UNLESS THE DENTIST is an active TikTok user, it’s not a good idea to get dental advice from TikTok. We’ve noticed a lot of dangerous DIY ideas popping up so let’s take a minute to [...]

40% OF KIDS WILL have at least one cavity by the time they start school, usually due to poor oral hygiene and eating and drinking lots of sugary things. It’s critical to teach kids good oral [...]

FOR AS LONG AS there have been people, there has been tooth decay, but people in past civilizations didn’t have as many answers about what caused their tooth problems as we do now. That led [...]

WE CAN SEE a hint of the state of rotten teeth of Shakespeare’s Time in England from a sonnet in which he describes his lady love’s reeking breath. The lines “black contagious breath” and “his [...]

“MOUTH-BREATHER” HAS made the rounds as an insult in recent years, but breathing primarily through the mouth instead of the nose can actually have some pretty negative effects on health, including oral health. Breathing with [...]

YOU PROBABLY HEARD the line “it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown” when you were growing up, but the pedantic dentist might point out that it technically isn’t true. At least ten muscles are [...]