IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again…
A COUPLE OF the biggest rites of passage in childhood are the first baby teeth coming in and the...
AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth...
40% OF KIDS WILL develop at least one cavity by the time they turn eleven, which makes tooth decay the…
SOMETIMES WHEN WE get a toothache, there are hours or more standing between us and the help of the dentist…
“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...
PARENTS CAN DO a lot to help their child come into the dentist’s office feeling relaxed and...
WE OFTEN HEAR about the American Dental Association, but there’s another organization just...