A PACIFIER OR THUMB/finger-sucking habit that lasts beyond the toddler years can have a negative impact on a child’s...
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles…
YOU MAY HAVE heard the insult “mouth-breather” in recent years thanks to the popularity of the show Stranger Things. There…
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...
40% OF KIDS WILL develop at least one cavity by the time they turn eleven, which makes tooth decay the…
“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...