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IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…
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IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…
YOU MAY HAVE heard the insult “mouth-breather” in recent years thanks to the popularity of the show Stranger Things. There are…
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 most common disease of childhood. That…
“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 that’s…
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…
PARENTING CAN BE such a wild time that you might struggle to find a moment to brush your own teeth, let alone brush theirs and…
THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their teeth…