Smiling and Happiness- Keys to Improving our Moods
THE OLD LINE “it takes fewer muscles to smile than frown” isn’t actually true. It takes at least ten muscles to smile but as few as six to frown, so maybe the saying should be something [...]
40% of Kids will Have a Cavity by Age 11!
TWO OUT OF EVERY FIVE kids will have a cavity by their eleventh birthday, possibly even more than one. At those numbers, cavities are the most common childhood disease. What can parents do to fight [...]
The Anatomy of Human Teeth
DO YOU KNOW what the anatomy of human teeth is? We’d like to give you a quick tooth anatomy lesson because the more patients know about their teeth, the better they will understand the importance [...]
Your Teeth and Water Activities
TO THE AVID swimmers out there, you may have noticed that your teeth are at their most sensitive after enjoying water activities. It’s not something that’s obvious after just one afternoon at the lap pool, [...]
The Hazards of Oral Piercings
FROM CLOTHING TO HAIRSTYLE to cosmetics to accessories, our personal style is how we portray who we are, and this can include piercings. However, where clothing and hairstyles are very rarely health risks (we hope), the [...]
Don’t Use Your Teeth as Tools!
OUR TEETH CAN do a lot of things. They chew our food, they form a lot of the structure of our faces to make us look the way we do, they make it possible to [...]