We have spent the last 11 months in our yearlong series on the oral-systemic connection.
It’s just a cleaning … right? For many of us, the prime motivation to get our teeth cleaned is primarily to get the “Starbucks stains” off. However, recent medical research keeps uncovering more and more connections between the health of your mouth and your overall health.
What do actor Patrick Swayze, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have in common?
June is the month we celebrate Father’s Day. A day for some fun, maybe a barbecue, watching a ball game on TV and drinking a few cold ones, right?
May is American Stroke Month. First, some quick and sobering facts: Someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds, and every four minutes someone dies because of a stroke.
We have all seen the long-running ad campaign, “got milk?,” with a famous person sporting a milk mustache.
The expressions, “My heart was in my throat” or “in my mouth” have often been used in years past to describe a feeling of extreme nervousness or fear.
A recent KING-5 HealthLink story explained how metal fillings could make you sick.
Most of us have experienced the uncomfortable feeling of “cotton mouth” when we were really nervous, usually when having to speak in public. It’s not a comfortable feeling, and for most of us, is easily solved by drinking a glass of water.
Toothbrushes are one of those modern conveniences that we take for granted. Today they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, bristle design, colors and modes of power.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increase, the first in 40 years, in the number of preschoolers with cavities, in a study completed five years ago.
The diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has grown dramatically in recent years. Some recent studies are reporting that 1 in 5 high school boys are being diagnosed with ADHD, and the number is increasing.
Unforeseen dental problems can range from the mild annoyance of a chipped tooth that is irritating your tongue, all the way up to an intensely painful abscessed tooth.
I’m not suggesting that your dentist is from Mars. However, is he or she doing all they can to minimize the impact of their work on the environment?
For the last year, I’ve been asking many of my dental patients a couple of unusual questions: “How do you sleep?” and “Have you been told you snore?”
Dentists, like many other people in specialized occupations, need to realize that their routine lingo and descriptors for what they do often sound like parts for a Mustang, not a mouth.
The month of April is National Oral Cancer Awareness Month. More than 35,000 cases of oral cancer are diagnosed in the United States annually, and more than 45 percent of those with the disease will not be alive in five years.
How do I find a good dentist?
Who would believe a dentist that actually encouraged you to consume between 6 and 8 grams of a natural sugar product each day? Even more unbelievable, who would guess that by doing so, you would actually reduce your chances of getting a cavity?
