What Causes Tooth Infections?

3 years ago

THE ADA IDENTIFIES tooth decay, gum disease, and a cracked tooth as causes of tooth infections. Each one...

How Do Dental Sealants Prevent Cavities?

3 years ago

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

Your Pre-Op Checklist for Root Canal Therapy

3 years ago

IF YOU HAVE endodontic therapy coming up soon, especially if it’ll be your first time at an endodontist’s office, we...

How Do We Find the Right Toothpaste?

3 years ago

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

Weird Dental History Highlight: “Tooth Worms”

3 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

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…