What do you use your smartphone for most? Over 77% of Americans own a smartphone, using it for everything from shopping and research to surfing the internet and downloading applications. It’s that last action that can do a lot to rekindle the fun of your oral health routine. With dozens of dental apps available for…
Martin Schmidt, the manager of German soccer team Wolfsburg, recently admitted that he forces all his players to brush their teeth after practice. Why? These are grown men who make a lot of money, why must they brush their teeth? According to Schmidt, exercise causes acidity and this acidity goes into the bloodstream, and it…
Hi all, I have a short post for you today. I personally find this topic fascinating. Let me start with some questions. If you had to guess between Julius Caesar and some random Roman proletariat, who had the better teeth? What about between Richard III and some poor sod living in a corner of London…
Nootka 5 was thirty-two when she died. She had been captured off the coast of Iceland in 1981 and she would go on to birth eight children in captivity, of which only three would go on to live longer than four years. The cause of her death was unannounced, but over the years they had…
“Sugar kills,” reads the headline, as the article then proceeds to lecture us on the harm of sugar and soda, using “Mountain Dew mouth” as the emphasis of the argument. The term has come to define a region. It has also come to define debates around decisions with far-reaching consequences for the Appalachian region —…
Almost a third of Americans have smoked or otherwise consumed marijuana five times or more. In 2000, almost a fifth of Americans were found to be marijuana users. It’s equally as consumed around the world, with almost a fifth of Australians having been found to use it within the past 12 months. Suffice to say,…
Sometimes a tooth needs to be extracted. It’s a common procedure and it can have multiple causes. A dentist may, for example, extract a tooth to make room for others to grow into — in the right context, it can help straighten your smile or it can make room for the eruption of a new…
You’ve heard it a thousand times: “prevention is the best form of medicine.” Well, as boring and mundane as it might sound, it’s absolutely true. I know because I see the consequences of a lack of care and foresight all the time — it can rear its ugly head as a big, fat dental bill….
A strong, arid wind blows stale sand across the wasteland you once knew as Greensburg. The heat is unbearable and the sweat clings to your dry, flaking skin like droplets of cool ice. Where Twin Lakes Park once sprawled now exists nothing but desert and the broken stumps of once proud trees. This is your…
According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, only slightly more than half of individuals newly diagnosed with oral cancer will be alive in 5 years. This type of cancer is especially dangerous because it’s typically discovered after spreading to other areas of the body. In fact, improvement in survival rates of oral cancer has remained relatively…
