Dental Health of Early Native Americans
WHEN WE PICTURE people of earlier eras, particularly pre-industrial ones, we tend to…
Water Activities and Your Teeth
TO THE AVID swimmers out there, you may have noticed that your teeth are…
Don’t Use Your Teeth as Tools!
OUR TEETH CAN do a lot of things. They chew our food, they form a lot of the structure of…
Orthodontic Treatment and Speech Problems
GENETICS, A HEARING impairment, or a cleft palate can all cause speech disorders, but so can poorly…
Preventing Stains During Orthodontic Treatment
UNLESS YOU’RE CHANGING the color of your wooden furniture, stains typically aren’t good news, and…
Bad Breath: A Big Deal in Medieval England
IN THE MIDDLE AGES, the English didn’t understand much about cavities or gum…
The Anatomy of Human Teeth
DO YOU KNOW what the parts of the human tooth are? We’d like to give you a quick…
Impacted Canine: A Job for an Orthodontist
EVERY SMILE OPERATES on a different schedule, with some people getting their adult teeth later than…
Wisdom Teeth and Braces
ONE OF THE BIG rites of passage for young adults is wisdom teeth removal. Of course, there…
3 of History’s Strangest Teeth Traditions
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, different cultures have come up with some pretty unusual solutions for…