Dental Blog

AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth…

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…

SOMETIMES WHEN WE get a toothache, there are hours or more standing between us and the help of the dentist or endodontist. Here…

“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…

WE OFTEN HEAR about the American Dental Association, but there’s another organization just…

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…

ENDODONTIC TREATMENT, also called root canal therapy, is a dental procedure in which decayed dental pulp is removed so that…