Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth
IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again in two of his plays. He sets…
DetailsIN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again in two of his plays. He sets…
DetailsMOVING TEETH INTO their proper alignment is a complicated and fascinating process, so how do braces do it? Let’s…
DetailsEVERY CURRENT AND former orthodontic patient knows about the banned foods list. It can mostly be summarized as “don’t eat anything…
Details“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow…
DetailsWE TEND TO ASSUME that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but that’s…
DetailsTEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure…
DetailsMANY ORTHODONTIC PATIENTS reach Braces-Off Day only to discover bleached spots on their teeth. These and…
DetailsWE NEED SEVERAL things working together to be able to speak clearly. Speech disorders can result from impaired hearing, genetics, or a cleft…
DetailsTHERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their teeth…
DetailsNOT MUCH WAS understood in Medieval England about cavities or gum disease, but they…
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