Oral Cancer Awareness Month Is Here!
STAYING INFORMED ABOUT the symptoms and risk factors of are key to oral cancer awareness. We oral health professionals are on the front lines of the battle against oral cancer, and we want to recruit [...]
What’s Your Plan for the First Loose Tooth?
MOST OF US can still remember what it was like to lose a baby tooth, especially that major Big Kid milestone of losing the first one. How did it happen for you? Did it take longer [...]
The Tooth Fairy Across Time and Cultures
ONE OF THE most prominent figures of the magic of childhood is the Tooth Fairy, but depending on where and when you are, the traditions around lost baby teeth are very different from what we have [...]
Trailblazers for Women Dentists
MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, so we’re celebrating two trailblazers for women dentists in North America. They paved the way for women in all dental specialties, including pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, and endodontics. Lucy Hobbs Taylor Lucy [...]
Stress and Our Smiles
MENTAL HEALTH AND physical health are tied together in ways we don’t always expect. Stress and our smiles or lack of smiles go hand in hand. That even extends to the relationship between oral health [...]
The First Black Woman Dentist in the US
IDA GRAY, the first black woman dentist in the US, was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1867. She became an orphan when her mother died in her early teens, after which she went to live [...]