Weird Dental History Highlight: “Tooth Worms”
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange theories…
September 7, 2022
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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange theories…
MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, including side effects that impact oral health. These side…
THE SCIENCE OF saving teeth will keep improving as we make more advances in medical research and technology, but what’s…
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…
IT MIGHT SEEM more convenient to just get a root canal taken care of by the general dentist, but endodontists have far more training…
AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth…
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…