriptions and Your Oral Health

3 years ago

MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, including side effects that impact oral health. These side...

When Is Thumbsucking a Problem?

3 years ago

A PACIFIER OR THUMB/finger-sucking habit that lasts beyond the toddler years can have a negative impact on a child’s...

Why Are Natural Teeth the Best Option?

3 years ago

THE SCIENCE OF saving teeth will keep improving as we make more advances in medical research and technology, but what’s...

Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?

3 years ago

IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles…

How We Breathe Can Affect Our Teeth

3 years ago

YOU MAY HAVE heard the insult “mouth-breather” in recent years thanks to the popularity of the show Stranger Things. There…

Dentists Versus Endodontists

3 years ago

IT MIGHT SEEM more convenient to just get a root canal taken care of by the general dentist, but endodontists…

Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth

3 years ago

IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again…

When to Expect Baby Teeth to Appear

3 years ago

A COUPLE OF the biggest rites of passage in childhood are the first baby teeth coming in and the...

Endodontics History: Surprisingly Wild

3 years ago

AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth...

Cavities: The Most Common Childhood Disease

3 years ago

40% OF KIDS WILL develop at least one cavity by the time they turn eleven, which makes tooth decay the…