IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again…
AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth...
SOMETIMES WHEN WE get a toothache, there are hours or more standing between us and the help of the dentist…
“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow...
WE TEND TO ASSUME that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but…
TEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure...
WE OFTEN HEAR about the American Dental Association, but there’s another organization just...
ENDODONTIC TREATMENT, also called root canal therapy, is a dental procedure in which decayed dental pulp is removed so that...
THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their…
NOT MUCH WAS understood in Medieval England about cavities or gum disease, but they...