Everyone knows that to keep your teeth and gums healthy, you need to practice good oral hygiene and brush and floss regularly. It’s been drilled into everyone’s heads that if you don’t brush your teeth, you’ll end up with cavities and maybe even missing teeth. But what may not have been drilled into your head [...]
As a kid, a parent may have told you to chew your food more as you gulped down a meal, eager to get back to playing. Or maybe as an adult, you’ve heard that rumor that you should chew your food 32 times before swallowing. Whether you’ve heard that it’s good for your teeth, helps [...]
You may have heard that smoking e-cigarettes, called vaping, are a good way to quit smoking conventional cigarettes. You may have heard that e-cigarettes are better for your health than cigarettes that contain tobacco. It's possible you heard that they aren’t bad for you at all. There’s a lot of rumor floating around about e-cigarettes, [...]
The recent outbreak of scurvy in Sydney reinforces the importance of diet to our overall well-being. The disease's oral health effects highlights the link between our systemic health and our oral health. Scurvy’s Return to Sydney Scurvy is caused by insufficient vitamin C, and the condition was a particular plague on sailors [...]
Gingivitis is a widespread form of gum disease. Conventional wisdom dictates that gingivitis can evolve into periodontitis--a severe infection that damages gum tissue and can eventually erode jaw bone that supports the teeth. But new research indicates that periodontitis is more than just advanced gingivitis, and perhaps the conditions aren't as closely [...]
