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