Stress. The slithering, hissing, contemporaneous basilisk advancing loftily and upright spurred on by horrendous habits of scrolling social media, newsfeeds, and pandemic fatigue. It withers life-scapes with its breath and kills joy with a glare. The constant...
Children’s Dentistry Articles
Do Teenagers Take Care of Their Teeth As Much As Their Dentists Wish They Did?
Some parents may be rolling their eyes already after reading the title of this article. Teenagers taking care of their teeth: Do they or don’t they? Hygiene can be an issue at various stages of an adolescent’s life. Sometimes they seem hardwired to neglect some of the...
Obesity & Tooth Decay Have a Relationship: Their Love Child Might Be Anyone’s
By guest writer Suzanne Saunders … Forget about an integrated policy approach for tackling the childhood tooth decay outcome of obesity and poor diet: how about starting with the principles of acceptable parenting. The disclaimer here is that I’ve never been a parent....
Teeth, Rituals, And No Floss About The Tooth Fairy
Teething rituals date to ancient times, and are first recorded in the Eddas – two 13th century CE Icelandic manuscripts of Norse mythology and skaldic poetry. The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda relate the cosmogony, religion, and history of Scandinavian and...
Mapping The Atlas of Human Teeth
Researchers have charted the first complete atlas of single cells that make up human teeth: a molecular map unfolding new stem cells, and tissue generation dental approaches. Tooth enamel. This outermost layer of human teeth, is a complex, hierarchically structured...
5 Tips for Taking Your Child to the Dentist for the First Time
A kid’s first dental checkup aids educated parents on the right ways of cleaning their kid’s tooth. Dentists will also suggest the best too…
Your Tongue: a Fascinating Phenomenon With Dental Benefits Too
The tongue made a starring foray onto our television screens via those strange ads for a well-known bottled beer sold in Australia. This starring disembodied tongue would make nightly sojourns to commune with said brand of beer independent of its owner who remained...
Tricks for a Younger, Healthier Smile
Flip through the pages of any magazine, and it’s filled with toothy smiles—all pearly and perfectly shaped. Turn on the television, and you..
Teeth Grinding
Bruxism is the involuntary clenching, grinding and gnashing of the teeth. About half of the population does it from time to time. Around 5%..
Teeth and Mouth Care
Good dental health (looking after teeth and gums) is important for your overall health. Tooth decay is one of the most common diseases aff…