Are you a nervous person? Do you bite your nails or grind your teeth when you’re in stressful situations. You’re not alone, but you may be causing long-term harm to your teeth. Recently, Tel Aviv University research found that social anxiety and other anxiety disorders…
A SLIP OF THE TONGUE Most of us take our tongues for granted. We use them to speak, sing, drink, eat and to offer the occasional insult. But for those who suffer from Geographic Tongue or GT, the tongue is not always something they can…
A CHALLENGING PATIENT Every dentist has some patients that are more challenging than others. Maybe they’re ticklish, or nervous. Maybe they salivate too much, or too little. Maybe they never seem to be able to get comfortable in the dentist’s chair. But very few dentists…
A Prehistoric Diet Could Be Good For Your Teeth In previous blog posts we talked about the strange dental practices of ancient cultures. But before we become too judgmental, perhaps we should look at the teeth of prehistoric man. Prehistoric humans didn’t have dentists. They didn’t…
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE… It’s easy to think of a clean, straight, white smile as beautiful. Every fashion model and celebrity we know seems to have a gleaming set of pearly whites. In the United States alone we spend over 100 billion dollars every year…