TikTok Is Full of Dangerous Dental Advice

2 years ago

TIKTOK ISN’T THE best place to go for dental health advice — unless your dentist is active on the app.…

Attention Parents: Follow These Teeth Tips

2 years ago

PARENTS CAN DO a few different things to give their kids’ smiles a healthy...

How Do Dental Sealants Prevent Cavities?

2 years ago

AS A PARENT, maybe you spend a lot of your time worrying about whether your child’s teeth will develop cavities.…

How Do We Find the Right Toothpaste?

2 years ago

THERE ARE SO many choices of toothpaste in our grocery stores. With an...

Weird Dental History Highlight: “Tooth Worms”

2 years ago

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange…

Your Prescriptions and Your Oral Health

2 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?

2 years ago

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

Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?

2 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

2 years ago

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

Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth

2 years ago

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