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Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?

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

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How We Breathe Can Affect Our Teeth

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

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

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

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Cavities: The Most Common Childhood Disease

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“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow...

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WE TEND TO ASSUME that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but…

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TEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure...

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How to Get Ready for the First Dental Visit

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PARENTS CAN DO a lot to help their child come into the dentist’s office feeling relaxed and...